FROM MALI TO SYRIA:STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR
Posted on | June 11, 2013 | No Comments
Dear Friend
FROM MALI TO SYRIA:STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR
VAUXHALL CENTRE, JOHNSON PLACE, VAUXHALL STREET, NORWICH
THURSDAY 18TH JULY, 7pm
All welcome – Admission Free
SPEAKER: JEREMY CORBYN MP
Jeremy has been one of the most outspoken anti-war MPs opposing the
disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as more recent
interventions in the Middle East and North Africa. Currently national
chair of Stop the War Coalition, he will outline the perspectives for the
anti-war movement in a period of austerity. The public meeting will be
followed by a short AGM.
PLEASE MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARIES TO RESERVE THIS DATE.
Best wishes
Frank Stone
Norwich Stop the War Coalition
Economics of Peace and War
Posted on | June 7, 2013 | No Comments
The Bishop of Norwich: in conversation about the Middle East
Posted on | June 4, 2013 | No Comments
The Bishop of Norwich: in conversation about the Middle East with Ben Bradshaw MP for Exeter
6.30pm
Venue: Granary Court, Bishop’s House, St Martin-at-Palace Plain, Norwich NR3 1SB
Norwich Greenpeace Fair
Posted on | May 29, 2013 | No Comments
Saturday 1st June at UEA LCR in Union House
11am-5pm Artic survival pod fundraiser
Stalls, music, raffle, cake, food, tea/coffee
please use Bus 25/25A
www.Facebook.com/Norwich.Greenpeace
BAHRAIN AND THE ARAB UPRISING
Posted on | May 28, 2013 | No Comments
Dear Friend
BAHRAIN AND THE ARAB UPRISING
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, UPPER GOAT LANE, NORWICH
TUESDAY 4TH JUNE, 7pm
All welcome – Admission Free
SPEAKER: SAYED ALWADAEI
Sayed Alwadaei is a Bahraini youth activist who lives in exile. He was
jailed for six months in Bahrain for speaking to the international media
and calling for democracy. The Bahraini uprising is one of the longest and
most peaceful revolutions, yet the least covered by the Western media..
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SUCCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF CAMPAIGNING GROUPS
Posted on | May 27, 2013 | No Comments
VISIONS for CHANGE NORWICH. UPDATE 3 May 2013
*** SUCCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF CAMPAIGNING GROUPS is the theme of the next Discussion meeting. Tuesday 28 May, 7.30 – 9.30 pm
+ chat at bar afterwards. Norwich Playhouse meeting room, St Georges St, NR3 1AB
Afghan Peace Volunteers
Posted on | May 18, 2013 | No Comments
Please see this link: http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/
Special Posting
Posted on | May 15, 2013 | No Comments
Please visit this link to learn more about ‘Drones’ and drone warfare
www.dronewars.net
Nakba Day
Posted on | May 13, 2013 | No Comments
Commemorate Nakba Day and Continue Work for Palestinian Rights
Wednesday, May 15 marks 65 years since the Nakba
(Catastrophe): the dispossession, forced exile, and ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians from their land before and during the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
Sixty-five years later, Palestinians still face an ongoing Nakba as Israel continues to deny the right of return of displaced Palestinians and to illegally colonize Palestinian lands. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have now lived under a brutal Israeli military occupation for nearly 46 years, and Palestinians in Israel live under apartheid- more than 50 laws enshrine their status as second-class citizens based on their ethnic and religious identity.
Below you will find resources and ideas about what you can do to commemorate and remember the Nakba over the next few weeks.
Zochrot, which aims to promote awareness of the Nakba in Israel, has put together an activity creating a large-
scale map of the Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel. Participants are given cards that represent each of the villages destroyed, which are then returned to their correct location on a map. Participants can personalize their cards or decorate the map using chalk, colored stones, stickers, ribbons, etc. Find instructions, pictures, and other ideas here.
Attend a Nabkba Day commemoration in your city. There are events happening in DC, Chicago, Denver, Boston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. If you are planning an event you would like us to help publicize, please email membership@endtheoccupation.org. And don’t forget to submit pictures and videos of your actions for our Tumblr.
Pass out this fact sheet (front here, back here)
from Students for Justice in Palestine Loyola University Chicago at your actions. You can also create your own flyers based on information from the Institute for Middle East Understanding and US Campaign member group American Muslims for Palestine.
Other sites you can use to educate people about the continuing relevance of the Nakba and the importance of the Palestinian right of return for establishing a just and lasting peace are Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948 from the Institute for Palestine Studies; Ongoing Nakba Education Center from BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights; and Expressions of Nabka from the US Campaign.
Get involved in the global Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. Find information about the major BDS campaigns happening in the United States here, including Veolia, SodaStream, and TIAA-CREF.
–US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
“Patterns for a Sustainable Planet”
Posted on | May 8, 2013 | No Comments
This is to advise you of a very special talk on Saturday 18th May at the Curve in the Forum at 11oc am.
We are exceptionally lucky and privileged to have Professor Corinne Le Quéré come and talk to us about “Patterns for a Sustainable Planet”. Professor Le Quéré is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and is Director of the UEA Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Professor Corinne Le Quéré is originally from Canada. She completed a Ph.D. in oceanography in University Paris V1 (1999), an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Montreal. She has conducted research at Princeton University in the United States and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany.
Professor Le Quéré was author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th (ongoing) Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She co-chairs the Global Carbon Project, a non-governmental organisation that fosters International research on the carbon cycle and publishes annual updates on global emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide. Further information on her current work on Future Earth can be found on this link: http://www.icsu.org/future-earth
The new international research programme Future Earth, will coordinate international research on sustainability for the next 10 years
best wishes,
Marguerite On behalf of Norwich United Nations Association