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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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