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Issue 2545 | May 2012

Editorial: Syria, Annan and Avaaz

by The Editors | Comment | May 2012

Responding to the situation in Syria

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Jill’s Defence Weekly...
Tear gas canisters on show at the 2011 DSEi arms fair.

News in Brief

Tweets for peace!· Drones for peace?· Olympics for Peace?· Courts for peace!· Nepal crisis· Western Sahara· More Bobby Sands· More silence· Occupy the marshes· Occupy the river· Meadows not guilty· Yemen drone strikes· Salah cleared· Hoodies for Trayvon ...read

Letters

Video games· Biased bike worship· Hail harmony· Arrows of desire* ...read

Reviews

Medea Benjamin: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
Gene Sharp: Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle. Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts
Andrew Cornell: Propose and Oppose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society
Gilad Atzmon: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish identity Politics
Platform, Liberate Tate and Art Not Oil: Tate à Tate

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Visionary thinking

Building revolutionary bases

by Milan Rai | Feature | May 2012

The second part of our interview with nonviolent revolutionary George Lakey, in which he charts the story of the pioneering Movement for a New Society

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The White Book of Peace

by PN | Feature | May 2012

The White Book of Carmarthen is one of the most extraordinary peace movement projects in the world.  

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Dispatch from the future

by Alan Bradley | Feature | May 2012

TOP+SECRET NOT+FOR+GENERAL+DISPATCH

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John Arden: 26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012

by Michael Randle | Comment | May 2012

Michael Randle on the playwright and Peace News supporter John Arden who died aged 82 last month. 

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News

‘Afghanising’ the occupation

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | May 2012

'Withdrawal' of US and UK troops from Afghanistan will not end harsh detention regime.

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483 arrests at NATO

by David Polden | News | May 2012

UK activists join demo in Brussels

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Peace plinth heads to LA

News | May 2012

A ‘Peace Plinth’ that has been the centrepiece of Peace Strike’s round-the-clock vigil in Parliament Square for over two years has been transported to the US. ...

AWPC still going strong

by PN | News | May 2012

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Riseup servers seized by FBI

by Emily Johns | News | May 2012

On 18 April, US federal authorities seized a server in New York belonging to Riseup, a radical internet service provider. ...

News

Climate Caravan: Demanding one million climate jobs

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | News | May 2012

There is a way to boost jobs and the economy, and at the same time help to avert devastating climate change, according to the One Million Climate Jobs campaign.

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Veterans for Peace launched in the UK

by PN | News | May 2012

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A ‘Bradford Spring’

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | May 2012

Prominent anti-war activist George Galloway won a sensational byelection victory in Bradford West on 29 March, receiving 56% of the vote on a Respect ticket.

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No-chalk ASBO fails

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | May 2012

The national domestic extremism unit has failed to impose anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) on two Catholic peace activists, during a trial arising from a de ...

Success of nonviolence conference delights organisers

by PN | News | May 2012
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Features & comment

Picture this

by Rikki | Feature | May 2012

The police continue to prevent journalists doing their job

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Resisting US war plans on Jeju Island

by Angie Zelter | Feature | May 2012

“Over 400 people have been arrested since January 2010, with numbers rising rapidly”

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30 years ago: Opposing the Falklands War

by Albert Beale | Comment | May 2012

PN was a leading voice in the radical opposition to the Falklands War; though there was plenty of reactionary opposition too – from both ends of the orthodox political spectrum.

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Peaceful rage

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | May 2012

Sometimes I try – like many PN readers I guess – to imagine myself in the position of a bereaved family in a civil war and know that revenge would be uppermost in my min ...

Activism and... Mentors

Comment | May 2012

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News from Scotland

Glasgow asylum seekers face destitution

by PN | News | May 2012

Up to 140 Glasgow asylum seekers are to be evicted by their landlord, Ypeople, in the next few weeks. They will be left with no home as well as no access to work, benefits or any state support.

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West Bank Freedom Flytilla

by Margie Haig | News | May 2012

Around 1,300 supporters of Palestinian human and national rights planned to arrive in Israel’s Ben-Gurion international airport on 15 April.

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RBS funds nuclear arms production

by Janet Fenton | News | May 2012

Royal Bank of Scotland finances 16 companies that are heavily involved in the manufacture, modernisation and maintenance of US, British and French nuclear forces.

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Roouminations ...

Cartoon | May 2012
Roouminations ...

Tony Telford

by Tony Telford | Cartoon | May 2012

Almost...

by SEG | Cartoon | May 2012