Please join London CND’s Annual General Meeting to decide on the campaign for the year ahead!
Who can attend?
Anyone who is a national member of CND living in London
Anyone who makes a regular payment to London CND
Anyone who is a member of a local group in the Greater London area
If you have any questions, please contact info@londoncnd.org
Meet at 10.50am sharp outside Primark, Church Road, Bromley.
One of the successes at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and following a sell-out run in London earlier this year, this urgent new play by Michael Mears explores the events surrounding the catastrophic ‘mistake’ that launched our nuclear age.
Michael Mears and Japanese performer Riko Nakazono enact the compelling stories of a brilliant Hungarian scientist, a daring American pilot and a devoted Japanese daughter, in a fast-moving, thought-provoking drama about the dangers that arise when humans dare to unlock the awesome power of nature. Unlike the recent OPPENHEIMER film, THE MISTAKE puts the Japanese experience of the atomic bombings front and centre.
It will be playing for two nights at Sands Films, Rotherhithe, on October 26th and 27th. Click here for more info https://www.sandsfilms.co.uk/sands-films-music-room.html
It will be touring to 28 other venues in England and Wales this September and October – click here for more info on the tour https://michaelmears.org/tour-dates-for-the-mistake/
Thurs 26th, 7.30pm - London, Sands Films Studios, Rotherhithe, St Marychurch Street, SE16 4HZ + ONLINE
Fri 27th, 7.30pm - London, Sands Films Studios, Rotherhithe, St Marychurch Street, SE16 4HZ + ONLINE
Instead of fixed price tickets, performances are supported by donations (suggested price: £7.50)
1942. On a squash court in Chicago a dazzling scientific experiment takes place, which three years later will destroy a city and change the world – forever. Through the lives of a brilliant Hungarian scientist, a daring American pilot and a devoted Japanese daughter, this fast-moving, compelling drama confronts the dangers that arise when humans dare to unlock the awesome power of nature.
★★★★ ‘The past comes alive - a gripping piece of storytelling.’ (THE TIMES)
★★★★★ ‘I was genuinely blown away by this production. A dramatic treat.’ (UK THEATRE WEB)
★★★★ ‘A powerful examination of humanity in the wake of Hiroshima.’ (THE LIST)
Join CND on the first of October at the national demonstration at the Tory party conference this year in Manchester to share our Wages not Weapons message!
There is a coach hired to Manchester leaving Lewisham in the morning and returning that same evening. Click the link below to join the Anti-War block at the national demonstration.
Bromley Borough CND is organising an event at the friends meeting house to mark the International Peace Day. Please head down for films, poetry, music, and speeches in recognition of the UN calling a global ceasefire day. Ticketless event.
DSEI – one of the world’s largest arms fairs – returns to London in September 2023. Want to stop the arms fair? Get involved with the Stop the Arms Fair campaign.
Each day of the week of action there will be talks, music, art, workshops, actions and more.
More information to follow, but see the Stop the Arms Fair website for more details or contact resistDSEI@protonmail.com
Nipponzan Myohoji, JAN-UK and Pax Christi are organizing a Peace Walk on Nagasaki Day, Tuesday 9th August 2021. The ceremony will open with an ecumenical service and follow with a walk, congregating at Westminster Cathedral and walking towards Battersea Park. After arriving at the Peace Pagoda in the park, there will be a short commemoration ceremony.
Join the Lewisham and Greenwich CND Nagasaki Day picnic in Chinbrook Meadows, at 1PM.
Organized by Lewisham and Greenwich CND
This year is the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Please join us on Saturday 6 August 2022 at 8.30pm at Rushmere pond on Wimbledon Common (near the War Memorial) for our simple ceremony of poetry, quiet reflection and music followed by a simple ceremony of launching lighted boats in the Japanese tradition.
Organised by the Wimbledon Disarmament Coalition.
We will commemorate the horrors of the first nuclear attack on the 78th anniversary.
