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.

Edinburgh peace activist Janet Fenton was among 170 international peace activists from 17 countries who today entered the NATO North European Aerospace Test range in the north of Sweden in a massive act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

A total of 201 people took part in the action, which aimed to expose the hidden role of the massive test range in war preparation, including the testing of new military equipment such as drones, missiles and fighter planes.

An SNP spokesperson has told Scotland on Sundaythat the new Scottish Government will move an early resolution calling on the UK to remove Trident, Please see our open letter of appreciation to the First Minister.

23rd May 2011
Dear Alex Salmond
We are writing on behalf of the Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre to express our
appreciation and support on learning of the SNP proposal to call for the Trident nuclear submarine
weapons system to be removed from Scotland.
A firm request in answer to Liam Fox's statement on Trident replacement, following the

Please ask your MP to sign Early Motion 1624
asking the Government to raise Bradley Manning's case with the US.
Contact your MP at www.writetothem.com

Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old US army private accused of leaking information to WikiLeaks, has been held in harsh detention conditions since July 2010. He is a pre-trial detainee who has been charged, but not convicted of any offence. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence. Amnesty International is concerned that his conditions of detention are unnecessarily severe and amount to inhumane treatment by the US authorities.

The Disarm Now Plowshares activists who entered a U.S. Navy Trident nuclear submarine base and nuclear weapons storage depot will be sentenced on Monday, March 28, at the Tacoma Courthouse, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Supporters of the Disarm Now Plowshares will vigil in front of the Tacoma Union Station Courthouse on the 28th and supporters in Scotland are invited to gather for a vigil at 5.00pm outside the High Court in the Lawnmarket Edinburgh.

Multiple news reports and videos are now confirming that a huge explosion has occurred at Fukushima Dai-ichi Unit 1 with a highly energetic explosion and immense cloud. Other sources are reporting that the walls and roof of the Unit 1 reactor building of the six unit site are completely gone, only portions of the steel superstructure remain. Japanese nuclear officials say the reports are under investigation.