Network for Peace

With Chris Spannos. In a rare visit from the US, Chris Spannos will be at Housmans to discuss anarchist economics. Chris is a contributor to the recent AK Press collection ‘The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics’ (2012), as well as the editor of a previous collection by AK Press called ‘Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century’ (2008).

All feminists are welcome to join WILPF celebrate their 98th birthday here at Housmans. It will be a chance to have a slice of cake and raise a glass to all the great work WILPF have done over the years, and to find out more about the organisation. For a history of WILPF please visit: http://www.wilpfinternational.org/about-us/history/

Café Diplo at The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL. Nearest tube station Farringdon. 6.45pm (doors open 6.30).
With Danny Dorling.

With Professor Gavin MacFadyen.
Café Diplo at The Gallery. Nearest tube station Farringdon.

Important matters of demographics, ethics and women's reproductive rights lie behind the jokey title - do come along and discuss them.
The talk is given by Dr Anna Smajdour from the UEA Medical School.
Admission is free. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch any time from 12.15pm. A donation of £3 is invited for a hot drink and biscuits.

With Emma Sangster from ForcesWatch.
Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.

With Victoria Basham (University of Exeter), Tom Burkard (Centre for Policy Studies), Ben Griffin (ex-SAS and founder of Veterans for Peace) and others.

PUBLIC MEETING jointly called by Afghanistan Withdrawal Group of MPs and the All Party Drones Group. Speakers: Chris Cole Drone Campaign Network UK and Rafeef Ziadah War on Want. Co-Chairs: Paul Flynn MP
and Baroness Stern.

IMPORTANT: There are sometime queues for public entry House of Commons buildings. Please allow time for this and come early.

A one day peace festival.
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.
http://www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/events/whats-on-calendar

With Donald Nicholson Smith.
A late addition to our events program, Housmans are very happy to announce that this Friday 29th March, Donald Nicholson Smith will be discussing his revised translation of Raoul Vaneigem's classic text ‘The Revolution of Everyday Life’. Donald joined the English section of the Situationist International in 1965 and was expelled in December 1967!

Ian Sinclair will be speaking about his new book, The March that Shook Blair, published by Peace News.

Ian will be speaking at the Iraqi women's conference, London: During Iraqi Women Solidarity conference,

Ian Sinclair will be be speaking about his new book, The March that Shook Blair, published by Peace News, around the country.

Questions of geography - of space, place, home, environment, landscape and territory - are a recurring theme in the responses of artists to war. But how do they figure in the relationship between art and peace? How can we understand the role that spatial practices and spatial themes play in creating peace as well as in articulating resistance to war and violence?

How have artists and institutions in the UK and beyond responded to the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq? How we might think about the entanglement of art, war and peace in light of these responses?
This one-day event will bring together artists and writers with ties to Iraq to reflect on these issues a decade on from the invasion. Reflecting a range of perspectives and practices, talks and discussions will explore the different ways in which the war has been experienced and the diverse forms of creativity through which artists have responded.

Fight austerity/fight the cuts. March & Rally. Assemble Clerkenwell Green EC1 12.00. March to Trafalgar Square starts 13.00. Rally with leading trade union & other speakers, including Paul Nowak TUC, Tony Benn. http://www.londonmayday.org/

The programme will include a Buddhist ceremony, multi-faith prayers, various speakers on anti nuclear activities and non-violent actions, and an afternoon multi-cultural celebration. Lunch will be provided for everybody.

Annual Peace and Ecology Festival. More details later.

Join Merseyside CND outside the Armed Forces Offices in North John St. central Liverpool. You could dress up as a wounded soldier or carry your own message on a placard. We will have leaflets to hand to passers by.

Bruce Kent is coming to Merseyside!
His itinerary:
1.30pm Birkenhead 6th Form College
2.30pm Upton Hall School
4.30-5.30 Open meeting – The Lauries Community Centre, Claughton Rd, Birkenhead. Bring your friends.
7.30pm Open meeting – Jack Jones House, 1, Islington L3 8EG
With other speakers