Campaigning on Mordechai Vanunu
Please support the campaign to to lift Mordechai Vanunu's travel ban. http://www.frontlineclub.com/protecting-whistleblowers/ Please also sign the petition to the Israeli Minister of Interior urging him to lift the travel ban against Vanunu. https://campaigns.amnesty.org/actions/whistleblower-protection
PEACE MOVEMENT’S COMMON VISION – THE ABOLITION OF MILITARISM.
On 7th June, 2014 thousands of people from around the world Gather in Sarejevo, Bosnia, to attend the Sarejego Peace events. It was in Sarejevo, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinard started the 1914 world war one. The Peace People address several thousands of people and below is Mairead Maguire's address. Dear friends, We are all aware that this is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo which led to the start of the First World War in l9l4. What started here in Sarajevo was a century of two global wars, a Cold War, a century of immense, rapid explosion of death and destruction technology, all extremely costly, and extremely risky. A huge step in the history of war, but also a decisive turning point in the…
INTERNATIONAL PEACE PILGRIMAGE TO SYRIA VIA IRAN
Ann Patterson and I were honoured to participate in the International Peace Pilgrimage to Syria via Iran, from 5th - 14th April, 2014. During an international delegation to Syria last year, we had both promised to return to Syria, and we also fulfilled a long-held intention to visit Iran. Iran We arrived in Iran on 5th April, and joined an international delegation of 14 from Lebanon, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, the UK and Germany. We were invited by the Unified Union of Unified Ummah’s, who organized this peace and humanitarian mission via Iran. Although Iranians are themselves suffering economic duress from some of the same nations oppressing Syria, they choose to show solidarity with Syria by sending large amounts of aid, purchased with the individual contributions of thousands of caring Iranian…