Network for Peace

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.

Just Supper, followed at 8.15 by a presentation from Navrita Atwal of MK Equalities on the new United Nations Association being set up in Milton Keynes and on the importance of local involvement in the UNA at this time of world change. To reserve a place at Open Table, ring 01908 242190 or email bookings@thewellatwillen.org.uk. Please give 24 hours' notice if a meal is required. All welcome.

Just Supper, followed at 8.15pm by a presentation from Robin Baker of The Well and the Society of the Sacred Mission, "Apartheid and its legacy - so what's changed in South Africa?", following his recent visit to Southern Africa. To reserve a place at Open Table, ring 01908 242190 or email bookings@thewellatwillen.org.uk. Please give 24 hours' notice if a meal is required. All welcome.

Fair Trade arts and products.

The Theme is Faith and Identity – Embracing Difference.
At a time when for many people faith or lack of it is the principal source of their identity and often influences the way they respond to cultural and political circumstances, how is difference to be accommodated, let alone embraced?
And is faith the only determinant of our identity or what other factors are in play? How do we discover who we are and how we may or should respond, if reconciliation is ever to be achieved?
SPEAKERS: Susan McEwen and Rev Dr Sam McBratney

Just how safe are we? An evening of discussion on nuclear emergency planning
with John Large (International nuclear safety consultant).
Chaired by Councillor Paul Gittings, Lead Councillor for Environment and Climate Change, Reading Borough Council.
All welcome - Admission free

To order leaflets contact Mrs Lesley Daisley, 11 Montrose Avenue, London NW6 6LE 020 8968 4340 or see the website: www.weekofprayerforworldpeace.com

An interfaith gathering of prayer and peace will be held at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG.

Event at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and outside Westminster Abbey, organised by Anglican Pacifist Fellowship under the auspices of the Network of Christian Peace Organisations. Further details to follow.

With Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett.
Launch of a booklet considering Debord’s ‘Game of War’, an insurrectionary manual for those struggling to build a truly human civilisation. At 5pm Richard and Fabian will be playing and introducing the 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s Command & Colors Napoleonics wargame – this section of the event is free, and all welcome.

An informal chance to play and learn about the Marxist board game created by the French theorist and founding member of the Situationist International.

POST-ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR SPECIAL – FREE ENTRY

Trilling discusses how the far right entered Britain’s mainstream through the front door.
PRE-ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR SPECIAL – FREE ENTRY

Launching the first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade, it brings together some of the key theorists and activists from the new networked and creative social movements. Contributors include Owen Jones, David Graeber, John Holloway, Nina Power, Mark Fisher, Franco Berardi Bifo and Marina Sitrin.

Robin Tudge gives an overview of the ever-increasing surveillance of our lives by the state. Tudge’s book provides a well-researched look into the history of surveillance and how the process is carried out today with the aid of technology and often, lack of express consent.

Ken Livingstone introduces his memoirs, and recounts his times as a Labour politician, leader of the GLC, and London mayor. Booking essential – email nik@housmans.com to RSVP a space.

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Housmans are happy to welcome back The Short Film Movement, a collective of film makers, creating thoughtful new films on a variety of philosophical themes, with this programme including work on Identity, Sense of Self, and Wanderlust. The screening will be taking place in the basement, and entry is free. www.theshortfilmmovement.co.uk

An Elder and Shaman from the Kalaallit-Eskimos of Greenland, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, simply called Uncle, is coming to London this week end.
http://youtu.be/a9wyxKjFqUg (his website: www.icewisdom.com)
We are delighted at very short notice to offer an evening of storytelling with Uncle here at St Ethelburgas.
Come and join us in this rare opportunity to meet Angaangaqat, who will be sharing his wisdom with us in the intimacy of the Tent
No need to book just come from 6.30 onwards.

Suggested donation £7.00 (including refreshments)

Calling for pioneers to become organisers, teachers, supporters and examples for sustainable and responsible living. To learn the skills and reasons to live in harmony with nature with the minimum of harm to the environment. To learn how to teach these skills and understanding to the wider community and organise a movement for reform.
See website for more details: http://www.4nobletruthsofclimatechange.wordpress.com/

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 E.16. 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.