Network for Peace

With the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Coinciding with the ‘Hard Rain’ exhibition on display from 19 May, MPs from the Environmental Audit Committee will host an open discussion on the Rio+20 agenda, based on presentations giving the perspectives of faith groups, the media and arts, sport, business, communities and young people. The Committee have produced an initial report on Rio+20, and the discussion will help set the scene for their follow-on inquiry from 20 – 22 June 2012.

The 2009 Big Green Gathering was forced to close due to police and council harassment, but a new event ran in 2011 and again August 2012, at a new venue situated along the Wye river and valley.

The Earth First! Summer Gathering is the place where people involved in radical ecological direct action - or those who want to be involved - get together for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what's going on, find out what's next, live outside, strategise, hang out, incite, laugh and conspire.

Sounds on the Downs is a free music and arts festival, which marries a message of peace, environmental and social awareness with a party atmosphere, billed as 'Nottingham's Free renewably-powered greenfields festival'.

Activities may include live music, djs, comedy, spoken word, drumming, face painting, art workshops, music workshops, campaigns, eco-friendly shops and stalls, Food by Veggies and fun activities for you to try out during this chilled out summer day!

Nottingham's only green event, now running annually for over 2 decades, is the traditional start of our summer season.
This event has over 100 product, information and food stalls, kids rides, workshops, alternative therapies and technologies, live performers, entertainments throughout the park, live music bands performing from the bandstand and Veggies Catering nearby.

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

A mass action against EDO MBM – more details to follow

The G8 is where the heads of the most powerful states in the world gather to discuss cementing social control and domination of resources. Top of the agenda will be austerity; using the financial crisis caused by the banking sector to open new markets trading our public services as commodities.

The 2013 G8 summit will be somewhere in the UK. This meeting in Brighton will be a first chance to get together and discuss how to build a network to resist the summit.

Check the website for more details. Accommodation will be provided for those coming from out of town.

Smash EDO invite anyone with an artistic bent to join them outside the factory to draw visions of a world without EDO. Pictures will be displayed at the Cowley Club.
EDO/ITT is, if heading north from Moulsecoomb station, the fourth out of five warehouses. It’s a large white and green building, which unfortunately looks quite similar to its neighbours, particularly from behind. http://smashedo.org.uk/about/finding-edo

A mass demo against the plan to attack Iran and to the presence of the arms trade in Brighton

South East Hants Peace Council will be marking Hiroshima/Nagasaki with stall and vigil at Chichester Cathedral grounds 10.30 to 4.30.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vigil.

Camp to plan action against open cast coal.
Saturday 14th July - Action planned to challenge opencast coal mining in the Douglas Valley.

Annual service. Afterwards, at 7.45, there will be a Peace Walk to the London Peace Pagoda (see separate diary entry).

Hiroshima Day – a ceremony with the floating of 67 candles on the river in at dusk representing the 67 years since the deliberate dropping by the US of a nuclear bomb on civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945.
With speakers.

Mid morning onwards.
Peace Picnic to mark Hiroshima Day.

Cymdeithas y Cymod AGM and drones protest.
2.30pm, outside Parc Aberporth, Aberporth, Ceredigion: Service of repentance for the role Aberporth and Wales play in the development of military drones (unmanned aerial vehicles).

The best way to learn is to do.
Learn to build a roundhouse studio with roundwood skeleton, straw bale infill walls, cob and cord-wood, mud & lime render, local sheep-wool insulation, living green roof with roundwood reciprocal frame, and reclaimed windows. Experience communal building and owner-built sustainable construction practices.
£140 including camping. These fees are set low - you will be doing plenty of physical work! Food: £60 (or £6 a day) 10-15 places. Concessions for those using public transport.

Take part in the direct action of travelling as a group through city streets on bikes.
Campaigning for better provision for cyclists, Creating a car-free space in the centre of our cities, Having fun Meeting friends, Creating a vision and experience of a possible future - some of these may feature more strongly than others, but any combination of these aims and more can be reason enough for any cyclist to come to Critical Mass event.
www.sites.google.com/site/criticalmasscardiff/home

All members and delegates of affiliated groups welcome.

at 3pm: Public Meeting: Angie Zelter speaking about the situation on Jeju Island South Korea.