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
Norwich Peace Camp & Peace Cycle Event 2013
Posted on | May 10, 2013 | No Comments
| June 22, 2013 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
NPC&PC is booked this year again for 22nd June all day inside and outside the Forum
many of last year’s participants will be taking part again and maybe some new ones
Please feel free to come along between 9am and 4pm and take part yourselves
Featuring many tables indoors with art, poetry, Palestinian products, gardens in a tray and much invaluable information
from all the many organisations involved
plus in the amphitheatre:
Peace balloons, Bike Doctor, refreshments, charity auction at 2pm
Official opening by the Mayor of Norwich at 11am
12.15 Norwich Community Choir
Peace Cycle departs midday
anyone wishing to take part in Peace Cycle should contact us before June 20th
The Peace Cycle
Posted on | May 7, 2013 | No Comments
| May 5, 2013 8:00 am | to | May 16, 2013 8:00 pm |
The Peace Cycle is a unique bike ride and an exceptional opportunity to see the sights, learn the history, meet the people… and discover the truth about Palestine.
Follow on: www.thepeacecycle.com
The Peace Cycle 2013 will take place between 5th and 16th of May and will visit Nazareth, Jenin, Al-Fara, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bil’in, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Jerusalem.
As always, we will cycle so that we cause no harm to the environment and can feel as close to the land as possible. Cycling also makes us visible, and we will be met by ordinary people as we pass through towns and villages. Where possible, we will stay with people in their homes so that we really get to know them and listen to their stories, while at the same time contributing financially to a struggling economy.
The Peace Cycle 2013 is proud to be raising funds to support the International Middle East Media Center -www.imemc.org
Email thepeacecycle@aol.com if you would like info
Momentous Decision at UN
Posted on | December 1, 2012 | No Comments
On Wednesday 28th November 2012 the UN General Assembly voted by 134 in favour to 9 against with 41 abstensions to accept Palestine’s application for non-member observer status at to the UN.
This could be the first step after the declaration of a truce and ceasfire for Gaza to re-initiate negotiations on the basis of full recognition of the rights of Palestine and all Palestinians and bring peace to Jerusalem and all the land around it for all people who wish to live there in peace as well.
Wrongful detention and imprisonment of children
Posted on | December 22, 2012 | No Comments
The wrongful arrest and detention of Palestinian children has a long history and is contrary to all UN, EU, UK and international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
All children as we all know are protected by law and this right cannot and should not be taken away from them.
There is an online petition about this which you can visit and sign if you wish at:
also at:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/40559
and: http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-wrongful-detention-of-palestinian-children
and: www.thepetitionsite.com/360/057/656/end-illegal-iprisonment-and-detention-of-palestinian-children
Economics of Peace and War
Posted on | March 25, 2013 | No Comments
TRADING AWAY PEACE ?
Posted on | March 12, 2013 | No Comments
| March 14, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
TRADING AWAY PEACE ?
How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements, and what we can do about it
Speakers:
Leah Levane of Jews for Justice for Palestinians
and
Marigold Bentley of Quaker Peace & Social Witness
on Thursday 14th March 7 – 9 pm at Quaker Meeting House Upper Goat Lane
Norwich NR2 1EW (off St Giles Street near the City Hall Clock Tower)
Organised by Norfolk Jewish Peace Group and Norwich Quakers
Free admission - All welcome
For further information contact: Jean Davis – 01603 453530
UEFA Under 21s final in Israel and Palestinian Prisoners
Posted on | March 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
| March 21, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Betty Hunter Honary President Palestine Solidarity Campaign
To speak about UEFA Under 21s Final in Israel and Palestinian Prisoners at UEA
Thursday 21st March at 7pm Elizabeth Fry Building Room 01.02
(half way down Chancellors Drive on left opposite Tom Payne Building
Please come to what should be a very informative meeting
Hosted by UEA PALSOC and supported by Norwich PSC
The Bishop of Norwich: in conversation about the Middle East
Posted on | May 17, 2013 | No Comments
| June 7, 2013 | ||
| 6:30 am | to | 8:00 am |
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
Nakba Day
Posted on | May 13, 2013 | No Comments
| May 15, 2013 | ||
| 12:01 am | to | 11:59 pm |
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
| May 18, 2013 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
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
MODERN WARFARE: THE TRUTH ABOUT DRONES
Posted on | May 7, 2013 | No Comments
| May 15, 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
MODERN WARFARE: THE TRUTH ABOUT DRONES
THE CURVE IN THE FORUM, MILLENIUM PLAIN, NORWICH
WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY 7pm
All welcome – Admission Free
SPEAKER CHRIS COLE from Drone Wars UK outlines why the rise of the drones must be confronted.
This spring, the UK is doubling its number of armed Reaper drones in Afghanistan and for the first time is operating drones over Afghanistan from a new facility at RAF Waddington near Lincoln . It’s time to end this remote high-tech form of killing.
Left Unity meetings
Posted on | May 7, 2013 | No Comments
| May 9, 2013 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
For an overview and more detailed explanation of what Left Unity is and is trying to do, please look at this link http://leftunity.org
Left Unity Norwich will have the first meetings on Thursday 9th May at the Friends Meeting House on Upper Goat Lane near City Hall in Norwich.
As hoped there will be 2 meetings, one from 1230pm to 2pm for parents, night workers, and anyone who cannot attend an evening meeting, and then another from 730pm to 9pm for anyone who cannot attend during the day.
Parking is limited to one car per group at the meeting house so if you need disabled access
please email: norwich.unity@outlook.com and we will try to arrange it.
St Giles car park is nearby and is £1.70 after 630pm though more expensive during the day. There is also a Pay and Display on Pottergate opposite the Job Centre.
If you are able to come please either let us know in the comments below or email at the above address so we have a more solid idea of numbers attending.
Please share this with family, friends, colleagues, comrades, neighbours and anyone who might be interested, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes,
Ellen
SUCCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF CAMPAIGNING GROUPS
Posted on | May 5, 2013 | No Comments
| May 28, 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
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
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