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Turkey’s Kurds hope for peace

One of Europe’s longest-running wars may be coming to an end, in large part due to a grassroots nonviolent intervention.

Scotland says: Scrap Trident!

Last week a public poll found that four out of five Scots want to see the Trident nuclear weapons system removed from Scotland. It is hardly surprising that support for the Scrap Trident weekend of protest and action on 13-15 April is mounting at a phenomenal rate.

Turning the Tide

British trainers were invited by Kenyan Quakers  to share skills for social struggles against injustice

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Headlines

Drone terrorism

Britain supports US strikes and prepares its own killer drone base in Lincolnshire

Solidarity extends from a Yorkshire spy base to Guantánamo hunger strikers

Menwith Hill protests

EDF, police and Shell back off

Activists have been celebrating a brace of victories, from Nottinghamshire to the Arctic.

Israel’s dirty war
Parliament Square camps cleared by police for tenth anniversary of Iraq war
Jellies mark ‘Wobbly Tuesday’
Four years on, a G20 victory
Just 3% of Olympic cycling arrests result in convictions

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Features

Fourth estate agents
by Ian Sinclair

Progressive activists have often had a difficult relationship  with the mainstream media. Ian Sinclair discussed the advantages  and pitfalls of working with and in the mainstream with five activists

Fallujah, city of martyrs
by Milan Rai

Where the Iraqi insurgency began, 10 years ago

Nonviolence. Yes, it is working in Kenya
by Laura Shipler Chico

African activists work to prevent election violence and make social change

The dawn of the modern mind
by Gabrielle Lewry

A shamanic practitioner reviews the British Museum’s Ice Age Art exhibition

Poetic resistance
by Sam Berkson

Western Sahara’s word weapons

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From the Blog

BAE AGM
by Jill Gibbon | 13 May, 2013

A series of Jill Gibbon's drawings from BAE's annual general meeting, May 8th

Trip to Faslane Peace Camp February 2013
by Natalia Grana | 19 Apr, 2013

Report back from Natalia Grana’s recent trip to the Faslane Peace Camp

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Jill's Defence Weekly: Accessories
Editorial: The prehistory of war fever

On the approaching anniversary of 1914

Massive disappointment
Diary: on taking on EDF
Activism and... Mud
50 years ago: The spies were right

Anti-nuclear campaigners caused a furore in 1963 by publishing details of the government’s secret Third World War control bunkers, to coincide with CND’s Aldermaston March at Easter.

 

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Reviews

Daniel Hunter: Strategy and Soul
Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara, 'The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities,
Robert Leach, 'Partners in Imagination: The Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy'
James Horrox, 'A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement'

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The George Lakey Interviews

Renowned activist George Lakey, co-founder of Movement for a New Society, toured the UK with Peace News in July 2012.

Read the interviews with George by Milan Rai, Peace News Co-editor and a report of his UK tour:

George Lakey: nonviolent warrior
31 Mar, 2012
Building revolutionary bases
27 Apr, 2012
Activism and the limits of consensus
2 Jul, 2012
George Lakey speaking tour
28 Aug, 2012
Diversity of tactics and the 1%
26 Sep, 2012

Tools and Resources

The March that Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003The March that Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003

by Ian Sinclair

To mark the 10th anniversary of Britain's biggest ever protest, Peace News Press have published Ian Sinclair's new book The March that Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003 in February 2013. Order your copy now.

2 book offer: Toward a living revolution & Making Nonviolent Revolution

Get both books for just £15! Price includes p+p for UK delivery. For international shipping, add £5.95.

Rebellious Media Conference DVD

The RMC DVD contains Noam Chomsky's keynote address, the final plenary featuring Michael Albert, Becky Hogge and others, and many highlights of the RMC.

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