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.
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. The topic this month might or might not turn out to be seasonally related.
Annual General Meeting of East London Against Arms Fairs, ELAAF.
All supporters are urged to come to this meeting if they possibly can. If you only come to one meeting a year please come to this one.
The ExCeL Centre which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015 also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. 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.
The ExCeL Centre, which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015, also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. 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.
Join London Group of CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE Leafleting outside the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza , nearest tube Covent Garden. Protest at sponsorship of London Transport Museum by an Arms Company, Thales.
Anyone opposed to Arms Fairs will be welcome at a meeting of ELAAF
A dayschool from the people who brought you the Rebellious Media Conference – on using the internet to strengthen our groups, and to campaign more effectively.
A gathering for grassroots and local activists with web experts including Emma Sangster (Peace News), Cedric Knight (GreenNet), Kirk Jackson (Campaign Against Arms Trade) and others.
Speaker: Lady Shirley Williams. Shirley Williams reflects on her mother Vera Brittain's classic memoire of the First World War and the changing attitudes to war from the 'lost generation' through to today. Shirley Williams is a politician, academic and former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
Speaker: Dr Robin Archer
Why did radicals retreat on the eve of the Great War, even where opposition was strongest? What are the lessons for us today?
Robin Archer is Associate Professor in Political Sociology and Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.
Speaker: Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Professor Hutchings offers a feminist critique of the idea of just war and calls for the renewal of forms of pacifism and non-violent politics pioneered in feminist opposition to WWI.
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.
Speaker: Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Professor Hutchings offers a feminist critique of the idea of just war and calls for the renewal of forms of pacifism and non-violent politics pioneered in feminist opposition to WWI.
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.
A talk by Gabriel Carlyle and Emily Johns about the individuals and groups that opposed the First World War. The talk is based on the series of posters by Emily Johns (commisioned by Peace News) that depict the anti-war movement of WWI. The posters can be seen at Morlan 7-14 January (official opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10-12 & 2-4).
Inspired by E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, emerging physical theatre company, Open Heart Surgery brings you First Draft, where two actors play twelve characters. Jostling with the vital questions of our time: Is war inevitable? Have we lost all hope for humanity? A satirical statement against apathy.
Weekly vigil, 10am-12.30pm, outside the Japanese Embassy 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1, in solidarity with Japanese anti-nuclear protestors.
A Land Fit For Heroes - War and the Working Class 1914-1918 will examine how the war changed society, radically altering the social, economic, cultural and political outlook of the British people.
Southbank Centre marks Remembrance Sunday with talks, free events and Britten’s ‘War Requiem.
Veterans For Peace and supporters are invited to attend a Remembrance Gathering in preparation for our ceremony at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
With Maya Evans.
After 14 years British forces have officially concluded their war in Afghanistan, but what is the legacy of the conflict? Maya Evans, Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK, shares her thoughts and insights, based in part on several recent visits to the country.
With Deborah Withers, Alex Wardrop, and Charlotte Cooper.
Launch of ‘The Para-Academic Handbook’, which explores practical ways to liberate academia from those internal processes which are crippling the desire for learning, creating, teaching, and cooperation, which academia otherwise claims to foster.
