Activity report for autumn semester 2003

• September 11, In Memory of Anna Lind assassination SNF put up posters at the faculty in the day of her burial to show its solidarity.

• September 30, SNF was co-organizer for a seminar in remembrance of Vanunu, the person who already sat 17 years in prison for disclosing Israel’s nuclear weapons. Randi Roning Balsvik hold the introduction together with Jorgen Johansen. The BBC movie “Israel’s Secret Weapon” was shown after the discussion.

• November 14 and 15, a weekend cottage trip was organized. The purpose was to discuss new strategies of network building and our future activities.

• October 28, Joanna from McMaster University in Canada visited the SNF and described the work and activities of two peace related student groups at her University: The Peace and Conflict Society and the Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War.

• December 1, The “Prisoners for Peace Day” was organized by SNF in our campus. We had an info stand and encouraged people to send support letter to people all over the world who are in prison for non-violent actions for peace. In the afternoon we arranged a debate about Korea’s political prisoners.

• SNF founded together with Centre for Peace Studies and Tromsø International Film Festival the “Fredsfilmprisfondet” which every year will give “The Norwegian Peace Film Award” to one of the nominated films at TIFF. For the first time the prise was given in January 2004, the film “In This World” was the elected winner. SNF member Mari Gakkestad was part of the jury.

• SNF got an office place, the SNF web page has been moved and put to a standard form at the University pages (http://uit.no/snf).