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<div><strong>Peace not War (PnW) hosting</strong> a<strong>ctivist group networking and outreach + music & film</strong> </div>
<div><strong>Wed 25th November at Passing Clouds, Dalston Hackney</strong></div>
<div> <br>One the night there will be various groups including a CRD presentation, circle discussion and debate, plus fliers about democracy cells at the local level and how to do it. Aswell as other groups there will also be non-activists, plus all sorts of performance and film. PC is a truly lovely venue, as anyone knows who's been so please spread the word. </div>
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<div>Also, fyi last night we had a good planning meeting about a real democracy event for Feb / March, and a follow on direct action campaign around the general election. So, come April / May / June, is anyone for picnics and music at town halls across London / further afield? Or even,er... a democracy rush..?! </div>
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<div>About the 25th, pls could PnW send details so I can promote on Facebook. Also please let me know when the site is updated with info about gig so I can put it around as a link. </div>
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<div>Also, any volunteers for helping out on the night please email as per Rob's mail below. You can put me down for a spell on the door or making tea before or after the CRD bit. </div>
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<div>Finally any news on the accessibility / decisions about downstairs or up? Width of doorways for chairs downstairs would presumably be useful. </div>
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<div>Hope to see you all there</div>
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<div>Mark <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/3 Rob - <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rub@peace.fm">rub@peace.fm</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://peace.fm/" target="_blank">PEACE.FM</a> volume 3, Passing Clouds, 25th of November, Archie is organising the music section (9.30pm on, gig is free before this time, people coming for late drinking/music will have a cover charge as a fundraiser for Holly's choice this time, solaraid, with regard to copenhagen coming and <a href="http://peace.fm/" target="_blank">peace.fm</a>'s stated objective of forging links with and unifying the eco/peace movement)... so that's <a href="mailto:Archie@peace.fm" target="_blank">Archie@peace.fm</a>, also if you are interested in tea not war ladies, music programming... Josef, united diversity, you all know, will be running the "activist section" (some people prefer to call it "films"), so groups proposing discussions or screenings want to email Josef@peace.fm... people interested in preliminary debate about what sort of things you would like to hear discussed or said at such a forum would do well to speak to magik dave (<a href="mailto:Dave@peace.fm" target="_blank">Dave@peace.fm</a>) as well as josef and archie and all of us of course... wednesday 25th... we can start at 6pm if there is a genuine desire to... license till one, show end, with option for private meeting/debates after, lock in like, as long as noone's silly, <a href="http://xxx.rub.fm/" target="_blank">xxx.rub.fm</a><br>
<br>Music <a href="mailto:Archie@peace.fm" target="_blank">Archie@peace.fm</a> 9.30-1am<br>Films/Activism <a href="mailto:Josef@peace.fm" target="_blank">Josef@peace.fm</a><br>Debate <a href="mailto:Dave@peace.fm" target="_blank">Dave@peace.fm</a><br>
<br>there's a rumour that da100thMonkey got an exclusive Yap edit coming, T.B.C.<br><br>and holly's volunteer request sheet went (ctrl v)<br><br>
<div>DOOR (2 hours each, 3 people);</div>
<div>BAR (2 hours each, 3 people);</div>
<div>SOUND AND MUSIC PROGRAMMING (9.30 - 1AM); rob and archie and perhaps caro on sound for a bit? </div>
<div>FILMS (7-9.30); josef? baraka?</div>
<div>MERCHENDISE (2 hrs, 3 ppl);<br><br> </div>
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<div><b>THEY MAKE A DESERT AND CALL IT PEACE</b></div>
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<div>I am usually suspicious of claims that understanding the history of the ancient world helps you to understand the history of our own. When people tell me that antiquity was so like today, I tend to object that it was very different in almost every respect. But two of the topics in Roman history that I teach have come to seem almost uncomfortably topical — and raw.</div>
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<div>The first is the whole theme of “native” resistance to the Roman Empire. If you didn’t have the military resources, how could you stand up against the ancient world’s only superpower? Between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, Rome extended its control over the world from the Sahara to Scotland. As with most empires, it was not without advantages for at least some of the conquered. I’m not just talking about consumer goods, literacy, water and drains (which didn’t impact on as much of the Roman world as we often imagine). Rome’s imperial strategy was first to incorporate the local elites and then spread citizenship, with all its advantages, throughout its territory. It was generosity, even if sprung from self-interest.That said, what could you do if you didn’t fancy being taken over by Rome ? The Roman legions represented an insuperable military force. They might occasionally be delayed but, while their power was at its height, they could not be defeated. Barbarians were not stupid. They did not waste their men’s lives in formal battle lines against the superpower. Instead, they did what the disadvantaged will always do against overwhelming military odds: they ignored the rules of war and resorted to guerrilla tactics, trickery and terrorism.</div>
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<div>Much of this was ghastly and cruel. Our image of plucky little Asterix with his Boy Scout-like japes against the Roman occupation is about as true to life as a cartoon strip would be that made suicide bombing seem like fun. Boudicca’s scythed chariots (if they existed) were the ancient equivalent of car bombs. In terrorising the occupying forces, she was said to have had the breasts slashed off the Roman civilian women and sewn into their mouths. Roman writers were outraged at barbarians’ tactics in war, decried their illegal weapons and their flouting of military law (“terrorist” sometimes captures the Roman sense of the Latin word barbarus better than the more obvious “barbarian”). But in the face of invincible imperialism, they must have felt they were using the only option they had. Does it sound familiar?</div>
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<div>My second teaching topic is the account by the Roman historian Tacitus of the career of his father-in-law, Agricola, who was governor of Britain in the late 1st century and extended Roman power north into Scotland. On one occasion, the barbarians were foolish enough to risk a pitched battle — and, just before it, Tacitus puts into the mouth of the British leader, Calgacus, a rousing speech denouncing not only Roman rule but the corruption of language that follows imperial domination. Slaughter and robbery go under the name of “power”. And, in a now famous phrase, he says: “They make a desert and call it peace.” This is often treated, and quoted, as a barbarian denunciation of Roman rule. It is nothing of the sort. No real words of Calgacus or of any British “barbarians” have survived. As with many imperial powers, the most acute critiques often came from within the Roman system. This is an analysis by Tacitus himself, a leading member of the Roman elite, observing the consequences of Roman expansion and daring to put himself into the place of the conquered. As such, it makes an even more appropriate message for us. Whatever forms our “deserts” take — whether it is the poppy fields of Afghanistan or the ruins that will be left of Beirut when Israel and Hezbollah (and our own culpable inactivity) have finished — we are still making them and calling them “peace”.</div>
<div><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6896091.ece" target="_blank">http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6896091.ece</a></div>
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