Discussion: Non-violence and transport, 13th March

NONVIOLENCE AND TRANSPORT.

Are there aspects of the way our society deals with issues of mobility and transport which are, in practice, violent? For instance, is much motorised traffic inherently violent? Are large-scale transport systems inevitably a violent assault on the ecosystem?

Do ideas of nonviolence suggest ways in which we should have more local self-sufficiency, and so travel a lot less? What role is there for nonviolent direct action in campaigning over transport and mobility?

If  there are aspects of this that you’d particularly like to discuss, feel free to get in touch in advance.

But come and join in, anyway!

The discussions take place from 7pm (until around 9pm) in

Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1.

They are organised by a core group consisting mostly of London-based members of thePeace Pledge Union (the PPU is the main British affiliate of War Resisters’ International); but the meetings are not formally linked to the PPU, the WRI, Housmans, or any other organisation. Indeed, you don’t have to be a committed pacifist or nonviolentist to join in – they are open to anyone interested in pacifism and nonviolence. Numbers attending vary greatly, but the meetings are never too large to be friendly and quite informal.