Network for Peace

With Frank Ledwidge. Frank Ledwidge is a barrister ,author and former military officer who has served in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He argues that Britain has paid a heavy cost – both financially and in human terms – for its involvement in the Afghanistan war. He has recently followed his much praised work Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanaistan (Yale 2011) with a new book Investment in Blood – the true cost of the Afghan war (Yale 2013).

Resisting the Great War.
Watford Quakers present a Premiere of a 30 minute documentary telling the stories of those who defied the call to arms in World War One.
Doors open 7.15pm . The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the producer and some of those featured in the film. Bar available before and after the screening.

If you haven’t yet signed the Rethink Trident pledge, you’ll be able to at the event.
Over the next two years this broad alliance of individuals and organisations is set to be a powerful collective voice against wasting £100bn on a Cold War weapons system, while the NHS and other public services are slashed.
But before then we would love you to join us for the public launch of Rethink Trident in Parliament hosted by Caroline Lucas MP.

Peace News' WW1 poems and posters project, The World is My Country', will be at the Poetry Bookfair in London this Saturday. The Fair itself runs from 10.30am – 4.30pm, with our slot running 11 – 11.30am.

The event, compered by PN co-editor Emily Johns, will feature specially commissioned poems and songs by Alan Brownjohn, Anna Robinson, Krysia Mansfield and Dan Kennedy.
This is a free event & all are welcome!

With Professor Nick Grief (member of the Marshall Islands’ Legal Team)

On 24 April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands took the nine nuclear-armed States to the International Court of Justice claiming they are in violation of their nuclear disarmament obligations.

Scientists for Global Responsibility conference. Come and discuss how we can both tackle climate change and improve our quality of life. Part of the event will involve tours of cutting-edge eco-homes and community-scale renewable energy technologies. Main speakers: Dr Maria Sharmina, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester. Sue Riddlestone OBE, Chief Executive, BioRegional. Parallel sessions: Community renewable energy: overcoming obstacles. Sustainable living: what does it look like? Tours of Lancaster Cohousing and local renewable energy technologies.

Join the NHS Not Trident bloc
Red Lion Square, London WC1
Nearest tube station: Holborn (Central/Piccadilly)
Show your support for the march with our NHS Not Trident message - wear your tshirt, wave a placard and march under our new NHS Not Trident banner.
Find your local March for the NHS event:
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/detailed-map-route/4583636068
Order your NHS not Trident tshirt
http://cnduk.org/shop/product_info.php?products_id=224
Order your NHS not Trident placards:
email ben.folley@cnduk.org

Come fold an origami paper crane to commemorate International Day of Peace and join our creative drop-in discussion for young people around this challenging theme.

The UN International Day of Peace with readings and music in memory of those who died in wars over the last hundred years, whatever their gender age or nationality. 2.30:

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

A brand new stage play that gives an alternative radical and anti-war contribution to the WW1 Centenary. In 1914 the young men and women of Huddersfield Socialist Sunday School believe passionately in a better world. Buoyed on by the support of their community, both at home and abroad, they take on the military in a momentous battle.

Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is holding its annual conference to coincide with the release of the third edition of the '1 Million Climate Jobs' booklet.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1449652681972280

With Peter Muoria. Discussion of the life of Henry Muoria, whose work was influential in the Kenyan anti-colonial struggle of the late 1940s and 50s and stands in contrast to the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. Part Of Islington Black History Month.