Campaign Review 2010
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Officers elected October 2010; Chair: Dave Webb; Vice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sarah Cartin, Daniel Blaney;Treasurer: Linda Hugl; General Secretary: (appointed senior staff position): Kate Hudson.
CND National Council elected October 2010. Directly elected: Pat Allen, Sophie Bolt, Jenny Clegg, Tom Cuthbert,Ian Fairlie, Janet Fenton, Myra Garrett, Gawain Little, Caroline Lucas MP, Vijay Mehta, Pat Sanchez, Tony Staunton, Rae Street,Jim Taggart, Carol Turner Nations, Regions and Areas: CND Cymru: John Cox (VP), Jill Gough; Scottish CND: Brian Larkin, AlanMackinnon, Arthur West; Cumbria & N. Lancs: Dick Allwright; East Midlands: Ian Cohen, Richard Johnson, Lesley Mathews;Greater Manchester: Philip Gilligan; Kent Area: Marilyn Sansom; London Region: Isobel McHarg, Jim Brann, Nicholas Russell;Merseyside: Gerald Poole; Southern Region: Michael Waugh; South Cheshire & N. Staffs: Jason Hill; South West Region: PeterLe Mare, Tom Milburn, Michal Lovejoy; Sussex Peace Alliance: Ros Cooke; West Midlands CND: vacant; Yorkshire CND: HelenJohn, Dominic Linley. Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Bob Russell; Labour CND: Joy Hurcombe; Student CND: Fiona Edwards;Youth and Student CND: vacant.
Vice-Presidents: Pat Arrowsmith, Tony Benn, John Cox, Joan Horrocks, Rebecca Johnson, Bruce Kent, Alistair Mackie, AliceMahon, Paul Oestreicher, Walter Wolfgang.
Staff and volunteers Staff at Holloway Road: Sam Akaki: Parliamentary Officer [until January 2010]; Joy Annegarn:Membership, Finance; Kate Charteris: Membership and Database Officer; Eve Cuthbert: Finance and Network Manager;Ben Folley: Campaigns Officer (Parliamentary) [from March 2010]; Sue Longbottom: Designer; Mell Harrison: GroupDevelopment Officer [on one-years leave from May 2010]; Tansy Hoskins: Campaigns Officer (Trade Unions) [from September2010]; Anna Liddle: Peace Education Officer; Dawn Rothwell: Campaigns Officer (Research and Information); Luke Massey:
Office & Personnel Manager; Anne Schulthess: Campaigns Officer (Youth & Community Engagement) [from May 2010]; BenSoffa: Press Officer; Beckett Vester: Fundraiser; Chris Wood: QPSW Campaigns Officer [until September 2010].
Many thanks and good luck to Sam Akaki and Chris Wood.
National and Regional staff: CND Cymru: Jill Gough; Scottish CND: John Ainslie; Greater Manchester CND: Jacqui Burke,Doug Weir; London Region CND: David Polden; Yorkshire CND: Denise Craghill, Hannah Tweddell. Other regional offices arerun by volunteers. Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Claire Poyner (part-time).Other specialist sections are run by volunteers from home.
Volunteers at Holloway Road: Pat Allen, Pat Arrowsmith, Jim Brann, Kitty Cooper, Ellie Delves, Dave Esbester, JessicaLittlewood, Gina Mackenzie, Eileen Maclean, Luba Mumford, Mary Ogbogoh, Annette Russell, Ellen Sheffield, Andrea Szilagyi,Jean Taylor, Jim Thomas, Ian Triggs, Tim Wardle, Muriel Wood.
Interns: Amy Brecken-Simons, James Funnell, Sarah Holtam, Tom Howie, Kat Lewis, Bwale Nkowane, Ed Ram, Andrea
Szilagyi. Thank you to all those in and out of the office who volunteer their valuable time and energy.
CND personnel
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IAM honoured to have been elected as the new
Chair of CND this year and want to thank Kate
Hudson for her inspirational work and dedication
over the last seven years as Chair. I very much
look forward to working with her in her new role as
General Secretary.
This has been a very interesting and very promising
year! One in which we have worked hard for a nuclear
weapon free world at local, national and international
levels. During the general election campaign CND groups across the
country held hustings and lobbied candidates to make Trident replacement a major
issue. This was greatly assisted by the online lobbying tool on the CND website
which enabled people to contact their candidates at the click of a mouse. No doubt
this and other campaigning pressure helped secure the delay to the decision on
whether or not to replace Trident to 2016. So there is all to play for!At the same time as the election in the UK, CND was present at the nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York. We spoke at and hosted
workshops and helped to organise and run the International Abolition Conference
at Riverside Church (with over 1,000 attendees and guest speakers Ban Ki-moon
and Mayor Akiba from Hiroshima). We were also joint organisers of the Disarm
Now march and rally in Times Square at which 15,000 sent out our common
disarmament message to UN delegates.
In November we were in Lisbon for the NATO Summit. CND was involved in
the No to War No to NATO Counter Summit and International Protest which
highlighted NATOs expansionist policies, its nuclear presence in Europe and the
decision to join the provocative and costly NATO and US missile defence systems.
This Review covers just some of the highlights of our campaigning in 2010,
illustrating the breadth and depth of our work. It by no means covers everything
and all the groups and supporters deserve a big thank you for their hard work,
perseverance and spirit. Unfortunately, we are still being told that we need to spend
76 billion or more on replacing Trident but the argument as to whose budget the
money should come from was very interesting. Should it be the MoD or the
Treasury that pays? In other words - is it really a weapon or a status symbol for
politicians? The simple resolution to the argument would be of course to scrapTrident altogether and with it the huge nuclear burden that we are passing on to
future generations.
CND members and groups all over the UK will continue to explain that the cuts in
health, education and welfare programmes are unnecessary, if we just admit that we
do not need to retain a hugely expensive, wasteful and unnecessary nuclear
weapons system! As a result of our work Trident replacement is being shifted
further into the future as it becomes increasingly difficult to justify lets continue
to apply the pressure and make sure that it is finally cancelled altogether. The one
cut that we definitely do need is Trident!
Dave Webb, CND Chair
Campaign forNuclear Disarmament
CND campaigns non-violently to
achieve British nuclear
disarmament for scrapping the
Trident nuclear weapons system
and preventing its replacement.
CND works to secure a Nuclear
Weapons Convention which will
ban nuclear weapons globally, as
chemical and biological weapons
have been banned. We also work
to end Britains participation in
the US Missile Defence system
and with other campaignsinternationally against missile
defence and weapons in space.
Other current campaigns include
the prevention and cessation of
wars in which nuclear weapons
may be used, opposition to
NATO and its nuclear policies,
and to nuclear power.
CND is funded entirely by its
members and supporters, and
our policies are decided upon by
our annual national delegates
conference, where our national
leadership is also elected.
Details of our national offices,
and our network of regions and
local groups can be found at the
back of this Review.
CNDMordechai Vanunu House
162 Holloway Rd London N7 8DQTel: 020 7700 2393Fax: 020 7700 [email protected]
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CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
OUR TOP PRIORITIES this
year have been working toscrap Trident, ensure there is
no nuclear replacement of any sort, and
secure the global abolition of nuclear
weapons. The situation has changed
significantly in our favour: now the
possibility of scrapping the existing system
is on the agenda, as well as making sure
there is no replacement. Polls continue to
show a majority for nuclear disarmament,
so, as a result the emphasis of our work
has shifted from No Trident Replacementto Scrap Trident, as a realisable demand.
This years campaigning was dominated
by the general election and its aftermath.
Election work focused on canvassing all
candidates on nuclear weapons, mostly via
our special online lobbying system which
thousands of members and supporters
used to contact their candidates. Hundreds
of responses were received many
candidates even went against their party to
oppose Trident. The issue had a boost
from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who
raised Trident replacement in the televised
leadership hustings. However, hopes were
dashed when the coalition government
backed Trident replacement.
We lobbied new Defence Secretary
Liam Fox and his Lib Dem Defence
Minister Nick Harvey, to include
Trident in the Strategic Defence and Security
Review. Then we facilitated submissions
to the Treasurys Spending Challenge,
inviting people to suggest what shouldbe cut. Large numbers of people opted
to scrap Trident. We have been pressing
the government to take note of the
response!
