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Climate Justice Exhibition
The WILPF UK Climate Justice Exhibition is live on our website! You can study it at your leisure at www.wilpf.org.uk/climate-exhibition
The Art of Peace
An exhibition of creative work by mainly local artists including Edwin Cluer.
Refreshments Available
Be stimulated by the exhibited ideas of peace and share/discuss your own.
No More War – Lets Make Peace Happen.
Remembrance Day event for peace.
1pm @ Tavistock Square, London WC1
A ceremony of Remembrance and Peace 100 years after the First World War
2 – 5pm @ Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Network for Peace AGM & WW1 Planning Meeting
A follow up on a peace movement planning meeting held in 2013. If you're planning events or resources on the centenary of WW1 - or if you want to know more about peace movement activities please do come along.
Musical Protest No More Arms Fairs!
ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
"War No More - War Never Again" - Peace Vigil
Silent Peace vigil with messages ‘War no More - War never again’ on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields on the centenary of the start of the first World War.
PPU would like to encourage groups to organise similar vigils in their towns & cities.
The First World War Peace Forum is also encouraging people to tweet #nomorewar at 11.00pm on 4th August.
Pax Christi, PPU, QPSW, FOR, WILPF, Peace News, Movement for the Abolition of War, Conscience and Network for Peace
http://www.ppu.org.uk/nomorewar/a_general/vigil.html
Conscientious Objectors Day
In the run up to the centenary of the First World War, we will be remembering the Conscientious Objectors and the women peace campaigners who said No to the war.
Descendents of more than 30 WW1 COs and women peace campaigners from all over the country will be coming to commemorate the lives of their relatives and the brave stand taken by all those who opposed the war.
Flowers will be laid in tribute to the COs of WW1 and to COs all over the world.
Marching Orders for the Military Ethos - a Culture of Peace vs a Culture of War
How and why the government is planning to increase military influence in our schools, and society as a whole.
Guest speakers include Sam Walton from Quaker Peace & Social Witness.
A short Network for Peace AGM will be held at 1.30pm, speaker sessions start at 2pm.
The Mistake
THE MISTAKE by Michael Mears at the Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
Last chance to see this award-winning play about Hiroshima and events leading up to the first atomic bomb.
The Priest's Tale
THE PRIEST'S TALE - performed by award-winning British actor/playwright Michael Mears - is his adaptation of one of the atomic-bomb survivors' accounts from John Hersey's remarkable book HIROSHIMA.
Stop The Arms Fair Excel Walking Tour
Meet @ Royal Victoria DLR station
Want to know more about protesting the DSEI arms fair this year?
Join us for a short tour of the ExCel centre and the surrounding area to learn more about:
Nick Gill’s Oxford Classic Jazz – CND benefit concert 2025
Join Oxford CND to ‘swing against the bomb’ and raise funds for the campaign for a world without nuclear weapons.
Entry £14 / £8 (concessions)
No More Hiroshimas
Join South Lakeland and Lancaster District CND to mark Nagasaki Day by remembering the victims and recommitting to campaigning for a world without nuclear weapons.
No More Hiroshimas
Join Salisbury CND for their annual remembrance of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which we mark by floating candles and lanterns on the River Avon each year.
No More Hiroshimas
Join South Lakeland and Lancaster District CND to mark Hiroshima Day by remembering the victims and recommitting to campaigning for a world without nuclear weapons.
No More Hiroshimas
Leicester CND will be gathering around the peace tree planted last year in Victoria Park – a cherry tree to symbolise the connection with Hiroshima and Japan.
No More Hiroshimas
Leicester CND will be assembling around the clock tower in the city centre, starting at 7:45am so as to commemorate the time of the nuclear explosion in 1945 with a two minutes’ silence at 8am.
Welfare not Warfare: time for an Alternative Defence strategy
The Alternative Defence Review calls for a radical break with successive UK governments’ failed security and defence policies and offers a bold, alternative vision to militarisation — one rooted human
End the Genocide – national march for Palestine
As Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, while the UK government seeks to repress the movement for Palestine, join CND and others for the latest national march.
