Please join us on this celebration event. Cyclists should arrive at Nottingham Road Cemetery, Chaddesden, 13.30 for departure at 14.00.This is a guided cycle and you are requested to follow the directions of the group leader, so that everyone enjoys a safe, comfortable ride together.
Celebrate the centenary of the International Congress of Women
In 1915, women from Germany and the UK met at The Hague to call for a negotiated end to the First World War. Described by Winston Churchill as "these dangerous women."
An evening of film, prose, poetry, music and discussion, introduced by
Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party.
Every major party remains committed to austerity so the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity is calling a major national demonstration & festival just weeks after the election to send a clear message to the new government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top.
Join the Scrap Trident bloc at the End Austerity Now demonstration.
This post-election conference will bring together leading anti-war writers, campaigners and experts from Britain and around the world.
More info: http://stopwar.org.uk
With Lara Pawson, John Game, Joana Ramiro, and Gika Tetembwa.
Our panel discuss Angola’s intra-left massacre of 27 May 1977, and its continuing political repercussions, a subject explored expertly in Pawson’s highly celebrated recent book.
With Catherine Johnson and Lydia Syson.
With Selma James
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest issue launch.
Housmans welcomes guests from the US-based journal to launch their latest issue, which considers the intersections of art and radical politics.
PRE-ELECTION BOOK TALK with Zoe Williams.
Ahead of the general election the Guardian’s Zoe Williams discusses the failure of modern British politics and what it would take to move the broken system forward.
Workshop.
A chance for new singers and instrumentalists to be coached in performing two pieces, participate in a one day workshop and perform in front of a live audience backed by the Free Peace Band.
Just Supper at 7.30pm. At 8.15 there will be a presentation by Craig Walker. Based on research from a PhD focusing on how two post civil war countries (Nepal and Mozambique) have dealt with the legacy of war-time violence and the experience of trying to transform social relations away from violence being considered as a legitimate form of managing conflict.
As the guns of World War I rang out across Europe, over 1200 women gathered in the Netherlands in April 1915 to coordinate their efforts to bring an end to the conflict.
CO Day Ceremony at the CO Stone in Tavistock Square.
Remembering women:
Sheila Triggs WILPF
Mia Tamarin, an Israeli conscientious objector
Remembering Conscientious Objectors world wide
We will remember the victims of all massacres in Syria, not least the 45+ people – a number of them women and children - brutally killed during the assault by the Islamic State on the village of al- Mab’ojah, near the city of Salamieh, Hama province, on 31st March, 2015.[1] We will also remember all the civilians and combatants on all sides killed, injured, displaced, kidnapped and tortured during
The speaker will be Dr Ian Kearns, Director of the European Leadership Network. The meeting will be held on Thursday 16 April, 17.30-19.00 in the Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing, University College London WC1E 6BT.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sanjay Rawal and producer Eric Schlosser.
In what was only meant to be a three month trip, Emma Sky travelled to Iraq in 2003 having volunteered to help rebuild the country immediately after the invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. She soon found herself as a political advisor to the US military and three months turned into a decade.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Søren Steen Jespersen and Nasib Farah.
Young Muslims are travelling from Europe to fight in countries such as Syria and Somalia, lured by groups like Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State (IS). Warriors From the North follows a cohort of young Al-Shabaab sympathisers in Denmark and Sweden.
