Join our next webinar on Thursday 10 July at 19:00pm to hear from our guest speaker Janet Fenton, WILP UK Executive Committee member and International Liaison, to learn about how we can use our feminist lens to challenge the increasingly militarised world.
Janet is is a Scottish Quaker eco-feminist, active on disarmament since she was 13 and part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) since its inception. She spent a decade as Coordinator with Peace & Justice Scotland, and oversaw Scotland’s for Peace there, engaging the new devolved administration in Scotland on peace, along with Scottish Faith groups and Trade Unions. Her background was in issue-based play-wrighting*, community/arts development in Scotland and Ireland. She set up the environmental, arts and social justice resource, the Ever Green Trust, and ran it for many years.
Janet is an active participant in Trident Ploughshares, Scottish CND, and WILPF, and is a director of the Nuclear information Service, and Secretary of the Scottish Parliament Nuclear Disarmament Cross Party Group. As a consultant with the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy (AIDD) she is a member of the ICAN International Steering Group. She is also Organiser with Secure Scotland, a small NGO working in Scotland to challenge the prevailing ideas of security that increase inequality at grassroots, national, transnational and parliamentary levels. She writes briefings and opinion pieces.
*Play-wrighting is a technical term. It is like wheel wrighting, or ship wrighting, about making a show or a drama using impro, scripting and other performance techniques, as opposed to play writing ,which is more of a a literary pursuit.
Zoom details
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81123416024?pwd=1apV9e0sTI1vaafm7ROqSCwBrJNdYP.1
Meeting ID: 811 2341 6024
Passcode: 341872
