Network for Peace

Faith traditions have often linked food with ritual, celebration and community. How is this relationship between food and the sacred experienced today? How might this be reflected in farming and food production? With Sandra White (Shumei) and Khalid Khadaroo & Soraya Ramjane (EcoPeace).

With Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg (New North London Synagogue) and Paul Kingsnorth (Dark Mountain Project).

An 8 month inter-spiritual and inter-disciplinary journey exploring our experience of the sacred. How has our understanding changed? How we can bring the sacred into every day life, in our relationship with the earth, money, food, education and art. Full calendar: http://www.stethelburgas.org/civicrm/event/info?id=558&reset=1

Buddhist inspired ideas for personal and social change. A weekend conference in Berkshire. St Ethelburga's and the Faith-based Conflict Resilience Fellowship will be contributing a workshop on the evolutionary potential of conflict. Programme: http://transformingconflictblog.wordpress.com/programme/

Exploring the magic of Brazil and Nigeria's music and Wallee's final concert. Doors open 6.45pm Music 7.30pm.

We welcome you to St. Ethelburga's to share a story, poem or song, reflecting on the theme 'A different kind of story'. A magical night of spoken word, music and mutual experience.
All proceeds go towards our fundraising appeal.

This September, the world’s arms dealers come to London. Please join us to plan international solidarity actions to shut them down. Share ways of supporting each others’ struggles, map the arms dealers and discuss action to shut them down. 7-9pm at Friends House, Euston.

Uniting for Peace Annual Conference. The speakers include: Lord Frank Judd, Former Minister for International Development. John Baron, Member of Parliament [tbc]. Prof. Jeremy Keenan, Author. Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace.

Designed to co-incide with the 50th anniversary of the original show and the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
Sat matinees at 14.30.

Showing, at 12noon of film: Hiroshima, Dir Hideo Sekigawa (1953) and Land of Hope Dir Sono Sion (2012).
Followed by discussion.

Stop the War groups can send up to four delegates and other affiliated groups can send two delegates. Conference is also open to individual members. Members must be paying a monthly or annual subscription - if in doubt please get in touch to check your membership status. Members who joined before 15th of July 2013 have full voting and speaking rights. Members who joined after this date can take part as observers. All delegates must register by Friday 7th of September.

This year marks the 70 anniversary of Franz Jaegerstaetters execution.
To mark this, we are planning an evening event in Euston, London with speaker Severin Renoldner from Pax Christi Austria. Severin has researched and written on Franz and is Head of Education and Culture for the Diocese of Linz. There will also be a liturgy and time to share food together. Leaflet attached.

Members of Norwich CND propose to lay a wreath on the War Memorial and to continue to the Peace Pillar in Chapelfield Gardens for a short vigil. All are welcome to join us. We will walk in a quiet, formal procession with banners, starting from the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane at 11.30am. We will wear white, if possible. The event will finish by 1.30pm.

Musical Protest against the “DSEi” Arms Fair, at the ExCeL London Exhibition Centre. From Victoria Dock Road or DLR Custom House Station follow the signs to ExCeL.

2pm meet outside South exit from Royal Victoria DLR station to float a wreath on the Royal Victoria Dock opposite the site of the “DSEi” Arms Fair.

The Peace & Anti-War Movement on the eve of the First World War - lessons for today. Recognising the impact that the national commemoration of the First World War will have, the Peace History Conference looks at the peace and anti war movements and individual campaigners who attempted to change public perceptions and government policy, before and during WW1 and the following century.

With speaker Julian Wright, Senior Adviser Climate Ready Support Service in the Environment Agency. Dr Wright is an authorised speaker for WaterAid.

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.

Join us by the Thames in Canbury Gardens to commemorate the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. We shall float lighted boats on the Thames to remember the victims of the first nuclear bombs. Please join us.
Kingston Peace Council/CND is a friendly group that meets every second Wednesday each month at Surbiton Hill Methodist Church, Ewell Road, Surbiton at 7.45p.m. All welcome.

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.