12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

- 'TAXES FOR PEACE NOT WAR'

Friday 5th September

9.30am – 12.30pm Sightseeing tours of Manchester (optional)

4 - 6pm Arrival and registration

6 pm DINNER

7.30pm Opening introduction - Robin Brookes

7.45pm Simon Heywood from Peace Tax Seven (UK), and Dan Jenkins from National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (USA) talk about their legal cases

8.30pm Reports from the UK – Conscience and Peace and Security Liaison Group (PSLG)

9pm RETIRE FOR THE EVENING or

'Jargon Busting' session for delegates less familiar with the terms used and the history of war tax resistance and peace tax campaigns.

Saturday 6th September

9am 15 minute reports from national bodies, including:
Netzwerk Friedensteuer (Germany)
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (USA)
Aktif Vredesbelasting (VRAK: Belgium)
Espergærde Gymnasium Model United Nations (presented by Danish Peace Tax Fund)

Skattebetalare för fred  (Sweden)

Plus one other

10.30am COFFEE

11am Talk by Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University Peace Studies Department:
`Towards Sustainable Security: looking ahead to how we can construct a sustainable system of security in the 21st century’

1pm LUNCH

2.30pm Workshop sessions - ‘Approaches’ - choose one:
1) Taxes for Peace Not War - maximizing popular support through a public campaign strategy
2) Effective Nonviolent Direct Action - how war tax resistance, its consequences, and support of resisters varies among countries.
3) Changing the way governments think - PSLG and other approaches
4) Legal routes - international possibilities, Conscience & Peace Tax International Legal Committee

4pm TEA

4.30pm Four new discussion groups.
Questions:
1) War tax resisters and peace tax campaigns: How do the legislative and resistance approaches differ? What is their common ground?
2) How can we work together across international boundaries?

6pm DINNER

7.30pm Party, with surprise entertainment from participants!

Sunday 7th September

9am Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI) general assembly

11am COFFEE

11.30 am Workshop sessions - ‘Methods’ – choose one:
1) Attracting young people to the campaign
2) Comparison of different tax structures & how war tax resisters challenge them; escrow accounts
3) Collecting personal testimonies - Statements of Conscience, World Court Project style
collection of statements
4) Another specific topic yet to be offered, something that crops up during the weekend

1pm conference closing ceremony

1.15pm LUNCH

2.30pm Further discussion for those who don’t have a train/plane to catch.
Question: How shall we cultivate a society ready to accept the changes we are calling for?

4 pm FINISH

SIGHTSEEING TOURS

Tours of Manchester - Friday 5th, Monday 8th

Click here for details about the planned tours on Friday and Monday

- Sehenswertes in Manchester

Derek's 'Foxing' Tour - Monday 8th to Thursday 11th

Derek Brett, CPTI representative in Geneva, is planning a "foxing" expedition immediately after the conference, to visit the historical Quaker sites in North-West England, following the travels of George Fox in the momentous summer of 1652. Although of particular interest to Quakers, this is open to everyone.

The hostel accommodation at the Old School, Yealand Conyers (which adjoins the historic Meeting House and belongs to the Quaker Meeting) has been booked for the four nights of Monday 8th to Thursday 11th September. We will travel north from Manchester by rail on Monday 8th - participants should allow £50 each to buy their own rail tickets for the one way journey
and some shorter trips during the week.

The charge for the week, including accommodation, breakfast and evening meal, and other shared expenses (but NOT the rail fares mentioned above) will be £100 per person. As some of the detailed arrangements will depend on numbers those wishing to guarantee a place for themselves must book by the end of July.

For more details contact Derek Brett on dubrett@talk21.com . Please note that all correspondence and enquiries about this trip should go direct to Derek, NOT to the conference organisers.