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Quaker Tapestry

by Roger Stephenson | Feature | June 2009

The idea began at the Friends Meeting House in Taunton in 1981. 11-year-old Jonathan Stocks felt the room where they held the children’s meeting needed cheering up. ...

Weapons of the Spirit

by Roger Stephenson | Feature | April 2009

From the first, the Quakers have taken a clear stand for peace and against military action. ...

Peace News Summer Camp

by Emily Johns and Milan Rai | Feature | September 2010

There were torrents to the right of them and torrents to the left of them, but Peace News Summer Camp 2010 was remarkably free of rainfall, despite the weather forecasts and the downpours ...

Homage to Murcia

by Roberta Bacic and Jes | Feature | September - November 2002

Roberta: Tell us a bit about your group, what you do and why you do it ...

Our stories

by Roberta Bacic | Feature | September - November 2002

Jaime Huenun, an indigenous Chilean poet, has quoted from an old wise Mapuche called Manuel Rauque, "When we recover our past, the earth will open its secrets." ...

A celebration of love: an interview with Anand Patwardhan

by Chandra Siddan and Anand Patwardhan | Feature | September - November 2002

The following interview was conducted with filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, who recently produced War and Peace - a three-hour film of epic proportions about the state of affairs in Pa ...

Louder than a bomb

by Aki Nawaz and PN staff | Feature | September 2006

Over the summer there was a minor media storm as, in the run up to 7/7, journalists and politicians heard about Fun Da Mental's new album All is War. ...

A producer of "cultural Öffentlichkeit"

by Adam Sherburne and Ippy D | Feature | September - November 2002

Ippy: Your music is politicised by design, but what did you get into first, music or politics, and when? ...

Making peace films

by Sonia Azad | Feature | November 2007

During the summer holidays, I spent four days filming Iraqi Refugee children in Amman, Jordan. ...

The El Sueno Existe

by Kim Bryan | News | July / August 2011

Festival inspired by Victor Jara fuses Welsh and Latin American music.

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