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ANNUAL REVIEW 2004

Contents

Introduction 1

CND in 2004 2

Regions, Nations, SpecialistSections and AutonomousCampaigns 6

Membership 16

What you can do 17

Fundraising 18

Treasurer’s Report 19

CND in 2005 20

CND Personnel 21

Contacts 22

2005 is a significant year for anti-nuclear campaigners. Sixtyyears ago, the United States dropped atomic bombs onHiroshima and Nagasaki, unleashing the most appalling

horror and suffering. Ever since, it has been suggested that thebombs saved lives by shortening the war. But that just wasn’ttrue. Professor J.K. Galbraith, Official US Investigator in Japan in1945, stated categorically, ‘The bombs fell after the decision had beentaken by the Japanese government to surrender.’ Sixty years on, CND

campaigns vigorously for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the prevention of warsin which they may be used. Sadly, the risk of their use is greater today than it has beenfor years, because both the US and UK governments have orientated towards nuclearfirst use policies, and the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons,designed actually to be used on the battlefield. Much of our campaigning over the lastyear – including the Aldermaston march of Easter 2004 – has been focused on raisingpublic awareness of these developments, and telling the government that we do notwant any nuclear weapons – old or new.

2005 is also significant because the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ReviewConference takes place this May. Last year our campaigns highlighted the government'snon-compliance with its treaty obligations to get rid of its nuclear weapons: its hypocrisyin going to war, ostensibly to disarm Iraq of its mythical weapons of mass destruction,when we have plenty of our own – lurking in Faslane, or being refitted in Devonport.Great hopes have been placed, over the years, in the NPT, particularly after the 13 stepswere agreed, in 2000, including the ‘unequivocal undertaking’ by the nuclear weaponsstates to disarm. But no steps have been taken, and the US and UK are both movingtowards a rejection of the disarmament pillar of the NPT. Last year, in its formalpresentation to the NPT PrepCom, the US didn't even mention disarmament. Recentreports indicate that this year the US will seek to invalidate the 13 steps. They havealready described it as a historical document.

In reality, the US and UK have already rejected the NPT, not only through failure todisarm, but by embracing nuclear weapons as part of a useable arsenal, and movingtowards the development of a new generation for that purpose. Hand in hand with thisvertical proliferation and rejection of disarmament goes the use of the danger ofhorizontal proliferation for political purposes – first against Iraq and now, increasinglylikely, against Iran.

This results in a ‘re-branding’ exercise, where ‘counter-proliferation’ becomes thefocus, rejecting disarmament entirely. We have seen this in the UK, where the Non-Proliferation Department in the Foreign Office has been renamed the ‘Counter-Proliferation’ Department, and ministers talk about our legal right to own nuclearweapons under the NPT. That is a profoundly wrong re-interpretation of the NPT. Allwe are legally entitled to do is to progress towards abolition.

All the more reason to put maximum pressure on our government now, before theReview Conference, to say that we want Treaty compliance, we want a world free fromthe fear of nuclear annihilation.

Thank you for everything you have done for the cause of peace and nucleardisarmament over the past year. Let’s pay tribute to those who lost their lives sixty yearsago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by working together in 2005 to say, Never Again.

Kate Hudson, Chair CND

Introduction

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CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

Trident in the UK

Campaigning to Scrap Tridentremains CND’s top priority,whether it is protesting with

Plymouth’s Nuclear Free Coalition againstthe ongoing refits in DevonportDockyards, working with Scottish CNDand Trident Ploughshares to blockadeFaslane, or lobbying diplomats at the NPT.All of these have been on the agenda in2004, as well as stepping up the pressureagainst a replacement for Trident – anannouncement on which is expected in thenext parliament.

Working in Plymouth, the Nuclear- FreeCoalition held a successful public meeting inMarch, with speakers including MichaelMeacher MP and Bruce Kent. This wasfollowed up in May by a nationally-backedmarch – coinciding with a TridentPloughshares camp – from Plymouth Hoeto the Dockyard gates. Kate Hudson andMarjorie Trevor (a war-time WREN basedin Plymouth) handed in a statement and acontainer of contaminated local river mud.With national CND’s work in the area ledby Patrick van den Bulck, working togetherwith other local activists, we have managedin three years to get the issue of nuclearsubmarines and the Trident refit right upthere on the front pages of the newspapersand on to the local television and radio.With problems around submarine safetyand delays with the refit exacerbating localconcerns, Trident in Plymouth now forms amajor part of the public agenda, far morelocal politicians now oppose the refit, andthe community is very aware of the issuesfacing them.

