Friends walk to celebrate 100 years of NFPB peace witness

Friends will be walking to RAF Menwith Hill to mark one hundred years of peace witness

Friends will be walking to RAF Menwith Hill to mark one hundred years of peace witness.  The walk, from Saturday 29 June to Friday 5 July, is organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB), which was founded in 1913. The walk begins at Richmond Castle, where the ‘Richmond Sixteen’, who were conscientious objectors in the first world war, were imprisoned. It ends at RAF Menwith Hill, on the Noth Yorkshire moors, which the US air force use as an electronic communications base. It, thus, links two significant sites of peace witness that span the first hundred years of the NFPB.

Another forthcoming event to mark the NFPB centenary is a one day conference in York. The conference, which will look at current and future peace priorities, will be held on Saturday 15 June at the Friargate Meeting House. The speakers are Paul Rogers, professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and Hannah Brock, programme worker with War Resisters’ International.

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