Issue: 2475-76

July to August 2006

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By PN staff

On 20 June three US Plowshares activists entered the E-9 Minuteman silo in North Dakota.

As the crisis in Palestine deepens, civil society groups in the UK have been drawing attention to the plight of the Palestinian people...using somewhat differing methods.

By Ippy

Just a few days after hosting the Peace News 70th birthday party, central London's The Square social centre had effectively come to an end.

By Martha Ransdell

On 1 April 2006, two peace campaigners from Yorkshire were arrested under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA).

By Nadje al-Ali

Act Together: Women's Action for Iraq, together with several other Iraqi and British women's organisations, artists and activists, organised a vigil on International Widows Day - 23 June - to draw attention to the plight of Iraqi widows.

By Ippy

Did the perpetrators who kidnapped Israeli Defence Force soldier Cpl Gilad Shalit anticipate the collective punishment that would be meted out to Palestinians?