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Holocaust Memorial Day
The UK Ceremony for HMD 2022 will be streamed online at 7pm. Register on the website to watch the Ceremony online.
External URL: http://www.hmd.org.uk/ Member: Organiser is not an NFP memberPeace Sunday
The title Pope Francis has chosen for the 2022 Message for the World Day of Peace is: 'Education, work and dialogue between generations: tools for building lasting peace'.
External URL: http://paxchristi.org.uk/ Member: Organiser is an NFP member‘Britain Must Sign the TPNW!’
Yorkshire CND Annual General Meeting
(in-person) exactly one year after the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. Venue and timings TBA.
Veganuary
Join thousands of people going vegan for the month of January. More info (and recipes): www.veganuary.com
‘No AUKUS pact – No New Cold War: International Day of Action.’
CND has joined with the Australian and US peace movements to draw public attention to the dangerous new AUKUS military pact between Australia, the UK and the US, escalating the West’s confrontation wi
External URL: https://cnduk.org/events/no-aukus-pact-no-new-cold-war-international-day-of-acti... Organised by: CND Member: Organiser is an NFP member Contact: 020 7700 2393;Webinar: Nuclear Secrecy - Democracy, nuclear weapons and disarmament in the US and UK
Join Tim Street and David Cullen from Nuclear Information Service in discussion with Kennette Benedict, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Alex Wellerstein, US nuclear historian + Q&A.
External URL: Register Organised by: Nuclear Information Service Member: Organiser is an NFP member Price: Free Venue: Zoom Contact: Trish@nuclearinfo.orgDismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist struggle
In April 2021, Human Rights Watch published a report accusing Israel of the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.
Organised by: London School of Economics Member: Organiser is not an NFP memberPolicing Speech in the Digital Era: making the rules of online expression
Drawing on his book Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet and his time as the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expressio
External URL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/12/202112021800/speech Organised by: London School of Economics Member: Organiser is not an NFP memberCannibal Capitalism's Crisis: a perfect storm of injustice and irrationality.
Capitalism’s voracious appetite is devouring democracy, care, and the planet. In the wake of the perfect storm that is COVID-19, how can we stop it from cannibalizing our whole world?
Organised by: London School of Economics Member: Organiser is not an NFP memberAlliances and War: from the Delian League to the First World War
Join LSE IDEAS for the first Engelsberg Chair lecture of 2021/22 on alliances and war, delivered by historian Margaret MacMillan. Do alliances prevent war or lead to it?
External URL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/events/2021/11/alliances-in-war/engelsberg Organised by: London School of Economics Member: Organiser is not an NFP memberEnvironmentalism and Global International Society
In this launch event for the new book Environmentalism and Global International Society, the panelists will discuss the extent to which international relations has been greened and whether internation
Organised by: London School of Economics Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Contact: Register for online event: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/11/202111231800/environmentalismThe Overlooked Palestinians
*** Vi Gostling Memorial Lecture ***
Speaker: Andy Simons
Terraformed
Speaker: Joy White
Organised by: News From Nowhere Club Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Price: Free entry. Donations/Raffle/Voluntary Membership £5pa Venue: St John’s Church Hall, High Road E11 1HH.J B Priestley: A Good Companion?
Speaker: Kevin Davey. Priestley, distinguished novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, influential broadcaster in 1940 and founding member of CND, deserves huge celebration.
Organised by: News From Nowhere Club Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Price: Free entry. Donations/Raffle/Voluntary Membership £5pa. Venue: St John’s Church Hall, High Road E11 1HH.Hackney Downs: The School that Dared to Fight and Didn’t Deserve to Die
Speakers: Betty Hales and Jeff Davies, the last Head and Deputy Head of Hackney Downs School.
Organised by: News From Nowhere Club Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Price: Free entry. Donations/Raffle/Voluntary Membership £5paAlfred Hitchcock Presents…Friends of Alfred
Speakers: Friends of Alfred Group
Three new illustrated talks from Friends of Alfred, a group dedicated to promoting and preserving the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock in his hometown of Leytonstone.
The labour of Sisyphus: Can the Labour Party ever be a vehicle for socialism?
Speaker: Richard Price
Organised by: News From Nowhere Club Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Price: Free entry. Donations/Raffle/Voluntary Membership £5pa Venue: St John’s Church Hall, High RoadMovement for the Abolition of War's Annual General Meeting 2021
Including: Chair’s report, election of committee members and officers. Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maw-agm-tickets-168980636633
Member: Organiser is not an NFP member Contact: www.abolishwar.org.uk info@abolishwar.org.uk or write to MAW, 11 Venetia Rd, London N4 1EJ.Remembrance Ceremony
There will be a laying of a wreath of white and red poppies, organised by Norwich Quakers.
Organised by: Norwich Quakers Member: Organiser is not an NFP member