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Peace Conference in Nottingham, this Sunday

NSPM | 10.02.2005 11:47 | Anti-militarism

Nottingham Student Peace Movement are holding a Peace Conference at the University of Nottingham on the afternoon of Sun 13th Feb.


The NSPM's Peace Conference will be taking place on Sun (Feb 13th) afternoon (2pm-8pm), in the Portland Building of Nottingham University. Entrance is free and refreshments will be provided by Veggies. The programme for the day is as follows:-

West Concourse Lounge
2pm - What's oil got do with it? (Linking war with environmental and energy issues, in Iraq and beyond)
Speakers: Alan Simpson MP, Jo Hamilton (Rising Tide), Brian Davey

3.30pm - 'No new oil' (Rising Tide campaign video (10m) )

4pm - Living in the shadow of the 'war on terror' (Racism and the erosion of civil liberties in the UK)
Speakers: Dr Jon Simons (Dept. Critical Theory), Abdullah Uhuru, Dave Wills (Dept. Politics)

5.30pm - Presentation on Nottingham Friends of the Iraqi People, and fundraising auction (organised by Islamic Soc)

6pm - What are we going to do about it? (Possible solutions to conflict)
Speakers: Dr M A Fazal (Law, Nottm Trent), Ranjan Chaudhuri, Rob Jackson (SWSS)

East Concourse Lounge
Stalls including: Animal Ethics Society, CND, Demo, Dissent!, Islamic Society, Lenton Anarchist Forum, Nottingham Friends of the Iraqi People, Nottingham Stop the War Coalition, Operation Dove, Peace Brigades International, Free Tibet Society, People & Planet Society, South Asian Peace Society, Student Action for Refugees, and Sudanese Nile Society.

NSPM
- e-mail: sunspm@gwmail.nottingham.ac.uk
- Homepage: http://www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/~nspm

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