Yorkshire CND and friends will meet at Eller Beck on the A169 between Pickering and Whitby. We will be touring around the base followed by a peace picnic. We hope to see you there, get in touch if you'd like to share transport.
Rob Newman benefit gig in aid of Yorkshire CND and local asylum seekers.
Benefit for Yorkshire CND, Oxfam, CAAT and Chernobyl Children’s Project. 38 daytime workshops, plus evening events - open to all and funding good causes. 11:00am til 11:15pm (last entry 10:00pm)
Beyond Forgiving is a documentary about Ginn Fourie and Letlapa Mphahlele and how they have risen beyond their pain. In 1993, during the apartheid era in South Africa, Letlapa, then director of operations for the military wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, ordered reprisal massacres in response to the killing of black school children. Ginn lost her only daughter in one of these. She later forgave Letlapa. This is their story.
This talk will outline the issues facing Northern Ireland in the search for peace and reconciliation, it will present an historical overview of past efforts to secure a positive peace and conclude with some reflections regarding the future of peace building in Northern Ireland.
What is mindfulness? How can peace be attained? Why is mindfulness currently of such interest? Since attending the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Nottingham in 2008, Russell has been considering mindfulness and the meanings of mindfulness.
See more: http://www.weekforpeace.org.uk/2014/06/06-mindfulness-location-of-peace....
This unique exhibition explores the impact that the Great War had on crime, policing, and imprisonment. week for peace has fed into the exhibition details of the conscientious objectors in Nottinghamshire, who were often imprisoned, as were enemy aliens and prisoners of war. These poignant stories will be told through real-life, personal stories – some local and some national.
week for peace will feature exciting community-based events in and around Nottingham exploring peace.
A debate during United Nations birthday week.
Speakers: Neville Grant London Region UNA and Tom Miller Labour candidate in Woking. 1 hour for contributions from the floor. Wheelchair access, café on premises, 2 minutes walk from Woking train station.
The Day in Belfast will be marked by a gathering at the historic Drawing Offices in the Titanic Quarter.
At 3pm, the first citizens of both Belfast and Derry/Londonderry will join together in The Guildhall to mark International Peace Day 2014.
2014 sees the first international week of action for military-free education and research: a concerted effort of antimilitarist action across the world to raise awareness and challenge of the role the military have in education, and to give voice to alternatives. Militaries across the world gain access to young people through education systems. It gives them an extraordinary chance to shape every generation's perception of military violence, and lay the groundwork for future recruitment.
John Hamilton Memorial Lecture. David Boulton - Author and Public Speaker - gives a fascinating insight into the realities facing those who "Deny the right of any Government to make the slaughter of our fellows a bounden duty.’ David is a journalist, author and Humanist Quaker - the re-issue of Objection Overruled coincides with the Centenary Commemoration of World War 1.
With Dr Ahron Bregman. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long and bloody and all attempts to sort it out have failed so far. In our talk today Dr Ahron Bregman from the Department of War Studies, King's College London, will suggest how the conflict could be solved. Ahron served in the Israeli army for six years and as an artillery officer took part in the 1982 Lebanon war.
with Priyamvad Gopal. The recent elections in India delivered an overwhelming victory for Narendra Modi and the BJP, a political party linked to extreme right wing ideology, ending the post independence domination of the Congress party. The consequences of this political earthquake will be far reaching for both India and for the geopolitics of the region. Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the English Faculty at Cambridge and researches into colonial and post colonial literatures as well as the polítics and cultures of Empíre.
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.
