Network for Peace

Help us stop the London Transport Museum taking money from an arms company - join us for an online day of action. Show your frustration on Facebook, your torment on Twitter, and your exasperation via email. We will be bombarding the London Transport Museum with messages all day to show them just how many people oppose their links to the arms trade. Starting at 8:00am and lasting all day. Find the London Transport Museum online here:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ltmuseum
Twitter: tweet @ltmuseum, hashtag #disarmltm

Time TBA.

Just Supper and talk: Peter Hughes on ‘Sleepwalking into War’ at 20.15. Just supper at 19.30.

This free exhibition views the First World War through images of many of the individuals involved. http://www.npg.org.uk/

‘The Accrington Pals’ is being performed by Rubery Drama Group.
Sponsored by the Community for Reconciliation the proceeds will go to peace projects.

The Community for Reconciliation are holding a Service of Reconciliation at St Chad’s Church New Road Rubery on the eve of the anniversary of the outbreak of WW1.

Speakers: Dr Antony Best, Dr Paul Mulvey, Professor David Stevenson. This event will assess the First World War’s importance in global history, and as a turning point in Europe’s relations with the wider world.

Speakers: Lindsey German (STW) + No Glory speaker + Richard Guthrie (Bath UN Association), Dave Pearce. World War 1 was instrumental in defining the 20th Century. Using all the power of the new technology available it caused the deaths of 9 million combatants including almost 2000 from Bath. It had an indelible impact on those who lived through it and many commentators reflected on its legacy.

Speakers: Neil Faulkner (historian). Historian Neil Faulkner will talk about WW1 and the No Glory campaign before a showing of a film.

Readings by: AL Kennedy, Blake Morrison, Michael Rosen, George Szirtes, Samuel West. Music by: Matthew Crampton, Nette Robinson and the Lyric Ensemble.
Organised by No Glory for Conscientious Objectors' Day. (Nearest tube Tottenham Court Rd)

Speakers: Neil Faulkner (historian) and others.

Speakers: Alistair Cartwright.

Speakers: Chris Nineham.

Speakers: Julian Brazier MP. John Blake History teacher, editor of Labour Teachers. Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition. Jeremy Corbyn MP. In the year commemorating the start of the first world war 100 years ago, how should the war be remembered? Was it, as education secretary Michael Gove believes, "a noble and just cause" defending freedom and liberal democracy? Or was it a slaughter that killed over 15 million people waged by imperial powers competing to carve up the world and its resources?

Speakers:Lindsey German, National Convenor of Stop the War Coalition, Paul Flynn MP, Bethan Jenkins AM (tbc) and an anti-war veteran.

Speakers:Neil Faulkner (historian).

Imagining an era when violent conflicts have ceased, The Post War Orchestra transforms deactivated weapons and other military equipment into musical instruments.

Pacifism & National Self-Determination.
Group meeting the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.

Mary Dobbing will talk about Drone Wars UK's newly published research into Israel's production, use and proliferation of drones.
Organised by UK groups campaigning against drones www.corporatewatch.org www.dronewars.net www.londonpalestineaction.tumblr.com www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk www.waronwant.org/