FREEDOM TO OFFEND? WHERE DO HUMAN RIGHTS CONFLICT WITH RELIGIOUS RIGHTS?

DEBATE AND DISCUSSION FREE Entry (Though donations welcome) Pheonix Social Enterprise, 5 Russell Town Avenue, Lawrence Hill, Bristol More info and book your places: freedoms.eventbrite.co.uk Or email info@salaamshalom.org.uk https://www.facebook.com/events/511828465648439/

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Ways Forward: Discussion with Dr Richard Stone- [Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]

“Still pursuing the agenda of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry…” Bristol community anti-racist groups invite you to a discussion with Dr Richard Stone on ways forward, led by a reading from his recently published book of “Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry” Monday 15th July 2013 18:00-20:00 The City Academy,…

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Creative Dialogue: Residential

          Click here to listen to a selection of performances and poetry written by young people, recorded at Ammerdown in March 2013 Salaam Shalom and Ammerdown’s creative dialogue residential took a group of young people out of the city, into rural Somerset for four days in…

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Women and Power: The role we play in bringing about positive social change

  Women & Power: The Role We Play in Bringing about Social Change In October 2012, Salaam Shalom welcomed to Bristol two speakers from the Middle East, Malaka Samara from Palestine and Leeba Gilad from Israel. Both speakers represented OneVoice, an international grassroots movement that aims to ‘amplify the voice…

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Podcast 22: Urgent Actions and Dangerous Dynamics

Yahav Zohar, an Israeli activist from Jerusalem, came into the Radio Salaam Shalom studio to tell us about the actions he takes to help bring about an end to the occupation.

Yahav Zohar goes on demonstrations against the separation fence and land appropriations, volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights accompanying farmers to land which settlers would not let them farm, gives political tours with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and is a member of the Jerusalem-Ramallah group of Combatants for Peace, a joint Palestinian Israeli political-activist group working both within the societies and directly against the occupation.

He came to tell us of the dangerous dynamic in Israel and the urgency of political action.