Since then we have seen some
modest advances. In October, the
government published its Defence Review
and its newNational Security Strategy
which saw not only a delay to the
decision to replace Trident until 2016
and a reduction in warhead numbers,
but also a reduction of nuclear threats to
a second tier level. Our key focus now
is to ensure that decision is a resounding
No. On the day of the Comprehensive
Spending Review, CND joined with the
Stop the War coalition to organise a
protest in Parliament Square, urging that
Trident and war should be cut, not
spending on health, education andwelfare.
An important feature of our anti-
Trident work has been our new research
and publications on Trident and the jobs
issue (see page 20). We have exposed
the myth that Trident helps employment
and are using the new materials
particularly with the trade union
movement.
This year CND again backedopposition to Aldermaston Weapons
Establishment planning applications for
new facilities, this time a hydrodynamics
facility Hydrus (which recreates the
extreme conditions within a nuclear
explosion without causing a detonation).
Our online lobbying system allowed
over a thousand objections to be logged.
We have produced new campaigning
material on Trident which has been
widely used by local groups, together
with a newScrap Trident: Ban all nuclear
weaponspetition (see page 20). CND
continues to convene the No Trident
Replacement core group where
Scrap Trident
63% of the British public
want spending cuts to
include scrapping Trident BPIX/Mail on Sunday
poll, June 2010.
February, Aldermaston: CND supported the Big Blockade whichdrew campaigners from around the world. One of these wasNobel Laureate, Jody Williams (inset) who addressed our publicmeeting the following day at the LSE. Jody led the LandminesBan campaign and shared many ideas and lessons for thebanning of nuclear weapons.
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CND groups made concerted efforts in
the run-up to the election: lobbying
candidates, organising hustings and getting
letters and articles in their local press.
Yorkshire CND, in common with other
regions, received the fewest responses
from the Conservative Party candidates
and the most from the Lib Dems and the
Green Party. The group organised a Peace
and Justice Hustings in Leeds Civic Hall
with representatives from all the main
political parties in the area.
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representatives from a wide range of
disarmament organisations meet
regularly to discuss strategy and tactics
in our anti-Trident work. Recognising
the importance of campaigning at the
nuclear dockyard in Devonport,Plymouth where Trident submarines are
serviced, we have continued to work
with local activists and supported a
blockade in October. Our campaigning
in Devonport links the issues of nuclear
weapons, nuclear waste, cuts and
investment in sustainable jobs.
Global Abolition
2010 saw the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) Review Conference inNew York a five yearly event where
progress towards disarmament is
assessed and advanced. This years
event was more constructive than the
previous one in 2005, and there was
some modest progress in securing
recognition for a Nuclear Weapons
Convention. CND had worked with
other organisations internationally
towards this end and had a good
delegation in attendance. We held a
successful fringe meeting, joined an
enormous march through New York,
and helped organise a major NGO
conference. A highlight of the NPT was
the handing in of a global petition
calling for nuclear abolition. It
comprised over 16 million signatures,
including tens of thousands from
Britain! In June, CND and the
International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) UK worked
together to mark a post-NPT global dayof action by organising some newly-
elected anti-nuclear MPs to hand in a
letter to Downing Street. CND
continues to be an active part of ICAN
the international campaign which
focuses on securing a Nuclear Weapons
Convention.
Kent Area CND members produced
a special pre-election leaflet 2010:
Make or Break making the case for
scrapping Trident. A small band of
activists distributed them in town
centres in every constituency in the area.
Members also wrote to most of their
candidates, getting considered replies
from unexpected quarters.
West Midlands CND members had
pre-election stalls throughout the region,
and questioned candidates on Trident at
hustings. Their dedicated parliamentary
team continues to monitor parliament
enabling them to follow up elected MPs
and write letters to their local newspapers.
Bruce Kent addressed their lively public
meeting attended by 60 people.Later in the year, West Midlands
CND members joined thousands of
protestors on the Right to Work March
in Birmingham on the day the
Conservative Party Conference opened.
Carrying No to Trident placards and
leafleting the marchers, they continued
their campaigning with a silent vigil
outside the Conference Centre.
Greater Manchester & District
CND groups were very busy organising
local hustings (coordinating with the
Greater Manchester Stop the War
Coalition), public meetings, rallies, and
street stalls prior to the election.
May, New York: A global petition callingfor nuclear abolition was handed in at theNPT. It comprised over 16 millionsignatures, including tens of thousandsfrom Britain
June: CND joined with the Stop the War Coalition to organise a protest on the day ofthe Comprehensive Spending Review cut Trident and war, not public spending
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Cumbria and Lancashire Area
CND members campaigned vigorously
using CNDs Election Pack. In March,
members celebrated International
Womens Day with stalls in Lancaster
and Nelson; overall they collected morethan 900 signatures for the No to
Trident Replacement petitions.
London Region CNDs bi-monthly
Public Fora included a well-attended
hustings and, since the election, members
have held monthly vigils protesting against
Trident in Parliament Square.
Sussex Peace Alliance members were
particularly active during the election period
writing to candidates beforehand and then
to the elected MPs after. They havecorrespondents in all of the Sussex
constituencies and continue to inform their
MPs successfully prompting them to sign
EDMs and table Parliamentary Questions.
Oxford CND members from Southern
Region CND have joined in many local
anti-cuts demonstrations using Cut Trident
Not Welfare as their slogan.
Street stalls have been run by
Merseyside CND members in
Birkenhead, Liverpool and Maghull city
centres. They also ran monthly Tea in
the Park events throughout the summer
in a park in Wallasey with stalls and music.
Many young people were interested in the
cause and the general public consensus was
that Trident is a shameful waste of money
in these hard times.
Several groups sought to make
people aware of the importance of the
NPT Review Conference 2010 in New
York. Yorkshire CND organised a
series of six public talks by specialspeakers on various aspects of the
nuclear weapons issue. Sussex Peace
Alliance members helped organise a
long stretch of the Flame of Hope walk
between Dover and Portsmouth to call
on world leaders to ban nuclear
weapons. Members were also present as
NGO delegates at the Conference in
New York.
During the autumn, Kent Area CND
held a successful public meeting in
Tunbridge Wells on the outcomes of the
Review Conference, generating much
goodwill and support from long-
standing members.
Nuclear Convoys
Oxford CND members from Southern
Region CND continue to work with Nuke-
watch (see page 25), observing, pursuing
and noting details about the nuclear
convoys pass ing through their area.
Aldermaston blockading
Earlier in the year many regional and
local CND groups supported the Big
Blockade at Aldermaston organised by
Trident Ploughshares, including
members from London Region,
Sussex Peace Alliance, Cumbria and
Lancashire and Yorkshire CND
groups. A carful of Zombies came
from Portsmouth, lots of young people
came from Poole, Bournemouth and
Christchurch, and other Southern Region
members came from Oxford and
Penzance. Participation in the blockade has
encouraged campaigning in Bournemouth,where two well-attended public meetings
have since been held.
Rolls Royce
East Midlands CND campaigners
concentrate on the Rolls Royce factory
in Derby. As well as designing and
manufacturing the reactors for Trident
and other nuclear-powered subs, the
company has now expanded into the
area of civil nuclear power havingbecome involved in a new research
centre and new plant to manufacture
components for the industry. In March,
East Midlands CND roused significant
local press interest in their public
meeting in Derby (organised with the
Justice & Peace Group) on the theme
Nuclear Dangers the Green
Alternative. Around 50 people attended
(and contributions to the discussion
were made by several people from the
local workforce). The speaker was Dr
Stuart Parkinson from Scientists for Global
Responsibility. The group holds monthly
protests outside the factory with Derby
Churches Justice and Peace, Friends of the
Earth and other Green groups. Different
themes have included vigils for Chernobyl
Day and Hiroshima and Nagasaki
commemorations and in October they
held a Cut Trident, Create Green Jobs
demonstration.
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Lobby your MP to sign EDM 909 calling on the government to ensure a full publicreview of our possession of nuclear weapons before the Trident replacement projectreaches Main Gate stage (after which construction of the submarines will
begin). At the same time ask him/her to sign EDM 498 demanding thegovernment supports negotiations for a Nuclear Weapons Convention to banall nuclear weapons worldwide.
