With Richard Murphy
With Lucy Morgan Edwards
Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre, Edinburgh Campaigns Against Arms Trade and Uniting for Peace invite you to Vijay Mehta’s book discussion
The Economics of Killing. How the West Fuels War and Poverty in the Developing World.
Keynote Speaker: Vijay Mehta, Author, The Economics of Killing.
UN International Day of Peace Commemoration, 10am-12 noon at Hay Hill by Norwich Market. Drumming & Singing, Peace One Day Stories, Vigil and Peace Poem (created at the Norwich Peace Camp at The Forum on 23rd June).
With Matthew Goodwin
UN International Day of Peace Conference. At our stunning waterfront venue ‘The Light’ in the iconic Royal Liver Building, Liverpool.
Join us for a day of inspirational sessions led practitioners working on the cutting edge of peace building in Syria, Africa and elsewhere and explore your own contribution to sustainable peace.
Speakers include Dr Scilla Elworthy, Founder, Peace Direct. Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace. Mr William Morris, Secretary
General, Next Century Foundation and more.
The event will be an evening of readings on asylum, refugees, racism and equality . We hope to have excerpts from a variety of books and poems which will be read by members of Ayrshire Friends of Refugees Group and local children
Come and help us build a giant fracking rig outside Parliament on the 1st December 2012 at the time of the UN Climate Talks in Qatar, as well as the "Grosvenor Square Keystone Pipeline" (from the Canadian to US Embassies) on the same day.
Check website for more details. Assemble 12noon.
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Open Networking Day.
Speaker: Frank Regan: "What does Bullying Point to - in the bully, in society and in the Church?"
Plus an opportunity to network with justice and peace activists from around England and Wales, and to hear about the latest campaigns from agencies and organisations.
Time: 10.30am - 4.00pm
Please bring your own lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.
Float candle-lit grapefruit skins on the River Wey at Send.
We are meeting to remember that the only time so far that nuclear bombs have been used in war, was in 1945 over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They killed a quarter of a million people and wiped out their cities. These atomic bombs were small compared with the 27,000 nuclear weapons in today’s arsenals. Woking Action for Peace is one of hundreds of groups worldwide campaigning to make the world a safer place by persuading the nuclear powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.
'Old and New Wars' with Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance. In the Museum Cinema.
Preceded by MAW AGM at 11.15am in the Conference Room.
With Alom Shaha.
London-based teacher and journalist Alom Shaha discusses his journey from orthodox religion to a compassionate, fulfilling, and meaningful life without God, as told in his new book.
Hiroshima Day gathering at 1pm at the Peace Pillar Chapelfield Park. Please bring words of your own to say or readings...
Also bring banners if you have them (bamboo poles should be available to mount these on)
Please do let me know beforehand if at all possible if you are able to attend for half to one hour this will help with organisation and planning.
This is a major focus for the local, national and international annual peace movement so please do support and show solidarity by attending if at all possible
Talk and discussion by Sameeha Elwan, 24 year old Palestinian from Gaza. She spoke eloquently at a meeting of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in York about growing up and studying in Gaza and then the sheer joy of handling real books in light from electricity not candles while working for an MA in Culture and Difference at Durham University. On September 20th she will speak to a public meeting in Skipton, organized by Grassington and District Peace Group in association with Skipton Quaker Meeting.
Handa Shonin Memorial Walk 2012
Rev Handa was a Buddhist monk at Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda from 1080 until his sudden death in August 2007, just after he had joined an anti-nuclear walk and led the annual floating lantern ceremony on Hiroshima Day. A small group of people (between 5 and 10) will walk this August in memory of Handa Shonin and all he stood for.
At a candle service for light and peace.
During the service a candle from Hiroshima will be lit and our candle from Essex will be lit in Hiroshima.
Parking near St Marys Church, Church Street, Maldon can be found on The Hythe by the River Blackwater at the bottom of the street. Church Street is off the High Street, Maldon.
Speaking Tour with George Lakey.
Co-founder of the Movement for a New Society - which for nearly 20 years pioneered forms of consensus decision-making, direct action and communal living that are now central to today’s activist groups - George Lakey has led over 1500 workshops on five continents, training coal miners, homeless people, prisoners, Burmese guerillas, steel workers and others.
This Summer, George is touring the UK on a rare visit organised by Peace News.
See http://peacenews.info/node/6452/making-nonviolent-revolution-speaking-to... for details
Speaking Tour with George Lakey.
Co-founder of the Movement for a New Society - which for nearly 20 years pioneered forms of consensus decision-making, direct action and communal living that are now central to today’s activist groups - George Lakey has led over 1500 workshops on five continents, training coal miners, homeless people, prisoners, Burmese guerillas, steel workers and others.
This Summer, George is touring the UK on a rare visit organised by Peace News.
See http://peacenews.info/node/6452/making-nonviolent-revolution-speaking-to... for details
Coal Action Scotland community meeting – www.takebacktheland.org.uk
Speaking Tour with George Lakey.
Co-founder of the Movement for a New Society - which for nearly 20 years pioneered forms of consensus decision-making, direct action and communal living that are now central to today’s activist groups - George Lakey has led over 1500 workshops on five continents, training coal miners, homeless people, prisoners, Burmese guerillas, steel workers and others.
This Summer, George is touring the UK on a rare visit organised by Peace News.
Speaking Tour with George Lakey.
Co-founder of the Movement for a New Society - which for nearly 20 years pioneered forms of consensus decision-making, direct action and communal living that are now central to today’s activist groups - George Lakey has led over 1500 workshops on five continents, training coal miners, homeless people, prisoners, Burmese guerillas, steel workers and others.
This Summer, George is touring the UK on a rare visit organised by Peace News.
See http://peacenews.info/node/6452/making-nonviolent-revolution-speaking-to... for details
