Issue: 2568-2569

April 2014

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Top Stories

Summer is coming!

by PN staff

Come to the Peace News Summer Camp, 31 July – 4 August 2014. Robb Johnson will be performing songs from his highly-acclaimed Gentle Men album about his grandfathers and the First World War.

Peace News co-editor Milan Rai analyses Ukraine, western hypocrisy, the role (not) played by nuclear weapons in the ongoing crisis, claims that the US organised a "fascist coup" in Ukraine, the "referendum" in Crimea, and the path away from war.

News

Palestinian hunger strikers undergo ‘punitive measures’

by David Polden

...and Israeli refusers

Defending family farms

by Oli Rodker

Working for european food sovereignty

Sisterhood

by Elisa Haf

International Women’s Day

Mounting calls to end drone secrecy

by Gabriel Carlyle

Action by the European parliament and the UN

Faslane campers board nuclear sub

by Heather Stewart

Action against weapons of mass destruction

Features

Reaching for the edge

by Emily Masters

Anti-oppression work becomes a renewed focus for UK grassroots trainers

Fracking amazing

by Emily Masters

Manchesters’ new front line in the struggle against extreme energy

Fairphone forever!

by Ludovica Rogers

The world’s first ethically-minded smartphone

News

Fun not fear

by PN

Over 30 UK groups held kite-flying actions on the spring equinox, celebrating Nowruz, the Afghan New Year, and protesting against the use of drones over Afghanistan. The international project was organised by Voice for Creative Nonviolence UK, inspired by the Afghan Peace Volunteers.

Following mysterious ‘Mitch’

by Rikki Blue

On the march against corruption

Comment

35 years ago: Where next?

by Albert Beale

In the 1970s, Peace News carried frequent, and sometimes vitriolic, debates about the Middle East, often sparked by anger on the part of some readers at the uncompromisingly anti-Zionist line of its regular contributor – and sometime Middle East Editor – Uri Davis (himself a Jewish Palestinian). From time to time, as here, PN spelt out its own view.

A heart-breaking work of staggering genius

by Marc Hudson

Activism and fiction

Calling for Peace

by Ann Kramer

The Women's Peace Congress

Time to get a grip on technology!

by Dave King

Breaking the Frame, May 2014

Cartoons etc

Roouminations by Donald Rooum

Jill's Defence Weekly by Jill Gibbon

Peace News co-editor Milan Rai analyses Ukraine, western hypocrisy, the role (not) played by nuclear weapons in the ongoing crisis, claims that the US organised a "fascist coup" in Ukraine, the "referendum" in Crimea, and the path away from war.

Kurdistan
Western Sahara
Nepali hunger strike
Prisoners shuffled!
Muslim accused!
Jesus leads to jail!