Network for Peace

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.

Speaker Professor Lee Marsden. The talk is at 1pm and will last about 30 minutes, followed by questions. Admission is free. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch any time from 12.15pm. A donation is invited for a hot drink and biscuits.

Muriel Lester Trident Ploughshares affinity group cordially invites you to join us in leafleting outside the corporate HQ of Lockheed Martin which is probably the biggest arms manufacturer in the world and has a large part in developing and producing nuclear weapons in the UK.
After the CO Day Commemoration in Tavistock Square, from 3pm until 5.30pm.

Merseyside Peace groups will be leafleting against the vast sums of money spent by Governments on arms and warfare when it could be spent on much needed social welfare. We are also collecting signatures on a Pax Christie petition calling for the end of recruitment of under 18yrs into the armed forces. We’ll be outside the Armed Forces Recruitment Centre, Sth. John St.

A presentation by Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. In the year of the 30th anniversary of the miners’ strike, contributors from Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s new book consider how recently released material has shed new light on the policing and media coverage of the events of 1984.

With Richard Seymour. Richard Seymour examines who really benefits from the policy of austerity and what the alternatives might be.

With Stephen E. Hunt. Stephen E. Hunt discusses the innovative ecological work of Street Farm, a collective of anarchist architects who brought urban farming to 1970s London.

With Alan Wieder. Distinguished academic Alan Wieder explores the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary couple who fought tirelessly against apartheid as part of the militant group Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Launch event for second issue of Hysteria, a feminist periodical founded by the SOAS Feminist Society. This issue considers ‘Roles & Rules’. At this launch speakers will include Minna Salami aka MsAfropolitan who will discuss African feminism and identity + more tbc.