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Workers’ Memorial Day

May 2, 2014 by Hilery

Over 60 peo­ple gath­ered at Edinburgh’s Work­ers Memo­r­i­al Day Tree in Princes Street Gar­dens to com­mem­o­rate Inter­na­tion­al Work­ers’ Memo­r­i­al Day on 28 April 2014. The gath­er­ing mourned all those who have died through work, but in par­tic­u­lar remem­bered the 30th anniver­sary of Bhopal, the 10th anniver­sary of Stock­line, the first … Read more

Peace March and Rally

April 5, 2014 by Hilery

5th April 2014. A damp and dis­mal Sat­ur­day morn­ing, but it did not deter about 40 singers turn­ing up to sup­port the walk­ers on the Spring Walk for Peace at George Square in Glas­gow. Reg­u­lars at Protest in Har­mo­ny were joined by some of the singers from the Glas­gow group; … Read more

Spring Walk for Peace

April 1, 2014 by Hilery

1st April 2014 Send Off for the Spring Walk For Peace organ­ised by Scot­tish CND At least 30 plucky singers turned up out­side the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment to give the Spring Peace Walk a rous­ing send-off. The weath­er was play­ing an April Fool where Spring was con­cerned, it was very wet … Read more

April 5th. March and Rally

March 31, 2014 by Hilery

No ses­sion in Edin­burgh on 5th April 2014, but a trip through to Glas­gow to the Scot­tish CND March and Ral­ly sup­port­ing the Spring Walk for Peace. Please note that there will now not be a ses­sion before­hand due to the tim­ings of the event hav­ing been changed. We will … Read more

Spring News

February 4, 2014 by Hilery

On 5th April there is to be a Peace Walk and Ral­ly in Glas­gow, with a 11.30 start. This clash­es with the April ses­sion and AGM, so we will can­cel the April ses­sion and move the AGM to 10th May. More details of the ral­ly when we have them.

Not Afraid to Look: Solidarity with the people of Gaza

January 27, 2014 by Hilery

On Sat­ur­day 18th Jan­u­ary about 40 mem­bers of PIH sang as part of an inter­na­tion­al link in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Gaza. An excel­lent pho­to­graph­ic exhi­bi­tion; ‘Not Afraid to Look’, was host­ed by Out of the Blue in Lei­th. This dis­played some of the pho­to­graph­ic work of the late … Read more

Celebration: we’re a decade old!

October 28, 2013 by Hilery

Protest in Har­mo­ny is hav­ing a 10th Birth­day par­ty. Where? St John’s Church Hall. When? 23rd. Novem­ber from 7 – 10pm. Bring: your own drinks and fin­ger foods for shar­ing. All wel­come. Buy your tick­ets at the next ses­sion or con­tact the com­mit­tee. It will be a good night!

Stroove 22nd to 24th March 2013

May 1, 2013 by Hilery

This will go down in PIH annals as the Win­ter Won­der­land Stroove. It is a real tes­ta­ment to PIH mem­bers dogged per­se­ver­ance that every­one man­aged to make it either arriv­ing by car, bus or train. Even a major break­down in the mid­dle lane of the A8 did not put peo­ple … Read more

Singing in parliament as New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage

April 17, 2013 by Chris

New Zealand passed a bill allow­ing legal same-sex mar­riage Wednes­day, prompt­ing a jubi­lant cel­e­bra­tion in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. The bill passed with 77 in favour and 44 against, mak­ing New Zealand the first coun­try in the Asia-Pacif­ic region to legal­ize same-sex mar­riage, reports BBC News. As the speak­er read … Read more

Scrap Trident Demonstration 13th April 2013

April 17, 2013 by Hilery

It was an ear­ly start for the choir to arrive at George Square in Glas­gow for the Scrap Tri­dent demo, but we were there in good num­bers to join with our fledg­ling sis­ter choir. It was a well-attend­ed march which had unfor­tu­nate­ly been grant­ed a rather short route. We were … Read more