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We’re listing event details as they become available. But to find more about events that may be happening in your area, contact the event organizer nearest you.

INTERNATIONAL
European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO)
Contact: Alexia Tsouni

International Peace Bureau
Contact: Colin Archer

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Event details: possible event at UN in NYC
Contact: Michael Christ

War Resisters International
Contact: Javier Garate

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Contact: Beatrice Fihn

ARGENTINA

Buenos Aires
ICW Global, Int. Community of Women Living with Aids
Event details: April 17 Press Release to mark GDAMS
Contact: Patricia Perez

AUSTRALIA

Brisbane
Just Peace Qld
Event details: KING GEORGE SQUARE, 11-1PM
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
PETER ARNDT- CATHOLIC JUSTICE AND PEACE COMMISSION
WENDY FLANNERY- BELIEVING WOMEN FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE
KIM STEWART-FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
MIKE HENRY-JUST PEACE QLD
DANIELLE VILLIUNAS-MEDICAL ASSN FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR
ANDREW DETTMER-AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS UNION
Our message for Australia is simple: We must begin to reign in the $25 billion annual purposeless military spending spree and redirect these resources to urgent priorities, including health; education; environmental,
food and water security; and national resilience.
Endorsed and supported by: WILPF, MAPW, CPJC and RPND
More info available at: www.justpeaceqld.org
Contact: Annette Brownlie

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Australia)
Contact: Ruth Russell

Melbourne
Event details: We wish to invite you to join us on a short protest rally on Monday, 16th of April 2012. April 16 marks the start of a 12- day joint Military exercises in various parts of the Philippines. Lead by the US, these exercises will involve Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea. It will cover the main Islands of Luzon and Mindanao.
A big increase of US troops in the Philippines of up to more than 4,000 is starting to arrive and a big number is expected to stay even after the exercises.
This activity is also in line with the planned activities in Sydney and Brisbane highlighting and opposing Military Spending.
We will assemble at Federation Square at 5.30 pm. go to the US consulate via tram and stay there for about 20 to 30 minutes then back to Federation Square.
Contact: Annette Brownlie

Sydney

Australian Anti-Bases Campaign
Contact: Denis Doherty
Event details: The AABC and its network will launch a campaign “against Australia’s
role in the escalation of US military presence/activities in the
Indo-Pacific, particularly our nation’s intention to host US Marines in
our northern city of Darwin”- New South Wales Parliament House, Australia

BANGLADESH

Dhaka

Central Ganounnayan Sangstha
Event details: discussion with members of parliament (including the Deputy Speaker), street theater and songs, public demonstration, human chain, university seminar
Contact: Fakir Asaduzzaman

Changemaker
Event details: Discussion with Bangladeshi parliamentarians and journalists. Roundtable
& press conference.
Contact: Syed Tamjid ur Rahman

BELGIUM
Brussels
Mouvement Chrétien Pour la Paix
Contact: Carla Goffi

BRAZIL

João Pessoa
Contact: Caio Martino

CANADA

National
Rideau Institute/L’Institut Rideau
Contact: Steven Staples

Toronto, ON
Contact: M. Spencer

Halifax, NS
Halifax Peace Coalition/Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
Event details:Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Halifax Public Library, Spring Garden Library, Halifax Organized by the
Halifax Peace Coalition and the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace to
raise awareness about the $1.6 trillion spent globally on war and weapons.
In Nova Scotia we will call attention to the federal government planning to
spend $29 billion on Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters and $25 billion
on Irving warships.
Contact: Tamara Lorincz

CAMEROON

Yaoundé
NDH (Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme)
Event details: Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme Camerounwill organise a debate with parliamentarians in order to spread the idea that there is a need for new priorities in budget appropriations.
Contact: Cyrille Rolande Béchon

COLOMBIA

Cartagena
People’s Summit of the Americas
Event details: This coming April, in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, thirty-four heads of state, including President Obama, will get together again in the VI Americas Summit. This time, social movements from across the entire region have called for a People’s Summit, from April 12-14, also in Cartagena “to debate and build, with our sisters and brothers in the Americas, a joint position on the hemispheric relations and the role of US policy, submit our requests to our governments, demand that in the VI Summit our positions are debated and denounce Washington’s militaristic policy.”

The social movements want to use this opportunity for demanding demilitarization of the continent — to close military bases, dismantle the Fourth Fleet, call off joint military exercises, and end for good militarization in the name of the war on drugs, which every year takes thousands of lives, particularly in Mexico and Central America, replacing it with a multilateral, integral policy with emphasis on public health measures.

Participants at the Cartagena People’s Summit will have the opportunity to participate in conferences, workshops, and art-based non-violent actions.

