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Parliament Square peace camp resists eviction

PN talks to peace activist Maria Gallastegui following her recent victory in the high court.

Maya Evans returns from the first British peace delegation to Afghanistan

“If a Talib was in this room now, I know there is only one way forward to resolve the situation… forgiveness”.

US Occupy remembers Martin Luther King

"Shut Down the Corporations Day" planned for 29 February

From Afghanistan

kabul aid

Kabul appeal aid delivered: Supplies worth over £2000 raised by Peace News readers have been delivered to a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. PN contributor, Maya Evans was there. See a report. Maya's UK speaking tour: see details. More eyewitness accounts: Afghanistan behind the Headlines talk and Afghanistan: Ten Years On touring exhibition

Headlines

Northwood blockaded for two hours

Christian peace activists block entrance to UK's military nerve centre

PN Winter Appeal aid delivered in Kabul

PN helps get over £2,000 worth of aid to internally displaced Afghans

Occupy LSX appeals

High court rules on St Paul's occupation

Climate activists tell Scottish govt: “Get on yer bike!”

Scots call for increased funding for walking and cycling

Free Maikel

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Features

War dead
by John Tirman

John Tirman, executive director of the Center for International Studies at MIT commissioned what is generally known as the 2006 Lancet Study, which found 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the 2003 US/UK invasion and subsequent occupation. Tirman spoke to Peace News about his new book "The Death of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars".

In the pink
by Gabriel Carlyle

Medea Benjamin is probably best known outside the US for her disruption of a series of high-profile events with then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others. She is co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Gabriel Carlyle spoke to her at a meeting of the Drones Campaign Network in Birmingham. 

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From the Blog

Refugee winter
by Maya Evans | 12 Jan, 2012

Maya Evans is in Kabul with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Photos by Guy Smallman.

Tea for Peace
by Maya Evans | 12 Jan, 2012

Maya Evans is in Kabul with Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

Upcoming PN events in 2012
by PN | 2 Jan, 2012

Afghanistan Behind the Headlines, Rebel Clowning Workshop, The Life and Times of I F Stone, Making Nonviolent RevolutionPeace News Summer Camp 2012

Stepping into in Kabul
by Maya Evans | 31 Dec, 2011

Maya Evans gives eye witness report from Kabul where she is on a delegation with the US group Voices for Creative Nonviolence

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Jill's Defence Weekly: An insider's guide to DSEi, the world's largest arms fair: At DSEi, missiles, warheads, bombs and shells are lined up in gleaming rows. There are no signs about their actual use.

peace news summer camp

Comment and Analysis

Editorial: The trauma of “justified” killing

Is there a "universal human phobia" against killing?

Conflict 1

Silk screen by Marilyn Edwards. "This image expresses my feelings of despair about the many conflicts in the world. It was made in 2009: Gaza was neing bombed. The "pieta" emerges from it, an iconic symbol of "suffering."

A new design! A new website!

The new PN design: on paper and on-line.

The Personal Column: Counting the Cost

Jeff Cloves ponders the arms trade, the census, and the perils of not being on the electoral register

The Personal Column: Counting the Cost
Obituary: Frances MacKeith, 28 March 1914 - 14 December 2011

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Peace News events

Making Nonviolent Revolution

July 2012 around the UK. George Lakey: Making Nonviolent Revolution

Afghanistan behind the Headlines: Stories from the grassroots
Thu, 09/02/2012

A slide talk by photojournalist Guy Smallman, recently returned from Afghanistan, with ex-soldier Ben Griffin.

Rebel Clowning Workshop
Sat, 03/03/2012 - Sun, 04/03/2012

Become a rebel clown! 10am – 5pm

The Life and Times of I.F Stone
Wed, 14/03/2012

Author and journalist D D Guttenplan explores the life and work of one of the 20th century’s great radical journalists.

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Reviews

Andrew Feinstein, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel, The Guy’s Guide to Feminism
Sarah Irving, Palestine
Douglas Rushkoff, Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

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PN at 75

Peace News is celebrating 75 years of radical publishing.

Editorial: Disciplined fury
by The Editors | Jun 1, 2011
Peace News: the early years
by Andrew Rigby | Jun 1, 2011
Peace News: The first 75 glorious years
by Albert Beale | Jun 1, 2011

Tools and Resources

PN in Practice: Software

PN looks at some of the free/cheap software tools that are actually used by the PN staff to do their work, in addition to complicated and expensive things like Photoshop and InDesign.

The Peace News guide: How to occupy!

There is a lot of anger out there – and a lot of support for the Occupy movement. Get started where you live with this quick guide.

'Afghanistan 10 years on' - a Peace News supplement

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