Use CNDs new leaflet on Trident and the cuts (ready for 2011) as well as the
Trident, Jobs and the UK Economyfour-page summary particularly for work withtrade unions.
Make sure all your friends and family sign the Scrap Trident, Ban all NuclearWeapons petition a copy is enclosed with your Campaign Review(please post itback to us before September 2011). Alternatively sign the petition online, send it to
all your friends and share it on your Facebook page.
Action
Gtr Manchester CND helps to blockadethe Home Office Gate at Aldermaston
East Midlands CND protest outside theRolls Royce factory in Derby
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Devonport blockade
Plymouth CND (part of South West
Region) has been campaigning on the
crucial issues at Devonport Dockyard,
showing what will really help employment
in the city. The group has gained thesupport of the Plymouth Trades Union
Council and the Green Party. There is
much local concern about plans to cut up
all the obsolete nuclear powered
submarines and store the radioactive
waste in this city inhabited by 250,000
people. The group worked with Trident
Ploughshares to organise a Blockade of
the dockyard gates. At least 120
protestors came to the blockade including
members from London Region CND,South West Region (Exeter and
Penzance), and activists from Yorkshire
CND and Eastern Region CND (some
of whom locked on to a car!). A protest
march in the city preceded the blockade.
Labour CND backed Diane Abbott for
leader of the Labour Party in the
leadership contest in summer because of
her consistent support for CND, and
how she spoke out strongly against
Trident replacement and opposed the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her
campaign successfully raised these issues
in the public debate.
Members sent resolutions to local
Labour parties for submission to Labour
Party Conference on the subjects Support
a Nuclear Weapons Convention, Scrap
Trident and Troops out of Afghanistan -
they were ruled out of order as usual. Thereal debate was at the fringe meetings,
particularly the one organised by Labour
CND, Labour Action for Peace and CND.
MPs Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Eric
Joyce and Yasmin Qureshi joined with
Kate Hudson and Mehdi Hasan from the
New Statesmanto debate the subject of
New leader, new foreign policy; the
meeting was so popular there was standing
room only for latecomers.
Christian CND had several
gatherings at the Atomic Weapons
Establishment, Aldermaston. Their
biggest being an overnight candlelit vigil
preceding the Big Blockade in February.
The closing ceremony and interfaith
service the following morning attracted an
unusually large crowd including the
Bishops of Reading and Brentwood. In
June members organised a special Nuclear
Abolition Day event which members of
West Midlands CND supported. There
was a picnic and a colourful presentation at
Main Gate entitled Strictly Disarming.
In March, in advance of the NPT
Review Conference, Christian CND held
an Embassies Walk calling at 16 embassies
in London. The general response was
encouraging. Their other pre-Conference
event was organising 23 miles of the
Flame of Hope Walk (Lydd to Hastings
section). There were stops along the way
when they were greeted by Mayors, seniorclergy and the MP Michael Foster. Four
members represented Christian CND at
the Conference in New York, holding
early morning interfaith prayer vigils,
meeting diplomats and joining in NGO
activities.
With tuition fees at 2.5 billion per year
(more than the cost of running Trident!)
and rising, Student CND has been
building support for its Fund Education
No to Trident campaigning. This issue wascentral to its intervention in the NUS
National Conference in April which
proved to be a key opportunity to make
new links with student activists and
student leaders from across the country.
Hundreds of Student CND newsletters
were distributed from a popular stall at the
Conference and members co-organised a
peace fringe with Stop the War Coalition
and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
This was one of the biggest fringe
meetings at the Conference with over 100
people attending.
During the summer Student CND sent
out a glossy newFund Education No to
Trident Replacementbriefing to several
hundred incoming Student Union
Sabbatical Officers around the country.
For Freshers Week the group produced a
Student CND newsletter to mobilise
students around CNDs core campaigns.
Members also held a successful stall at the
University of London Freshers Fair.In October Student CND spoke at the
Progressive Students Conference (a
national event with students coming from
30 different campuses). In November the
group distributed new leaflets at the
enormous (52,000 people) demonstration
against the governments proposal to
increase tuition fees.
Specialist sections
The blockade at Devonport Dockyard
Sussex Peace Alliance members helpedorganise a long stretch of the Flame of
Hope walk between Dover and Ports-mouth to call on world leaders to bannuclear weapons.
Student zombies join the blockade atAldermaston
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WE CONTINUE to work as
appropriate with the Stop the
War Coalition and the British
Muslim Initiative. This year that included
the joint organisation of the successful
Troops out of Afghanistan demo in
November, a protest in January at theChilcot Inquiry on the occasion of Tony
Blair being called to give evidence and
protests against the attacks on the Gaza
Flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the
people of Gaza.
As always many local and regional CND
group members come from all parts of
the country to strengthen the numbers of
the national anti-war demonstrations in
London. At the same time they also carry
out actions in their own towns and cities.
At the start of the year Greater
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Not one more death
Manchester & District CND worked
closely with the Manchester Palestine
Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the
Greater Manchester Stop the War
Coalition (STWC) and other groups to
organise vigils and other events around
the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead
to remember all those civilians who died
in the devastating Israeli attacks on the
Gaza strip in 2008/9.
In summer many people came to see
the GMD CND concert organised with
Manchester PSC to host singer-songwriter David Ferrard. Everyone
agreed that making the link between the
two causes was vital because of the issue
of Israels nuclear weapons. The group
linked with Manchester PSC and STWC
again to organise a large rally of more
than two thousand people outside the
BBC Headquarters in response to the
attack on the Gaza aid flotilla in May.
Sussex Peace Alliance members
supported Eastbourne for Peace and
Liberty in arranging an Open Forum on
Afghanistan. Presentations and
discussions were informed by factual
briefings and the Forum resulted in the
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20th November: Afghanistan Time to Go demonstration
January: Blair gives evidence at theChilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq
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formulation of a series of public
questionnaires asking people for views on
whether people feel safer with British
troops in Afghanistan.
Penzance CND, from South West
Region, has held their Peace Stall in thecentre of town nearly every Saturday for
the last 35 years. Since the bombing of
Afghanistan they have also held an hour
long vigil there every Saturday too.
Labour CND held a successful
conference at the start of the year
entitled Reclaiming the peace, Throw
away our imperialist past, No to Trident,Troops out of Afghanistan. Speakers
included Jeremy Corbyn MP, Billy
Hayes the General Secretary of the
Communication Workers Union,
Marion Hobbs the Former
Disarmament Minister of New Zealand,
and Alice Ukoko, a Nigerian human
rights activist. Former Guantanamo
detainee Omar Deghayes spoke about
his ordeal spending six years in
Guantanamo where he suffered routine
abuse and torture, including being
blinded in one eye.
Labour CND continues to work for
the release of British Resident Shaker
Aamer who is a victim of US/UK
foreign policy, still being detained in
Guantanamo without charge.
Student CND played an active role in
mobilising students to join the national
demonstration against the war in
Afghanistan in November and Fiona
Edwards represented Student CND onthe platform of speakers at the closing
THIS YEARS anti-NATO
campaigning has focused on the
NATO summit in Lisbon in
November where a new Strategic
Concept was announced. Although
there were some verbal gestures towards
nuclear disarmament, nothing concrete
was achieved in this area, and there was
no commitment to remove the
remaining US tactical nukes from fiveEuropean countries, even though a
number of them have demanded their
removal at government level.
Specialist sections
No to NATO
CND was centrally involved in the
organisation of a counter-summit in
Lisbon during the NATO leaders
summit. This was a successful event
addressed by Jeremy Corbyn MP, CND
Chair Dave Webb and National Council
member Rae Street.
Earlier in the year we protested
outside a NATO meeting in London,
calling for British troops to be withdrawnfrom Afghanistan. A new briefing and
leaflet have been produced, following the
outcomes of the NATO summit.
CNDs delegates joined the massive 30,000 strong demonstration of the Portuguese
peace movement in Lisbon at the Nato Summit
Women in Black and Womens International League for Peace and Freedom say Noto Nato in Trafalgar Square, London
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ANTI-NUCLEARpower
campaigning has been ongoingthis year, with submissions made
to government consultations on new
nuclear power stations. We were also able
to provide material to support local
groups to make their own submissions
too. A highlight of the year was the
publication of our new briefing on the
German governments KiKK study on
the incidence of childhood leukaemia in
proximity to nuclear power stations. We
have also produced a new leaflet againstnuclear power, explaining that it is not the
answer to climate change, supported local
protests at power stations and participated
in the green NGOs group which
cooperates on common issues.
In December we joined the climate
change demo, leafleting with our new No
to Nuclear Power leaflets.
In April Cumbria and Lancashire Area
CND joined with the Heysham Anti
Nuclear Alliance (HANA) to hold a
Market Square stall focusing on the
anniversary of the terrible accident at
Chernobyl. Members also organised a
public meeting on Nuclear Power and the
Local Economy in April, drawing
attention to the dangers of nuclear new-
build in the area.
There was also a good turn-out for the
meetingGreater Manchester & DistrictCND organised on nuclear power at the
time of the Chernobyl anniversary.
Speakers included Dr Ian Fairlie, Linda
Walker from the Chernobyl Childrens
Project (UK) and Marianne Kirkby from
Radiation Free Lakeland.
One ofLondon Region CNDs bi-
monthly Public Fora included a talk in
spring by Dr. Ian Fairlie on Childhood
Leukaemia and Nuclear Power. In July,
LRCNDs working group, the Nuclear
Trains Action Group, organised a 100-
strong demonstration and die-in to call
for a halt to trains carrying highly-
radioactive fuel rods being routed through
the Olympic site in East London. Among
other risks, the demonstration highlighted
how a terrorist attack on such a train
near the site during the Olympics could
kill thousands downwind and require
mass evacuation.
Eastern Region CND members
continued to protest throughout the year
against nuclear power. In February they
supported a 10-hour blockade at Sizewell
nuclear power station organised by the
Stop Nuclear Power Network (SNPN).
To raise public awareness about waste
issues their blockading (with help fromthe Theatre of War) involved locking on
to mock radioactive waste barrels. They
are supporting those arrested at the
blockade who are facing court action in
January 2011.
In April the group worked with the
SNPN again to run a Chernobyl weekendcamp which around 100 people attended.
With a welcome tent and informational
display boards the camp was a great
success in persuading local people to stop,
learn more and ask questions. There were
workshops on nuclear power, renewable
energy solutions and non-violent direct
action. The event culminated in a lively
demonstration with speakers, music and a
dancing blockade at Sizewells gates.
On Chernobyl day itselfEasternRegion CND members held a
procession with the Theatre of War to the
local beach near Sizewell power station.
They carried pebbles inscribed with
special messages and built a cairn with
them in memory of all those affected by
nuclear disasters. The event was witnessed
by local media and independent film
makers. There was a follow-up public
meeting which initiated a ripple of letters
in the local paper.
In October Eastern Region members
supported a four-hour SNPN blockade of
Hinkley Point nuclear power station to
protest about the flawed and biased local
Consultation on having a new reactor
built there. All activists wore badger
masks to show their opposition to plans
which would also destroy the habitat for
local wildlife even including evicting
badgers from their sets.
East Midlands CND has been
campaigning hard with other groups andlocal people in their region to stop the
company Augean dumping nuclear waste
from Rolls Royce Raynesway and from
the decommissioning of old power
stations at the Kings Cliffe landfill in
No nuclear power
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4th December: CNDs
banner was at theClimate Change demo,where hundreds of thenew No to nuclearpower leaflets weredistributed
SCANS (Solent Campaign Against Nuclear Ships) protest outside Southampton CivicCentre, against the visit of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Torbay on the 15thNovember 2010 Photo: David Smith
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Northamptonshire. Their hard work
helped get the application refused by the
local council. Even so Augean is busy
appealing against this decision. Eastern
Region CNDs Chair, along with
representatives from the Low Level
Radiation Campaign, Friends of theEarth, the Green Party and the local
campaigning group, Waste Watchers, has
given important evidence to the hearing.
East Midlands CND is producing a
new pamphlet based on their short history
of the debate about nuclear power in
Britain published in the WISE (World
Information Service on Energy) monthly
Nuclear Monitor. The group has also
been working on a new website, covering
all their activities, planned to go live at the
start of 2011.
Southern Region CND members are
an important part of the Solent Coalition
Against Nuclear Ships (SCANS). This
year SCANS and Southampton CND
demonstrated against the citys adoption
of the new Astute class submarine HMS
Artful and the nuclear-powered
submarine HMS Torbays visiting the city
in November. The Coalition
commissioned new research by Large &
Associates which highlighted seriousfailings in emergency planning in the
event of an accident in a submarine
docked at Southampton.
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CAMPAIGNING on missile
defence has progressed, thanks toYorkshire CND which leads
CNDs campaigning in this area and has
updated our materials and information. A
successful protest took place at the missile
defence base at Fylingdales in June. We
have also continued to coordinate with
other European groups and to participate
in the Global Network against Weapons
and Nuclear Power in Space.
In JuneYorkshire CND and Trident
Ploughshares organised an event called
Reclaiming the Moor, around Fylingdales.
Thirty demonstrators, including members
ofCumbria and Lancashire Area CND
andWest Midlands CND, battled theelements (mainly torrential rain) and faced
a disproportionate MoD police presence
to approach the base from three different
directions. Once there they handed in a
letter to the Base Commander.
Cumbria and Lancashire CND
members supported several events
organised by the Campaign for the
Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
at Menwith Hill including the
Independence from America day of
protest in July and the Who are the
Invisibles? protest in October as part of
Keep Space for Peace week.. The group
welcomed Lindis Percy from CAAB to a
talk on missile defence in September.
Yorkshire CND launched A WalkersGuide to Fylingdales during this years
Keep Space for Peace Week. The guided
walk took place on an unseasonably warm
and sunny day and revealed the important
geological and historical features of the area
and toured the outskirts of the base. The
group also organised a screening of the
new documentaryPax Americana and the
Weaponization of Spacein Leeds and
Bradford as part of the weeks events.
Yorkshire CND has updated itsimportant US Missile Defence exhibition
(comprising four large, attractive,
informative display boards) and it was
shown in the Bradford Central Library.
The exhibition is available for all groups
and members to use: please e-mail
[email protected] or call 01274
730 795 to organise your own showing.
Oxford CND is an important member
of the Oxfordshire Peace Campaign. Its
annual march and rally to the Croughton
base, the big US listening and
communications centre, during Keep
Space for Peace Week was informative and
enjoyable. Around 60 demonstrators
listened to Peter Burt from the Nuclear
Information Service and the Reverend
David Platt. Mark Levene from Crisis
Forum explained how the base is also a
hub of the Airforce Global Weather Centre
supplying meteorological information to all
Americas forces and that its Perimeter
Denial Capability plans to keep out hordesof climate change refugees. The
demonstrators were entertained by Les
Bicyclettes a cabaret act mocking the
USAF base and the Sea Green Singers.
No US Missile Defence
Eastern Regions Chernobyl Day protestat Sizewell nuclear power station
Regions
Write to Chris Huhne MP,
Department of Energy and ClimateChange Secretary, asking him toditch new nuclear power plans:
Department for Energy and ClimateChange, 3 Whitehall Place, LondonSW1A 2AW (see CNDs Nuclear
Power page on the website for all
the arguments).
If you live near a nuclear powerstation join in and help out one ofthe local groups campaigning there.
Speaking at the Croughton rally
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AHIGHLIGHT of the year has
been our hosting, with theQuakers, of the Hiroshima Peace
Museum Exhibition (displayed for the first
time in London), at Friends House in
London. We were also delighted to
welcome Mr Kawamoto, a survivor from
Hiroshima who opened the exhibition with
a moving testimony and spoke at a number
of local groups public meetings during the
exhibition run.
Our participation at party conferences
has increased this year. We hosted fringemeetings at all three major party
conferences and stalls at the Labour party
and Lib Dem Conferences, as well as co-
hosting a hustings for the Labour Party
leadership contest with the New Statesman
magazine. We also hosted a fringe and had
a stall at the Trades Union Congress.
This years participation at Glastonbury
festival was very successful, with two stalls,
a programme of events and activities
including a screening of the Beating the Bomb
film about CND and its campaigning.
