Conscientious Objection events in Evesham. Shopping centre window display on the theme of 'Courage and Conscience'.
CND stall in Leeds, At noon.
Global Day of Action on Military Spending event 11.00am – 4.00pm, Bonn Square, Oxford OX1, organised by Fellowship of Reconciliation and Pax Christi
The Silent Vigil will be between 10 and 11am in St Bartholomew’s Church Centre, Front Street, Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland.
http://demilitarize.org.uk/events/silent-vigil/
Student Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.
Join us in Reading on 14 April in some creative street theatre: we’ll be inviting passers-by to give their input to a People’s Budget – asking them to tell us how to spend the £100 billion pounds for Trident on other items. It will be fun! As well as educational!
Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.
GDAMS events will take place in Coventry University’s Technology Park, others in the city centre and outside the Council House. A letter of protest will be delivered to the offices of Lockheed Martin, demanding a public statement about its involvement in the production of cluster bombs.
Action to call for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.
CND event in Bradford to mark the Global Day of Action against Military Spending. Demo, People’s Budget Stall, banners, placards and leafleting. Please come and join us.
For Conscientious Objectors’ Day. You can find out more about conscientious objectors in our main galleries and new changing exhibition A Land Fit For Heroes, opening on Saturday 24 May.
WMD Awareness Talking Trident Tour will be at the Glastonbury Festival. Join the Talking Trident debate To kick off this conversation we asked 4,207 adults across the UK 10 questions about nuclear weapons. Now we’re taking their views around the UK to see what others think, and we’ll be communicating views directly to the UK’s top policy and decision-makers.
WMD Awareness Talking Trident Tour will be in Hay-on-Wye for the Literary Festival. Join the Talking Trident debate To kick off this conversation we asked 4,207 adults across the UK 10 questions about nuclear weapons. Now we’re taking their views around the UK to see what others think, and we’ll be communicating views directly to the UK’s top policy and decision-makers.
This year’s theme: "Living Differently"
A seminar to assess Tony Benn's contribution to British politics. Speakers will look at the historical roots of his commitment to socialism, his record in and out of office, some of the key causes he championed, and his role as a populariser of history.
The meeting will be preceded by the Socialist History Society AGM from 1:00 pm.
Nagasaki Day.
All welcome.
Interfaith meeting, part of CND's Scrap Trident Tour.
Join Bruce Kent for an afternoon discussion with the Westminster Interfaith group comprised of Friends, Buddhists and Muslims.
The plan is to have short introductory talks followed by open discussions. Proposed sessions on: World War 1, its relevance today; why Capitalism Needs War, Mutinies, women’s protests and revolutions, Countering Cameron’s Commemorations, War Today: Ukraine, Putin and more. Suggestions welcome. All welcome, this event is free, but donations would be gratefully received on the day. Disabled access is unfortunately poor…
NATO's next international summit will be this September in Newport, and a variety of protests and resistance actions are planned. See: https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/ http://www.nonatonewport.org
A day gathering for campaigners. Drones are the new way to wage war with US, Israeli and British forces using armed drones to launch attacks around the globe. So called ‘risk free’ remote warfare has killed thousands from Pakistan, to Yemen, from Afghanistan to Gaza. Speakers, workshops, planning, networking.
All Welcome.
With Professor Alexander Betts. Around the world, there is a crisis of displacement. Authoritarian regimes, political persecution, generalised violence, environmental change, and food insecurity are among the array of reasons that force people to cross international borders. With over 2 million refugees having fled Syria to neighbouring countries, the world's refugees are at their highest level in 20 years. This talk aims to make sense of this global crisis.
