Come to the Peace News Winter Gathering, 15–17 January

Join peo­ple from across the spec­trum of the British peace move­ment for a week­end of explo­ration, cel­e­bra­tion and empow­er­ment — learn­ing from oth­er move­ments, strug­gling with chal­leng­ing issues, and cre­at­ing greater cohe­sion and sol­i­dar­i­ty in a seg­ment­ed peace move­ment.

Join peo­ple from across the spec­trum of the British peace move­ment for a week­end of explo­ration, cel­e­bra­tion and empow­er­ment — learn­ing from oth­er move­ments, strug­gling with chal­leng­ing issues, and cre­at­ing greater cohe­sion and sol­i­dar­i­ty in a seg­ment­ed peace move­ment.

Work­shops will be reflec­tive (learn­ing from recent activist ini­tia­tives in Gaza, Copen­hagen and Calais), strate­gic (for exam­ple, devel­op­ing plans to counter the war in Afghanistan) and prac­ti­cal (plan­ning for actions in Not­ting­ham itself, and at Alder­mas­ton the fol­low­ing month). Decades of activist expe­ri­ence will be rep­re­sent­ed, along with fresh faces and new­blood.

The Gath­er­ing will be fol­lowed on Mon­day 18 Jan­u­ary by a mass non­vi­o­lent direct action against the arms trade request­ed by and organ­ised by par­tic­i­pants in the Gath­er­ing (not under the con­trol or direc­tion of Peace News).

Peace News Win­ter Gath­er­ing 2010 has devel­oped out of Peace News Sum­mer Camp 2009, which cre­at­ed a real sense of lib­er­a­tion for par­tic­i­pants. The Gath­er­ing is a space of mutu­al respect in which activists from dif­fer­ent groups and move­ments, who hold diverse views on fun­da­men­tal issues, can share expe­ri­ences, infor­ma­tion and insights, and can learn more about each oth­er.

More details includ­ing pro­gramme at http://peacenewsgathering.info/