Moment of silence at 5:00pm with poetry, songs, and speeches to follow.
- Organised by the South East London Network for Peace and Justice, Lewisham and Greenwich CND and Forest Hill and Sydenham CND
Join Kingston Peace Council/CND for a silent vigil to commemorate the nuclear bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As in the last three years we shall be holding a vigil with boards and leaflets in the town centre. We would welcome helpers to hold the boards and give out leaflets.
For any queries please contact 020 8898 4850 or email hilarymevans@btinternet.com
In the evening we shall hold our usual candlelit commemoration by the river in Canbury Gardens (near the bandstand). The Mayor, Cllr Diane White, & consort, Jonathan White, have accepted an invitation to attend.
Please bring white flowers to float on the river, plus lanterns to line the path.
For any queries please contact 020 8898 4850 or email hilarymevans@btinternet.com
London CND will host a Hiroshima commemoration event in Tavistock Square, London at 12PM on Hiroshima Day.
Speakers include Councillor Nazma Rahman, Mayor of Camden, Roger McKenzie, Councillor Emma Dent-Coad and Jeremy Corbyn MP.
12:00 Choir - Raised Voices
12:05 Welcome
Hannah Kemp-Welch, Co-Chair London CND
Councillor Nazma Rahman - Mayor of Camden
12:15 Memorial
Laying of the wreath - Councillor Nazma Rahman
Chanting - Rev Negase
12:20 Speeches
Roger McKenzie, Vice President of Liberation and International Editor of the Morning Star, former Unison Deputy General Secretary
Councillor Emma Dent-Coad
Jeremy Corbyn MP
12:40 Cultural responses
Michael Mears & Riko Nakazono perform an extract from ‘The Mistake’
Hugh Goodachre plays guitar
12:50 Close
Carol Turner, Co-Chair London CND - London CND announcements
Shigeo Kobayashi, Japanese Against Nuclear - Nagasaki Day announcement
Thanks - Hannah Kemp-Welch
12:55 Choir - Raised Voices
Please get in touch with Julie at info@londoncnd.org if you have any queries.
We will meet opposite the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. We will be leafleting, lighting candles and present peace cranes.
The commemoration will take place on Saturday 5th August, 11am in Finchley Victoria Park, Ballards Lane near the Cafe. Everyone is welcome.
Contact for the day: Gardi - 02084456312
Tottenham Quakers & Haringey Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
invite you to a Public Meeting
Speakers:
Dr Matthias-W. Engelke, Germany, member of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation/German branch, co-founder of the Ecumenical Institute for Peace Theology, OekIF, leading member of the Fast for the removal of all nuclear weapons from Germany
Etienne Godinot, France, co-founder of the Mouvement pour une Alternative Non-Violente and Vice-President of the Institute for Research into the Non-Violent Resolution of Conflict
Kate Hudson, United Kingdom, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Board member of the International Peace Bureau.
Date and Time: Friday August 4th, 7pm (refreshments from 6.30 pm)
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 594 High Road, Tottenham, London N17 9TA
Zoom link: The meeting is also accessible on Zoom. See the following page for zoom link:
https://tottenhamquakers.org.uk/calendar/
For further information:
Marc Morgan, Clerk of Tottenham Quakers; e-mail: marcwmorgan@btinternet.com
David Polden, Secretary Haringey CND; e-mail: davidtrpolden1@gmail.com
SAY NO TO NUCLEAR WAR THREATS!
“Europe is engulfed in a deadly war. Many countries are increasing their military spending in the light of this and other perceived threats to peace. The nine nuclear weapon states, including Britain, are all increasing their nuclear stockpiles. Other countries may well also acquire such weapons.
This summer there will be a wave of protests against nuclear weapons at the time of the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Campaigners from France and Germany are taking part in the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki international Fast against nuclear weapons which is being held in Bristol from 6th-9th August.
