[JNV] JNV speakers this Friday / Peace News exhibition film show and tour

[Justice Not Vengeance]

Dear friends

We would like to draw your attention to these London events. We will
be circulating our latest JNV briefing by email tomorrow!

We are happy to report that our appeal for initial funding of our film
'Treating Islam Fairly' (working title) was successful, and we have
raised over 2500 pounds so far. We are enormously grateful to everyone
who has contributed so far. We are now entering the second phase of
fundraising and preparation. Donations are still very welcome!

best wishes

Maya Anne Evans
Emily Johns
Milan Rai

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1) LONDON public meeting

Peace News event - 'War, Resistance and Nonviolent Revolution from
Vietnam to Iraq, 1968 - 2008'

At 7pm on Friday 16 May, JNV workers Emily Johns and Milan Rai will be
delivering talks on this theme at Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano
Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX.

The co-editors will be discussing Peace News as it was then, and some
of the ways in which activists have struggled with the issues of war,
resistance and revolution over the past forty years. Picking up from
writings in recent issues of Peace News, they will be referring to the
lives and writings of, among others, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr,
Barbara Deming, Dave Dellinger, Noam Chomsky and Phil and Dan
Berrigan, as well as looking forward to the future of nonviolent
struggle.

All are welcome and entrance is free!

2) LONDON exhibition

Peace News exhibition - 'All Power to the Imagination: Posters from the 1960s'

Also showing at Torriano Meeting House is a wonderful exhibition of
political and cultural posters and other ephemera from the 1960s,
gathered by Riff Raff Poet Dennis Gould and exhibited only for the
third time in forty years. Committee of 100 posters, leaflets and
letters; classic covers of Anarchy magazine; poster poems and calls to
action; the exhibition is a powerhouse of design and demonstrates the
ferment of ideas that made the 1960s such a liberating era.

Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX.
Open by appointment: 020 7267 2751;
as well as on the night of Friday 16 May (PN talk listed above).

3) LONDON film show / film tour

Peace News film show - 'The Catonsville Nine - Investigation of a Flame'

May '68 was not only the month of the French uprisings, it was also
the month when nine radical Catholic peace activists burned hundreds
of seized draft papers with home-made napalm in protest against the
Vietnam War. Lynne Sachs' 2001 film is a brilliant exploration of the
action and its aftermath, combining archive footage of the 17 May 1968
action itself and recent interviews with Phil and Dan Berrigan and
other members of the Nine. The Catonsville action revolutionized the
international anti-war movement. This film is an unmissable glimpse
into that moment, and an inspiration to action.

Introduced by Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker.

Showing: 6pm, Saturday 31 May, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road,
London N1 9DX.

Free!

Film tour: Peace News has unlimited showing rights for this film (if
free entry). Contact 0207 278 3344 to arrange a free showing at your
local peace group, front room, arthouse cinema, community space.