Campaigning against Trident continuesin Scotland, with Scottish CND andTrident Ploughshares taking regular actions,including the mass action Carry on up theClyde (the Big Blockade 2004) in August.

New nuclear weaponsCampaigning has continued against theresearch and development of a newgeneration of nuclear weapons at AWEAldermaston in Berkshire. In spring 2004

we held our ‘No New Nukes’ campaignmonth of action, with petitions and leaflets,to build for the Aldermaston 2004 march atEaster. Jointly organised with AldermastonWomen’s Peace Camp and Slough4Peace,hundreds of activists marched the wholedistance, doing much to raise publicawareness of this new danger. Many youngpeople joined us. CND also supports theBlock the Builders initiative launched by theAldermaston Women’s Peace Camp tomobilise in the event of building workstarting.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT) Preparatory CommitteeNPT non-compliance by our governmenthas been a central feature of ourcampaigning during 2004. To reinforce ourarguments, CND had a strong profile at the

NPT PrepCom in New York in May – thelast before the 2005 Review Conference.The outcomes were not good, with noagreement reached on progress towardsdisarmament, but NGOs lobbied stronglyto put their case. CND produced itspopular briefing paper, and held a fringemeeting on the dangers of verticalproliferation, with guest speakers from theUS, UK and France. Kate Hudson andSam Akaki met Ambassador NobuyasuAbe, UN Secretary General forDisarmament, and CND’s banner wasdisplayed at the May Day disarmamentrally in New York. Embassy visits havebeen undertaken during the course ofthe year, and an Adjournment Debateon the NPT took place in Parliamentthanks to our very active and supportiveMPs.

9 April 2004: Marchers leave London for the walk to Aldermaston Photo: Sue Longbottom

CND in 2004

Star WarsAs the largest campaigning organisationcampaigning on the US Star Wars plans,CND has been extremely active over thepast year. Early in the year we held a majorblockade of the Menwith Hill spy and StarWars base in North Yorkshire withhundreds of people taking part and 30arrests. The blockade lasted for hours,closed all but one of the gates, causeddisruption to the working of the base andraised its profile in the media.

Over the summer CND Chair KateHudson joined Yorkshire CND on asponsored walk between the UK’s two StarWars bases – Fylingdales and Menwith Hill.Receiving good media coverage, the 70-mile walk took place between Hiroshimaand Nagasaki Days. Also during thesummer, CND researched and wrote adetailed report on space weapons, launchedit publicly in September with an article inThe Guardian and sent it to over 250 MPs.To support the report we commissioned anofficial ICM poll on the public’s knowledgeabout and view on space weapons, whichwe publicised during Keep Space for PeaceWeek. The public are on our side – 70%

think space weapons should be banned.Also during Keep Space for Peace Week

CND reminded the UK that we are on thefront line of Star Wars by joining ThomYorke of Radiohead and 350 other peoplefor a hope-filled demo at Fylingdales. Wemarched, sang, signed petitions, ate foodand made our point with clear demandsand good spirits. As evidence that CNDhas its finger on the pulse on this issue, thisyear it was also one of the groups aroundthe world to notice early on the significanceof a little known satellite developmentcalled NFIRE which had potential spaceweapons elements in it. The outrage we andothers showed helped put this developmenton the backburner before most people hadeven heard of it.

CND, working closely with YorkshireCND, is an important and active part ofthe international campaign to stop StarWars and we welcome your activity andsupport.

For more about Star Wars:www.cnduk.org/pages/campaign/starwrs.html

NATO and EuropeFurther expansion of NATO, together with

a drive towards increased Europeanmilitarization within the proposed EUconstitution, has brought these issues upthe agenda. Newly-elected CND NationalCouncil member Caroline Lucas MEP hasworked with us to raise our concerns in theEuropean Parliament, alongside JeanLambert MEP, and Jill Evans MEP, Chairof CND Cymru. We have played a majorrole in the third European Social Forum,which was held in London in October, andworked to raise the anti-nuclear agendaamongst the 25,000 participants. BruceKent chaired a huge meeting where wewere able to arrange a live telephone link-up with Mordechai Vanunu from Israel,and we were able to build new links andnetwork with other peace movements fromacross Europe. We also continue toparticipate in the European Network forPeace and Human Rights, and the newly-established Abolition 2000 Europe.

