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
Public Event Organised by Veterans for Peace Chapter 1001 (London)
An afternoon of talks and short films exposing the true nature of modern warfare with an emphasis on Drones and Special Forces. Speakers; Julian Assange, Editor of Wikileaks. Ian Cobain, Guardian Journalist. Chris Cole, Editor of Drone Wars UK. Michael Lyons, former Royal Navy Medic and Afghan war resister. Adnan Sarwar, former Royal Engineer, Iraq War veteran and writer. Ben Griffin, former SAS soldier and Iraq war veteran/resister.
Musicians Against Nuclear Arms (MANA) Concert for Peace in collaboration with MEDACT 7.30 pm at St. James'’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1. The Mana Chamber Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins soloist Noriko Ogawa (piano) Guest speaker Dr. Frank Boulton a Trustee and previous Chair of MEDACT. Dai Fujikura Banitza Groove! W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K491 L v Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major.
Tickets by phone from our Box Office on 01892 534 525 or book online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216463
Walk of Witness from Richmond Castle, where conscientious objectors were imprisoned during the first world war, to Menwith Hill, US base in North Yorkshire. Northern Friends Peace Board centenary event.
With Mike Lewis, Policy advisor on tax justice for Action Aid. Tax havens, and the offshore financial system they maintain, are not just ways to conceal wealth from the taxman. Their secrecy sustains the corporate structures and money-flows that fuel conflict and cause poverty. Mike Lewis will trace the fingerprints of tax havens on malnutrition and war crimes - and suggest what we can do about it. http://tinyurl.com/bl9jz6j
