In recent years the world has witnessed violence on a horrific scale. The attacks in New York and the consequent bombing of Afghanistan. The invasion of Iraq and the ongoing disaster. Suicide bombings in London and abroad. And the violence on the Israeli Lebanese border.

The world has also seen the rise of a global peace movement.

How many people must live beneath the world's conflicts? How many lives are touched by the loss of one life? How many civilians must have died because international diplomacy failed, or was forgone?

What's more in the UK, law upon law is having a serious effect by eroding the right to protest and strengthening the power of the state from the introduction of ID cards to detention without trial.

Eastbourne For Peace & Liberty is committed to raising these issues locally and making sure Eastbourne is part of national protests to oppose these actions.

Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty website