PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2014 OUTLINE PROGRAMME THURSDAY 31 July 2014 10.30-12.30 Set-up – collectively putting up structures and preparing the camp 14.00-16.00 Seeking Liberation – an anti-oppression workshop MILAN RAI & GABRIEL CARLYLE (Peace News) 16.30-18.30 • FILM: Radical Friends with director CHIHIRO GEUZEBROEK • 3,000 years – a provocative introduction to nonviolence GABRIEL CARLYLE (Peace News) • Chomsky's politics MILAN RAI (Peace News) evening • FILMS: Giving a voice to Iraqi children by Sonia Azad, This land is mine by Nina Paley, Sita sings the blues by Nina Paley • Boy soldiers reading performance • LATE FILM: War Matters FRIDAY 1 August 2014 10.30-12.30 • Strategising for social change SEEDS FOR CHANGE • Mobilising to stop NATO! LILY AYRE • Justice for Palestine GILL KNIGHT • Gaining power – women in the anti-war resistance ALI RONAN (No Glory, Manchester) & SHEILA TRIGGS (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) • Mobilising – The anti-fracking movement & community organising ANEAKA KELLAY 14.00-16.00 • Peace Studies and the peace movement RACHEL JULIAN (Leeds Met) & PAUL ROGERS (Bradford School of Peace Studies) • Dealing with everyday militarism YOLANDA JUARROS BARCENILLA & ALMUDENA IZQUIERDO • Darkest Days DOUGLAS NEWTON • Selling to both sides: the arms trade and the First World War KAT HOBBS (Campaign against the Arms Trade) • The paradise of the commons – celebrating Elinor Ostrom DEREK WALL (Green Party) 16.30-18.30 • I’m right, you’re wrong, now what? Dealing with interpersonal conflict CLAIRE COCHRANE & KATHRYN TULIP (Seeds for Change) • Making nonviolent revolution ANDREW RIGBY & MICHAEL RANDLE • Why we don’t need Sizewell RON BAILEY • 1945-2045: A century on the edge PAUL ROGERS • Depleted uranium ANEAKA KELLAY (Campaign against Depleted Uranium) evening • Celebrating Howard Clark • Gentle Men with singer-songwriter ROBB JOHNSON SATURDAY 2 August 2014 10.30-12.30 • A solid base for real security PAUL ROGERS & NEIL FAULKNER - RACHEL JULIAN (chair) • Vegan catering for the masses VEGGIES • Crossing the line – preparing for nonviolent direct action LONDON ROOTS • Supporting Peace News GABRIEL CARLYLE (Peace News) 12.45-1.45 • Should there be a Peace News Summer Camp 2015? MILAN RAI (Peace News Summer Camp) 14.00-16.00 • 500 warheads – next steps to eliminate British and French nuclear weapons MARC MORGAN (Mouvement pour une Alternative Non- Violente) & DOMINIQUE LALANNE (Armes nucléaires STOP) & CATH BANN (Yorkshire CND) • Worst meeting ever – an introduction to facilitation LONDON ROOTS • What did you do in the war, Daddy? How the story of the First World War was used NEIL FAULKNER • Make cake, not war – vegan baking for social justice VEGGIES • Policing the police – resisting the repression of protest SIAN JONES 16.30-18.30 • Taking action for the people of Syria SYRIAN PEACE AND JUSTICE • Sustaining resistance SEEDS FOR CHANGE • Rebels of 100 years ago – the Peace News ‘The World is My Country’ WWI poster project EMILY JOHNS & GABRIEL CARLYLE • Life after capitalism MICHAEL ALBERT (Z Communications) via Skype • Women in Black across Europe YOLANDA JUARROS BARCENILLA, ALMUDENA IZQUIERDO & SIAN JONES evening • Bar Quiz • MIZAN the Poet & Storytelling with ARIANE HADJILIAS & HEDGEMUSTARD • FILMS: Utopias and Dirty Wars SUNDAY 3 August 2013 10.30-12.30 • We have got the Maxim gun, and they have not – the First World War seen from the Global South KOFI KLU & MILAN RAI • Chucking the camo – countering the militarisation of youth EMMA SANGSTER (ForcesWatch) • Drawing EMILY JOHNS (Peace News) • No new nukes! BRUCE KENT (Movement for the Abolition of War) & CATH BANN (Yorkshire CND) • Creative peace for families and teachers SARAH LASENBY 14.00-16.00 • Remembering the First World War VALERIE FLESSATI (Pax Christi) & BRUCE KENT (Movement for the Abolition of War) • Nonviolent resistance in Kosovo and Serbia – a playfully dramatic exploration HANNAH BAUMEISTER • If you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need – communicating nonviolently CLARE PALMER • Reparations in the Pan-Afrikan internationalist perspective of global justice KOFI KLU • Salam! Eyewitness Afghanistan SUSAN CLARKSON & AFGHAN PEACE VOLUNTEERS via skype 16.30-18.30 • ‘A hotbed of pacifism’ – socialism & conscientious objection in Huddersfield during the First World War CYRIL PEARCE • Summerhill: democratic education ZOE READHEAD (Principal, Summerhill school) • The ABC of campaigning: how we won same sex marriage PETER TATCHELL • I can live with that – how to use consensus decision-making EMILY JOHNS (Peace News) evening Talent Show: Everyone brings out their hidden talents! MONDAY 4 August 2013 10.30-12.30 Declaring Peace PETER TATCHELL & others 14.00-16.00 • Where we go from here? • Closing Circle and take down the camp OTHER ACTIVITIES DURING THE CAMP Radical knitting – join the camp knitting (and crochet) circle and contribute some stiches towards the Wool Against Weapons protest at Aldermaston on 9 August. Tai Chi – early-ish morning exercise Yoga, massage and relaxation in the chill out space.