9 August: Annual Pax Christi Nagasaki Vigil, Westminster Cathedral Piazza between 10.00 - 5.00. Prayers at 11.30 and 3.30.
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Annual Pax Christi Nagasaki Vigil
Annual Pax Christi Hiroshima Vigil
6 August: Annual Pax Christi Hiroshima Vigil, Westminster Cathedral Piazza between 10.00 - 5.00. Prayers at 11.30 and 3.30.
Screenings: Bristol CND and CineMe Short Film Evening
CineMe’s ‘Shorts’ monthly evenings provide an opportunity to see a wide range of short films, animations, documentaries and music videos by Bristol film-makers.
Hiroshima Day Commemoration.
Prayers and Lantern Floating at the Nipponzan Myohoji Peace Pagoda, Willen Lake North, Milton Keynes.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vigil
South East Hants Peace Council will be marking Hiroshima/Nagasaki with stall and vigil at Chichester Cathedral grounds 10.30 to 4.30.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vigil
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vigil.
Peace Picnic
Mid morning onwards.
Peace Picnic to mark Hiroshima Day.
CND Cymru Annual Meeting.
All members and delegates of affiliated groups welcome.
at 3pm: Public Meeting: Angie Zelter speaking about the situation on Jeju Island South Korea.
Trident Replacement, Iran & Israel.
Speaker, Peter Burt, Director, Nuclear Information Service.M
Sizewell Camp and demo.
Sizewell is the proposed site for 2 new nuclear reactors as well as a dry storage dump. We have had a weekend camp there in April for the last four years in order to commemorate the disaster at Chernobyl and to show our opposition to new nuclear power. The demonstration takes place on Saturday the 21st at the gates of the power station. Ron Bailey has agreed to speak at the demonstration. He is one of the authors of the corruption of governance report which outlines how Parliament was mislead over nuclear power.
Chernobyl Remembrance: Sunday 22nd, 1pm at the Camp.
The Queen's Peace Party
Come and celebrate the Jubilee with a party for peace and disarmament! Come in fancy dress/posh frocks. Best hat or crown competition. There will be a short service at 1.30pm - secular event starts at 2pm. There is room to park cars but we may be able to run some transport from London if there is a demand. All welcome!
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/320942244645992/
Chain Reaction: do all nuclear programmes stand in the way of nuclear weapons abolition?
Challenges Facing Global Abolition
A Panel Discussion with:
Kate Hudson (General Secretary, CND) Historic links between nuclear
power and nuclear weapons: key current problems and challenges;
Dominique Lalanne (Abolition 2000 Europe) The Anglo-French partnerships: nuclear power and nuclear weapons;
Peter Burt (Nuclear Information Service) Anglo-French nuclear
cooperation: the implications for NATO, for Europe and for global abolition;
Shirin Shafaie (SOAS / CASMII) The current situation in the Middle East and the Arab world.
The 2012 Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture
Applied Global Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds City Council Peace Links Group present:
The 2012 Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture
Security for People - the real alternative to crisis and war
by Professor Richard Jolly
Honorary Professor and Research Associate
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill
Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill: The Strategic Roles and Economic Impact of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire
Yorkshire CND report launch: This is the first report of its kind that investigates the role of Menwith Hill since the European Parliament resolved that the electronic surveillance breached the European Convention of Human Rights in 2001.
30 days of Actions at Faslane
Sat 9th June 2012 will see the beginning of a 30 day campaign of non-violent direct actions against the Faslane Naval Base to commemorate 30 years of nuclear resistance at Faslane Peace Camp.
Nuclear Trains: stall & leafletting
Stall & leafletting near Hackney Central Station protesting against nuclear trains going through the station.
(Stall in Mare Street just north of the station near the exit from the bus garage.) Organised by London CND’s Nuclear Trains’ Action Group.
Nuclear Trains Action Group
London CND Nuclear Trains Action Group: 7pm: monthly planning meeting at CND Office, 162 Holloway Road N7. (Holloway Road tube.)
London CND Public Forum and Council meeting
London CND Public Forum and Council meeting. 7pm: Council meeting; 8pm: Showing of "THE WAR GAME" by Peter Watkins.
Embassies Walk
As part of our preparation for the PrepCom, we hold an (nearly) Annual Embassy Walk in London where we visit nuclear-weapons states embassies and those of the New Agenda Coalition and also Japan.
Join us for coffee at 10am in the Crypt Café and for prayers in the Dick Sheppard Chapel at 10.30am ready for the start of the walk at 11.am.
Easter Monday Liturgy at AWE
Christian CND will hold a Liturgy at Aldermaston. There will be a symbolic digging up of the Alleluia during this event.
Bring daffodil bulbs to plant. Starts at 12noon at West Gate, Tadley Roundabout, processing anti-clockwise around the base. All welcome.