Iraq - see our page dedicate to Iraq-related news and action
'War on terrorism'
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UK PEACE NETWORKS AND GROUPINGS
OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION & COMMENT
Violence in
Entertainment
US Missile Defence :
Some links and opportunities
for action
- Article on Missile Defence at Menwith Hill by Philip Austin in 'Disarm for Peace' December 07
- Briefing from CND: 'The US National Missile Defence Programme: a destabilising provocation'.
- Foreign Affairs select committee report, Nov 07:
- section on Missile Defence
- conclusions & recommendations
- news item from BBC
- Early Day Motion 65 on "PARLIAMENT AND DECISIONS OVER US MISSILE DEFENCE"
- July / August 2007 Decision regarding use of Menwith Hill:
- Des Brown (Secretary of State for Defence) gives permission for Menwith Hill to be used by US government in Missile Defense
- Press statement from MoD
- Letter from MPs criticising the move
- CND Comment on the decision
- CND Briefing
- CND Conference, 1st September
- Comment from BASIC
- Gordon Brown's white elephants - article by Paul Rogers
- Why has the US base at Menwith Hill created such a political storm? - Independent article
- Greens condemn Menwith Hill decision
- Brown's contempt for democracy has dragged Britain into a new cold war - George Monbiot article
- Menwith Hill Matters - NFPB
Signpost
leaflet
- US Missile Defence and the UK – an issue for the General
Election, published March 2005
- POLL SHOWS GENERAL
PUBLIC OPPOSE SPACE
WEAPONS, WANT A TREATY TO BAN THEM AND DON’T TRUST THE US ON STAR WARS
Results of an official ICM opinion poll of 1008
individuals
commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, unveiled today,
show an overwhelming opposition to space weapons and a lack of trust in
the US’s pronouncements on Star Wars. (October 2004)
- Briefing on US Bases in the UK
(new, May 2004) from
Quaker Peace &
Social Witness (681KB pdf file)
- Missile Defence Working
Group
- Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases has an ongoing programme of
research, monitoring, witness and protest at US bases in the UK, in
particular Menwith Hill and Fylingdales in Yorkshire.This site
regularly
updated with news from CAAB, from US bases in the UK and coverage of
international news relating to Missile Defence. Also weekly vigils at Menwith Hill on Tuesday evenings,
now
between 6 and 8pm.
- Keep Space for
Peace website created by Yorkshire CND - full of background
briefings, links, news and analysis
-
 Keep
Space
for Peace - posters available from Friends
House. Available from the Quaker Bookshop
for £3 plus postage - email bookshop@quaker.org.uk
- "US Missile Defence: Ten Reasons for UK
Concern" - Briefing for MPs
from
the
Missile Defence Working Group:
- Full text available here (HTML) and
here in PDF format -167KB.
(Open it
using Adobe
Acrobat reader) or read the Executive Summary here in html text
format
On 17th October, UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, on
the
subject of US Missile Defence, said in the House of Commons: "We
welcome parliamentary and public discussion of the issues involved."
.... Read
this briefing and share it to equip yourselves for this debate.
Also, remind your MP that they have a copy, let them know what you
think
about the issue and seek their views.
-
Quaker
meetings for worship take place on the first Saturday of every
month,
alternating between Menwith Hill and Fylingdales. Visit our calendar page for
details.
- The Hills
are Alive... with military
bases
If
you have found this site useful, please consider
-
- Research
bodies: BASIC, the British American
Security Information Council, has a good deal of information relating
to
Missile Defence
- Briefing paper from
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Council for
a
Liveable world Missile defence links and
information
- Report
of the House of Commons defence select committee on the
request by the US to upgrade Fylingdales
- UK
government says yes to US request - BBC news
item, 5th February 2003
- US Government sites:
- United States
Strategic Command
- Missile Defence
Agency
Miscellaneous
- Peace work opportunities - look at the openings currently available from Quaker Peace and Social Witness
- 'Global
Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century'.
Briefing paper from Oxford Research Group, June 2006
- The Power of the Media - A Handbook for
Peacebuilders - " a
publication that aims to highlight the role of the media in
peacebuilding and conflict prevention and strengthen its capacity to
exert positive, constructive influence in these situations"
Access the full contents
of the book here. -
For order information, please contact the ECCP by email at info@conflict-prevention.net
or by telephone at +31-30-242-7777.
- War Prevention Works
Mini web site for Oxford Research Group's publication War Prevention Works.
Inlcludes many useful links
- People
Building Peace - contents of
first book online
- War
against Iran - why not Negotiate Peace?
New body set up by ministry for peace, March
2006
- Letterbox Library -
children's books celebrating equality and diversity.
- Joseph Rowntree
Charitable Trust Visionaries
- http://www.pledgebank.com/
- Face to faith The Quaker approach of
open dialogue could help to improve the relationship between faiths,
writes Alison Leonard Saturday February 25,
2006 Guardian
- http://www.
friends peace teams .org/
- "We
endorse the Peace Tax Seven
Conscientious Objection to Tax for Military Purposes Petition to UK
Government...."
Read
the full peition and sign it online
- Enhancing
European Capacity for Peacebuilding from the Quaker
Council for European Affairs
- School of
Applied Global Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan
University (Peace and
conflict resolution courses now offered)
- The Right to
Conscientious Objection in Europe: A Review of the Current Situation
- report from the Quaker Council for European Affairs
April 2005
- Peace Tax at the
Council of Europe This
series of briefing papers looks at the
Quaker Council for European
Affairs (QCEA) proposals relating to the recognition of
Conscientious
Objection to taxation for military purposes which we are making to the
Council of Europe and sets them in the context of the Council of Europe
and its prior work on Conscientious Objection to Military Service.
- Prevent
Britain joining another war against Iran campaign from Our World Our Say
- Wage Peace Campaign of the American Friends Service Committee
If
you have found this site useful, please consider supporting our work
financially via our secure online giving
- If
you are
concerned about some of the issues covered here, MySociety.org (creators of FaxYourMP) has produced a useful
website "WriteToThem.com" to help you
contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Welsh and London Assembly
Members for free. Also ...
- TheyWorkForYou.com
Everything MPs say in the House of Commons is recorded in a document
called Hansard. TheyWorkForYou.com helps
make sense of this vital democratic resource while allowing you
to add comments and links to the official transcripts of
Parliament. Warning:This website is still in its testing ('beta')
phase, and is not yet complete.
- And also from MySociety - PledgeBank
- a simple way of getting other people to join you in taking action for
change
- Soldiers in the
Laboratory - Military involvement in science and technology -
and some alternatives Report published in January 2005 by Scientists for
Global Responsibility:
- Press
release
-
Executive summary (PDF file)
- Full
Report (PDF file)
- International
Peace Bureau (IPB) Disarmament briefings on nuclear
weapons, space
militarisation, explosive
remnants of war, small
arms, biological
and chemical weapons, and military
spending.
- Global Echo - alternative news
and comment
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