On their way there they are stopping off to join protests in London on the 4th and 5th of August. On the 4th they will take part with British anti-nuclear activists in an "Embassy Walk" taking in the Russian, French and German Embassies and Downing Street calling on the four countries to sign the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and get rid of their own ones. There will also be leafleting of the general public at each place and statements handed in. Join us!”
Timetable for the Walk
10am-10.30am: vigil by the Russian Embassy at the junction of Kensington Palace Gardens and Bayswater Road, W8
11.30am-noon: vigil at the French Embassy, 58 Knightsbridge SW1
12.30pm-1pm: vigil at the German Embassy, 23 Belgrave Square/Chesham Place, SW1.
2pm-3pm: vigil outside Downing Street.
On Saturday 5th August there will be public protests, die-ins and leafleting outside the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Join us behind the MOD, in Victoria Embankment Gardens, off Horse Guards Avenue. SW1A 2HB, from 10 am to 1pm.
SIGN THE TPNW TREATY!
Organised by Trident Ploughshares and Haringey CND.
Info: marcwmorgan@btinternet.com
This film shows the way nuclear weapons began. We are right now shaping the way nuclear weapons will end. Whether you’re a biopic enthusiast wondering about its representation in a Hollywood blockbuster, a raging peace activist or a just interested in the chat, come and watch 'Oppenheimer' with the London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament!
We’ll open the screening with a few pointers from the head of the Films Studies department at Queen Mary University, Guy Westwell. He is a specialist of Hollywood war film and anti-war film, so we will be in good hands.
The screening will be followed by an informal Q&A with Guy and Kate Hudson, the general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. By profession a historian, Kate is a key figure in the anti-war movement nationally and internationally.
Please note - this film contains sequences of flickering or flashing lights that may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy
Join the Lewisham and Greenwich CND public meeting at Friends Meeting House, Blackheath.
-The existential threat of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia must be eliminated. Between them, they have around 12,000 nuclear weapons between them—some 100 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
-US nuclear weapons look set to return to RAF Lakenheath, a base in the UK that is run by the US. Their return will only increase global tensions and put Britain on the frontline in a NATO/Russia war.
--The return of US nuclear weapons to Britain – along with the upgrading of its nuclear weapons across Europe – constitutes a further undermining of prospects for global peace. The US is the only country to locate its nuclear weapons outside its own borders and this major increase in NATO’s capacity to wage nuclear war in Europe is dangerously destabilising and must be opposed.
-The US drive for global domination through military influence was most notable in Afghanistan. NATO assumed control of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in 2003, marking NATO’s first deployment outside Europe or North America. NATO only withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021.
-The rebalancing of US foreign policy towards Asia launched by former US President Obama has undoubtedly shaped NATO policy too, raising tensions and helping to militarise the Asia-Pacific region, a part of the world with four nuclear weapon states – India, Pakistan, China and North Korea.
-CND believes that a vital step towards global nuclear disarmament would be achieved with the removal of all US nuclear weapons from European bases, including a firm commitment not to base them at RAF Lakenheath. Britain should withdraw from NATO, and all foreign military bases on British soil should be closed.
Organized by Lewisham and Greenwich CND
Join the CND stall at Blackheath Farmers’ Market at 10 am on Sunday 9th July!
Organized by Lewisham and Greenwich CND
Join the CND stall at St. Alfege’s Greenwich at 11 am on Saturday 8th July!
Organized by Lewisham and Greenwich CND
We would like you to join us for a celebration of the life of
1927 – 2023
Saturday 10 th June 2023
2.00pm – 5pm
At Wimbledon Village Lecture Hall
26 Lingfield Road
London SW19 4QD
At Maisie’s request:
Funeral: NO
Service: NO
Party: YES YES YES
Dress: casual
RSVP
Mick: carterlandscape@blueyonder.co.uk
Tel 07973 257650
20 May 2023
CND condemns the return of US nuclear weapons to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk: join our demonstration to protest this extremely dangerous and destabilising development!
