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Peace News #2516

December 2009 - January 2010

Elise Desiderio, Anti-war soldier faces 10 years in prison

Nik Gorecki, The Peace House party Tom Willis & Emily Johns,The man who made it all possible Jonathan Bartley, Poll: “Remember ‘enemies’ as well as soldiers”, say 87% Polina Aksamentova, Afghanistan: an increasingly unpopular war in US and UK David Polden, Aldermaston Blockader Four “not guilty” Gabriel Carlyle, Northwood Die-in Six “guilty” Joseph Ritchie, Welcoming NATO Sarah Young, Anti-NATO march John Cox & Jill Gough, A peace institute for Wales? Lotte Reimer, Peace poppies and Palestine in Aberystwyth Colin Nosworthy, Christmas comes early in Bangor – in Welsh Talyn Rahman & George Farebrother, The struggle to subject war to law Aisha Maniar, Close Guantánamo Tim Street, ICAN disarm Daniel Viesnik, Neutralise the Nukes! – Aldermaston Blockade News in Brief

PN, New Year rejuvenation PN, Gaza Freedom march Milan Rai, For revolutionary nonviolence

Milan Rai & Emily Johns, Editorial Jeff Cloves, Cowardy cowardy custard Maya Evans, Diary Gabriel Carlyle, Spreading the Word Peter Brawne, Harry's Patch Jonathan Stevenson, Climate debt

Goshka Macuga, The Nature of the Beast, and Gijs van Hensbergen, Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon), Reviewed by Emily Johns L Hobley, Bumping back: an activist’s guide to getting there, doing the business and getting away with it, Reviewed by Milan Rai Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza, reviewed by Gabriel Carlyle Alistair McIntosh, Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, reviewed by Virginia Moffatt Dahr Jamail, The Will to Resist, reviewed by Ian Sinclair Tripp York, Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century , reviewed by Keith Hebden Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins, Local Food: How to make it Happen in Your Community, reviewed by Rachel Holtom

Activism and ...Raise your Banners Campaign Profile: Climate Justice Action