Anyone opposed to Arms Fairs will be very welcome at this meeting. ExCeL is already advertising and taking registration for another arms fair in 2019. This must not happen!
East London Against Arms Fairs Meeting
Peace Sunday
The theme for Peace Sunday 2018 is Migrants and Refugees – seekers of peace. Resources available from Pax Christi.
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today
With Anna Feigenbaum.
The New Poverty
With Stephen Armstrong. We are living in an age with unprecedented levels of poverty.
’The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online’
With Houman Barekat, Joanna Walsh and Robert Barry.
Letting in the Light: Positive steps for peace in a turbulent world.
Fellowship of Reconciliation annual conference is another joint event with the Anglican, United Reformed Church and Methodist Peace Fellowships, at Hinsley Hall in Leeds.http://www.for.org.uk/
Reclaiming Gospel Nonviolence.
As a follow up to the 2017 Perth conference, an Anglican-led day conference to consider further the theology of nonviolence.
Levellers Day
On 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire.
Algorithms: are they taking control of our lives?
With Professor Kathleen Richardson. Algorithms are computerised formulae designed to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations.
The Prison Crisis – what are the alternatives to incarceration?
With Richard Garside.
Resisting oppression, rendition, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and killing with Reprieve.
Reprieve is an organisation of courageous and committed human rights defenders.
Warwick Peace Conference
Student/Young Pugwash Annual Conference.
'Collaborative Leadership.'
How do non-hierarchical groups and social movements express leadership? Residential workshop with Paul Kahawatte and Hannah Lewis of Navigate.
'Conflict in Groups: Facilitating Change'.
With Paul Kahawatte and Hannah Lewis of Navigate.
'Earth First! Winter Moot'.
Ecological campaigning, direct action, and lots of other workshops. More info:
www.earthfirstgathering.org
'The Rabble Element – police interviews with Chris Cole and Milan Rai'.
Two long-time peace activists tell the story of an anti-war action that involved B-52 bombers, a black lesbian cop, an undercover cop, spraypaint, the Official Secrets Act, and two hilarious police in
'Boxing Day Protest Against Hunting.'
Boxing Day is the biggest day of the hunting calender. Protest against the Tredagar Farmers Fox Hunt.
10am-12noon. Outside Tredegar Arms, 4 Caerphilly Rd. Facebook:
www.tinyurl.com/peacenews2674
'Collaborative Leadership.'
How do non-hierarchical groups and social movements express leadership? With Paul Kahawatte and Hannah Lewis of Navigate.
'A Winter Warmer'.
Food, entertainment and letter-writing to prisoners with Bristol Anarchist Black Cross.
Radical Routes quarterly gathering.
Radical Routes is a network of radical housing and worker co-ops and social centres. Entry is free, food about £15.