Plutonium economyEvents in the UK civil nuclear powerindustry moved quite rapidly in 2004. TheNuclear Decommissioning Authority(NDA) is due to take over all

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September 2004: Demonstration at Fylingdales during Keep Space for Peace week

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responsibilities for decommissioning in thefirst quarter of 2005. Sellafield, Dounreayand the Magnox fleet will be some of thetop priorities being examined. The UStransnational Bechtel is strongly rumouredto be in line to take over BNG – formerlyBNFL. Local CND activists continue tocampaign around Britain’s ageing nuclearpower stations, and many will be gettinginvolved in local consultations, over thenext year, concerning the future of theirlocal nuclear facility.

Occupation of IraqFollowing the illegal war on Iraq, CND hascontinued to oppose the occupation,believing that the aggressor forces cannotbring peace and democracy to that country.They are part of the problem not part ofthe solution. If any international support isrequired by the Iraqis it should be underthe auspices of the United Nations.

Throughout the year we have continuedto work closely on this issue with the Stopthe War Coalition and the MuslimAssociation of Britain, maintaining theunity of the anti-war movement. We havejointly organised numerous hugedemonstrations, protests and vigils, andCND speakers have travelled up and downthe country to participate in publicmeetings. We have continued to bring ouranti-nuclear issues into the anti-warmovement, so that people will be awarethat nuclear weapons are at the heart of theUS war drive, as evidenced by the USNuclear Posture Review. We have alsobeen working to raise awareness of thedangers of a US attack on Iran.

Press and parliamentaryWe have achieved widespread coveragethroughout 2004, across the range of printand broadcast media and secured anincreased profile for CND’s issues. RuthTanner, CND’s Press Officer has alsoworked with local groups to generate localpress coverage, and provided model pressreleases to help activists in their work. Animportant development in our parliament-ary work has been the launch ofParliamentary CND, a cross-partyparliamentarians’ group, replacing theprevious Labour-only group. This hasfacilitated broad cooperation amongst our

many supporters in Parliament from anumber of different parties, and is chairedby CND Vice-Chair Jeremy Corbyn MP.CND Parliamentary Officer, Sam Akaki,has continued to produce Lobby, ourparliamentary newsletter, and has preparedparliamentary questions and Early DayMotions on Trident, New Nukes, theMDA, Missile Defence, NATO andEurope, and Britain’s NPT commitment.

We had a strong profile at Labour PartyConference in Brighton, producing abriefing paper, and staffing a stall in theConference Centre. We also participated inthe Green Party spring conference in Hove.We have continued to maintain positive

working relationships with members of theNew Agenda Coalition, supporting theirUN resolution for a nuclear free world, andhave visited other embassies, as well as theForeign Office to lobby for compliancewith the NPT.

CND legal initiativesIn 2003, CND, along with Greenpeace,Campaign Against the Arms Trade, theGreen Party and Mark Thomas, took alegal initiative to bring Blair, Straw andHoon to the International Criminal Courtfor War Crimes and crimes againsthumanity. Before the war on Iraq started,they were warned that if the conduct of the

20 March 2004: No war lies demonstration Photo: Sue Longbottom

war violated International HumanitarianLaw then CND, together with internationallawyers and other NGOs, would take stepsto hold them accountable before theProsecutor of the International CriminalCourt.

In November 2003, Peacerightsorganised the next stage of this process, atribunal made up of eight eminent expertsin International Law, whose brief was todetermine whether internationalhumanitarian law was violated during thewar and the occupation of Iraq. Alsoincluded was whether the use of depleteduranium and cluster bombs constitute warcrimes because of their lack of discrimina-tion and proportionality, central tenets ofhumanitarian law.

The tribunal’s conclusions werepresented in January, and declared thatthere is a case to answer over the conductof the war. The results of the enquiry weresent to the Attorney General, asking him totake action. Unsurprisingly, he refused, butthis now allows the ICC Prosecutor toinvestigate. In December, the ICCProsecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, madehis first response, describing the war crimesallegations as ‘one of the most significant’cases he has seen, which were being given‘deserved weight’ by his investigators. Weawait his next response!

The White Ribbon Fund was primarilyused to finance the Peacerights enquiry butit also contributed to legal support costs fora hearing into the illegality of the war as adefencive argument, being used by anumber of activists on trial for actions atFairford – the ‘Fairford Five’ – and otherbases in the run up to the war. A hearingtook place in May to determine whetherthis defence could be used. The judge ruledthat the illegality of the war could not beused as a defence but that acting to preventa war crime could. Both sides appealedagainst this judgment at the Court ofAppeal.

