NEW - CHOMSKY TRIBUTE WEBSITE & EVENTS

Noted critic of US foreign policy Noam Chomsky will be 80 on 7 December 2008. JNV has supported the setting up of a Chomsky tribute website and is supporting or participating in a number of events. Please register your appreciation of Chomsky's contributions here.

Chomsky Event: London. Celebrating Chomsky. 7.30pm. Monday 1 December. Speakers include: Gabriel Carlyle (Voices in the Wilderness UK), Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper), Jonathan Steele (Guardian), Mel Alfonso (Solidarity Not Charity), Mel Evans (Climate campaigner), and Milan Rai (Peace News/JNV). Artworkers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT. Free, but please reserve your seat.

Chomsky Conference: Manchester. Chomsky@80. Saturday 29 November. Speakers include: Andy Bowman, David Miller (Strathclyde University), Leo Murray (Plane Stupid), Milan Rai (JNV/Peace News). Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester. £5 unwaged/£10 waged. More details here.

Chomsky Conference: Newcastle. Twenty Years at the Margins: The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model and Critical Media and Communication Studies, 1988-2008. 9.30am - 5pm, Friday 19 December 2008. Speakers include: James Curran, Alison Edgley, David Miller, Peter Wilkin and Milan Rai. Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. £20/£10 students. Email the organiser.

NEW JNV DOCUMENT - NAMING THE DEAD OF AFGHANISTAN

On 7 October, Justice Not Vengeance and Voices in the Wilderness UK organised a remembrance ceremony to mark the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. Maya Anne Evans and others stood opposite Downing Street for seven hours reading the names of the 120 British soldiers and the names of hundreds of Afghan civilians who have died in the conflict. The lists of names can be found here.

NEW JNV DOCUMENT - SUBMISSION

Milan Rai gave written evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to Policing and Protest. The uncorrected transcript of his oral evidence to the Committee on 21 October can be found here.

LATEST JNV BRIEFING

THREATS AND LIES: Iran Update -US Military Threats Continue as British 'Seized Sailors' Lies Unravel. (2 May 2008) - available here.

IRAN

On 21 August 2007, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency reached a breakthrough agreement designed to clear up questions about Iran's nuclear programme - by December 2007. The US and the EU are demonstrating hostility, and trying to undermine this agreement.

More about Iran here.

IRAN - Drawing Paradise on the Axis of Evil exhibition

This JNV exhibition of prints by Emily Johns has been travelling the country over the last two years. The exhibition is about Britain's relationship with Iran over the last century. It is a beautiful and useful resource for gaining an understanding of a country that has been and will continue to be a target of Britain's foreign policy. PDF of catalogue of the exhibition with essay by Milan Rai on Iran's nuclear programme above. Contact JNV (0845 458 9571) to use this exhibition either in a framed form or as posters.

Materials

JNV badges and other campaigning materials here.

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