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Unless otherwise specified please contact the Voices office for further details on the events below. Email voices / 0845 4582564.
PLEASE SEND US DETAILS OF YOUR UPCOMING IRAQ-RELATED EVENTS SO THAT WE CAN HELP PUBLICISE THEM.
Also, check out the following other useful events listings:
SchNews: www.schnews.org.uk/pap/guide.htm
Iraq Occupation Focus: www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk/action.htm
Protest.Net: http://protest.net/imcuk
Stop the War Coalition: www.stopwar.org.uk/action.asp
Network for Peace: www.networkforpeace.org.uk/events.htm

List of regular peace vigils around the country.
 
FORTHCOMING IRAQ-RELATED EVENTS - 2007

The following web-sites also contain regularly updated lists of actions and events: Stop the War, JNV, SchNews, and Network for Peace.

EVERY FRIDAY, LONDON: ANTI-GUANTANAMO BAY PROTEST OUTSIDE THE US EMBASSY. 6-7pm, outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, W1 (nearest tube: Marble Arch). Organised by the London Guantanamo Campaign. 07824 386 747 or london_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk.

EVERY MONTH, LONDON: WALK IN PEACE. Slow, silent walk in peace for peace. Meet 10.55am, first Sunday of every month, ‘Speakers Corner Café’, just south of Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park (Marble Arch tube). Walk lasts one hour.Contact: 020 8755 0353 or beatricemillar@freeuk.com. See www.walkinpeace.co.uk

EVERY MONTH, LONDON: MONTHLY MEETINGS OF IRAQ OCCUPATION FOCUS. 2nd Thursday of each month. Next meetings: 8 May, 12 June. All meetings: 7.30pm, Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, W1T 6AQ. See www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk

EVERY MON-SAT, BRISTOL: PEACE VIGIL. Running since a few days after 9/11.
5.30-6.30pm (Mon-Fri) & 3-4pm (Sat). City Centre, opposite The Hippodrome,
St. Augustines Parade.

EVERY WED, MOULSCOMBE: NOISE DEMO OUTSIDE EDO MBM - 'an arms company that makes bomb parts used in the Iraq war' (Guardian). 4-6pm, EDO MBM, Home Farm Road. Contact 07891 1405 923. www.smashedo.org.uk

EVERY TUESDAY, MENWITH HILL: DEMO OUTSIDE THE US SPY-BASE used for (amongst other things) intelligence and surveillance gathering in the Middle East.
6-8 pm outside the main entrance to Menwith Hill Nr Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Contact the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases: www.caab.org.uk.

22 APR, LONDON: THE SECRET SHAME OF BRITAIN'S OWN GUANTANAMO. 7-9pm,
Committee Room 8, House of Commons. With human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, and former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg.

23 APR, LONDON: UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION: HOLDING WAR CRIMINALS TO ACCOUNT. With Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers) and Bill Bowring (professor of international law). 6.30pm - 8.30pm, College of Law, 14 Store Street, London WC2 (nearest tube Goodge Street). £10 entry fee for practitioners. Free to students, concessions etc...

23 - 30 APR, LIVERPOOL: DRAWING PARADISE ON THE 'AXIS OF EVIL.' Exhibition of prints by Emily Johns, who travelled to Iran in May 2006 on a Fellowship of Reconciliation peace delegation during a period of tension over Iran’s nuclear programme. From this visit she produced a body of images exploring Iran’s recent history as well as showing ancient themes. St. Luke's Church, Leece St. weekdays only, 12-3pm. Contact Merseyside CND - www.mcnd.org.uk E-Mail: mcnd@care4free.net - Tel: 0151-702-6974 - Address: 52 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5SD.

24 APR, LONDON: STOP THE WAR BENEFIT with
Michael Nyman (composer / pianist), Nigel Kennedy (violinist), Roger Lloyd-Pack (Trigger in Only Fools and Horses) and many more. 7pm, St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL. Tickets £15 (£12 concessions) from the Stop the War office: 020 7278 6694.

26 APRIL, CARDIFF: STOP THE ST ATHAM MILITARY ACADEMY DEMONSTRATION. Assemble at 1.30pm, Demonstration at 2pm, Cardiff City Centre. Imagine a world in which the armed forces are trained by arms dealers.
And we subsidise their profits. That world will become reality unless we stop the proposed school of death at St Athan. The creation of a military super-academy at St Athan, between Cardiff and Swansea, was announced as a done deal in January 2007. Despite the fact this represented the biggest PFI in history, involving
£ 14 billion of taxpayers'... E-mail no2militaryacademy@inbox.com or visit http://www.cynefinywerin.org.uk.

28 APR, LONDON: LAUNCH OF BOOK 'FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE: AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO'
by Murat Kurnaz. Readings from the book will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Amnesty’s director Kate Allen. 6.30pm, Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA.

29 APRIL, LONDON: PATRICK COCKBURN TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK 'MUQTADA AL-SADR AND THE FALL OF IRAQ'.
6.30pm, Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1B. To reserve tickets call 0207 637 1848.

1 MAY, LONDON: TORTURE TEAM: THE LAWYERS WHO AUTHORISED TORTURE. Book launch for Philippe Sands' new book 'Torture Team.' Org. by the
Human Rights Lawyers Association, The Law Society and The Guardian. 6pm, The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL Demand for this event will be high. To be sure of a place, please contact ddelgado@barcouncil.org.uk.

