Events archive

31.10.2005 Worried about climate change? Curious to know more about the global anti-capitalist movement, the Zapatistas and what really happened to Africa at this year’s G8 summit? Then clear your diary between 4 and 13 November and head to the radical fringe of this year’s Leeds International Film Festival for "the ultimate political cinema experience."

28.10.2005 A season of public art, film, music, theatre, poetry and debate is being held in London, 21 October-10 November to mark the 10th anniversary of the executions of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues.

28.10.2005 As part of the International Day of Climate Protest (3 December) midway through the Montreal Climate Talks, demonstrations are planned all around the world. The London demo will pass the ExxonMobil office and the Australian Embassy on the way to the US embassy.

26.10.2005 G8, Can You Hear Us? takes a look inside the global justice movement, following three activists (for the Green Party, Communist Party of Great Britain and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army) as they make their way to Gleneagles to protest against this year's G8 summit. It gets a London preview on 14 November and is on BBC4 the following night.

25.10.2005 It’s just a film about penguins, reports Daniel Nelson, but it's fun, it's amazing, and as well as being a box office hit it could provoke debate about global warming, conservation and a host of other issues.

25.10.2005 Broadcaster Jon Snow looks at the media's double standards on human rights -quick to battle for the right to publish, quick to ride rough-shod over the rights of those least able to defend themselves, London, 10 November.

25.10.2005 Two million properties in England and Wales are already at risk of flooding, and rising sea levels will put more homes at risk. So is building on the flood plain pure folly? Hear a panel's views on what they think should be done to keep us home, and dry, London, 2 November

25.10.2005 Two peace activists were arrested in Whitehall on Tuesday for organising an unauthorised "bell-ringing" remembrance ceremony marking the anniversary this week of the Lancet estimate that 100,000 people have died in Iraq of war-related causes.

21.10.2005 It's One World Week again (23-30 October), which means you have a chance to make promises that will be fulfilled. By 2006, the organisers ask, what difference will you have made in your local community and to yourself – and the world?

18.10.2005 The omens are not all good for a follow-up to Tony Blair's promises on Africa, Lord Holme told a Royal African Society meeting this week.

16.10.2005 Air traffic will be halted if there is a major outbreak of “bird flu”, Laurie Garrett of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations warned in London - and that woul have an immediate impact on Western countries such as Britain.

15.10.2005 It's goodies v baddies in an Eastern Western on the Tibetan plateau, as local volunteers take on the poachers who are driving the Tibetan antelope to extinction.

15.10.2005 A death toll vigil will mark the anniversary of last year's Lancet report - which concluded that there had been at least 100,000 excess Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion - during which a bell will be tolled 100 times. Dress in black. Edith Cavell statue (near Trafalgar Square), 29 October

14.10.2005 Journalist and historian Richard Gott argues that the explosions of popular unrest which have been taking place throughout the Andes in recent years are related to the rise of evangelical religion and a re-awakening of indigenous peoples, London, 26 October.

14.10.2005 A conference to renew anti-Iraq war solidarity will be held in London on 10 December. The aim is "to issue a call for peace that will echo around the world".

13.10.2005 Attend the launch of a book about the aerial spraying of coca crops in Colombia, which argues that the policy is ineffective in halting cultivation and damages the health of thousands of peasants and poisons a biodiversity-rich environment, 27 OCtober.

13.10.2005 Award-winning film-maker Michael Yorke sets off on a pilgrimage across the Himalayas in the company of two Hindu ascetics. His aim is to understand their extraordinary life of devotion and extreme penance, but the journey forces him to confront his own spiritual path. Will he end up on the side of the wise men or the fools? Nehru Centre, 17 October

13.10.2005 McLibel - a documentary that turns a 15-year legal saga into a captivating, funny and disturbing 85 minutes of fly-on-the-wall drama - is one of a number of outstanding films in the London Children's Film Festival, 9-20 November.
* OneWorld Events

08.10.2005 During the days of the G8 summit, London's Soho Theatre worked with South African and British schoolchildren, documenting its impact on their day-to-day lives. These diaries, woven with reports from the summit, are presented in a "thought-provoking and insightful new show", 18-22 October

07.10.2005 Come to a gathering of key players involved in setting up Ministries and Departments of Peace around the world, London, 19 October.