At that hearing, the Foreign Officemade a submission warning that a UKcourt expressing an opinion on the legalityof the war would have seriously negativeeffects on UK foreign relations! So it wasno surprise to find that the July judgmentagain ruled that the illegality of the warcould not be used as a defence and that

prevention of a crime of aggression couldalso not be used. The defendants are leftwith the defence of honestly believing theywere protecting people in Iraq. Thedefendants have been granted leave toappeal to the House of Lords and arecurrently waiting for a date to be set.

For more details of these legal casesuse the links on this page on our websitewww.cnduk.org/pages/campaign/-niraq.html

Letter-writingCND’s letter-writing team has again had abusy year. We provide backgroundinformation and a list of points to make,eight or nine times a year. In 2004, welobbied about Missile Defence, the NuclearNon-Proliferation Treaty, the implementa-tion of the United Nations Study onDisarmament and Non-ProliferationEducation, and the Mutual DefenceAgreement. We sent letters of support toMordechai Vanunu and MohamedElBaradei, Director of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency. Letters inform,encourage and put forward our point ofview. Not everyone can write every letterbut even one a year helps. In the lead-up tothe NPT Review Conference, in May 2005,we are writing to the UK and USAmbassadors to the Conference and toAmbassador Duarte, who will chair theproceedings. Thank you to all the membersof the team. To join, please contact Fay:[email protected], or ring the national office,indicating whether you want to receiveinformation by e-mail or post.

OtherIn order to strengthen our links with thetrade union movement, a new CND/TUCoordinating Committee was set up inOctober, with representatives of CND andtrade unions affiliated to CND. We will beworking closely together to raise CND’sissues in the trade union movement.

Work on CND’s archives continuesthanks to Archivist Dr Sheila Jones, andmaterials are available to researchers at theLSE Library.

It is impossible, for reasons of space, tomention all the areas of work that CNDhas engaged in over the last year, but a hugeamount had been achieved, and we have

received much help in researching andwriting briefings and peace educationmaterial. We would like to thank all CNDmembers, staff, volunteers, office interns,supportive MPs and trade unionists, andour allies across a whole range of peacegroups and anti-war organisations. We areextremely grateful to all of them – togetherwe will continue to make an impact as wework towards our common goal of peaceand nuclear disarmament.

WebsiteThe address of the CND website iswww.cnduk.org. Although we have had awebsite for a number of years, it really tookoff late 2002 when there was enormousinterest caused by the Iraq war. It was re-designed early 2003 and we are continuallyadding new features. The website is a hugeresource for our members, the public,teachers, school pupils, journalists, anyonein fact. For those of you without your owncomputer, go along to your local librarywhere someone will show you how to getto our website – and then leave it as a‘favourite’ so that others may find it!

In the last few months we haveintroduced on-line merchandise sales, newmembers can also join via the website anddonations can be made. Earlier in the yearthe Education section was launched. Thiscontains lots of information about MissileDefence and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in apupil-friendly manner. Other piecescontaining teachers’ notes and a re-vampedHistory of CND will be appearing in theEducation section shortly. A resourcessection for groups and an interactive mapwith lots of information are also on theirway. Briefings on many subjects, pressreleases, information on our majorcampaigns, leaflets for download, even theconstitution and our audited accounts, canall be found on the website.

The front page provides informationabout our current plans and is changed atleast weekly and the diary page containsinformation about many events over thecoming year. Do take a look!

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CND Cymru

The last four months have beenparticularly hectic. More than oneof those months was spent

preparing the CND Cymru archives forthe Welsh Political Archive at the NationalLibrary of Wales. It is up to us in the peacemovement to make sure we tell our ownstory, or it will be the authority’s version,with any distortions it deems expedient,that survives us. The best bit of this is thatwhen the Library lorry comes to take ourcollection to Aberystwyth, we shall be over30 archive boxes, some banners and awhole bundle of posters lighter.

