Network for Peace

In Conversation with Alaa Al Aswany. In nearly four years, Egypt has seen a revolution, the fall of a dictator, its first democratically elected president ousted by the military and the rise of a new leader. All this has been captured in the weekly columns of novelist Alaa Al Aswany for the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.

2.00-3.00pm Film Show: War Game - World War 1. Animated Special which follows the story of Will, Lacey and Freddie - three young Suffolk lads who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War I and find
themselves taking part in a historical football match.

Merseyside CND AGM at 3pm

Prisoners for Peace Day – join us for card signing 11am-2pm at Liverpool Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT and at Merseyside CND office, 151 Dale St. L2 2AH (both have full disabled access).’

Leafleting action by Close Capenhurst Campaign against transport of nuclear waste materials on trains.’

FOR centenary conference in Cambridge with Rowan Williams as keynote speaker.

East London Against Arms Fairs meets on the 2nd Wednesday every month. For information about how you can join in future campaigning against the arms fair please get in touch.

A trio of encounters on war, soul and creativity and the hard edges where they meet. A work of theatre, voice, music, dance and film. Produced and directed by Patricia Beall Gavigan. Composer Stephen Daltry.

Performance: Prisoners of Conscience. Words and drama about conscientious objection in WW1 and a short satire on extraordinary rendition.

Hosted by No Glory and Imperial War Museum. Speakers: Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford, Dr Neil Faulkner, Modern Conflict Archaeologist, University of Bristol. Join us for this special Centenary debate. Hear professor Sir Hew Strachan and Dr Neil Faulkner discuss whether Britain should have entered the first world war.

Speaker: Eric Schlosser

Melissa Benn, Kevin Courtney NUT and Professor Danny Dorling.

Radical history inspires today. Learning the lessons of history from the pioneers of 1649 to the challenges of today

Conference. Earlybird registration £15 ends 30 November 2014
Sponsors: Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (UEL), Centre for the study of Human Rights (LSE), The Runnymede Trust, Centre for Palestine Studies, London Middle East Institute (SOAS).

The Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture, delivered by Shami Chakrabarti.

School of History, Welsh History, & Archaeology: Autumn 2014 Seminar Series: Commemorating the First World War (5:30pm; most meetings in Cledwyn Rooms, next to Teras cafe, Terrace level, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, College Road.)
With Dr Peter Liddle (retired, formerly of Leeds University)

Talk by Jonathan Porritt.

School of History, Welsh History, & Archaeology: Autumn 2014 Seminar Series:
5:30pm; most meetings in Cledwyn Rooms, next to Teras cafe, Terrace level, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, College Road.
Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor University): Stanley Kubrick's film 'Paths of Glory' (1957).

Speaker Sir Deian Hopkin (former vice-chancellor, South Bank University, University of London. Current president, National Library of Wales. Special advisor to Welsh Assembly Government, relating to commemorating WW1.)

Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos, A Film by Anna Baltzer, grand-daughter of Holocaust refugees.

'The Great War'/'Y Rhyfel Mawr'
Has one display case on the conscientious objectors of WW1; another on War Poets.

A FREE conference on WW1 and Pacifism. Includes speakers from The Society of Friends (Quakers), Veterans for Peace UK, The Peace Pledge Union.
@Idea Store Whitechapel (conference room, 1st floor).