Accommodation: Warm and spacious barn.
You get all this by raising £100 or more in sponsorship.
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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.
Peace Festival to promote peace, harmony and understanding in Llanrwst and the villages of the Conwy Valley. Stalls and workshops including drumming, dance, reiki, music, labyrinth walking and more. All proceeds to local charities. Contact and directions: www.maesybryncampsite.co.uk.
Mersyside CND will be taking part in a major Climate Change Event in Williamson Square, Liverpool on Saturday 19th May. Along with Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Stuent Action for Refugees and many more activists in an event organised by One Million Climate Jobs campaign and the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union group. For furter info, www.climate-change-jobs.org.
Free Music, Dance and Poetry event, information and craft stalls, food and refreshment available all afternoon.
Volunteers wanted from 10am to 7pm to help setting up and clearing up, fetching and carrying from cars, selling raffle tickets etc.
Stalls, games, teas, curries, music, all in a beautiful garden setting
To be opened by Ed Vaizey MP
Clock House is between Faringdon and Highworth on the B4019.
3pm: Vigil/protest outside the UAV (drones) factory, Lynn Lane, Shenstone. Note – meet at 2.45pm at Shenstone station.Stopping train from B’ham to Lichfield.
4.15pm: Seminar in Methodist Church Hall.
5.30pm: Bring and share tea.
7pm: Public meeting in Methodist Church Hall with Chris Cole, Director of National Drones Network.
Bristol World Development Movement invites you to: Global Justice Cinema. Global Justice Cinema is all about watching short documentaries (or segments of large ones) to inspire discussion and actions. This month's theme is: The Media.
Invite your friends on facebook:
To join the Bristol WDM fan page: here
Public Meeting with speaker Jeremy Corbyn MP, Chair Stop the War Coalition.
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation by Sarah Irving is a compelling account of Khaled's turbulent life. At the book launch, Sarah will explore Leila Khaled's involvement with a radical element of the PLO, the rise of Hamas, the role of women in a largely male movement and Khaled's activism today.
Published by Pluto Press, 20th May 2012, http://tinyurl.com/cyx45fy )
Event cancelled after complaints: http://tinyurl.com/cd5zyrq
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This Annual Erskine Childers Lecture is the 16th in a series of lectures which Uniting for Peace is presenting in memory of Erskine Childers, author and UN Diplomat. the 2012 meeting will explore ideas, strategies and solutions for preserving peace and achieving a just and fair world.
Guest speaker Jan Pronk - former development minister of Netherlands.
Speakers, readings, music, stalls, films, alternative therapies and refreshments. If you or your group would like to take part in the Peace One Day event or attend Bromley Peace Council meetings, please contact Ann Garrett. Please come and share information/ideas/talk. Meetings are at 3pm; next one on 21 October at Therapy Centre, 96 Martins Rd, Shortlands BR2.
A special Target Barclays picket. The previous Target Barclays demos have been great so let's make this one even bigger! If you are not in Brighton, consider having a Target Barclays demo in solidarity wherever you are.
Meet 3pm at the Level. Bring sound systems or music on an MP3 player. If you don't have a bike just come up to the factory for 4pm for the noise demo.
Part of the Summer of Resistance.
The nationwide tour comes to an end with a demand that Chris Grayling, the Minister for Work and Pensions, gets serious about job creation. Join us for colourful lunchtime event
Public Meeting, 7pm Friends Meeting House, St. Martin's Lane, off Trafalgar Square. Speakers include Tony Kearns (Sen. Dep. Gen Sec of CWU), Jean Lambert, (Green Party), Murad Qureshi (Chair, GLA environmental committee), Professor Barbara Harris-White (Million Climate Jobs Report), Suzanne Jeffrey (Chair, CaCC TU group), Sachi Lloyd (author), Graham Peterson (UCU), Graham Thompson (Greenpeace).
Veolia has the waste management contract during the clearance and construction of the Olympic site, from its website, Veolia "/expects to be achieving the highest standards of cleanliness throughout Tower Hamlets before, during and after the games/".But there is another type of cleansing - ethnic cleansing - that Veolia is aiding and abetting.
The main London event for International COs’ Day this year will be, as usual, at the International Memorial Stone to Conscientious Objectors, in Tavistock Square, London WC1, at 12 noon.
The London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday every month, from 7pm to about 9pm, at Housmans
Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1.
The London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday every month, from 7pm to about 9pm, at Housmans
Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1.
Is sport usually just an excuse to indulge our most primitive tribalist instincts? Does the hysteria around many sports events bring out the worst in people?
