Network for Peace

For the month of April, Bruce Kent will be hitting the road on behalf of CND, spreading the Scrap Trident message across England.

He’s working with a range of different organisations to highlight the wasteful spending on Trident when so much investment is needed to eradicate poverty, boost people-friendly development and make our world a safer and more peaceful place to live.

Look out for him in your local area - list of tour dates below. (Full details to follow.)

Read a message from Bruce here about why cutting Trident now is so essential.

Help the workers dump the weapons! Meet at Tadley Gate.

If you would like to join a group presenting a clear and polite message to Aldermaston staff as they arrive for work, please contact Martin: martin@nuclearmorality.com

For photos of the last action, see http://actionawe.org/help-the-workers-dump-the-weapons/

Come to the BFI screening of War and Peace, a film about the rise of nuclear nationalism in 1990s India.

The screening will be followed by further discussion with the film director, Anand Patwardhan, and CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.

Full details on the BFI website http://tinyurl.com/a7hcj7j

'March that Shook Blair' book tour by Ian Sinclair.
According to polling, over 1¼ million people took part in Britain's biggest-ever political protest: the 15 February 2003 anti-war march in London against the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless, here in the UK there is a widespread feeling - among both activists and the general public - that the demonstration was an “absolute failure” (UK Uncut activist, 2011), and that it had no impact on the Government. Based on over 120 original interviews, “The March that Shook Blair” explodes these myths.

Oxford Public Meeting: Anti-war artist Emily Johns and activist Milan Rai (author of War Plan Iraq and Chomsky's Politics) report back from their mid-February peace delegation to Iran.

This spring the UK will double its number of armed Reaper drones in Afghanistan and will for the first time, begin operating drones over Afghanistan from a new facility at RAF Waddington near Lincoln.
Assemble 12noon at Lincoln Station. March to rally at 2pm at RAF Waddington.
www.cnduk.org
www.dronecampaignnetwork.org.uk
www.stopwar.org.uk
www.waronwant.org

Conversation with ICA/Kumi practitioners from Netherlands and Germany & Community Resolve (Bristol). KUMI (or Rise Up in both Arabic and Hebrew) combines three distinct approaches to conflict transformation and community development and will allow communities, organisations and other groups to creatively engage in dealing with conflicts and the sustainable development of their societies.

With Commander Robert Green.
Robert Green, a former naval intelligence officer turned peace activist, will be in Leeds to talk about his research into the mysterious death of his aunt, anti-nuclear activist Hilda Murrell.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/20/who-killed-hilda-murrell

Join (or cheer on) our “peace athlete” bloc on the Bradford 10k and raise money for Epilepsy Action and Yorkshire CND as we spring, stagger or stumble over the finish line. All in a good cause!

Non-violent Direct Action training day with Stop the Arms Fair (CAAT).
The arms trade happens on our doorsteps. Most of us have an arms company site within just a few miles of where we live. If you are interested in learning more about how you could take direct action to challenge the arms trade, then come along to this training day with Stop the Arms Fair coalition.

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.