Anyone who wants to help to get the arms fair cancelled will be welcome at a meeting of EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS.
From Prince Regent Station, Docklands Light Railway, go up Prince Regent Lane. Cundy Road is first turning on the left.
This will be outside the ExCeL exhibition centre which is the chosen venue for another planned “DSEi” arms fair. More musicians and singers (all styles) are welcome to join us. You can also join in if you are not musical. We need people to collect a petition, hold up posters, give out leaflets etc. From Custom House DLR Station or Victoria Dock Road E16 3BY, just follow the signs to ExCeL. We will be at the end of the walkway just before you get to the entrance to the exhibition centre.
Speaker Professor Jeremy Keenan.
Speaker Professor Anatol Lieven.
Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign - public meeting
Israel's claim of "making the desert bloom" is often used as a justification for it's colonisation of Palestine and displacement of it's indigenous people. But the reality has proved to be very different. Speaker Marian Connolly is a Palestinian supporter who has visited permaculture projects in the West Bank and has an interest in climate change and sustainable development. Collection for Bustan Qaraaqa, Permaculture Project in Bethlehem www.bustanqaraaqa.weebly.org
Ask at reception then take the lift to the top floor
With Anneaka Kelly from Campaign Against Depleted Uranium. Rev Nicholas Mercer former MoD Legal Advisor who went on to win Human Rights Lawyer of the year. Andrew Feinstein former South African politician. Chris Cole from Drone Wars UK.
An exhibition featuring the two 'Peace Plinths' recently evicted from opposite Parliament and work of celebrated artists including Alison Jackson, Ben Eine, Billy Childish, kennardphillipps, Sarah Maple, Schoony and Inkie.
There will be a number of talks and screenings in the gallery including:
Saturday 13 October, 7pm - Tam Carrigan will show images and talk about his work with the Halabja Community Playground Project
A Peace Brigades International human rights conference.
Speakers include women human rights defenders from Latin America and around the world and professionals working in human rights, government, the UN, law and education.
Info:
www.peacebrigades.org.uk/events/conference-women-human-rights-defenders/
Join us at 12 noon at the North London Buddhist Centre, (just a short walk from CCND/CND headquarters). Please bring a vegetarian lunch to share. All welcome.
Map of venue: http://www.northlondonbuddhistcentre.com
Jeremy Corbyn MP invites you to Uniting for Peace Annual Conference at House of Commons, London.
Speakers include Jeremy Corbyn MP. Marwan Darweish, Peace Studies Lecturer, Coventry University. Tim Llewellyn, former BBC Middle East Correspondent and more.
All welcome. Please arrive early to allow time for security checks.
Anti-Trident Rally on the steps on Y Senedd in Cardiff Bay . There will be speeches from Welsh Assembly Members, also a Member of the Scottish Parliament, Jean Urquhart MSP, will be coming to Cardiff especially to participate. This will be followed by performances including excerpts from ‘The Trident Oratorio’ by Camilla Cantantata of Knighton, Powys and other music by Côr Gobaith (Aberystwyth) and Côr Cochion Caerdydd. Giant messages calling on the Welsh Government not to support nuclear weapons based in Wales, or anywhere will be handed in to the First Minister.
Arms company, Raytheon UK, will be recruiting students at the London Graduate Fair on Tuesday 16 October. Join us to expose the true nature of this company and to call on The Careers Group and TARGETjobs to stop promoting arms companies at their events. http://www.londongradfair.co.uk/autumn/
Meeting point: the square of the N1 shopping centre https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=+N1+0PS outside HMV and H&M. If you can, get in touch universities@caat.org.uk to let us know you're coming.
Got questions? Take a look at our FAQs page
http://universities.caat.org.uk/campaigns/ban-bae/faqs/
Protests have ended the National Gallery's long-standing sponsorship arrangement with arms company Finmeccanica, one year before it was due to expire. See: http://www.caat.org.uk/
Well done all!
Speaker: Ann Farr, former Ecumenical Accompanier in Palestine and Israel and Executive Committee member of Pax Christi.
Palestine Fundraiser organised jointly by Norwich PSC and Norwich Stop the War Coalition and the Neesa Project sisters.
Funds usually split three ways between NPSC, NSTWC and the Palestine Trauma Clinic based in Gaza and Cambridge.
See the following websites for info:
www.norwichpsc.org.uk
www.norwichstopwar.org.uk
theneesaproject.co.uk
and: www.norwichpeace.org
Bromley Remembrance Sunday White Poppy Ceremony - Nov 11th. 10.50 a.m at War Memorial, Martins Hill, Church Rd, Bromley. Assemble outside Primark at 10.30 a.m
Lunchtime discussion meeting with Bruce Kent and Sam Walton. Speakers and discussion 1.30-2.30 pm with the church open from 1pm if people want to bring sandwiches.Tea and coffee provided.
Merton UNA's AGM (brief business meeting) followed by reports and discussion on UN-related events in 2012. Quote from Dame Margaret Anstee to consider: "Any idiot can see what needs to be done for the UN. The question is, how to do it."
Forum on 'Option for the Poor - What options now?' with input from Michael Kirwan SJ, Alison Gelder (Housing Justice), Tim Jones (Jubilee Debt Campaign) and Church Action on Poverty.
Plus opportunities for networking with justice and peace activists from around the country and for updates on campaigns by national agencies.
10.30am to 4.00pm
Please bring your own lunch
Screening of 'Fambul Tok' (90 mins). Fambul Tok - Sierra Leone local pidgin for 'family talk' but with a far deeper remit in the aftermath of the brutal years of civil war and the slow rebuilding of civil society. There will be time for discussion after the film and refreshments will be provided. The film will be of interest to all who care about justice. Organised by the Onley-Newton Link group.