Around 15,000 copies ofFestival Campaign
magazine were distributed at the festival
and over 1,200 people signed letters to
David Cameron. We then organised a
Downing Street hand-in of the letters with
the MP who represents Glastonbury.
Several hundred people came to the
Nagasaki and Hiroshima Remembranceevent London Region CND organised in
Tavistock Square. Speakers included
Hiroshima survivor Mr Kawamoto, Ken
Livingstone, the Mayor of Camden and
Hetty Bowers. There was poetry from the
Purple Poets and singing from the
Workers Music Association, Raised Voices
and tenor Anthony Flaum.
People came from all over the region
carrying both new and historical banners to
the vigil on Hiroshima Day held outside
Stoke on Trents Town Hall and organised
by South Cheshire and North Staffordshire
CND. Representatives from Trident
Ploughshares, NorSCARF (a local anti-
racist group) and Guduwara Temple also
joined the vigil.
Yorkshire CNDworked in conjunction
with a new pop up art space to host the
Hiroshima Peace Museums A-Bomb
exhibition in August. It was considered a
great way to engage people in CNDs
campaigns. The Lord Mayor and LadyMayoress of Bradford attended their vigil
which attracted the largest turnout in
many years.
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool attended
Merseyside CNDswreath-laying
ceremony. Over half of those attending
were new faces and students.
West Midlands CND members held
special commemorations and vigil
throughout the region including in
Hereford, Malvern and Birmingham and
arranged for photograph exhibitions in
their cathedrals and libraries.
Exeter CND members of South West
Region raised awareness about the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with
two stalls: one with paper crane-making
and leafleting in Exeter High Street; one at
Roy Baileys Concert for Peace at the
Sidmouth Folk Festival (with a captive
audience of several hundred).
In springGreater Manchester &
District CND began a long-running and
successful touring exhibition of the nationalCND Anniversary panels and their special
Peace Tree interactive artwork. The
exhibition was shown in Manchester
Cathedral and churches, temples, meeting
houses and community centres across the
region. The group also joined the Nuclear
Free Local Authorities (NFLA) Secretariat
planning group to help create the
Manchester Peace Trail and Childrens
Peace Trail. In autumn the group played a
key role organising the Manchester Peace
Festival which was an enormous success. It
included: the Michael Foot exhibition at the
Working Class Movement Library; a rock
concert; a folk music concert with Leon
Regions
Festivals, fairs and conferences
1,200 letters signed at Glastonbury werehanded in to David Cameron
Fourth Merseyside CND Peace & Ecology
Festival at St.Lukes Church in LiverpoolCity Centre, July 4th 2010Photo: James Donnelly
CND at the 1234 Shoreditch festival
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Rosselson; comedy with Jewish comedian
Ivor Dembina. The Festival also
incorporated a Peace Play in a Day project
at two schools in Manchester. One of the
schools performed their play in front of the
Mayor of Nagasaki during the Nuclear-FreeLocal Authorities anniversary events in
November (see page 18).
The Peace and Ecology Festival run by
Merseyside CND every summer in
Liverpools bombed-out church is now an
established and successful city centre annual
event. This year about 15 different
campaigning groups held stalls at the
Festival and the music and poetry readings
were received by a young and enthusiastic
audience. Highlights including thePeacemakers 15 piece band (worldbeat vibe
with a dash of folk) and the newly-formed
Liverpool Socialist Choir.
Merseyside CNDwas also active
during International Womens Day
celebrations in March and Merseysides
May Day celebrations. Members ran a stall
at the National Union of Teachers
Conference in Liverpool and helped staff
the CND stall at the Lib Dem Conference
in Liverpool in September.
Many groups have held screenings of
the new film Beating the Bomb. Merseyside
CND marked the UN Day of Peace with a
showing which was followed by intense
discussion. The Bishop of Birkenhead
supported Wallasey CNDs Peace Fair and
Concert prior to the Day of Peace.
Sussex Peace Alliance members joined
in the Mid Sussex Global Peace Campaigns
celebration of the Day of Peace on Burgess
Hill with childrens activities, a screening of
the film Peace One Dayand a classical andfolk music concert held in a local church.
In MayWest Midlands CND joined
with members of the United Nations
Association in Birmingham Peace Gardens
on International Conscientious Objectors
Day to celebrate conscientious objectors:
both lifelong pacifists and those who,
already in the army, claim the right to refuse
to kill under certain circumstances.
In July members ofNorwich CND
from Eastern Region were active helping to
organise the Norwich Peace Festival at
which their stall was very well-visited.
Eastern Region members also held
successful stalls at the Harlequin Fayre in
August (where they also held a workshop
on nuclear physics and organised film
showings) and at the Waveney
Greenpeace Fair.
Exeter CND members from South
West Region worked at the Glastonbury
and Reading Festivals raising funds for
CND.
Kent Area CND helps support the
University of Kent Student CNDrepresentative who regularly attends their
meetings and events. The two groups
organised a stall at the annual Freshers Fair.
This year was Christian CNDs 50th
Anniversary and they marked it with a
Pilgrimage to Peace event in Coventry
Cathedral at the end of October as part
of Coventry City Councils annual Peace
Month commemorations. CND Vice-
Presidents Bruce Kent and Canon Paul
Oestreicher were the keynote speakers.
Christian CND supported the
showing of the Hiroshima Peace
Museum Exhibition. The group also
organised a vigil service in Tavistock
Square and walk to Battersea PeacePagoda on Nagasaki Day carrying a
Pilgrims Staff decorated with peace
cranes made in Hiroshima.
In August Christian CND sponsored
Bruce Kent as one of the main Grandstand
speakers at the Greenbelt Christian Arts
Festival (20,000 people attended). They
were also influential in the organising group
of the event helping to ensure nuclear
disarmament was one of the events key
issues of interest.
Youth & Student CND members
raised much needed funds for CND
youth work through Workers Beer at
Glastonbury.
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Cumbria and Lancashire Area CNDorganised a Hiroshima/Nagasaki papercrane-making stall at their stall inLancaster Market Square
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress ofBradford attended Yorkshire CNDs vigil
London Region CNDs Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration event
Mr Kawamoto speaking at the launch ofthe Hiroshima exhibition in London
CNDs Vice-President Canon PaulOestreicher speaks at Christian CNDs50th anniversary event in CoventryCathedrals old ruins
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Pre-election campaigning
IN the early part of the year Scottish
CNDs main focus was on raising the
issue of Trident in the election
campaign. Letters were sent to all the
candidates signed by Cardinal Keith OBrien,
Rt Rev Bill Hewitt (Moderator of the
Church of Scotland) and Isobel Lindsay
(Convenor of Scotlands for Peace and Vice-
Chair of Scottish CND). The responses to
this survey were published in an article in The
Herald. We encouraged supporters to send
specially designed Cut Trident cards to all
those standing in the election. Several local
CND groups also organised hustings
meeting. A major demonstration Cut
Trident not Jobs was held in Edinburghwith speakers including First Minister Alex
Salmond. The profile of the Trident issue
was effectively raised in Scotland, particularly
by the SNP and the Liberal Democrats,
both at national and constituency level.
Post-election
In May we held a Post-Election conference
which brought together representatives of
the main political parties and CND activists.
The meeting concluded that we should
continue to lobby MPs and MSPs to take
advantage of the political situation at
Westminster and the Scottish Parliament
elections in 2011.
Jobs and Trident
An excellent new report, Trident, Jobs and
the UK Economy, written by Alan
Mackinnon, John Foster and John
Ainslie for CND, was launched by CND
at the TUC Congress in September (see
page 20). It was also discussed at a
meeting with Scottish trade union
activists in October.
August activities
The anniversaries of the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were marked by
local events in ten locations across
Scotland, many attended by 50 to 100
people. Local groups also supported the
Footprints for Peace walk in August. Thewalk followed the routes taken by nuclear
weapons convoys and raised public
awareness of the transport of Trident
warheads through the countryside. A
significant contingent from France played a
major role in the walk.
In the press
When the Navys newest Astute class
nuclear-powered submarine ran aground
in Skye we were able to quickly put out
a press release along with a report on
how similar incidents in the past were
the result of basic navigation errors and
a lack of common sense. Our comments
were widely published along with details
of the earlier accidents.
The Scottish press, particularly the
Sunday Herald, has carried regular articles
on nuclear safety at Faslane, and we have
been able to contribute to these. The
most recent of these concerned Ministry
of Defence plans to privatise work at the
Coulport nuclear store. Scottish CNDs
comments on this were covered both in
print and on BBC Scotland.
Collective work
Scottish CND continues to work in
coalition with other organisations. Through
Scotlands for Peace we maintain close links
with a range of civic groups, includingreligious bodies and trade unions. We also
encourage cross-party opposition to
Trident through our involvement in the
Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group
on Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Free
Local Authorities (Scotland) and Mayors
for Peace.
We have engaged in the international
disarmament campaign. In May Scottish
CND Chair, Alan Mackinnon, attended the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference in New York. In September
there was a successful meeting in the
Scottish Parliament to build support for a
Nuclear Weapons Convention.
March, Edinburgh: Scotland's for Peace Cut Trident Not Jobs demo. Speakers included Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond andKate Hudson
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Success!
AFTERa year of hard work,argument and struggle, the best
disarmament news from Wales is
the cancellation of the St Athan Military
College project. For a minimum of 14
billion it would have committed Wales and
Britain to a massive military institution on
Welsh soil; completely antipathetic to the
ethos of sustainable development and
international citizenship espoused by our
Welsh Assembly Government (WAG).
When Jill Evans MEP, CND Cymru Chair,first calmly spoke the truth in opposing the
project she was publically called a nutter
by Labour MP John Smith.
Wales was bribed with the promise of
jobs but in reality it was a job reduction
exercise for the armed services. Only a few
hundred unskilled jobs would have been
available for locals. Advance payments
from the MoD and the WAG were a gravy
train for private consultants. From the
project launch in 2007 to the current day
the private sector price has increased from
11 to 14billion. Millions of pounds of
public money were wasted on planning
procedures. WAG civil servants were
employed to see the project launched
with no debate, only press rhetoric and
lobbyists spin.
CND Cymru and British CND must be
vigilant. The MoD plans to modernise
military training by bringing the different
forces to work more closely together will
remain. New remote killing methods usingsatellites and cyber space, missiles, robots,
and drones, force strategic rethinking. Arms
companies rely on fear and endless war to
maintain their growth, encouraging a
system which legitimises the possessionof WMD.
Wales Peace Institute
Vice-Chair John Cox deserves special
mention for his work in negotiating with
the Petitions Committee of the Welsh
Assembly Government along with
Assembly Members of all parties in our
efforts to legitimise the concept of a Wales
Peace Institute.
AberporthThe campaign to stop an area of West
and Mid Wales developing into a Centre
of Excellence (sic) for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (drones) continues. Testing and
development at Aberporth currently
involves the MoD Watchkeeper
unmanned aerial vehicle. CND Cymru is
delighted to be working with Bro Emlyn
Peace and Justice Group and Cymdeithas
y Cymod on this issue. CND Cymru
participated in the Fellowship ofReconciliation conference on drones in
London in September.
Trident and Security and
Defence ReviewConstant campaigning against Trident and
any replacement continues. Unusually
through the Westminster Elections, local
hustings and the Defence and Security
Review announcement, nuclear weapons
were easy to get on the press and media
agenda for the first time in several years
in Wales.
At the Aldermaston and Devonport
Blockades CND Cymru was, as always,
proud to be alongside and part of thewonderful Trident Ploughshares.
The brilliant Wrexham Peace and
Justice Group were out on the Wrexham
streets in sympathy with the Devonport
Blockade, showing how little it takes to
cause a stir!
Nuclear power
Work to prevent the building of new
nuclear power stations especially at
Wylfa and on our borders has come to
the fore this year. We work with People
Against Wylfa-B (PAWB), the Stop
Hinkley Campaign, Welsh Anti-Nuclear
Alliance and the brilliant Nuclear Free
Local Authorities.
Groups and individuals all around
Wales informed by Heddwch, e-lists and
our webpages have been on the streets,
writing letters and supporting
campaigns. As always, it is important to
remember that in our small country it is
necessary and our privilege to networkclosely and work together with many
groups on many related issues.
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Miss, do you have lots of nuclear
weapons where you work?Aside from such questions from a rare
pupil (who must have been asleep during
a workshop), Peace Education in 2010
has gone from strength to strength, and
reached thousands of new school
students and their teachers all over the
country throughout the year.
Under Pressure: How Pressure
Groups Operate
Responding to demand, we have releaseda brand new resource pack on how CND
operates as a pressure group to
complement the GCSE Citizenship
curriculum. Students learn to recognise
the strength of their own influence and
design their own campaigns based on the
knowledge gained from this pack.
Hundreds of copies have already been
distributed and young people have
commented that the resources make them
feel as though they are able to make
positive changes on issues about which
they feel strongly.
Crane-folding Collectives
We have received news of whole year
groups of hundreds of students folding
origami paper cranes and following the
schemes of work in the Sadakos Cranes for
Peacebooklet. The other education
resources have also been enthusiastically
received by teachers whove commented
that they are: absolutely fantastic andnot only can they be used successfully in
educating on nuclear issues, but they have
application for other topics.
One resource, The Bomb Factor, was
made into a programme for Teachers TV.
The programme has received over a
thousand viewings within the first couple
of months, despite it being first shown
over the summer holidays.
We have also had articles in teaching
journals and magazines, includingRE
Today(the national publication for
Religious Education teachers) and been
invited to contribute further articles to
various different journals in 2011
In 2010 we attended many conferences
(including those for Science and English
teachers) to ensure that the Peace
Education materials are used across the
curriculum. They have also been
distributed at training events and placed
on recommended lists from examining
boards for Citizenship.
We have given more than a dozen
teacher training sessions, receiving much
positive feedback from them such as
upbeat and engaging and informative
and extremely useful. One teacher-trainer
reported that student teachers had
described their session as one of the best
external sessions of the year. And a
teacher who attended a regional training
event was inspired to run a session
promoting the resources to teachersacross her city, creating a snowball effect.
Peace Play in a day
Around the International Day of Peace in
September, we visited two schools in
Manchester accompanied by a theatre
practitioner to work with teenagers in
creating a peace play in a day. The results
were excellent: the students worked hard
and produced some beautiful
performances exploring the stories of
those affected by Hiroshima, Nagasaki
and nuclear testing. One groups
performance was so moving that they
were invited to perform before the Mayor
of Nagasaki when their delegation visited
in November.
Nagasaki delegation visit
During the Nagasaki delegations visit to
the Peoples History Museum schools
events were organised so that students had
the chance to hear the story of a
Hibakusha, a survivor of the Nagasaki
bomb. Over 100 students from seven
schools came to the museum to see the
exhibition on loan from the Nagasaki Peace
Museum and hear the testimony of the
survivor. Many students were moved to
tears and their teachers commented on the
privilege of being able to attend such an
event, and said that the pupils gained a lot
from hearing a firsthand account of an
event that they will be studying in the verynear future.
To ensure that the testimony will reach
even more students, it was filmed by TV
Production students from the University of
Central Lancashire and will be made into a
DVD to be launched in March 2011 and
distributed to schools countrywide.
Looking forward
The DVD will hopefully be just one of
many exciting developments in 2011 as
CND Peace Education continues to
expand and develop. Email Anna Liddle
on [email protected] to get
involved.
Peace Education
Pupils from Whalley Range High School performed a short play at the Peoples HistoryMuseum for a delgation from Japan and met with Yoshiro Yamawaki, survivor of theNagasaki bomb Photo: M.E.N. Syndication
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BOTH our campaigning activities
and our responses to worldevents have continued to gain
coverage in wide sections of the media
this year. This included Februarys
Aldermaston blockade which was covered
by the BBC, the Times, Mirror, Independent,
Guardian, plus regional newspapers, radio
and TV, and our hosting of an exhibition
of Hiroshima artefacts (see page 12)
which garnered worldwide coverage on
CNN news, an online feature from the
Independent, and coverage in Londonregional media.
