Registration essential, please sign up.
This is a session where we welcome Friends "impelled by strong conviction to break the law [to] search your conscience deeply." (Advices & Queries 35). We also welcome Friends who, for a variety of compelling reasons, want to protest with minimal risk of being arrested.
This session will present research & information from experts on protest legal matters: Netpol, Green and Black Cross and Liberty, on how the law has changed. We will provide space for you to consider the implications, and your personal choices when protesting for peace at the DSEI Arms Fair.
There will be an informational presentation, some time in groups and personal reflection time to consider implications and invite discernment, and some worship sharing.
For neccesary pre-reading please go to
- Netpol - Know Your Rights
- Green and Black Cross - Public Order Act 2023 guide
- Liberty
This session will be run by Friends Helen Drewery and Lyndsay Burtonshaw.
Many thanks to those who joined the Non-Violent Direct Action training sessions with QPSW. Apologies that the session has turned out to not work so well online. For that reason we have decided to instead use this slot on Weds 3rd Sept for this session reflecting on risks and staying safe. The material from the NVDA sessions will be made available to those who had registered, and Lyndsay hopes to offer more in-person sessions in future (after September).
Session trainer
Lyndsay Burtonshaw is the Peace Faith in Action coordinator staff member at Quakers in Britain, focusing on the Quaker peace testimony, Palestine/Israel, and our Quaker commitment to reparations and racial justice. She/they have been part of nonviolent direct action movements since she was a teenager, including at Yarls Wood, with Sisters Uncut, Reclaim the Power, BP or Not BP? At the British Museum, Brighton Reclaim the Night, a Stansted airport migrant justice & anti-deportation action, anti-privatisation occupations, bike trains and Manchester Critical Mass. Read more about Quaker Peace and Social Witness and about Lyndsay.
United Kingdom