Issue: 2515

November 2009

Archives

By Milan Rai, Emily Johns

Articles

By Andrea Needham

Brimar – a Manchester-based weapons manufacturer – is the latest armaments firm to feel the heat from campaigners.

When I go, I feel revitalised, and reawoken, and really stimulated. I used to think maybe it was a bit lifestylist, and fetishist, but actually the level of debate and discourse I reconnect with when I go is really inspiring.

By PN staff

Dear friends, Peace News is growing and expanding!

By Maya Evans

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By Jeff Cloves

There was a letter in October’s PN headlined: “Research on Reading”. I missed the capital letter and found I was reading about Reading and the impact of the cold war on this town.

By Michael Randle

Michael Randle assesses civil resistance and its role in creating social change.

By Andrew Beckett

Peace News invited the Brighton anti-arms trade group Smash EDO to share thoughts on strategy, tactics and movement building.

By Kelvin Mason

The Little Mermaid, Tivoli Gardens, Probably The Worst Beer In The World: these may be some of the tourist attractions, but what will draw people to Copenhagen this December is the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15.

By Paul Ingram

On 16 July, the government published its international strategy in the lead-up to the NPT Review Conference next May.

By Kaye Stearman

On 1 October, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it was taking steps to prosecute BAE Systems in relation to arms deals in Eastern Europe and Africa.

By Gabriel Carlyle

Are those calling for withdrawal selling out Afghanistan’s women?

By Colin Scullion, Sarah Young

Colin Scullion, a literacies link worker for liberated prisoners in Glasgow, speaks to PN in a personal capacity about Scottish prisons and the importance of literacies for social justice.

By Sophie Wynne-Jones

Saturday 17 October. 1.03pm. The first tweet comes in on my mobile phone: “The fences are breached. There’s people on top of the coal pile. The Swoop is go!”

By Kelvin Mason

Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans hosted a visit of climate campaigners from Wales to Brussels in mid-October. Campaigners urged European politicians to act decisively ahead of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year.

By Dr Larch Maxey

Okay, so there were two of them rather than one, but with just a little cargo netting and rope borrowed from friends, campaigners closed Ffos-y-Frân, Wales’ largest opencast coal mine on 23 September.