Network for Peace

A training & study weekend in collaboration with Hilfield Friary that will explore the incarnational aspects of Christian Peacemaking with particular reference to the New Testament and the work of CHIPS - Christian International Peace Service.
A flyer giving details can be found on the Hilfield website www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk under 2014 programme, or contact CHIPS by email: office@chipspeace.org.uk. http://www.chipspeace.org/

By Karl Jenkins. This joint performance takes place at Reading Concert Hall with four Reading choirs; South Chiltern Choral Society, Reading Festival Chorus, Tamesis and A440 choirs, making a combined choir of 200 singers. This is the Reading Borough Council commemoration of World War 1.

The 2014 London Anarchist Bookfair will be featuring all the usual stalls, meetings, workshops, films, cabaret and more.

United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) will host its acclaimed UN Forum at Central Hall Westminster in London. This day-long event will see top speakers discuss Britain’s role in today’s world, and its potential to solve the biggest challenges we face.

Showing of the film 'UK Gold' an award-winning documentary exploring global tax-dodging through the eyes of an East London vicar. 12.00 - Optional bread & cheese lunch, 13.00 - Film screening.

Fete with stalls, games, children’s activities, dancing, teas, curries, live music, all in a beautiful garden setting. Free Entry. Disabled parking. Accessible.

With contributing editors April Carter and Michael Randle discussing the vital influence and importance of nonviolent techniques in civil movements across the globe, and introducing their new book ‘A Guide to Civil Resistance: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest Vol.1’ (£10, Green Print, 2013).

With author Ruslan Dzarasov, Assistant Editor at New Left Review, Tony Wood, and Gonzalo Pozo-Martin, lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College.

Crimestoppers! It is a crime to prepare for mass murder. Trident is the crime.
Forming an orderly queue, with placards and banners, one by one we will enter the police station (leaving placards outside) to report the crime, ask for a crime number and to press for an immediate criminal investigation.

CND Vice-President, core-group organiser of ActionAWE and Co-Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Rebecca Johnson is travelling the country this winter to inspire anti-Trident action.

Launch of the 'Atoms for Peace?' research report on university links to the UK's nuclear weapons programme followed by a panel discussion on the ethics of military research in universities with Sir Jonathon Porritt (Forum for the Future and Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme) and Professor Andy Blowers (Open University). All welcome

Norwich Peace Camp & Peace Cycle embrace an apolitical and united commitment of local peace, community, faith, charity, environmental, human rights and other groups and organisations - many with national and international connections - to peace, justice and better understanding.

UK Launch Conference in March – . Southwark, London, SE1 8PB. Speakers include Gail Dines, Julie Bindel and SPC Intl. leaders and collaborators at our two-day launch conference. This conference is a progressive, feminist collaboration against the sex industry.

Green Fair at Otley Courthouse, 10am to 4pm. Free entry. Stalls, local and national campaigns, crafts, therapies, organic veg. Entertainment. Children’s Art Workshop. Café serving Fair Trade drinks and snacks and veggie food.

A CALL-OUT FOR DONATIONS!!! Smash EDO are urgently in need of money to pay for activists' court fines. Please make donations to: Sussex ESF, Sort code 309528, account number 04127007 (Lloyds BANK). Please email us and inform us you have made a donation. Alternatively you can send a cheque (payable to Sussex ESF) to Smash EDO, C/O Unemployed Centre, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 0GY. http://www.smashedo.org.uk/

Public meeting and discussion. Corporate Watch have recently visited Gaza to research Israeli drone attacks. Come and listen to the stories of those at the receiving end of drone technology; hear how Corporate Watch interviewed families whose loved ones have been killed.

Speakers: Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young. Chair: Sebastian Faulks. http://tinyurl.com/og3qvxg

Speakers: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor Michael Cox, Dr John Hutchinson, Professor Margaret Macmillan, Chair: Professor David Stevenson. This multi-disciplinary panel discussion will reflect on the consequences of the First World War and the value of remembrance, including the impact on international relations, the effect on nationalism and the home front, and what photography and narration of the war can tell us about our society.

A screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory (88 minutes), set during the First World War starring Kirk Douglas, will be followed by a panel discussion. Speakers: Richard Daniels, Michael Leader, Chair: Professor James Hughes.

Speaker: Professor Bruno Latour. Bruno Latour is a renowned French sociologist of science, anthropologist and professor at Sciences Po, Paris and LSE Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology.