Past events (46)
Demonstration and Candle-lit Vigil at South Korean Embassy
Demonstration and Candle-lit Vigil in Solidarity with Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island, South Korea
9th May
2-5pm
Outside the Republic of Korea Embassy
60 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ
Please come and join the demonstration outside the South Korean Embassy and demand a halt to the building of a naval base that will be used by the US in their attempt to surround and control China. The villagers of Gangjeong are resisting the destruction of their beautiful,
fragile, coastal environment and sacred places - they want Jeju to remain an Island of Peace and to prevent this military base from being built.
The villagers need the strong and visible support of the international community.
Please bring supporters, banners, songs, instruments and protest letters to hand in to the Embassy.
For more information please contact Angie Zelter on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on 078 3535 4652
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Commemorating Upper Heyford Peace Camp and Campaigning against the Replacement for Trident
Monday 7th May
From 11 am at the site of the Upper Heyford Peace Camp
30 years after the Peace Camp was established on the Portway bridleway, activists will commemorate the camp and the Upper Heyford Peace Blockade at which 752 people were arrested.
If you were in any way involved back in 1982-83 please join us from 11 am when we will meet at the site of the peace camp on Camp Road (at the junction with Kirtlington Road on the outskirts of Upper Heyford village).
12 noon: Upper Heyford Village Community Centre: lunch and talk about the old peace camp and current CND campaigning. We will be joined by Kate Hudson, General Secretary CND, and Annie Tunnicliffe - the camp's best supporter.
Please bring food to share, photos and memorabilia (for a display board at the Community Centre) plus a stone for a peace cairn at the site of the old peace camp.
2:15pm: Optional guided tour of the base - English Heritage listed buildings including the hangars, weapons store and nuclear command centre. The tour will start at 2:15pm at the main gate and last approximately two hours. Numbers are limited to 25 seats to be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please note the tour is entirely optional and may not be suitable for young children.
Cost £10
Anyone not going on the tour of the base can stay at the Community Centre or go for a walk around the perimeter of the base.
If you plan to attend any or all of the day's activities, please RSVP to Kim Bewdley with your name and address at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Public meeting: Trident Replacement; Iran & Israel
Public meeting: Trident Replacement; Iran & Israel
Saturday 28th April
2-3:30pm
Speaker: Peter Burt, Director, Nuclear Information Service
Friends of the Earth
54 Allison St, Digbeth
Birmingham B5 5TH
All Welcome
Meeting organised by West Midlands CND
54 Allison Street, Birmingham B5 5TH
Tel. 0121 643 4617 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Vigil in Support of Jeju Island
Tuesday March 13th
Vigil in support of Jeju Island outside the Korean Embassy from 10am - 6pm.
60 Buckingham Gate
Westminster
London
SW1E 6AJ
Phone contact for the vigil: 0779151627
There has been ongoing nonviolent direct action at the naval base construction site on Jeju Island, Korea. On Friday 9th March around 30 people broke through the fence surrounding the construction site where blasting of the sacred Gureombi rocks has already begun. The group included many Catholic priests as well as UK Trident Ploughshares activist Angie Zelter.
The USA is backing the Korean Navy in building this naval base because they want to use it to berth their Aegis missile defence ships and nuclear aircraft carriers to form a ring of American bases around China. The people of Jeju Island which is known as the "Peace Island" do not want to be part of this military escalation.
Sizewell Camp 2012
Skill Share, Networking and Protest
Power for the People - Not Profits for the Few
Friday 20th – Monday 23rd April 2012
Spend a weekend camping on the beach at Sizewell and learning about the plans for the new nuclear power station. Come show your opposition to nuclear power, and your support for sustainable energy solutions. The weekend includes a protest at the power station entrance, skill-shares and other workshops, woodland and beach walks. Now is the time to take action against nuclear new build – come join us to say ‘Nuclear power – No thanks!’
The Camp
Friday 20th - Monday 23rd April
Demonstration: Saturday 21st April, 12noon at the entrance to Sizewell A and B
Workshops and Walks
Saturday and Sunday, at the Camp
A number of workshops including: basic nuclear physics, a discussion on controversies around nuclear power, alternative energy supplies, and walks along the beach.
Chernobyl Remembrance
Sunday 22nd April, 1pm at the Camp
Getting There
Sizewell is on the Suffolk Coast, about 8 miles from the A12 and about 100 miles from central London. The nearest train station is Saxmundham, which is 7 miles from Sizewell.
Get in touch if you will need transport from the train station.
The postcode for the power station is IP16 4UE.
Please let us know if you are planning on attending.
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: http://sizewellcamp.org.uk
Coach from London
There will be a coach from London leaving at 8:15am prompt from the Embankment. It will also pick up at 9am prompt from outside Redbridge tube station (Central line), arriving at Sizewell by noon.
The return coach will leave 5pm prompt on Saturday from the car park near the anti-nuclear camp arriving back in London by about 8pm.
Return tickets are £20, or £10, or as much as you can afford unwaged. Half-price tickets available for those who will want to say on at the Sizewell camp into Sunday.
To book your coach ticket, contact David at London Region CND on 020 7607 2302 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Peace In My Lifetime - an International Conference on Peace-Building
Peace In My Lifetime - an International Conference on Peace-Building
organised by Fellowship of Reconciliation, England and Uniting for Peace
15th March 2:30 - 8:00pm
Speakers include:
Baroness Jenny Tonge
Sir Richard Jolly
Dave Webb
Maryam Al-Khawaja
Mairead Maguire [TBC]
Caroline Lucas MP [TBC]
Hilton London Euston
17 - 18 Upper Woburn Place
London WC1H 0HT
Book launch: The Economics of Killing
Book launch: The Economics Of Killing: How The West Fuels War And Poverty In The Developing World
by Vijay Mehta
8th March, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Hilton London Euston
17 - 18 Upper Woburn Place
London WC1H 0HT
For more information:
Pluto Press: www.plutobooks.com
Commonwealth Journalists Association: www.cja-uk.org
Uniting for Peace: www.unitingforpeace.org
Major Nuclear Issues in England – an update
Nuclear Free Local Authorities
English Forum Seminar
Major Nuclear Issues in England – an update
24th Feb, 12.30pm – 2.45pm
East Room, Leeds Civic Hall, Portland Map
Dr Ian Fairlie
Independent consultant on radiation in the environment – low level radiation and health, what are the risks and should we be worried about them?
Jean McSorley
Independent radioactive waste consultant – West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely process: answer to our waste problems or the start of new nuclear risks?
Sean Morris
NFLA Secretary – the UK nuclear emergency planning review and the NFLA survey of local authority readiness.
If you plan to attend, please contact:
Sean Morris, NFLA Secretariat, c/o Manchester City Council
tel: 0161 234 3244
email:
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Rock Solid? Expo - Kendal Museum: 24 March - 16 June
Rock Solid? Expo - Kendal Museum
24th March to 16th June 2012
Kendal Museum will be holding an exhibition of specially created artworks based on Lakeland Geology. Lakeland geology is of intense interest as it is being considered for the geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste. Associated with the exhibition will be a series of lectures and workshops examining this topic.
In Lakeland's leaky geology, a huge mine 1000m deep x 26km square, to contain man's most long lasting ‘legacy’...
Is it possible? Is it ethical?
How will we tell future generations?
Should we make more waste?
Guest Artists
Julian Cooper: one of the UK’s leading mountain painters
Josephina de Vasconcellos: sculptor and supporter of CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment)
Other artists taking part in the exhibition include: Ian Walton, Pam Williamson, Deborah Nicholls, Marianne Birkby, Tony Riley, Geoff Read, Irene Sanderson, Stew Simpson and more. The works take inspiration from Cumbria’s wonderfully diverse geological heritage and the plan to try to use that geology to contain man’s most long lasting legacy.
A series of events are taking place alongside the exhibition:
Saturday 10th March
Walk to the top of Scafell to experience the scale of 1000 metres deep – Scafell is 978 metres high.
Contact:
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Tel: 015395 63671
Friday 6th April - 1 – 4.30pm
Wild Water and Lakeland Rock
Watercolour media workshop
£15 materials provided. Please Book
Saturday 28th April - 1pm – 4pm
Future Language – creative art and science workshop.
How do we warn future generations about nuclear waste deep underground? Will they be warned or will the warnings be ignored as we ignore Ancient Egyptian curses? £10 Suitable for all. Please Book
Thursday 10th May - 7pm – 8.30pm
‘Rock Solid?’ Lecture by Dr Helen Wallace author of Rock Solid?
A scientific review of geological disposal of high level radioactive waste and director of Gene Watch. Free. Please Book
Kendal Museum
Station Road
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 6BT
Tel: 01539 815597
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Report launch: Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill
Yorkshire CND invites you to the launch of their research report:
Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill:
The Strategic Roles and Economic Impact of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire
The launch will include a presentation by the report author Dr Steve Schofield and a discussion on the main findings.
If you are planning to attend the launch event please RSVP to
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Event details
7.30pm
Harrogate Friends Meeting House,
12a Queens Parade, Harrogate, Yorkshire
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.