Network for Peace

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.

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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