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.
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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.
Speaker: Billy Bragg, Chair: Dr Robin Archer. Is it possible to be both progressive and patriotic? Those on the left are constantly reminded that there are many types of socialism - often competing with one another. Is the same true of patriotism? We are quick to dismiss such impulses as little more than xenophobia wrapped in pageantry, but could a love of one’s country be a progressive force in society?
Speaker: Dr Naghmeh Sohrabi, Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi. On February 11th, 1979, a revolution was declared in Iran to the surprise of both many observers and participants. But what does a revolution feel like to those in its midst before the term is even used to define this great upheaval?
With the outbreak of the First World War, George Bernard Shaw’s reputation torpedoed when he published his anti-war pamphlet Commonsense About the War. Shunned by the theatrical world, Shaw, heavily influenced by Russia in Heartbreak House, came to welcome one of the war’s consequences– the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. The same events were to send the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky into Western exile for the rest of his life. The Soldier’s Tale of 1918 may be viewed as a comment on the displacement of soldiers across Europe at the War’s end.
Speaker: Professor Donatella Della Porta, Chair: Dr Omar McDoom. From Gezi Park in Istanbul to Tahrir Square in Cairo, threatened regimes have faced down massive protests with brutal repression. But when do mass social movements go underground and choose violence?
Amidst fears that the planned withdrawal of Western forces will test Afghanistan’s fragile peace, the panel takes stock of the legacy of more than a decade of costly international engagement. Speaker: Jelena Bjelica, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jolyon Leslie. Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova.
Speakers: Professor Cecile Fabre, Professor Jeff McMahan. The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I reminds us of the importance of ethics in war. Under what conditions may states wage war on each other? And what are the moral principles governing the conduct of war? Cecile Fabre is professor of political philosophy at the University of Oxford. Jeff McMahan is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University.
Speaker: Dr Gabriel Wollner. Gabriel Wollner offers a political philosophy perspective on questions of international finance and defends the idea of an international financial transaction tax as an instrument for making the international financial system more just.
