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 FEBRUARY 7TH  - 2024 MEETING

THE RED CROSS, SWITZERLAND, AND THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

 Peter Foot

Peter taught postgraduate-level strategy, defence economics and military history in 6 universities for over 30 years. Now retired, he lives in Faringdon.The meeting will be on zoom.

WEDS 7th FEB:  7.30pm .

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

 

DECEMBER 6TH  - 2023 MEETING

OUR NET-ZERO 2050 COMMITMENTS: NOW PIE IN THE SKY?

 Richard Benwell

For the past four years,  Richard has been the CEO of Wildlife & Countryside LINK - an important group that provides leadership and consistent messaging to government on environmental issues. Many of you will also have come across Richard when he was the lib-dem candidate for Wantage at the last election!

WEDS 6th DEC:  7.30pm .

LINK TO VIDEO

NOVEMBER 2023  MEETING

GAZA UKRAINE & BEYOND - CURRENT & FUTURE DRONE WARS

 Chris Cole
Chris Cole is the founder of Drone UK and the author of many reports and articles on the use of armed drones. He has submitted evidence to various Parliamentary Committees on the issue, including the Defence Select Committee, the Joint Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Arms Export Controls and is regularly invited to speak to conferences, public meetings and the media on drones, targeted killing and remote warfare

WEDS 1ST NOV:  7.30pm .

LINK TO VIDEO

DECEMBER 2022 MEETING

ELBIT is out of Oldham. Now it’s the Campaign to get ELBIT out of the UK!

WEDS DEC 7th - 7.30pm

JACQUI GREENFIELD

from Oldham Peace and Justice Campaign. Is also on the Greater Manchester and District CND Co-Ordinating Group and part of a Saddleworth Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund group.

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

SEPTEMBER 2023  MEETING

NUKEWATCH – TRACKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON OUR ROADS

Peter Burt
Peter Burt has been a member of the Nukewatch network for thirty years. He will talk about the work of Nukewatch, which monitors nuclear weapons movements to undertake 'citizen verification' of the scale of the UK's nuclear arsenal.

WEDS 6TH SEPT:  7.30pm .
 

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

NOVEMBER 2022 MEETING

A View from an Anti-war and Anti-nuclear Peace Activist in 2022

WEDS NOV 2ND - 7.30pm

RAE STREET

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

SUMMARY OF TALK

MARCH 2023 MEETING

THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK & THE POSSIBILITY OF NUCLEAR WAR - WHAT CAN WE DO?

WEDS Mar 1st - 7.30pm

TOM UNTERRAINER
CHAIR OF CND

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

 

APRIL 2022 MEETING

WEDS APRIL 6TH - 7.30pm
THE OTMOOR RIOTS IN THE WIDER CONTEXT
( i.e what about the new police and courts bill??
Our speaker  is Ciaran Walsh. 

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

MAY 2022 MEETING

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE STATUE...
AND STILL ISN’T!

WEDS MAY 4TH - 7.30pm

CHRISTINE TOWNSEND

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

DECEMBER 2021  MEETING

COP26: WHAT NEXT?

WEDS DEC 1st - 7.30pm
 Helen Holly explains where we are now - and where we should be.

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

MARCH 2022 MEETING

UKRAINE - WHAT’S BEHIND THE CONFLICT?

WEDS MAR 2ND - 7.30pm
LINDSEY GERMAN

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

NOVEMBER 2021 MEETING

WEDS Nov 3rd - 7.30pm

EXPLAINING COP26: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

Our speaker  is Pete Dilly, a Local XR Campaigner
 LINK TO VIDEO

SEPTEMBER 2021 MEETING

WEDS SEPT 1st - 7.30pm
A LOSING BATTLE: THE UK ARMS TRADE AND GLOBAL POLITICS
Our speaker  swas Kirsten Bayes, a Local Outreach Coordinator for Campaign Against Arms Trade’s (CAAT).        LINK TO VIDEO

WEDS JULY 2021

THE CAMPAIGN TO GET ELBIT OUT OF OLDHAM

 JACQUI GREENFIELD from Oldham Justice & Peace. 

 LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

WEDS JUNE 2021
Speaker: John Cooper is Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Grappling with the Past to build a Peaceful Future

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

WEDS APR 2021
Speaker: Fabian Hamilton, Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament

  How do we Achieve Nuclear Disarmament?

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

WEDS MAY 2021
Speaker: Richard Seaford - Em Prof of Ancient Greek, University of Exeter

Palestine: from the Hebrew Bible to the Present

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING

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