Including: Chair’s report, election of committee members and officers. Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maw-agm-tickets-168980636633
Movement for the Abolition of War's Annual General Meeting 2021
The Mistake
A compelling new play by the award-winning actor and writer Michael Mears about the day the atomic bomb changed our world forever.
With Michael Mears and You-Ri Yamanaka.
Remembrance Ceremony
There will be a laying of a wreath of white and red poppies, organised by Norwich Quakers.
Why we need non-military security.
With Prof Paul Rogers. Org by Conscience.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrfu6hrTIpEtSjH_TsE2xnqQGSdTq...
White Poppy Ceremony
ASUNDER (Film Screening)
Discover the story of WW1 through the eyes of people from Tyneside and Wearside.
Studying war no more
Talk by John Cooper of Fellowship of Reconciliation, for the Museum of Primative Methodism. It’ll be a look at WW1 COs and their wider influence on the approach to peace/peacemaking in the church.
White Poppy Ceremony
There will be speeches and poems. This may be recorded and live streamed from the memorial.
Remembrance Day
We will gather at 2pm at the War memorial to have a short time of reflection. We will lay a White Poppy Wreath and have a short talk and a poem will be read.
Walls, Fences and Guns – How militarised and racialised capitalism is destroying the world
Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW) Annual Remembrance Sunday Lecture. Asad Rahman on: ‘Walls, Fences and Guns – How militarised and racialised capitalism is destroying the world’.
People's Summit for Climate Justice
The People’s Summit for Climate Justice will be a massive and vibrant event for learning and building ideas for achieving climate justice and system change.
Veteranhood, with Joe Glenton in conversation with Matt Kennard
The military veteran is claimed by all sides.
Green Social Housing: A Virtual Panel on Housing and Sustainability
How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use?
Working for Peace in the Middle East – CND online conference
Join CND and guest speakers to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and how we can best campaign for peace in the region. Will the Middle East ever be nuclear-free?
Don’t Bank on the Bomb Day of Action
Yorkshire CND is calling a regional day of divestment action, inviting all peace campaigners across the region to hold socially-distanced stalls and leafleting sessions outside NatWest and Barclays ba
‘Chichester Climate Carnival’.
Starts with a march on Friday: 12noon.
Chichester College, Westgate Fields PO19 1SB. Plus Climate School and other events. Search online for more i
Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
Co-ordinated by the COP26 Coalition. Events are being held around the world.
Weaving the Web/inars: Greenham 40th: Western Shoshone Speak Out Against Nuclear Colonialism
From 1958 to 1992, the UK conducted 24 underground tests at the US Nevada Test Site, on the ancestral lands belonging to the Western Shoshone people.
United Nations: 21st Century Global Challenges and Prospects for Peace
Speakers:
Fabian Hamilton, Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament (invited)
Vijay Mehta, Author and Chair of Uniting for Peace
Molly Scott-Cato, Former MEP
Building Peace, Security and Justice through the Rule of Law and Global Governance
Online conference hosted by Uniting for Peace and World Federalist Movement.
Speakers:
Keith Best, Executive Chair of World Federalist Movement
Vijay Mehta, Chair of Uniting for Peace
