Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre

This week, while protesters in cities around the world are symbolically occupying Wall Street, Indigenous Kuy people in Cambodia are "occupying" the forest that means life itself to them - Prey Lang ("Our Forest").
Right now, Kuy men, women, and children are holding vigils at sites throughout Prey Lang where bulldozers are slashing the forest to build new roads, rubber plantations, and mines. They are beseeching the invaders to stop their destructive activities and preserve this unique primary forest -- one of the last of its kind remaining on the Indochina peninsula.

Border Work : Nogales, Mexico.
Alice Myers is a locally based photographer who studied and photographed the 1500 people who are expelled from the US into Mexico each day, because they have no paper.
Nov 13th to 24 November at Filmhouse cafe. There will be a discussion on the 24th Nov at 8.30pm at the cafe.
http://www.alicemyers.net/index.php?/project/nogales/

Enlightenment Lecture: Population - Can We Begin to Talk Sensibly? Our Changing World lecture by Professor Aubrey Manning
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT)
Please join us for an Enlightenment Lecture: Population - Can we begin to talk sensibly? By Professor Aubrey Manning, zoologist, writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh

The new government in Libya had to deal with a surprisingly tenacious last-ditch resistance by ‘forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi’, with heavy casualties on both sides. As in all wars, the cost in terms of death and destruction is difficult to assess accurately, but it ought to prompt the question of whether it was necessary to have the war at all. And the war in Libya was the result of deliberate choice. It did not have to happen.

The peace pole on the lower terrace behind St John’s Church, Princes Street, outside the Peace and Justice Centre, was the focus of a simple ceremony on Wednesday 21st September at 4 pm.

In 1981 the UN General Assembly established 21st September as World Peace Day, a day to reflect on the possibility of a world where war was no longer a major blight on the human race.