In demand
Our views in response to national and
global events are often in demand; we
provide spokespeople and quotes to a
broad range of nuclear, global security
and defence policy issues. We aim to get
a CND voice in many debates, with, for
example, General Secretary Kate
Hudson appearing on Sky News to
discuss the Anglo-French nuclear treaty,
whilst the Evening Standardquoted our
reaction to Tony Blairs appearance at
the Chilcot Inquiry. Other stories we
have prompted have looked more
closely at local campaigns with a national
resonance, such as in The Guardianarticle
covering local concerns that Plymouth
become a nuclear dumping ground.
Frequent coverage
Our message has not been restricted toour more traditional outlets either. CND
spokespeople have appeared regularly on
TalkSport and other commercial radio
stations, as well as on BFBS the global
radio network for the UK armed forces.
By late November, The Guardianhad
mentioned CND in over 100 articles and
we continue to enjoy very frequent
coverage in the Morning Star, Tribune,
Ekklesiaand The Friend. Weve published
research and opinion pieces on news
blogs such as LeftFootForward and
regularly see our letters published in
national newspapers.
International reporting
CND continues to gain extensive
coverage internationally, with frequent
requests for comment from European,
Russian and Middle-Eastern media. The
Japanese newspaper Akahata, with a
circulation of 1.6 million, featured the
visit of CND Treasurer Linda Hugl to
Hiroshima in addition to covering our
Hiroshima commemorations in Britain
and other events.
A big thank-you to local andregional groups
Once again, the work of local and
regional CND groups in getting stories
into the regional media has been vital in
presenting our issues within a local
context. CND groups do an excellent job
of generating coverage of their events and
views, and we can always provide contacts
and assistance from the CND office if
needed. One easy way of translating
CNDs national statements into some-
thing more local is to check our website
for the latest press release and recycle it
as a letter to your local newspaper.
CND in the media
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No Trident replacement:
Tackling the jobs issue
Our excellent newTrident Jobs and the UK
Economyreport effectively tackles the myth
that replacing Trident would create more
jobs for defence workers. On the
contrary, it would destroy thousands of
jobs all over Britain and is an obstacle to
industrial investment in sectors likesustainable energy. Its attractive, colourful
four-page summary presents the
arguments in a clear, concise manner and
is particularly
handy for
getting the
points across
quickly ideal
for stalls and
particularly for
trade union
work. The in-
depth report is
packed with
arguments and
facts down-
load both from the Briefings page
of the CND website or else call 020 7700
2393 to get printed copies.
Updated leaflets and
postcards
With the general election over we updatedour leaflets and postcards to reflect the
continuing efforts for No Trident
replacement. Please send the new purple
postcard to your MP even if you sent
them one of the red ones with a similar
design last year. Its important to keep
emphasising the cost and security
themes especially in this time of
massive cuts. We mustnt let our MPs
forget about this issue.
The new Scrap Trident
petition
Thanks to much of our hard work over the
years the political debate has moved on.
Given the current cuts climate we must
stress how much we dont want the current
system weve got, never mind its
replacement! Consequently, our newScrap
Trident, Ban all Nuclear Weaponspetition
reiterates the need to get rid of the current
system, cancel plans for any replacement,
and negotiate a worldwide ban on nuclear
weapons, such as a Nuclear WeaponsConvention. Get everyone you know to
sign the petition and remember to post it
back to us (hand-in planned for September
2011), or alternatively sign the petition
online, send it to all your friends and share
it on your Facebook page.
No nuclear power
Our popular Q&A on this issue has been
updated, and we have also published an
important new two-sided summary of the
findings of German government-
commissioned research (KiKK study)
which showed significant increases in
cancer in children under five who live near
nuclear power stations. We also have a
new leaflet stressing the links between
nuclear power and nuclear weapons
proliferation and explaining why nuclear
power is dirty, dangerous and expensive
and not the answer to climate change.
No US Missile Defence
A new leaflet and briefing on this issue
are planned for 2011.
No to NATO
This issue is particularly important at the
present time (see page 9) so please use the
updated leaflet and briefing to make sure
youre informed and helping to inform
Support for your campaigning
Join the letter-writing teamCNDs letter-writing team ensures that nearly every month throughout theyear important policy makers are informed and encouraged to take actionon nuclear weapons and peace-related issues. Among other things, in2010 our letter-writers wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer aroundthe time of the Spending Challenge consultation asking him to cut nuclearweapons out of the budget. Later they wrote to the Defence SecretaryLiam Fox about the UKs role in NATO urging him to support the push toget US nuclear weapons out of Europe.
To join the team contact Kate at [email protected] or call the
national office, indicating whether you want to receive information by postor email.
Please join us. The more letters we write, the more influence well have!
Whether you want to lobby your MP, get a letter in your local newspaper or hand out useful information at a
festival or street stall, CND campaigns materials are regularly developed and updated to ensure you have theright message to hand at the right time to influence and empower people.
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New guide to the various
international treaties: A summary of
the many different treaties relating to
nuclear weapons International agree-
ments relating to nuclear weapons: a
guide is a new online briefing to help youmake sense of the details of the various
treaties so you can tell your CTBT from
your START see the briefings page.
Call the office for a printed version.
CND briefings, Q&As and reports
can be downloaded from the
Information pages of our website.
Leaflets and postcards can be ordered
from our online webshop. Alternatively
call the CND office on 020 7700 2393.
Campaign
With opinion pieces, news
updates, and details about
CND activities, keep
informed by subscribing toCNDs Campaign magazine.
All members receive the
summer edition. You can
also subscribe to the spring
and autumn issues by
emailing membership@
cnduk.org. All materials
can be ordered as hard
copies or simply down-
loaded from the website.
Thanks to NET and
Ex-Services CND for
funding the printing of
our briefings.
New mediaCND continues to expand its onlinepresence with new campaigning toolsand ways of keeping supporters
informed. As well as helping establishedcampaigners to take action instantlythese tools allow us to connect with thegrowing numbers of people especiallyyounger activists who agree with ourstance but are disinclined to formallyjoin organisations.
The CND websiteThere have been over half a million visitsto our website this year, somethingwe hope to increase by a majorupgrade of the website which is
currently in progress.
Online campaigningOnline campaigning actions arebecoming an increasingly popular wayfor people to interact with theirrepresentatives. Since the GeneralElection over 7,000 emails have beensent to MPs, Ministers and others viaour online lobbying tools, with 5,500messages sent to candidates in the run-up to the vote.
Our e-Campaign email newsletter isreceived by over 11,000 people andgives the most up-to-date details aboutCND actions. Please sign-up by filling inyour email address in the box on thefront page of our website.
Facebook and TwitterIn the past year we have doubled ournumber of fans on Facebook to 5,300
whilst 1,500 receive up to the minuteupdates from us via Twitter. KateHudsons blog, which provides regularcommentary on nuclear news, also hasa growing readership.
Reality RadioA major new initiative this year hasbeen the launch of the CND-supportedReality Radio an internet radio stationon the CND website, producing regularpodcasts on a broad range of globalissues. Listeners can download in-depth
interviews to listen to an array ofprominent campaigners, journalists andothers any time they choose.
others as much as possible about the
dangers of this nuclear-armed alliance.
Trade Unions
Please affiliate your branch, region ornational trade union as well as local
trades union councils by using our new
Trade Union leaflet.
Other new materials
New CND membership leaflet Help
us to raise awareness
about CND and
recruit new
members with this
eye-catching new
leaflet containing
facts about what we
do and why, plus a
tear-off Join or
Donate section.
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Nuclear deals with India Trident, jobs and the UK economy
Hiroshima peace exhibition Launching Reality Radio
Chernobyl 25th anniversary Join the Big Blockade in DevonportCND
AUTUMN 2010THE MAGAZINE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
IsTridenton the
way out?
Lets make it happen
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FIRST OF ALL a big thank you to
everyone who donated to ourappeals in 2010. We rely on your
support to do the work that we do. Many
people have been feeling the pinch as the
recession grinds on, and we are all the
more grateful for your financial support in
these difficult times. We never cease to be
amazed and humbled by the generosity
and dedication of CND members, and
our recent appeal has been no exception.
We have had a fantastic response. This
has been a good year politically for thecampaign, with your help we can make
2011 even better.
Setting our 2011 budget has
been a difficult task as CND no
longer has the level of reserves
that we were able to build up
during the last 5-6 years
following several significant
legacies to CND. Those legacies
enabled us to create new staff
posts, leading to more intensive
and effective campaigning, which
will be evident to you all; however this has
also led to increased costs. As a result, very
many budget and grant bids have been cut,
salaries will not rise with inflation and the
picture for 2012 is a concern.
However, fundraising income has
increased in the last year or two and new
ideas are being generated to maintain and
increase income further but the effects of
the recession makes prediction of such
income difficult. It is even more essentialthen that you, as our most ardent
supporters, who know the importance of
our work, respond as generously as you
can to our appeals every little bit helps!
CND Direct Debit
Some of you will have received letters
asking you to change your Standing
Order to a Direct Debit this year
thanks to everyone who has done so
Direct Debits are easier for us to
administer and cost less in bank charges.
You can start a Direct Debit on our
website, or call us on 020 7700 2393. Do
remember that if you start a new Direct
Debit you
must cancel
any existing
Standing Order with your bank.
Merchandise
As ever we have an astonishing array of
CND merchandise available on our website,
www.cnduk.org/shop. If you still have any
pennies left over after Christmas you should
probably go and invest them immediately in
CND t-shirts, mugs, badges, DVDs and
flags. If youve not had a look recently
check out our new kids t-shirts andhoodies, cotton bags, new mugs and flags
all manner of delights.
Legacies
Legacies left to CND continue to be
essential in helping us fund our
campaigning. They enable our
supporters to continue making a
difference to the cause beyond their own
lifetimes. We are immensely grateful to
all our members who have put a bequest
to us in their will.
If you would like more information
about leaving a legacy to CND you can
find it at www.cnduk.org/legacies,
otherwise call us on 020 7700 2393 or
email [email protected] and we cansend you a copy of our information pack
A Legacy for Peace.
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Support us
Nuclear Education TrustNET continues to fund all of CNDs excellent Peace Education work andduring 2010 made an important contribution to the briefings andinformation sheets that CND prepared. NET made only two grant awardsin 2010, reflecting the decline in reserves and the need to focus on NETpriorities. Those grants were for CND Peace Education work in 2011, witha small grant for the Greater Manchester and District CND Peace Week
that took place in September. The NET Trustees have prioritised CNDsPeace Education work, which continues to receive plaudits from manyeducationalists. See www.nucleareducationtrust.net for more information
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Oct 15/16 2010, University of Bradford, Yorkshire
In 2011, CND national Conference and AGM will incorporate a day of action at
military bases in Yorkshire as part of the Keep Space for Peace Week.
Conference gives CND members the opportunity: to vote on policy
and campaigns for the coming year; meet CND council members,staff and other members; and build links within the organisation
and with supporters. Conference and AGM will be held on
Saturday 15th October and will include officer hustings,
ballots for directly-elected council membership and
policy debates.
On Sunday 16th October, Conference will take to the
bases! Taking advantage of the proximity of the two US
Missile Defence bases at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales,
Conference delegates are invited show their opposition to
the expanding US Missile Defence programme at the bases. A full programme of
activities is being organised and will be available for delegates nearer the time.
Up to date information and all conference forms can be found on our website
use the drop down menu under About, which is on all pages.
Registration fees (including any transport to bases)
12 per individual; 40 per group of delegates of CND membership organisations.
Attendance at the AGM is free of charge.
Key deadlines
Directly-elected Council member nomination deadline: Wednesday 29 June.
Please also supply your nominees email address; your name will also be
published.
Resolution deadline: Monday 4th July
Groups will receive a mailing in early April; all members will receive full details inthe summer edition of Campaign
All correspondence to Conference at the CND office or [email protected]
CND Annual Conference and AGM 2011
Kate Hudson, General Secretary
Shift party policies
THE DELAYof the decision on
replacing Trident until 2016 is
extremely welcome and presents
us with a huge opportunity to defeat
replacement once and for all. The fact that
Trident will almost certainly be a general
election issue presents us with some clear
goals, notably to shift party policies in theintervening period. However, party
policy/political shifts require mass popular
pressure to be applied to elected
representatives. They also require a further
shift in public opinion against nuclear
weapons on a sustainable political basis.
Our goal over the next year must be to lay
the groundwork for such shifts by
working to further win hearts and minds
against Trident.
Emphasise cost and securityissues
The wider context continues to be
favourable to our work, as the
governments cuts agenda has driven
nuclear spending into the public spotlight.
Public opinion remains solidly against
Trident spending a situation which
could change if the economic situation
eases, hence the need to ensure that public
opposition is increasingly underpinned by
an understanding of other argumentsagainst nuclear weapons. Whilst the
cuts/costs argument should remain our
primary strand particularly in terms of
opportunity cost, whether that be welfare,
jobs, alternative industrial development in
sustainable energy nevertheless a strong
focus on the irrelevance of Trident to
meet our security needs and the
proliferation consequences of its
retention must be strongly emphasised.
Recent government policies make these
arguments easier, in particular the
National Security Strategy reduction of
the threat of state nuclear attack to a
tier two threat.
Looking ahead to 2011
Extend our alliances
A key emphasis must be the renewal and
extension of our alliances and partnerships
within civil society. This requires work with
the following: trade unions, trades union
councils, faith communities, youth and
student organisations, other campaigning
organisations working on war, military
spending, the environment, debt and
developments, the economy and cuts.
The intention is to drive our anti-nuclearagenda into these areas, intervening in
political debates, to raise the profile of
both anti-nuclear campaigning and CND
itself. This proactive interventionist
approach must also take place in the
print and broadcast media at national and
local level and in all forms of new media.
Local groups can develop their
campaigning on the basis of bringing the
national issue to the local level as well as
using nationally-provided materials. Local
public meetings are also important both
to raise the profile of the issue and
consolidate local alliances through choiceof speakers. Please call us at the CND
office if you would like us to provide a
speaker. Good luck!
Broadening and deepening the Scrap Trident campaign: priorities for the year ahead
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Aldermaston WomensPeace Campaign (AWPC)Since 2002 weve focused on stopping the
Trident replacement-related facilities being
built at Aldermaston and Burghfield. The
year 2010 began with continued invest-
ment in new infrastructure. It ended
with new nuclear co-operation with
France and reconsideration of facilities
for which planning permission hadalready been granted.
Plus a change
Last winter, engaging with other groups
(including CND), we campaigned against
the planning application for a new uranium
facility (Pegasus). It was approved in
February, despite getting the consultation
period extended and a significant response
against the application.
AWPC later campaigned against the
Hydrodynamics facility (Hydrus) planning
application approved in September.
However, in November the MoD
confirmed that, due to the deal to share
Frances Valduc facility, Hydrus-will not
now proceed as originally envisaged ... the
full implications ... and the means of
transitioning ... are under review.
The condensed read
In January AWPC took the unprecedented
step of cancelling camp because of ice andsnow. Elsewhere we participated in an
action training workshop preparing for
Februarys Aldermaston blockade. Six
women were arrested during the blockade,
four of whom were charged and bailed for
several months.
In May AWPC had a small but
important presence at SERCOs AGM
[Serco is one of the three companies
managing AWE] to interact with board
members over safety, legal and moral
issues.
As the year progressed, camp women
began objecting to increasingly invasive
police surveillance of the camp: a formal
complaint has been made.
Out and about, we had a presence at
Glastonbury, Tolpuddle and Womad
festivals, and at London Feminist
Network conference and the Peace News
Summer Camp.
Pause for thought?
Following Octobers Strategic Defence and
Comprehensive Spending Reviews with a
relative pause or perhaps sidestep in the
march towards replacement, we will now
reflect on our strategies and priorities.
For more information please visit
www.aldermaston.net
Campaign AgainstDepleted Uranium (CADU)CADUs priority in 2010 has been
promoting the work of the UK Uranium
Weapons Network (comprising 10 member
organisations). As secretariat, we fundraised
for a part-time worker, updated materials
and developed a new Network identity.
We have been building a sustainable
political campaign to pressurise the
MoD into withdrawing its DU weapons
from service. This was undertaken in
concert with the International Campaign
to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW),
also run from Manchester.
Lev Eakins, our new Network
Campaigner joined us in June and set
about developing our political work.
Databases were created, new briefings
produced and a strategy planned.