At the same time, our magazine,Heddwch no. 34, has been produced anddistributed; Dave Rolstone(Pembrokeshire) has been in prison forpainting a Trident nuclear submarine; RayDavies (CND Cymru Vice-Chair) has beendetained in and deported from Israel andthen immediately on his return to Walesimprisoned for non-payment of finesrelating to three anti-war/trident activitiesand we got plenty of excellent presscoverage for the issues. The bombing ofFallujah co-incided with Remembrance.The highlights in Wales this year werewhen the excellent Aberystwyth TownCouncil agreed to place a white poppywreath on the war memorial onRemembrance Sunday and CND Cymrudid support work and helped with presscoverage and were included in discussionprogrammes and phone-ins.

CND Cymru organised a fringe-meetingat Plaid Cymru Autumn Conference‘Global Warming is the problem – NuclearPower is not the answer’ and also displayedour exhibition on Weapons of MassDestruction. (There was also a fringemeeting on the Impeach Blair campaignorganised by Adam Price MP).

We received no invitation to LabourParty Wales Conference. We took part inthe Communist University of Wales eventat Pontypridd where we had a stall anddisplayed the Found! WMD, and the Wales

against War photograph exhibitions. Newlyreleased from jail, Ray addressed themeeting.

Our CND Cymru Membership workhas been transferred to lovely MonicaBradley thanks to her (and to Brian Jonesand Ben Freeman).

We are on the working group for a newinitiative Oes Heddwch/The Welsh PeaceProject, which aims to set up a centre fornon-violence in Wales to promoteeducation about non-violence and to trainpeople and to publicise their part ininternational intervention/observation inconflict areas.

Another project we have initiated isresearch into the extent of the Militaris-ation of Wales. Delyn Harris is collectinginformation about the extent to whichWales (with environmental sustainabilitynominally at the heart of our Assembly’sfounding principles) is involved in the war-machine. This includes the MoD,government agencies, educationalinstitutions, arms companies etc. A launchis planned for August (NationalEisteddfod) with a campaign to follow.

Wylfa Nuclear Power Station: we hadgood press coverage following ourstatement about armed guards beingintroduced at nuclear power stationsaround Britain. The authorities have alwayspreviously denied that these stations couldbe a terrorist target – we have called forimmediate closure (again).

2005 Campaigning Events: severalevents are planned so far for this year. • Presentation of Cynefin y Werin

‘maniffesto’ to members, electedrepresentatives (AMs, MEPs and MPs)and press along with calendar ofsignificant peace and justice dates (alsoto go as centre spread in January editionof Seren newspaper). Launch on 18January at the National Assembly.

• 19 February: with the help of Pobl AtalWylfa B, Bangor Justice & Peace Groupand Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance – weare holding a Nuclear Power/Nuclear

Weapons conference in AberystwythUniversity.

• 19 March: with the help of AberystwythPeace and Justice Network – an allWales anti-war rally focussing on‘Responsibility and the War’, with PhilShiner and the Peace Tax 7 (soundsrather like a very politically sorted popgroup) amongst other speakers. Philwas awarded The Humanitarian Lawyerof the Year for 2004.

• NPT: lobbying of elected (and non-elected) representatives and Mayors inWales to sign up to the Mayors forPeace Statement.

• Nuclear-Free Wales: Lobbying ofUnitary Authorities to join WalesNuclear Free Forum.

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 60thanniversary plans to use events toremind, nay inform people aboutTrident. New exhibition for NationalEisteddfod etc. Presentation of petitionfrom the summer. Thinks: we’ll have tocreate a new bilingual petition. Supportfor Trident Ploughshares and also Blockthe Builders.

Scottish CND The Executive Committee, its sub-committees and working groups and ourtwo members of staff have worked wellthis year to improve communications,streamline our working practices and planahead for more effective campaigning.

The Campaigns Committee of ScottishCND took forward a number of projectsincluding:• The Easter protest when a group of

stalwarts took a few days to walk toFaslane, campaigning on the way, andwere joined on Easter Monday byseveral hundred demonstrators whomarched to the gates of the base forspeeches.

• Working with Trident Ploughshares toorganise the blockade of the FaslaneNaval Base in August.

• Providing support for ‘travelling

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activists’ going to take part in protestsat Menwith Hill against the Star Warsprojects.

• The re-vitalisation of ‘Nukewatch’ –spotting, following and campaigningagainst nuclear convoys travelling alongour roads carrying very dangerousloads without any warning to localauthorities or the general public.

• Fortress Scotland – researching andupdating the publication, which tellsthe story of the militarisation ofScotland.

• Preparation for and participation in theEuropean Social Forum with aworkshop on nuclear weapons.

• Preparations for an SCND projectduring the G8 summit, due to be heldin Scotland in 2005.

