No to US nukes in Britain!
Tuesday, 21 March
5:30-7pm
US Embassy, Nine Elms Lane, London, SW11 7US
Speakers include: CND Vice Chair Sophie Bolt; Cllr Emma Dent-Coad; Mil Rai, Peace News Editor; Stop the War Chair Shelly Asquith; Junayd Islam, Cambridge Student CND; Sue Wright, Norwich CND Chair; Jess Barnard, Labour NEC member; and Rev Nagase, London Peace Pagoda.
Practical info
London CND friends and supporters are gathering in Nine Elms, south London to help get this message across. Join us outside the Embassy at Nine Elms Lane, SW11 7US (10 mins from Vauxhall rail and overground, 7 mins from Nine Elms tube).
We want to take up as much space as possible, so please bring:
banners
placards
flags
posters
And let’s make our voice heard!
The meeting point is indicated in red on the maps below. We’re also sharing a picture of the space and an itinerary on how to get there from Nine Elms tube station.
Some context
Londoners are playing our part in highlighting the unwelcome news that United States nukes are returning to Britain. We’ll be at the US Embassy in Vauxhall on Tuesday 21 March, 5.30 to 7pm to say thanks but no thanks – we don’t want these weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction stationed on UK soil.
These nukes will be stationed 70 miles north of London at Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk. The US aircraft capable of delivering these nuclear bombs to their target around the world have already arrived at Lakenheath.
Very few Londoners are aware of this disquieting news. The UK government hope to keep the decision as quiet as possible, and the British media has obliged by paying it almost no attention.
Given the danger they pose to everyone living in Britain, this is nothing less than irresponsible.
Earlier this year, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were reset to 90 seconds to midnight. The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before. US nukes in Britain paint a target on all our backs. We’ll be on the front line in any nuclear exchange.
Some inspiration from Bruce Kent
We honoured Bruce Kent’s death by planting a tree in Finsbury Park at the beginning of March, let’s do it again by alerting Londoner to the danger our government is putting us all in.
One of the last public acts of Bruce Kent before his death last year: