Conscientious Objectors Day Events….

Portsmouth 14 May HMS Nelson gate, Queens Street
12.30pm. Walk and sing for peace to Sallyport, Old Portsmouth. Organised by Southdowns Peace Group, Portsmouth Quaker Meeting and Women in Black. Contact SueAdey@aol.com

Leicester 14 May 12.30 – 13.00 at the memorial to Conscientious Objectors of World War One on Peace Walk
Organised by Leicester CND. Contact: pennywalker@riseup.net – 07414 465695

London 15 May 12 noon Tavistock Sq WC1
Annual ceremony in honour of conscientious objectors past and present.

Edinburgh, 15 May 5.00-6.00 pm, The Mound, EH2 2EL
International Conscientious Objectors’ Day Vigil with singing, readings of poems and the names of COs from across Scotland, as well as contemporary COs from around the world.

6.30pm – 8pm  Opposing War: CO Memorial Design Launch.

Quaker Meeting House Victoria Terrace 7 Victoria Terrace, EH1 2JL Come hear about Kate Ive’s engaging design for a Memorial that will commemorate the resistance of conscientious objectors and all who oppose wars, past, present and future.Norwich 15 May 12.00 noon – 1.00pm Hay Hill in the city centre
An hour-long vigil. Norwich Quakers. Contact: 01603 62194 or joy.croft@tiscali.co.uk.Oxford 15 May. Peace Plaque, Bonn Square.
Noon or 1.00pm. Contact: Nigel Day, oxfordcnd@phonecoop.coop.London 18, 19 and 20 MAY Council Chamber of Deptford Old Town Hall,
Performance of ‘Devils on Horseback – Conscientious Objectors on Trial in Deptford’.
Details and times https://explore.gold/devils-on-horseback