Network for Peace

A series of workshops called 'Nonviolence for a Change.' This is a training programme for people with some experience of working with others to address injustices and make changes. You can sign up for the whole course, or just dip into the sessions that interest you. This course tends to be oversubscribed so get in touch as soon as you can. The fee is £350 for the year; £35 per workshop, and concessions and payment plan options are available. Venue is Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Paddock, Huddersfield, HD1 4TR.

Pax Christi Annual Advent Peace Service.
Followed by alternative Christmas Market in Maria Fidelis school hall also in Phoenix Road.

Pax Christi Annual Advent Peace Service.
Followed by alternative Christmas Market in Maria Fidelis school hall also in Phoenix Road.

Theme: Education Young People in Justice and Peace.
Materials will be ready in November and on website

Ash Wednesday 2012 will mark the start of 30 years of acts of repentance and resistance to nuclear war preparations at the Ministry of Defence in London. Have you been part of this 30-year journey? Would you like to be a part of the future journey? Come and help us celebrate, remember and plan for Ash Wednesday 2012. Bring your own stories, photographs, memories and ideas for the future and some food to share for tea. Please RSVP to Pax Christi on 0208 203 4884 or info@paxchristi.org.uk

followed at noon by Annual Conference, with speakers and workshops. The Conference is open to the public. Speakers at Conference will include Kate Hudson, Bruce Kent and Greg Muttitt.

Walk in Peace: A little bit of peace, starting with yourself – the first Sunday of every month. Please join us in a slow, silent walk in peace for peace. Meet by ‘Speakers Corner Café’, just south of Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park (Marble Arch tube), at 10.55am to start walking at 11.00am, returning to starting point at 12 noon.

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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.
All welcome

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?