MAY / JUNE, AROUND THE UK: SPEAKER EVENTS WITH FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE MOZAAZEM BEGG.
- 19 May: 7.45pm, YHA, near the centre of Bristol. Org. by Bristol Amnesty. Contact: margaret.hodson@blueyonder.co.uk.

- 25 May: 6pm, Bradford. Contact 07939011162. www.islambradford.com
- 28 June: 5.30pm, Chichester Quaker Meeting House, Chichester, PO19 1NX. 01243 789539

3 MAY, CROUGHTON: PROTEST AGAINST MISSILE DEFENCE OUTSIDE THE BASE AT 'RAF' CROUGHTON.
Organised by Oxfordshire Peace Campaign. Coaches will leave Oxford from St Giles at 11am, tickets: 07967392229

5 MAY, BRISTOL: “GITMO: THE NEW RULES OF WAR.”
Bristol Indymedia Flim Night, 8pm @ Cube Cinema, Dove St South (off King's Square), Stokes Croft, Bristol - Entry Free! www.bristol.indymedia.org.


7 MAY, LONDON: AGM OF LEADING WAR PROFITEER & ARMS DEALER BAE SYSTEMS.
9.30am: Protest begins outside Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary. 2pm-3.30pm: Debrief with refreshments at St Vincents Convent, Carlisle Place. More info: Campaign Against Arms Trade, 020 7281 0297; www.caat.org.uk.

10 MAY, LONDON: NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE.
Org. by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Assemble 1pm Temple Underground station/ Victoria Embankment, rally in Trafalgar Square. 02077006192

12 MAY, LONDON: NUCLEAR WEAPONS - ABOLITION NOW talk with Bruce Kent. 6.30pm, Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique Café Diplo at The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL. Nearest tube station Farringdon. £3, concessions £2, tickets on door. Info 07984 178 193 or see our website www.mondediplofriends.org.uk

14 MAY, OXFORD: 5 YEARS OF WAR IN IRAQ: WHAT ROLE CAN THE UNITED NATIONS PLAY IN BUILDING PEACE AND SECURITY.
Public meeting with Tony Benn and Lord Mayor of Oxford, John Tanner. 6.30pm, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldgates Road, OX1 1BX. 020 7377 2111, www.action-for-un-renewal.org.uk. Accessible venue.

15 MAY, EVERYWHERE: INTERNATIONAL CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS' DAY.
See www.wri-irg.org/co/15may.htm. In London there will be a 12 noon commemoration at Tavistock Square with Norman Kember (Fellowship of Reconciliation) and MC Bob Russell (Christian CND).


16 MAY, LONDON: WAR, RESISTANCE AND NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION FROM VIETNAM TO IRAQ, 1968 - 2008, with Peace News co-editors Milan Rai and Emily Johns. 7pm, Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, NW5 2RX. www.peacenews.info.


18 MAY, LAKENHEATH: MAGICAL MYSTERY MURDER TOUR!
1pm, Gate 1 Lakenheath 'RAF' Base. Tour of the parimeter of the base, street theatre, speakers and cakes. 110 nuclear bombs are stored on the base, planes from Lakenheath regularly bomb Iraq and Afghanistan, and
"Missile Interceptors" may be based there as part of the US missile defence system. Contact 01508 550446; mellcndeast@cnduk.org; www.lakenheathaction.org

19 MAY, LONDON: NAOMI KLEIN BENEFIT TALK.
Fundraiser event for Hands Off Iraqi Oil and Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. £7/£5. 7pm. Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Rd. Bookings: http://www.waronwant.org/shop

20 MAY, LONDON: PROTEST OUTSIDE SHELL'S AGM
organised by the Hands Off Iraqi Oil campaign: www.handsoffiraqioil.org. Crash pad accommodation available the night before. Proxy shares available for those who want to go inside. Contact 0845 458 2564.

31 MAY: SCREENING OF 'AN INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME'
- film about the Catonsville Nine: nine peace activists who raided a Selective Service office in Catonsville in May 1968, seizing hundreds of draft records and burning them in a nearby car park using home-made napalm. 6pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DX.
Peace News has the rights to multiple showings of this film. Contact 0207 278 3344 for a copy to show at your local peace group, front room, arthouse cinema, community space.

1 - 7 JUN, AROUND THE UK:
STOP THE ARMS TRADE WEEK. The focus of this year's Stop the Arms Trade Week remains the Control BAE campaign as, in the light of the recent High Court ruling that the Government broke the law when it curtailed a corruption inquiry into BAE-Saudi arms deals, it is vital that we maintain pressure on the Government not to interfere again in the investigation. Wherever you live, this is a great opportunity to take coordinated local action against the arms trade. CAAT can provide Control BAE postcards and petitions to... 0207 280 2097 or www.caat.org.uk.

21 OCTOBER, SECRET PRISONS AND GHOST PRISONERS IN THE UNWINNABLE WAR ON TERROR. Talk by
Clive Stafford Smith
International human rights lawyer and author of 'Bad Men.' 7.30pm, The Forum Theatre, Malvern. Tickets £9.50, concessions £8.50 from August 1 at the Malvern Theatres Box Office 01684 892277 and the Amnesty Shop, Edith Walk, 01684 563507. Event arranged by Amnesty International Malvern Hills Group

27 OCTOBER, ALDERMASTON: BIG BLOCKADE. Big, non-violent blockade to disrupt work on Trident warheads and their successors: see website for non-violence and safety rules. See www.tridentploughshares.org.

 




 

 

 


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