Network for Peace

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On 6 – 13 July 2013 Nuclear Abolition Week kicks off with activities across the world for a ban on nuclear weapons. This global week of action is intended to raise awareness of the unacceptable harm caused by nuclear weapons, and the urgent need for a ban treaty.
See http://www.icanw.org/nuclear-abolition-week-2/what-is-nuclear-abolition-...

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.

Veteran peace activist Bruce Kent will be visiting Reading on his UK-wide 'Scrap Trident' speaking tour.

Admission free - all welcome - refreshments provided.

More details:
http://www.cnduk.org/get-involved/events/item/1614-scrap-trident-tour-re...

More details later! All welcome

More details later! All welcome

Come and celebrate Peace News' 75th Anniversary!
Donations welcome.
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ith Ernest Rodker from the Mordechai Vanunu Campaign. 2pm in the Friends of the Earth meeting room. Preceded by the West Midlands CND AGM at 11am in the WMCND office.

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) with Seeds for Change – student and young adult residential training. £40 includes all food and accommodation. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

Breaking boundaries in documenting the world.
Between the Lines is a three day festival of screenings and discussions investigating the new media landscape we live in and the merging boundaries of information gathering, journalism, broadcast news, current affairs programming and creative documentary.
Who owns the news?
Why are some documentary makers becoming investigative reporters?
How does corporate and charitable sponsorship influence filmmakers?
Is citizen journalism the future?
Has the contract with the viewer changed in recent years?
Info: http://tinyurl.com/bh98u8x

Provoking adoration and revulsion in equal measure, Hugo Chavez is a leader like no other. In his new book Comandante acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll sheds light on the inside story of Chavez’s life and his political court in Caracas. He will join the New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson and others to ask after more than 13 years in power what will Chavez’s legacy be?

March this year will mark ten years since the invasion of Iraq. In those ten years in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, the media has embedded with British troops in an effort to report the conflicts.

We will be joined by an expert panel to look at the nature of the engagement between the British military and the media in light of more than ten years of conflict overseas. We will be examining the management of the media and the judgements that are made about what to and what not to show.

As part of I Dream of Congo: Narratives from The Great Lakes, an exhibition which celebrates “the hope and optimism that pervades in the region despite years of war”, and in association with the Royal African Society, we will be asking what could break the cycle of violence in DR Congo.
17% of ticket sales will go to Congo Connect which will distribute all proceeds raised during the exhibition to on-the-ground projects in eastern DRC, including Panzi Hospital, City of Joy and Women for Women International’s Bukavu programme.

Confronted by the key moral dilemma of our time, Complicit explores the moral compromises surrounding the use of torture in fighting the ‘War on Terror’. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer Guy Hibbert and producer Kevin Toolis.

Justice for Sale raises questions about the role of the international community and non-governmental organisations within the Congolese judicial system. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Femke van Velzen.
Info: http://tinyurl.com/adxfz9z

Organised by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
In this launch event for her new book, Naomi Sakr looks at recent transformations in Egyptian journalism, exploring diverse approaches to converged media and the place of participatory cross-media networks in expanding and developing the country’s body of professional journalists.

Award-winning Guardian journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and director Safa Al Ahmad risk their lives to get inside Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and producer Jamie Doran.

Within cities and countries around the world the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in a global trend that some economists have warned will have detrimental effects on society. In a time when economic growth in many countries is slowing and governments are advocating fiscal austerity, is the question of inequality being factored in to the equation?
More info: http://tinyurl.com/aeah5gb