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 No Trident Replacement - Yes to a Nuclear Weapons Convention petition
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Use our model email to ask your MP to sign EDM 144 in support of the Nuclear Weapons Convention.
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Add your name to the Global Zero initiative for a nuclear free world.
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CND mourns the loss of founder Michael Foot |
 The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament responded with great sadness to the news that one of its key founders, Michael Foot, has died. Michael helped launch CND at its founding meeting - attended by thousands - at the Central Hall, Westimnster on 17th February 1958.
Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said "Michael Foot's principled position on nuclear disarmament has long been used to explain Labour's defeat in 1983, and justify pro-nuclear policies from the Labour Party leadership. But the 1983 election was not an endorsement of Mrs Thatcher's nuclear policy. We deplore the dirty tricks campaign carried out at that time against Michael, designed to undermine his campaign. Opinion polls show that his views on nuclear disarmament are today shared by the majority of the British electorate across the political spectrum - a fact that our politicians would do well to recognise as they head into a general election. We send our deepest sympathy to Michael's family and friends."
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Blockading Aldermaston nuclear bomb factory |
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On the morning of 15th February, we blockaded the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, where the warheads for Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system are made. Around 800 campaigners attempted to prevent work on the site, blocking every gate with Ghandi-style sit-down protests. Alongside bishops and parliamentarians, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates joined us - Jody Williams, who led the successful campaign to ban land mines, and Mairead Maguire who was recognised for her campaign to end violence in Northern Ireland. [Read more]
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Sign the Rethink Trident statement |
 CND and Compass have brought together a coalition of over 100 leading figures
from across British public life to call for next week's Pre Budget Report to
halt Trident replacement and re-deploy the resources saved to more socially
useful areas.
High-profile signatories fronting the campaign include Air Commodore
Alistair
Mackie; leading politicians Jon Cruddas MP and Caroline Lucas MEP; former members of the MoD ministerial team Peter
Kilfoyle MP and Eric Joyce MP; former Mayor of London Ken
Livingstone; architect Lord Richard Rogers; actors Prunella Scales and
Tony
Robinson; musicians Damon Albarn and Thom Yorke; comedian Mark Steel,
and religious leaders the Bishop of Reading and Cardinal Keith
O'Brien.
You can read the statement and add your name at rethinktrident.org.uk and lobby your MP to sign EDM 380 which bears the same message.
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Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change |
The government's approval of ten sites for new nuclear power stations does nothing to change the fact that nuclear power remains dirty, dangerous and expensive. Watch CND Council member and Leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas MEP explain why below. And read more in our Nuclear Power Q&A and our new briefing on the German government-commissioned research (KiKK study) showing increases in cancer in children under five living near nuclear power stations.
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Times are hard - don't waste our money on nuclear weapons! |
 With the UK facing its biggest economic crisis in decades, there is no case for wasting £76 billion on replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system. The latest poll shows a majority of the population wants Britain to rid itself of nuclear weapons, which have been described by retired generals as ‘useless’. Following serious concerns from across the political spectrum, the Government has now delayed the next stage of the replacement process and is considering reductions in submarines and warheads. This acknowledges that serious steps towards multilateral disarmament may be agreed at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in May, and that there is growing opposition from the public.
Now is the time to ensure there is a thorough rethink of Britain's possession of nuclear weapons. We need your help to prevent these tentative steps being reversed in the aftermath of the General Election. Instead, Trident must be included in the Strategic Defence Review which will begin next spring. The option of scrapping the system must be included in the discussion.
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Kate Hudson's blog
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Michael Foot: setting the record straight
For over two decades, Michael Foot has been
wrongly blamed for the defeat of the Labour Party
in 1983. As one of CND' ...
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