NW NJPN E-Bulletin for September 2023

Basil Watson design for National Windrush Monument, Waterloo

This bulletin highlights the next Networking Day of the National Justice and Peace Network (NJPN) to be held in Birmingham on Saturday 23 September with a focus on the 75th anniversary of Windrush. The guest speaker will be Rev Canon Eve Pitts who will speak of the experiences of people from the Caribbean and the issues of racial justice that we still need to address today. Rev Eve was the first black woman vicar in the Church of England and is a long-standing campaigner for racial justice.

Fifty years after General Pinochet's military coup in Chile, renowned political artist Peter Kennard is re-staging the photomontage he created in response to the violence that ensued. His 1985 exhibition of that work at London's Barbican Arts Centre was subject to censorship at that time because a meeting between Pinochet's financial officials and British bankers was taking place there. Peter is now showing the exhibition in London from 12-23 September - read his chilling account, and a link is given in the newsletter to click on the images. But do go to see them if you can.

There are many events in the J&P Calendar taking place nationally and across the NW in the coming weeks. It is currently the Week of Prayer for Palestine and Israel and the Catholic Days of Nonviolence start on 21 September.

Linking into the Season of Creation, Lancaster Diocese Faith and Justice Commission is hosting a Care for Creation event on Saturday 7 October.

And there is exciting news that Manchester University has appointed the first-ever Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics in the UK and the wider English-speaking world.

Schools' news feature the latest Columban Media Competition 2023-2024 on the theme 'Biodiversity Matters' plus a conference in Liverpool on 13 October run by Catholic Education Service (CES), Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).

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