Network for Peace

Observed on the Sunday nearest to UN Peace Day, Peacemaking Sunday aims to set its concerns in the context of Christian worship. Get a resource pack for Churches and Inter-Faith resource pack from Uniting for Peace - send £5 (cheques made out to 'Peace Services') to UfP Peace Services, Rev B Cooper, 144/1 Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh, EH9 2AN.

Public event beside the Cutty Sark, near the Gypsy Moth Pub (close to Cutty Sark DLR station)

The Japanese Peace Boat is visiting London and joining with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to create awareness of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear technologies used for weapons and energy.

Come and hear Japanese drummers and survivors from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima.

Concert and film show
a) Claire Mooney singer/songwriter
b) Video clips from UN and POD websites showing achievements with
the day of ceasefire, e.g. clearing landmines, innoculations etc.
c) Local poets.
Bar, refreshments, doors open 7.00pm

Thursday Aug. 9th 7.30pm Documentary Film in the Basement at the Social Centre, next to News from Nowhere, 96 Bold St. L1 Limited access (service lift from street to Basement)

Wreath laying followed by short speaking, music , peace prayer event.

Haringey CND Public Meeting: Maha Rahwanj, Executive member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will introduce a showing of the film, “Slingshot Hiphop” (85 minutes). Followed by questions and discussion. Wheelchair access.

The arms race is moving into space. The U.S. Space Command, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has publicly stated that it intends "to control space in order to protect U.S. interests and investments." It is crucial that the movement to stop this new round in the arms race moves quickly ahead.

An international fast for the abolition of nuclear weapons and to remember the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Academics and activists will participate in a seminar blockade as part of Faslane 30. The theme of the seminar is 'security' and participants are invited to reflect on the complex issue of nuclear weapons from a range of perspectives - governance, securitisation and discourses of 'terror', ethics, as well environmental and social justice.

The timing and exact locations of seminar events will necessarily be determined on the day, but participants are invited to gather at the Peace Camp between 8 and 9.30 am.

Part of Faslane Peace Camp 30 Days of Direct Action

You are warmly invited to attend the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s second annual fundraising dinner. It will be held at Tas Pide Restaurant, at 7pm.
This event will help to ensure that CND can continue its essential campaigning to scrap Trident particularly at a time when cuts are being made to jobs, welfare and public services.

Please join us for a service of reflection: with music, religious and secular readings and silence. We will also make Japanese Origami Paper Cranes of Peace. Everybody is welcome. We hope you will also join us to talk and share refreshments in the grounds beside the chapel after the service.

Service to commemorate the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and to voice our objection to the suggestion that the UK's nuclear weapons could be moved to Milford Haven if Scotland became independent. All welcome.

Study and training day.

June 26th each year is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (http://www.un.org/events/torture/). The London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to join us for a vigil to show solidarity with all victims of torture all over the world.

The Festival is a unique one-day event with over 50 free talks and workshops and over 60 stalls covering: Self-healing and Self-empowerment • Natural Parenting and Nature Cures • Healthy Vegan Organic Meals and Whole-foods • Permaculture and Environmentalism • Musical, Poetic and Artistic Expression • Simple and Non-consumerist Living • Creating Community and Networks • Celebration and Connection.

Doors open: 10.30am • Talks and Workshops: 11am-8pm
Stalls: 10.30am-6pm • Conscious Dance Party: 7pm-11.30pm
Ticket price for full event: 10.30am-11.30pm: £15 /£10 (concs) at the door.

A Dialogue Society Straight Talk. Interviewee: Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty.
Interviewer: Steve Richards, British TV Presenter and Chief Political Columnist for The Independent Newspaper.
This new series of programmes will probe urgent contemporary issues in an interview format. It is called Straight Talk for a reason: an expert will face direct, searching questions from a seasoned interviewer. Questions and answers together will help frame the issue and open it up for the audience to debate further.

UN International Day of Peace meeting with John Nelson from the Forest People's Project.

Planning meeting of London Region CND, followed by public meeting with speaker at 8pm. (If you don’t want to come to the planning meeting, you are still welcome to come to the below public meeting.)
Public Meeting at 8pm:
“IRAN - WHY IS THE WEST PREPARING ITS PUBLIC FOR A NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST?”
Talk by Professor Abbas Edalat of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran.
Followed by questions and discussion.

Cross St Unitarian Chapel, Central Manchester
Saturday 14th July
10.30am - 4.30pm

(Registration and refreshments 9.45 - 10.30am Vegetarian Lunch provided)

This is an opportunity to learn about different approaches to dialogue, drawing on the skills and experiences of two national projects.

Among other issues, the workshops will cover:
• The role of dialogue in building resilient communities.
• Improving the quality and depth of conversations.
• Disagreeing whilst maintaining good relationships.
• Sharing stories as a way of building bridges.