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Together for Peace Aldermaston Blockade 15th
February 21010 World Peace Directory on
the web Now online, this is a fuller and more frequently updated listing of the peace, environmental and human rights organisations in the Housmans Peace Diary. An invaluable resource, the address at http://www.housmans.info/wpd should be bookmarked by any activist in these fields. Please note that the easiest way to bring up all the results for a particular country is to use the ‘Advanced search’ option and not limit the search with any of the other criteria – but you can, equally, narrow down very considerably what you are looking for, e.g. contacts for a particular organisation. Updates also welcome from around the world – see ‘Contribute’ tab. The Citizen and the Law of Armed Conflict
Conference The successful conference was on 1 & 2 September 2009 and took place at Friends House, Euston. Full Transcription available at: http://yourmpandwar.pbworks.com/ Housmans blog Flushing Away Poverty - Toilet Twinning Launched Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:31 CORD is launching the FIRST GLOBAL TOILET TWINNING - an innovative
campaign linking toilets around the world with those being built in For just £60 you can exclusively twin your toilet at home, at your
office or school with one deep in the African bush of Improving water and sanitation is key to CORD’s programme in remote Giharo Commune. Over the past 18 months we have helped local returnees to build 870 pit latrines, each benefiting a family of six. That’s 5,220 people who can now go to the loo in a safe, private and hygienic place. We plan to double that number. Blocks of toilets have also been built at 3 primary schools, alongside water points- all part of our hygiene and sanitation training. ‘At current rates of progress the Millennium Development Goals for sanitation will not be met until the 22nd century, over eighty years too late,’ said Jasmine O’Connor, CORD’S Head of Africa Programmes. ‘Our work in Giharo is going to be duplicated in the coming year and the Toilet Twinning is a novel but vital way of lending your support to people who have returned home and are rebuilding their lives from scratch.’ As a Twinner you receive a special one off certificate to display in your smallest room picturing your twin, its exact location and Google map reference. The first 500 Twinnings are on sale now via a special CORD website: www.toilettwinning.org or by calling 01926 315301. Get your friends twinning too via CORD’s Twitter page twitter.com/corduk A Peace Map of Some time ago the Movement for the
Abolition of War (MAW) started to collect information that would allow us to
build a Peace Map of Britain, showing as many peace-related sites as possible
(memorials, buildings, gardens, sites of actions or protests), with
information on their history, a description of the sites and how to find
them. This project is still active,
and we are again requesting people to send us details of any sites, if
possible with photos. A form
indicating the kind of information we need can be downloaded from http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/downloads/PeaceMapForm.pdf or write for a copy to Peace Map, Balkan This project aims to facilitate the creation of
a trans-national, cross-border park in the adjoining mountain areas of
Kosovo/a, Shopping
fans - links to other sites here Concord Media is a charity which distributes programmes mainly concerned with social services and the arts. Current titles on environmental themes include:
Everyone
can Save Energy Homo
Homini plus Acceleration Life
Running out of Control Postage and VAT is added to all prices. To view the other programmes, or to order online please visit our website http://www.concordmedia.org.uk Warfare
or Welfare? This A4
book, written by Colin Archer, Secretary General of the International Peace
Bureau, is essential and easy reading for all who want to show how direct are
the links between poverty and militarism. Single copies £5 plus £1 postage.
Cheques made out to IPB. Orders to: MAW(WW), Fairtrade Palestinian Olive Oil You can buy
Palestinian Olive Oil from the Fairtrade company Zaytoun. The
organisers of this initiative are putting forward their own funds to
guarantee the Palestinian farmers get a reasonable payment for their
oil. The first bulk order will go in at the end of March and Zaytoun
are asking you to pledge to purchase a certain number of bottles so that they
can ensure the overall venture is viable. You can get price list and
further details by emailing Atif at stormy.night@virgin.net
or call on 07776243164. You can find out more about Zaytoun by visiting
their website at http://www.zaytoun.co.uk War No
More The Movement for the Abolition of
War presents a 14 minute educational and campaigning video and DVD. The
message is: Wars are not inevitable. We can take the steps
needed to resolve conflict in other ways. With contributions from Martin
Bell, Bruce Kent, Kierra Box, Caroline Lucas MEP, Professor Sir Joseph
Rotblat, Phil Shiner, Jon Snow, Tahrir Swift and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The
video comes with photocopier-friendly printed discussion outlines and a list
of available resources. The price of the video and booklet (inc p&p) is
£8. For orders of 5 or more the price is £7. to order send a cheque made out
to MAW to: MAW, JOBS
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place your vacancy here contact NfP Note that Network for Peace does not have any vacancies but if you’re
willing to volunteer please get in touch! We would particularly be interested
in hearing from anyone with web designing skills, and anyone keen to update
the website regularly by adding events, news items etc. Volunteer vacancies and internships For more organisations with
voluntary opportunities see http://www.peaceexchange.org.uk/
Peace News
needs regular or irregular volunteers to help dispatch Peace News to
subscribers. It’s usually on the last Thursday of the month but can vary by a
week. 10.30am onwards. We will pay your fares up to £5. You will get tea,
decent coffee, possibly a biscuit or two. Lunch will be provided if you’re in
the office around 1.30pm. You will get a complimentary copy of Peace News.
And interesting conversation with whoever else is hanging around or got roped
in to help! Please give us a ring on 020 7278 3344 or email admin@peacenews.info if you can help.
If you can only stay for an hour or so you’re still welcome to come along –
the more the merrier! Next dispatch
dates are 25 March and 22 April. Campaign Against
Arms Trade CAAT's volunteers are invaluable to its work. Without
them, we simply couldn't cover the range of activities we do. Now we have an
opportunity for two volunteers to work with our Local Campaigns and
Fundraising Co-ordinators. The volunteer Universities Network Coordinator
will communicate with student activists around the Both posts are for one day a week. You can read job descriptions and further information on our website. Other volunteer opportunities:
Network for Peace Tel: 07794 036 602 fax: 020 7278 0444 (shared fax,
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