Network of Christian Peace Organisations

Northern Friends Peace Board members’ meeting at Hull Quaker Meeting House, Bean Street.  Saturday 25th September.

Chris Cole, former Director of Fellowship of Reconciliation, will be giving a presentation on military drones / UAVs in the afternoon from 2.00-3.00pm. Visitors welcome.

For more details, contact Philip Austin, nfpb@gn.apc.org

Each year the Festival hosts a rich programme of visual and performing arts, spirituality, comedy and talks and discussion. Cheltenham Race Course.

http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

Venue: Blackfriars, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LY

Speaker: Dr Jane Clements, Director of FODIP, Forum for the Discussion of Israel Palestine

A week of meditations, reflections, workshops on the theme of peace and reconciliation.

Hosted by Pax Christi and St Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace & Reconciliation, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG

The Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is hosting an event at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment on the 5^th June to call for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) banning all nuclear weapons.

‘Strictly Disarming’ will bring together supporters of global disarmament in a competition exploring the concept of a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Participants will bring their interpretation of the letters ‘NWC’ through music, theatre, posters or placards, or anything, to be judged by our distinguished panel. It will even be videoed for world-wide viewing!

Those interested in taking part are encouraged to arrive at the Main Gate of AWE at 1pm for a shared ‘Peace Picnic’ ready for the main event to start at 2pm. The event at AWE will be part of a global Nuclear Abolition Day, as thousands of people across the world will take part in local actions responding to the outcome of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, which has been taking place in New York throughout May.

Let us know in advance if you can and we can give you a good spot on the programme and on our website. Email: christians@cnduk.org

http://www.nuclearabolition.org/

http://ccnd.gn.apc.org/

Join CCND as we visit each of the London Embassies of the Nuclear Weapons States, to ask how they are progressing with their ‘unequivocal undertaking… to accomplish … nuclear disamament…’ (Final Document Review Conference of the NPT, May 19, 2000, New York). We will also visit the embassies of the New Agenda Coalition countries.

Join us for some or all of the walk, which will be split into two or three separate walks. Starting with a liturgy in the Dick Sheppard Chapel at St. Martins in the fields at 10am, the walks will begin at 10:30am.  More details later. 020 7700 4200  christians@cnduk.org

Annual Christian Witness held on 17 February 2010 at the Ministry of Defence, Horsequards Avenue, London. The focus of the gathering is a Christian challenge to nuclear war preparations.

Liturgy materials will be available on the Pax Christi website for those who wish to organise local events.

The Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston is in the process of building a new generation of nuclear bombs for the UK. Trident already endangers us all, encourages proliferation and undermines international law. Please come and join in the blockade to call for disarmament now! You can sit, lie down, lock-on or provide support for the blockaders. We need your committed nonviolent civil resistance. The blockade that will start at 7am and continue for as long as possible. We can create the changes we need for a better world. For more information on how to get involved phone 0845 4588 361 or email blockawe@yahoo.co.uk Special Faiths Gate at the Blockade
Note that there will be a special multi-faith presence at Tadley gate. Quakers and other faith groups wishing to participate are encouraged to form affinity groups in advance and read the Trident Ploughshares briefing at www.tridentploughshares.org For more info about the Quaker bloc, contact: 0845 458 8366; sarahllasenby@googlemail.com or blockawe@yahoo.co.uk QPSW’s Turning The Tide programme can provide workshops for groups preparing to go to the blockade. To request training contact 020 7663 1061; denised@quaker.org.uk www.turningthetide.org.uk