With Emily Johns & Gabriel Carlyle.
Refreshments available from 6.30pm.
Fourth Friday at the Poetry Cafe. With Alan Brownjohn, Anna Robinson, Krysia Mansfield, Dan Kennedy and Mererid Hopwood.
With Emily & Gabriel. At the Feminism in London conference (£30/£15).
www.feminisminlondon.co.uk
With Alice Wheeldon’s great grandaughter Chloe Mason; and PN’s Emily Johns and Gabriel Carlyle.
Negotiated in secret and widely opposed by civil society and community groups, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) calls for the 'harmonisation' of regulations between the UA and the EU. Safety, Health and Environmental regulations in all areas are expected to be decimated if this anti-democratic re-write of common protections for workers, the environment, and the public is permitted. To learn more come to this public discussion event. Speakers: Linda Kaucher - Stop TTIP! Wendy Grossman - Open Rights Group, plus tbc speaker on fracking/GMOs/chemical regulation.
The observance will start on the eve of the International Day of Peace outside Cardigan Guild Hall, with singing and leafleting – displaying part of a giant Wool against Weapons knitted scarf.
This day school will develop a creative and inclusive space for activists, researchers and anyone else interested to explore different narratives of WW1, share our knowledge, views and ideas, take part in debate, and plan events for the next four years. 10.30am-4.30pm, Manchester Metropolitan University.
World War 1 CO threatened with Execution with Malcolm Pittock (his nephew). World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton. Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome
With Cyril Pearce (Cyril has detailed database of 17,000 British WW1 COs ). World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton. Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome
With Ali Ronan. World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton. Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome.
Responses to World War 1 by Quakers and Other Opponents of War in Bolton and Manchester with Barry Mills. World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton. Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome
With Dr Jon Glover. World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton. Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome.
With Margaret Johnston. World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton, Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome
With Les Smith, the playwright. World War I Tuesday ‘Not Such a Lovely War’ Talks and Discussions at Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street.
Organised by Bolton Quakers and all welcome
By Les Smith, director David Thacker. Play based on true life story of Private James Smith from Bolton shot at the front for desertion.
7.30 eve; some 2pm matinees. See web for details.
More supporters (musical or non-musical) welcome.
Peace History Conference. Speakers include Cyril Pearce on the COs and opposition to WW1, John Gittings on how the centenary is being interpreted; Ingrid Sharp on German peace activism in WW1; Clive Barrett on the origins of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Speaking in Tongues theatre group on the women who went to The Hague in 1915.
Speakers: Adam Hochschild. Priyamvada Gopal. Neil Faulkner. Jeremy Corbyn MP. Seumas Milne. Lindsey German. 12 Noon - 5pm.
Vigil for Worship at Elbits Systems factory, Shenstone near Lichfield, ((5 minutes walk from train station going away from the village)
Drop in to Green Oasis, London Road, Leicester for information on drones then 6pm -7.30pm music and poetry.
