Network for Peace

The film lifts the lid on tax dodging and UK tax havens. This new documentary, written and directed by Mark Donne and featuring Channel 4’s Jon Snow, expertly dissects the way multinationals are getting away with dodging billions in taxes.
Doors open 6.30pm, film starts at 7.00. No entry charge. Donations will be taken.

Whether you’re interested in the politics of food, energy, work, environment, gender, peace, economics, health, etc., all these issues are shaped by choices about technology made by military, corporate and technocratic elites. The aim of the gathering is to change the debate about technology, environment and society, and to put the politics of technology where it belongs, at the heart of radical politics. www.breakingtheframe.org.uk

Close Capenhurst Campaign will be holding a demonstration outside of the URENCO uranium enrichment plant at Capenhurst. Noon to 14.00. As a clear, transparent way of showing just how dangerous Capenhurst, and other plants like it, is we will be using Geiger counter to discover how much radiation the place is releasing in to the surrounding environment.

People of different faiths living peacefully with creation. Led by Victoria Finlay of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation.

Franciscan peacemaking in a world of conflict. Led by Br Samuel SSF.

Led by Sir Mike Aaronson, Director of the Centre for International Intervention at Surrey University.

Looking at the lives of Jesus Christ and St Clare of Assisi, and using the practices of spinning, weaving, sculpture and clothes making. Led by Jacqui Lea of Hopeweavers.

Peace for our Planet - Exploring the relationship between conflict, faith and conservation. Led by Sir Ghillean Prance, former Director of Kew, Jonathan Herbert of the Hilfield Community and Andy Lester of A Rocha.

With Joe Glenton. After serving a tour in Afghanistan Joe was the first British soldier to refuse to return to Afghanistan on legal and moral grounds. Threatened with years in prison, he challenged and beat a charge of desertion, which was withdrawn before his trial to avoid a public examination of the War of Terror. Joe is a journalist and author with a focus on defence, security and war. He has written for several leading newspapers and is a regular commentator on TV and radio.

With Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam. The nature of Iran’s international policy is of profound importance to the rest of the world and the election of President Rhouani in June 2013 has currently improved the country’s problematic relationship with the West. Tehran’s interim agreement suspend enriching uranium beyond levels needed for use in power stations in return for a lifting of sanctions, has temporarily quieted US sabre-rattling but has been greeted with alarm in Israel and Saudi Arabia. Talks designed to consolidate this deal continue, and future progress remains uncertain. Dr.

Is a transition possible from capitalist globalisation to alternative non-capitalist forms of globalisation?

London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meeting.
The meetings are at the same time and place on the second Tuesday of every month.
One aspect of this topic is that pacifists, like anyone of conviction and conscience, are liable to find themselves up against the legal structures of the society they live in - given the nature of these societies. How can pacifists deal with this?

A 9 day residential workshop in rural Devon. This workshop offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. The course is offered by the ecodharma collective (www.ecodharma.com) and Seeds for Change (www.seedsforchange.org.uk). Bursaries may be available.

Public Meeting. Speakers: Neil Faulkner and Jane Shallice.

Speakers: Dr Clive Barrett, University of Bradford. Dr Neil Faulkner, Bristol University. Chair: Dr Claudia Baldoli, Newcastle University School of History/Classics/Archaeology Newcastle. Welcome: Rev Andii Bowsher, Martin Luther King Committee, Northumbria.

The upcoming centenary of the First World War has already sparked great debate and public comment about how we should remember and commemorate the conflict. Whereas the popular television show Blackadder and the poetry of Wilfred Owen conjure notions of a horrific and futile tragedy, it has also been argued that the First World War was a necessary and worthwhile struggle for freedom.

'No more Fukushimas; No more nuclear waste; No nuclear weapons'
On the 3rd anniversary of the nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, this is an invitation to all concerned people to join a vigil to say: 'No more Fukushimas; no more nuclear waste; no nuclear weapons!'

Please meet at 10:00am for a briefing and refreshments at the Lancaster Quaker Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TX.

Meet at the Imperial War Museum at 6pm. for our annual prayer walk and vigil to the Ministry of Defence.... It would be great if people could drop us an email or call if they plan to turn up so that we make sure we wait for stragglers...

Once again, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, with help from ICAN UK (http://www.icanw.org/unitedkingdom/), will be visiting the London embassies of the Nuclear Weapons States, the New Agenda Coalition and other key countries campaigning for a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
10 a.m. Short service, Dick Sheppard Chapel, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. 10.30am Briefing then depart.