Rally at US Communications Base as part of Keep Space for Peace Week.
Location is 3 miles north of M40 jnct 10 - assemble on Portway NN13 5LY and march 1 mile to Main Gates.
Speakers, music, hot teas, cold drinks, disabled toilet
Bring picnic, family, friends, flags and Peace!
The Festival brings together on the 13th-15th July 2012, a host of events. Amongst others: The Climate change Minister, Gregory Barker discusses the environment with Caroline Lucas of the Green Party; Theodore Dalrymple, the arch-conservative of the Spectator, locks horns with Polly Toynbee of the Guardian over liberal attitudes to morality and the Welfare State; and Peter Hitchens will debate with Dr Axel Klein the ‘legalisation of drugs’.
A unique opportunity to chat with George Lakey.
George Lakey was first arrested for a civil rights sitin in the 1960s; he was most recently arrested on a climate change action in 2010. Over the last 50 years, he has worked with trade unions and poor people’s groups as well as peace activists and environmentalists.
Huddersfield Methodist Mission at 11am
Leeds Metropolitan University Room 546 Rosebowl at 6.30pm
UNA LunchBox talk to be given by Professor Rhys Jenkins. Professor Jenkins is an economist by training with interests in international development issues, particularly trade and foreign investment, and in industrialisation. His current research focuses on the impact of the growth of China on other developing countries. He has had a long term interest in the activities of transnational corporations in the South and this has included analysis of corporate social responsibility.
The talk is at 1pm and will last about 30 minutes followed by questions.
Discussion event exploring empathy and dyspathy (the blocking of empathy). With Professor Lynne Cameron (Professor of Applied Linguistics, Open University) and Rachel Heilbron from the Three Faiths Forum. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/cmrocdx
Candle floating ceremony.
Boycott Campaign action at Israel V Wales football match. Transport organised from Swansea.
Palestinian Footballers are repeatedly blocked by the Israelis from leaving GAZA and the WEST BANK to play abroad. One footballer Mahmoud Sarsak was up to last week on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, read more about it here:
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=25&Con...
With Greg Palast.
Please note this event is a late addition to our events programme and the details may change – please check the website for confirmation that it will go ahead as suggested here
Vulture's Picnic is Greg Palast's hard hitting expose of the oil industry, the banking industry, and the government agencies that aren't regulating either.
Presented by War Resisters’ International. With Daniel Conway, Cynthia Cockburn, and Andreas Speck. Guests discuss the fundamental links between gender and militarisation.
Presented by The Socialist History Society. With Kate Hudson, Lorna Reith, Stuart Hill, Dave Cope, and Andy Croft.
A meeting hosted by UNA Leamington Spa. Vijay Mehta, Chair of Uniting for Peace is giving a talk on India and its achievements especially on Millennium Development Goals.
Public meeting, all welcome.
Members of Birmingham UNA have invited author Vijay Mehta, Chair of Uniting for Peace, to give a talk on his book followed by a Q/A session till 9:00pm. The book, The Economics of Killing published by Pluto Press, describes how the Military Industrial Complex works, its links with the global financial crisis and “the role Western governments play in perpetuating conflict”.
Public meeting, all welcome.
Come and meet your co-workers for Peace. Relax, chat, enjoy good food and drink (wine/beer/alcohol-free) and put the world to rights!
Please bring food and drink to share, musical instruments or your singing voice, ideas for fun, ideas for future campaigning for peace.
See http://www.stmellitus.org.uk/ for map and directions/bus routes.
All welcome.
Please come and join Rise Up Singing for two days of singing resistance to the presence of nuclear weapons on the shores of Faslane.
All welcome, no previous singing experience necessary - song leaders will teach plenty of songs.
Please RSVP riseupsinging.tp@gmail.com if you're planning to attend, and for more information, directions or to be put on the mailing list to receive songsheets please contact Rise Up Singing
Part of Faslane Peace Camp's 30th birthday celebrations
an update on the Millennium Villages project which aims to achieve all the UN Development Goals by 2015 in 14 clusters of villages in 10 African countries of various ecology and levels of development. So far on track. Come for a Case Study DVD (Mwandama, Malawi) & discussion. In the context of current controversy about the UK’s commitment to Aid for Development, including a recent critical report on its effectiveness, it is important that we are told the Good News too! RSVP essential.
With Rose Gottemoeller. President Obama's Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and the chief negotiator on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with the Russian Federation. Chair: Nik Gowing. In association with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Programme.
Bradley Manning is back in court on Wed 6 June for three days.
We will be holding a vigil in Chester; meet under Eastgate clock at 3pm.
More info:
http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/wed-6-june-solid...
9 August: Annual Pax Christi Nagasaki Vigil, Westminster Cathedral Piazza between 10.00 - 5.00. Prayers at 11.30 and 3.30.
6 August: Annual Pax Christi Hiroshima Vigil, Westminster Cathedral Piazza between 10.00 - 5.00. Prayers at 11.30 and 3.30.
