Network for Peace

Speaker: Alison Jackson, Church Action on Poverty on 'Visions of the Common Good'

An opportunity to prepare for the General Election, to network with justice and peace activists from around the country, and to get updates on campaigns from national and local agencies.

Tea and coffee will be provided, please bring a packed lunch.

The day will discuss the IWCE Network Manifesto and ask how we can work together to enrich working class education and class struggle. Have a look at
http://iwceducation.co.uk/

More details soon.

With Lisa McKenzie. While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society’s ills. This book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years.

With Prof. Stella Sandford. The third and final talk in the [Again] Introductions series at Housmans is on the subject of feminism, and will provide an insight into the movement’s latest debates and challenges, from the perspective of the feminist tradition in philosophy and theory.

With Tansy E. Hoskins. Few of us know the exact details of where our clothes come from. In ‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’, Tansy E. Hoskins poses questions that we as consumers rarely pause to ask: how were our garments made, who manufactured them, and which corporation owners profited from them?

With Linda Kaucher.
Linda Kaucher explores the numerous threats contained in the US/EU ‘free trade’ TTIP deal, and presents the campaign to stop its implementation.

With Nikolas Rose. The second [Again] Introductions talk is on the subject of biopolitics, which tried to understand the way that modern power takes the very lives of individuals as its object.

[Again] Introductions presents talk with Nick Davies.

Brick Lane Debates present: Capitalism 101
Workshop led by Neil Faulkner.

BOOK TALK with Robert Dellar, Alistair Kemp, and the Association of Musical Marxists.

BOOK LAUNCH with Edward Thomas, Thomas Mawan Muortat and Liz Hodgkin
South Sudan: A Slow Liberation tries to explain how South Sudan's first years as an independent country have been marred by violence. Come along for a panel discussion led by three of South Sudan’s most thoughtful analysts.

Brick Lane Debates present: Capitalism 101
Workshop lead by Neil Faulkner

Just Supper at 7.30pm. At 8.15 Felicity Drouet and Joyce Smelt will make a presentation 'Being an Official Prison Visitor - working with the invisible men at HMP Woodhill'. TO reserve a place at Open Table, please ring 01908 242190 or email bookings@thewellatwillen.org.uk giving 24 hours' notice.

March aims to put pressure on political parties before the general election, and raise the profile of climate change.

The march will start in Lincoln’s Inn Fields / Malet Street, setting off at 1pm.
https://www.facebook.com/peoplesclimatemarchlondon

Demo to persuade EDO staff to blow the whistle on what goes on in the factory, bring whistles. Those who want to walk up to the factory together can meet at 12.15 at the Cowley Club on London Road
http://smashedo.org.uk/events/event/blow-the-whistle-demonstration/

Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.

Public talk and book launch with Revd Dr Clive Barrett.

Annual service of Repentance and Resistance to nuclear war preparations at Ministry of Defence, London.
Meet in the gardens off Horseguards Avenue, near the Ministry of Defence at 3.00 pm to start our act of worship. Procession into Horseguards Avenue for prayer and reflection at a number of stopping points.
A joint Pax Christi/Christian CND event.

Peace Sunday 2015 will be celebrated on 18 January, the theme is Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters. Pax Christi resource materials for Peace Sunday are now available from the office.