Contact: Susana Pimiento

COSTA RICA

Event details: Commemoration of GDAMS by former president, 1987 Nobel Laureate Óscar Arias. See the video here!

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Kinshasa
Solidarity with the Victims and for the Peace/ Solidarité avec les Victimes et pour la Paix-SOVIP
Contact: François Elung

DENMARK

Esberg
Esberg Peacemovement
Contact: Lisbet Skou

ECUADOR

Quito
Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ)
Contact: presidencia@serpaj.org.ec

FINLAND

Helsinki
Peace Union of Finland
Event details: Political debate on military spending, hosted with Committee of 100.
Contact: Laura Lodenius

FRANCE

Caen
Mouvement de la Paix
Contact: Claude Reulland

Calvados
Mouvement de la paix
Event details: petition, leaflet, march
More info: http://demilitarize.org/calvados-events-en-francais
Contact: Claude Reulland

Lyon
Mouvement pour une Alternative Non Violente (MAN)
Event details: Rue de la République from 5.30pm to 6.30pm: street actions to raise awareness about military spending. Information about MAN new campaign to abolish French nuclear weapons (+ petition).
Contact: Yvette Bailly

Nancy
Mouvement pour une Alternative Non-violente (MAN)/OXFAM/Mouvement de l’Objection de Conscience
Event details: Saturday, April 21 at placette St Sébastien, from 3.00pm to 4.00pm, we will have a street action to raise awareness on arms trade issues. More info at http://www.nonviolence.fr
Contact: Patricia Cartigny

Sables D’Olonne
Mouvement pour une Alternative Non Violente (MAN)
Event details: Distribution of information about military spending and french nuclear weapons. Petitions to abolish nuclear weapons.
Contact: manvendee@gmail.com

GERMANY

Berlin
DFG-VK
IALANA Germany
Naturwissenschaftlerinitiative für den Frieden
Contact: Reiner Braun

Cologne
Netzwerk Friedenssteuer
Contact: Hannelore Morgenstern

GREECE

Athens
EBCO
Contact: Alexia Tsouni

GUATEMALA

Guatemala City
Grupo Apoyo Mutual
Event details: A Press conference to discuss how to control military spending.
Contact: Mario Polanco

INDIA

Dobari Kota, Rajasthan
Rural Development and Youth Training Institute
Contact: Jambu Kumar Jain

Kerala
Contact: Madasamy M.
Event details: Mass rally and seminar

New Delhi

Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network/Control Arms Foundation of India
Event details: Rally and banner display in New Delhi.
Contact: Binalakshmi Nepram

INDONESIA

Jakarta
debtWATCH Indonesia
Contact: Arimbi

IRELAND

Dublin
PANA
Contact: Roger Cole

ISRAEL

Jerusalem
New Profile
Contact: Ruth Hiller

American Friends Service Committee
Contact: Sahar

Italy

Florence
Nonviolent Forge
Event details: A march on worker’s day, 1 May, to declare that worker’s rights amidst economic crisis and government austerity are tied in with continued military spending.
Contact: Alberto L’Abate

Rome

U.S. Citizen’s for Peace and Justice (Rome)/Rete NoWar
Event details: Activists, both Italians and Americans, will hold a sit-in outside the Colosseum with posters and flyers calling on governments to redirect arms spending to social needs.
Contact: Patrick Boylan

JAPAN

Okinawa

Henoko Tent Village
Contact: Mr. Ashitomi

Takae
Contact: Masami mel Kawamura

Futenmma MCAS
Contact: Masami mel Kawamura
Sunabe
Contact: Masami mel Kawamura

Tokyo

Japan Catholic Council for Justice and Peace
Contact: Hiruma Noriko

Peace Boat
Contact: Akira Kawasaki

KENYA

Nairobi

Bunge La Mwananchi/Unga Revolution
Contact: Cidi Otieno

LEBANON

Beirut
American University Peace and Human Rights Club
Contact: Talal Naboulsi

MALAYSIA

Kuala Lumpur
SUARAM (Suara Rakyat Malaysia)
Contact: Kua Kia Soong
Event details: Media event, forum and film-showing

MEXICO

Oaxaca
Independent Organizer
Contact: Gustavo Esteva Oliver Froehling

NEW ZEALAND

National
Peace Movement Aotearoa
More info: http://www.facebook.com/PeaceMovementAotearoa
Contact: Edwina Hughes

Auckland

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)/Pax Christi/Peace Movement Aotearoa
Tuesday, 17 April – Leafletting for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, join us from 4.30pm to 5.30pm at Britomart (on the western, Downtown side near the Quay Street corner). If you can help, or for more information, please contact WILPF, wilpf@xtra.co.nz RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/148736941922646

