Network for Peace

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.

Launch of new petition and campaign to ban Ministry of Defence recruitment in Welsh schools.
Considering the Assembly’s new legislative powers, Cymdeithas y Cymod and are laying down a moral challenge to AMs: Remove responsibility for schoolyard recruitment from the discretion of head-teachers, and ban it outright.
CND Cymru, Forceswatch, Plaid Cymru youth wing and Cymdeithas y Cymod will be present.

2 day public inquiry into a planning application submitted to the Vale of Glamorgan Council for permission to start ‘fracking’ tests at Llandow.
The tests are to determine whether the geology is suitable for the extraction of gas. This extraction method is highly controversial and can have devastating effects on the environment. The award winning film ‘Gasland’, documents the repercussions that this kind of drilling has caused in rural areas of the USA. www.thevalesaysno.com/?p=12#comments
All who have opposed the application at Llandow are urged to attend.

Public Meeting: Human trafficking in Wales

Accommodation: Warm and spacious barn.
You get all this by raising £100 or more in sponsorship.
http://amnestybrum.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/walk-for-amnesty-sponsored-w...

Speakers include Manuel Cortes from the TSSA Rail Union.
The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group Climate Jobs Caravan is travelling around England (with forays to Cardiff and Glasgow) to raise the profile for climate jobs.