London CND is planning transport for London, you can book your tickets by following this link:
Save the date!
CND will be supporting an XR action in London taking place from April 21st where we will be standing up for the planet and against nuclear weapons.
More information to follow, but with any queries in the meantime please contact information@cnduk.org
Michael Mear’s The Mistake is back at the Arcola Theatre!
The play went tremendously well at the Edinburgh Fringe, getting excellent reviews and wonderful audience feedback, as well as a couple of awards. It is now coming to the ARCOLA THEATRE, Dalston from April 18th to April 22nd, 7pm each evening, with a Saturday matinee on the 22nd April at 3pm.
1942. On a squash court in Chicago a dazzling scientific experiment takes place, which three years later will destroy a city and change the world – forever. Through the lives of a brilliant Hungarian scientist, a daring American pilot and a devoted Japanese daughter, this fast-moving, compelling drama confronts the dangers that arise when humans dare to unlock the awesome power of nature.
London CND will be joining musician Beans on Toast at his gig at Lafayette (behind St Pancras Station) on Saturday 25 March 2023 at 19:00.
One year since the war in Ukraine began and with the Doomsday clock closer to midnight than ever before, the UK folk singer returns with a timely protest song that needs little explanation.
““Against the War is a protest song. It’s a song about peace written in a time of war. It wasn’t an easy song to write, but like everyone, the horrors of the Ukraine invasion have been at the forefront of my mind for the past year.””
Available on Bandcamp as a “pay what you feel” release, all proceeds from the sales of “Against The War” will go directly to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (C.N.D.). A limited edition T-shirt will also be available from 24 February, with 20% of profits additionally to be donated to the C.N.D.
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.
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.
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.
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:
On 15 March members of the National Education Union (NEU) will begin two days of strike action in their campaign to win a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise for teachers. They are asking supporters to join us on a demonstration to support this action.
As part of CND’s Wages not Weapons campaign, we will be joining the protest to highlight the government’s wrong priorities.
Assemble 12 noon in Hyde Park, near Speakers Corner, before marching to Trafalgar Square. Look out for CND’s yellow banner to join our bloc!
For any queries please contact information@cnduk.org
CND is a member of the SOS NHS campaign, as part of our Nurses not Nukes campaign highlighting the government’s wrong priorities. Join this national demonstration calling for action on the unprecedented crisis in the NHS and in support of NHS staff forced to take strike action.
This is also a moment ahead of the Spring Budget to bring people together around an issue that unites us all.
The demonstration will assemble at 12pm Midday, on Saturday 11 March, at the north-most end of Tottenham Court Road (Euston end) opposite Warren Street Underground Station NW1 3AA.
Click here for more information
For any queries, please contact campaigns@keepournhspublic.com
A tree will be planted in memory of Bruce Kent on Saturday 4th March at 2pm in Finsbury Park in north London. This was Bruce’s local park. He was very active in his local community as well as having a world-wide impact.
The tree has been grown by Jeremy Corbyn. He will be with us to assist us all in planting the tree.
The best route into the park is the Endymion Road entrance – see image below. Come in to the park via the Endymion Road entrance and walk straight ahead until you see the track on your right and then opposite (green circle) is where we will aim to plant the tree. You can click on the map below to find your way.
At the end of February it will be one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. To mark the day, Stop the War has called a national demonstration in central London on Saturday 25 February at midday to say No To War.
From the very beginning, the Stop the War Coalition demanded ‘Russian Troops Out,’ we also opposed the NATO expansion, which was one of the causes of the war and the rapid military escalation in the conflict.
One year on, the situation is deadlocked and it is clear there can be no winners in this war, that is why we need to be on the streets to demand Peace Talks Now.
Location TBC and list of speakers announced soon!
For any queries, please contact office@stopwar.org.uk
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