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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 meeting: 11 Dec.
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 MONTH, ALDERMASTON: MONTHLY WOMEN'S PEACE CAMP OUTSIDE THE
UK'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACTORY IN BERKSHIRE in
opposition to the building of a new generation of nuclear weapons.
8pm Friday
till noon Sunday. Remaining dates for 2008: 11-13 Dec. info@aldermaston.net
or 07969 739 812. www.aldermaston.net.
EVERY WED, LONDON: SILENT WOMEN IN BLACK VIGIL against
violence, militarism and war. 6-7pm, Edith Cavell Statue (opposite
National Portrait Gallery). Please wear black. wibinfo@gn.apc.org
or www.womeninblack.org.uk.
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.
28 DEC, LONDON: HOLY
INNOCENTS DAY EVENTS organsied
by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship. 10.30am witness
at
the Innocent Victims’ Stone outside Westminster
Abbey followed by a service at 12 noon in St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square. Contact APF on 01908 510642.
15 MAR - 15 APR, AROUND THE UK: AFGHANISTAN SPEAKING TOUR.
Co-organised by Voices. Contact 0845 458 2564 or voices[AT]voicesuk.org
4 - 5 APRIL 2009, STRASBOURG:
NO TO NATO - STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR - TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. International
protests to coincide with NATO's 60th anniversary conference.
Stop the War and CND and running several coaches to the demonstration
at NATO's meeting in Strasbourg. the coaches will leave London
on 3 April at 9am and depart either Sunday 5 April 10am or
7pm. Seats cost £70, plus a £3 booking fee. www.stopwar.org.uk.
18 APRIL, BRISTON: FREE THE EDO TWO. On
16 Jan six people broke into an arms factory to try
and prevent the supply of weapons being used for war crimes
in Palestine. Two of the six are still in prison, one of them is
in Horfield, Bristol. A noise demo in solidarity with the pair
will take place on 18 April: 3.30 till 5.30pm, Horfield
Prison, Cambridge Road off Gloucester Road. Meeting at Golden
Lion at 3.30pm. Expect
drums, a mobile soundsystem and dancing in the street! http://decommisioners.wordpress.com/
22 APRIL, LONDON: END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. Public
meeting with Peter Marsden ('Afghanistan - Aid, Armies and
Empires'),
Jonathan
Steele ('Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq') and Gabriel Carlyle (Voices
UK). 7.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R. Wheelchair
accessible. Organised by JNV, Voices and the Northwood Die-in
Committee. 0845 458 2564. www.stopbombingafghanistan.org
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MAY, LONDON: COURT APPEARANCE by Milan Rai, summonsed
for taking part in an "unauthorised" 7 October 2008 reading
of the names
of civilians
killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan (see http://tinyurl.com/4kpkn9).
2pm, Horseferry Magistrate Court, Horseferry Road, London SW1.
Support welcome!
8 MAY, AROUND THE UK: NAMING THE DEAD OF AFGHANISTAN. National
day of remembrance ceremonies for the war dead of Afghanistan,
on the 2nd anniversary of the massacre of civilians in the
village of Sarwan Qala, Helmand province, by US/NATO forces.
Lists of names available at www.j-n-v.org. www.stopbombingafghanistan.org
21 MAY, LONDON: TWO PLAYS FOR GAZA to raise funds
for the Gaza Music School & Stop the War Coalition. Introduced
by Tony Benn and performed by Tim Pigott-Smith, Corin Redgrave,
Janie
Dee, Jana
Zeineddine,
Kika Markham, Roger Lloyd Pack* and others. 7.30pm, Hackney Empire
291 Mare Street
London, E8 1EJ. Tickets
£15. See http://tinyurl.com/chh2xy
26 MAY, LONDON: NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING session
for the 27 May 'Die-in for NATO's Victims in Afghanistan'.
7.30pm,
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL. Crashpad accommodation
available after this workshop/meeting. Contact 0845 458 2564. www.stopbombingafghanistan.org
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MAY, LONDON: A DIE-IN FOR NATO'S VICTIMS IN AFGHANISTAN at
Britain’s military nerve centre
in Northwood. See here.
23 - 27 JULY: PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP. Talks, walks
and workshops! www.peacenewscamp.info
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