With David Renton.
Join writer, historian, and activist David Renton to discuss the politics behind the Olympic games.
Presented by The History Press. Speaker: Simon Webb.
Join Simon Webb for a discussion of the history of terrorism in London, and the opportunist response from successive governments.
Terrorism has been a regular feature of life in Britain for at least a hundred and fifty years. The most deadly bombing in London before the 7/7 attacks of 2005 took place in Clerkenwell in 1867, when twelve people were killed. The first tube bombings were in the 1880s.
PUBLIC MEETING organised by Afghanistan Withdrawal Group of MPs
supported by Stop The War Coalition.
Committee Room 21, House of Commons, London, via Portcullis House Entrance* (next to Westminster tube station).
Speaker: Lucy Morgan Edwards. Co-chairs: Paul Flynn MP and Caroline Lucas MP.
Meet by the commemorative cherry tree in Victoria Park to remember the victims of the nuclear bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Please bring a poem, song, memory or thought to share.
Note that this is not the much larger Victoria Park in East London.
Led by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, leading councillors, MPs and members of the Manchester peace and multi-faith communities. It will include an hour of readings, poetry and silent reflection for the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The event is dedicated to remembering the innocent civilian victims of modern warfare. It will be held in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Manchester city centre. Lincoln Square is off Brasenose Street in the city centre and close to the Town Hall, which is connected to Albert Square and Deansgate.
Speakers include Sami Ramadani, Neil Clarke, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Abbas Edelat.
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.
