How does nonviolent action bring about social change? An informal half day course to discuss the possibilities and tools of a nonviolent activist facilitated by members of the peace movement. Facilitators include Sylvia Boyes, Dr Rachel Julian, & Prof Dave Webb.
With Dame Claire Bertschinger.
Claire Bertschinger the activist and nurse who inspired Live Aid will be speaking at the University of Bradford.
With Sharyn Lock. Commonweal Peace Library Annual Lecture.
On 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell's orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire. They belonged to a movement popularly known as the Levellers, with beliefs in civil rights and religious tolerance.
Despite hundreds of thousands of people having taken to the streets of London and elsewhere to voice their opposition to military action in Iraq, on 19 March 2003, air strikes on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad began. What followed was a US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s government, and marked the start of years of violent conflict. Ten years on, in a debate chaired by Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow, we will ask: have lessons been learned?
For the first time ever, six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service agency, agree to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The screening of the Academy Award nominated film will be followed by a Q&A with director.
Followed by a Q&A with Barbara Miller and Iranian blogger Farnaz Seifi.
On the Internet, their voices are skillfully shielded, but the famous bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi aren’t afraid of the dictatorial regimes in their respective home countries of Cuba, China, and Iran. Director Barbara Miller follows these brave young rebels on their dangerous journey. She traces their use of social media like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to denounce and combat human rights and freedom of speech violations in their countries.
Join us for an evening of short documentaries, from different parts of the world, covering a wide range of topics. Shorts at the Frontline Club showcases moving, striking and funny films, exploring the different faces of documentary.
The evening will include short stories capturing the essence of big issues; films showing life in other parts of the world under difficult and extraordinary circumstances; and stories focusing on one particular remarkable event or person.
The full programme will follow soon
Something for the Weekend in association with Milburn Browning Associates present One Rogue Reporter.
Grab the inside scoop as red-top renegade Rich Peppiatt delivers a merciless dissection of his former trade, testing the public’s right to know to its side-splitting extremity.
Over the last five years, photojournalist Jo Metson Scott has photographed The Grey Line, a reflection on war told from the perspectives of American and British soldiers who have spoken out against the invasion of Iraq. Their voices have been met with varying consequences, from being outcast to imprisoned, shunned to celebrated.
To mark the 10 years since the invasion of Iraq, Metson Scott will be joined by Ben Griffin, a former SAS soldier, to present The Grey Line in a talk chaired by Victoria Brittain.
In 2007 Kenya’s disputed presidential election descended into violence in which more than 1,000 people were killed. On 4 March, all eyes will be on Kenya as once again the country goes to the polls, in what is set to be another heated election. We will be examining the results and what they mean for the future of the country.
Followed by a Q&A with reporter Najibullah Quraishi.
Afghanistan produces around 90 percent of the world’s opium, fueling the global heroin trade, funding terrorist groups like the Taliban and bringing billions of dollars a year into the country’s economy.
Followed by a Q&A with director Askold Kurov via Skype.
While the streets of Moscow are in winter’s cold grip, its living rooms, offices and polling stations are ablaze with debate. Ten graduates of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s Documentary Filmmaking and Theater School are commissioned by Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, to capture the scene.
Bringing together a panel of experts, journalists and commentators we will be tackling the top story of the month in a lively debate chaired by Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House.
Organised by ShelterBox
A panel debate, chaired by Clive Jones, Chair of the Disasters Emergency Committee (and ITV News) with BBC’s Mike Wooldridge, Sarah Whitehead of Sky News, DFID’s Dylan Winder, and Ross Preston, Head of Operations for international disaster relief charity, ShelterBox.
All-Wales ‘Action AWE’ day at the bomb factory gates.
CND Cymru will have a presence on 3 October. If you or your group can be there with banners and dragons and all please let Angie Zelter t: 0845 4588 362 e: info@actionawe.org and CND Cymru heddwch@cndcymru.org know so we can co-ordinate! See the excellent website: www.actionawe.org
CND Cymru will be there!
CND Cymru needs volunteers to commit themselves to helping in Pabell CND Cymru/ Heddwch.
If you are a Welsh speaker or learner and would like to help – for a day or for longer (with free entrance and time off of course!) please contact Brian Jones: t: 01792 830 330 e: brian.jones@phonecoop.coop
An ecumenical prayer vigil will be followed by the laying of flowers at the gate and boundary fence of the factory in memory of the millions of innocent victims of the arms trade. Location: http://tinyurl.com/bo9xn2m
PAWB: Pobl Atal Wylfa B/ People Against Wylfa B roadside protest against nuclear power.
• in sympathy with the people of Fukushima in Japan, marking the second anniversary of this ongoing disaster.
• in support of Cumbria County Council's decision to refuse permission for a huge underground depository for radioactive waste
• against Hitachi's plan to store spent nuclear fuel (twice as radioactive as the present fuel), on site at Wylfa B for at least 150 years
Why on the bridge?
• to highlight the impossibility of evacuating Ynys Môn in the event of a nuclear disaster
Public Meeting with keynote speaker - John Rose, Jewish academic, activist & author of 'The Myths of Zionism'. John became a campaigner for Palestinian rights in 1967 during the 'Six Days War' and anti-Vietnam war movement shortly after participating in the first ever student sit-in in Britain at the LSE, in the same year he became one of 35 British students recruited by to carry out underground resistance work in South Africa against the apartheid regime.
