Upcoming events: WRI Seminar and Council 2007 in Israel // Shut Down DSEi 11TH SEPTEMBER 2007 // DESO closing party! // Keep Space for Peace week
WRI Seminar and Council 2007 in Israel
The annual WRI seminar and Council meeting will take place in Israel in 2007,from 23-26 August. The theme of the seminar will be on militarism and gender.
The Gender and Militarism Seminar will bring together activists and academics from all over the world to study the mutual connections between militarism and gender. The seminar is organised by War Resisters' International together with the Israeli feminist antimilitarist movement New Profile, and will be followed by the annual meeting of the WRI International Council. Topics to be discussed at the seminar include: Gender and the militarization of culture around the world, Willingness to serve and masculinity, Mothers for peace and mothers for war, Sexist public discourse in Israel during the 2nd Lebanon War, Militarised masculinities and femininities, Redefining and demilitarising economic priorities, The concept of security, Militarism and homophobia, Gender, sexuality and military service, Sexual harassments of women in the military, Human rights in the military and the antimilitarist response, Domestic violence after military service, Rape - weapon of war and tool of hate propaganda, Gender in nonviolence training, Gender in the refusal movement, The Palestinian feminist movement, Taking gender analysis serious in our movement work, and many others.
The seminar will also see the first presentation of WRI's upcoming worldwide anthology of women's conscientious objection.
Please contact the WRI Office if you are interested in participating, and want to be kept informed.
More information is available on the WRI website.
Shut Down DSEi 11TH SEPTEMBER 2007
ONE DAY – MANY ACTIONS
Blockade? Party? March? Infiltrate? Invade? Picket? Clown? Dance? Light candles? Lock on? Vigil? Disrupt?
YOU DECIDE!
From 11-14 September, DSEi (Defence Systems Equipment International), the world's largest arms fair, returns to East London's ExCeL Centre.
DESO closing party!
- When: Wednesday 22nd August, from 6.30pm
- Where: The Queen Boadicea Pub, 292-294 St John Street, EC1V 4PA (www.thequeenboadicea.com)
- What: CAAT has hired a lovely function room. Buffet food will be provided and there will be a pay bar.
Please RSVP if you can so we have an idea of how much food to provide.
Keep Space for Peace week
October 4 to 13, 2007
International week of protest to stop the militarisation of space
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