Network for Peace

Organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN) and is intended to raise awareness of the unacceptable harm caused by nuclear weapons, and the urgent need for a ban.
Events include the thought-provoking Share Your Shadow campaign. For more details see http://www.icanw.org/nuclear-abolition-week-2/how-to-get-involved/#.UdCu...

You can sign ICAN's online petition calling for a start to negotiations for a
treaty banning nuclear weapons at http://www.goodbyenuk.es/petitions/new

Remote controlled drones have already caused many civilian casualties in the 'war on terror', and people in the target zones and in Britain are campaigning against their use. But the military is moving towards letting battlefield 'killer robots' take their own decisions without human input. Should we allow computers to decide who lives and who dies, and who is legally responsible for their actions? This first meeting in our 'Breaking the Frame' series on the politics of technology will address some of the ethical and 'existential' issues raised by the march of technocracy.

All-night vigil in Norfolk ‘Remembering those shot at Dawn’ with candles lit for the 306 soldiers.

Week on Iona ‘Pilgrims for Peace: celebrating 100 years of Nonviolence, peacemaking, forgiveness, compassion and reconciliation’.

Fellowship of Reconciliation carol concert, which launches the FOR centenary year. Guest readers to include Tony Benn, Edward Mortimer CMG, Charlotte Banister-Parker and Norman Kember. The Cathedral Singers of Christ Church will provide us with the very best in glorious festive singing to kick-start the first week of advent.
Tickets available: http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/index.aspx#event=18401

‘You don’t have to kill to be a hero: helping your Quaker meeting to tell the peace stories of WW1’ www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses

Peace philanthropy symposium in the Peace Palace (part of its centenary celebrations).
An exhibition on the same subject will be opened on 4 September in the city hall.

Event on ‘peace activist’ Albert Einstein, Berlin. Scientists for Peace Germany (natwiss) and IALANA. www.inesglobal.com
More info soon.

Housmans Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group, which meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Are certain “sorts” of people more likely to have a pacifist outlook? Or is any causality the other way round? Does deciding you’re a pacifist lead you to develop a certain type of personality?

With Lloyd Bradley. Lloyd Bradley charts a century of black music in London, and explores the social impact of successive waves of musical innovation.

With Ken Keable and other recruits. An evening recounting the incredible tales of the London Recruits, who carried out covert operations on behalf of the ANC in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

With Geoff Marshall. Historian Geoff Marshall discusses London’s often overlook industrial heritage and its implications on workers and the fabric of the city, as told in his new book.

With Ruth Cherrington. Ruth Cherrington discusses her book which tells a history of the important role Working Men’s Clubs played in working class communities in London and beyond.

With Sasha Hails as Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Ross as Mary Shelley, and music devised and performed by David Chernaik.
A theatrical presentation with cello accompaniment, remembering the lives of two of King’s Cross’s most celebrated daughters, Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley – plus a free glass of wine to all attending.
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With Peace News co-editors Emily Johns and Milan Rai, reflecting on the prospects of peace after the Iranian presidential election, and reporting on their 10-day peace delegation in Iran in February. Iranian food available for a small donation.

Fellowship of Reconciliation – Scotland residential conference

As fierce fighting continues in Syria, the death toll according to the United Nations has now reached at least 80,000 and the number of refugees fleeing the country has exceeded 1.5 million. Over two years on from the start of the conflict we will be discussing recent developments - on the ground and on the international stage - and asking what changes we could see in coming months.

Privacy of the individual, secrecy of the state and national security have been in sharp focus in past weeks due to the leak of material from the US’s National Security Agency (NSA). We will be joined by a panel of experts to ask whether it is possible to strike a balance.

Gino Strada in conversation with Giles Duley. Since Italian NGO Emergency was established in 1994, it has provided free, high quality health care to more than 5,200,000 victims of war, landmines and poverty. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Gino Strada, co-founder of Emergency, to the Frontline Club, where he will be talking to photographer Giles Duley about his life and work as a war surgeon and founder of Emergency. £12.50. Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ. 020 7479 8940. events@frontlineclub.com Bookings: http://tinyurl.com/lfx5ozd

Bromley and Beckenham CND Hiroshima Day vigil outside the Churchill Theatre and Library, Bromley. Silent procession through Bromley town centre, leafleting and readings after laying flowers on the lake in the Library Gardens