Tauranga

Event details: Monday, 16 April – Global Day of Action on Military Spending supporters will be outside Cafe Bravo, in Red Square (corner Willow Street and Spring Street), from 11am until 2pm with Global Day of Action leaflets and posters, and White Poppies for Peace. RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/271358749618081

Wellington

Tuesday, 17 April – Leafletting for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, join us from 12.30pm to 1.30pm at Midland Park (corner Johnston Street and Lambton Quay). If you can help, or for more information, please contact Peace Movement Aotearoa, pma@xtra.co.nz RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/369179103125867

Tuesday, 17 April – Public forum on government spending priorities, join us for a discussion on: * Children’s health and wellbeing, speaker Dr Anne Else, Child Poverty Action Group * Overseas development assistance, speaker Tara D’Sousa, International Programmes Manager, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand * Military expenditure, speaker Edwina Hughes, Peace Movement Aotearoa.
From 5.30pm to 7pm, light refreshments at 5.15pm, First floor conference room, St Andrew’s on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace (entry via the pathway on the north side of the church). For more information, contact Peace Movement Aotearoa, pma@xtra.co.nz RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/361823690522947 An A4 poster for this event is available at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/gdams12forum.pdf

NORWAY

Oslo
Norwegian Peace Council
Contact: Barbara Trojanowska
Event details: Check out this video!
The programme of the event consists of two parts:
1. Action in front of the parliament
2. Panel debate in the Peace House.
To make our action more visible we have prepared a short film promoting the event and inviting people to join us this special day. Inspiration for us was the film “Bite the bullet” made by Australian activists. We are planning to organize a “peace village” where each organization will have a stand presenting its activities and ideas of GDAMS. Our aim is to show disparities between military spending and budgets destined for other public needs such as health care, education or environmental protection. Our partners focus on different topics and this is perfect occasion to show our issues in relation to military spending. We would like to organize an action involving a big number of people which will show that the difference between military spending and the rest of the budgets is so huge. We also plan to have maximum three short appeals explaining the idea behind GDAMS. We will provide info brochures with numbers, facts and details about panel debate which is going to be held the same day in the evening. We will distribute leaflets with Norwegian money notes and passersby can decide how they want to spend their money. They can symbolically “donate” the money to different purposes such as health care, education, environmental issues, etc.

Norwegian Peace Association
Contact: Alexander Harang
Event details: We plan to make a visualisation of global military expenditure in front of the parliament, having stands with the speak out campaign ICAN, and other organisations and campaigns speaking out on the need for disarmament for development.In the evening we will have a public debate at our new Peace house (Fredshuset) discussing the major military import of our times: JSF. We´ll have a panel with the MoD, two parliamentarians and a defence analytic represented, in addition to voices from the peace movement. We´ll also launch a new report on military spending and global arms flows at this meeting.

PAKISTAN

Karachi

Pakistan Peace Coalition
Contact: Abdul H Nayyar

PHILIPPINES

Manila

Independent Organizer
Event details: public rally/march outside US embassy
Contact: Corazon Valdez-Fabros

SCOTLAND

Edinburgh

Stop the War
Contact: Pete Cannell Jane Talents

Edinburgh Campaign Against the Arms Trade
Contact: caatedinburgh@live.com
Event details: Edinburgh CAAT plans an action outside Holyrood.

SIERRA LEONE

Freetown

Youth Partnership for Peace and Development
Contact: Musa Ansumana Soko
Event details: Media roundtable

SOUTH AFRICA

Johannesburg

Ceasefire Campaign
Event details: The Ceasefire Campaign will be holding a public meeting in Johannesburg on 17th April to take a stand against military spending. The particular emphasis of the meeting will be on the massive arms deal, which was entered into by the South African government in the late 1990s, which gave rise to extensive corruption and which we are still paying off at the cost of efforts to address the real issues of human security in South Africa.
Date: 17 April 2012, Tuesday
Venue: The Ceasefire Campaign Office, 53 Juta Street, Braamfontein
Time: 11:45 am for 12 noon
More information available at http://www.ceasefire.org.za
Contact: Rob Thomson

SOUTH KOREA

Seoul

PSPD
Ecent details: In Korea, 30 peace organizations are planning a campaign on GDAMS.
We’re focusing on two message; ‘welfare, not warfare’, and ‘save jeju island’.
We’ll hold a press conference in front of the ministry of defense and a dancing campaign in a college students area.
Contact: Park Jeong Eun, peace@pspd.org

Women Making Peace
Contact: Gyung-Lan Jung

SPAIN

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