• Developing a plan for the ‘Scotland’sfor Peace’ campaign to be launched inMarch 2005.The Membership, Outreach and

Recruitment Committee has madesignificant progress in:• The development of a much improved

contact database and a streamlining ofmembership recruitment and renewal

with a significant amount of staff input.• The strengthening of membership to

just over 2,000 with plans for arecruitment drive early next year.

• The recognition of new groupsbringing the total to seven withgroundwork done for more groups tocome into being in the coming year.

• A regular presence of an SCND streetstall in Glasgow City Centre staffed byvolunteers and co-ordinated by PhillJones, our Campaigns worker.

• 24 affiliated organisations signed upand plans in place to increase thisnumber.

• Meetings have been held to set up aYouth and Student network.

• A merchandising strategy being put inplace to sell items which will promoteSCND and make a modest profit.The Education Committee maintains

communications with and providesresources for the education community.This is a very dedicated group of peoplewho have done sterling work on ourbehalf, creating new resources andupdating those already in existence.

CND RegionsCambridgeshire CND AreaNetworkPeace stalls in Cambridgeshire were verysuccessful this year, attracting hundreds ofpeople to sign the No New Nukes andKeep Space For Peace petitions and theWorld Court Project declaration.

Our main event was the annual stall atthe Cambridge Strawberry Fair in June.The stall has also been used by our onlylocal group, Peterborough CND, onseveral occasions in their city centre. Itprovides a colourful display and alsosupplies badges, postcards, and leaflets.The public was mainly interested ininformation about the occupation of Iraqbut once at the stall, also supportive ofcampaigns around Star Wars and theNon-Proliferation Treaty.

Two CND public meetings were heldin Peterborough, jointly with the localPeace Campaign, one with Bruce Kent,and the other with an Iraqi, Dr IsmailJalili.

CND members in the county have alsoattended national demonstrations inLondon, and regional ones at Lakenheathand Molesworth. Within the county, theother main peace group is Campeace,based in Cambridge, which campaigns ona range of peace issues including thenuclear one. Any readers of this reportwho live in the county and wish to findout more about our activity or tocontribute, should get in touch.

Contact: email: [email protected]

Cumbria and North Lancs CNDAlthough we have many members towhom areas send regular newsletters, wedo not have many active members.However, across the region we have helddemonstrations, vigils and other activities,such as stalls with leaflets and petitions,and some of us have been to demonstra-tions at Menwith Hill, Fylingdales andFaslane.

Lancaster and District CND now hasstrong links with Yorkshire CND to showtheir solidarity with peace campaigners onthe other side of the Pennines. LancasterGreen Party has seven district councillorsand Green Party members have givenconsistent support to local peace events.

Taking CND’s message to the streets – local campaigning in Peterborough Photo: Dave Pybus

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Public meetings have been held in someareas, for example Helen John came toUlverston to speak about Menwith Hill,and Tony Benn came to Carlisle the localvicar inviting us to hold the meeting in hischurch, free of charge. This excellentmeeting was attended by at least 600people. Many donations were made andmany people signed the No New Nukespetition. Tony Benn would not accept anyexpenses and offered to make a donationto our local group. Our current project inmany areas is approaching local mayorsregarding Mayors for Peace.

East Midlands CND East Midlands CND began 2004 with aCitizens Inspection at the site of theTrident Reactor factory run by Rolls RoyceMarine at Raynes Way in Derby. Anervous interview was held by twomanagement representatives with activistsfrom East and West Midlands who pliedthem with questions about their safetyrecord, international law, terrorism andtheir plans for diversification. Theinterview, held on a snowbound day inJanuary was recorded on video by ‘security’guards at the base, referred constantly tocommercial confidentiality and the OfficialSecrets Act but revealed useful informationabout radioactive discharges and thefinancial disarray of the MOD in itsconstruction programme.

EMCND joined the Devonportcampaign at the public meeting withMichael Meacher and Bruce Kent inPlymouth, the Rally against New Nukes atAldermaston at Easter, and the actionagainst the Trident Refit in May. It wasclear to us that the use of the base inDerby was little known and an action inApril of 2004 leafleted a 1,000 Derbyresidents, stated our concerns on localBBC radio, and visited civic leaders after ashort march to Derby Town Hall. Despitethe contempt of the Derby mayor, a letterto the Emergency Planning Officerrevealed the shortcomings in the healthand safety plans of the local council, in theevent of a radiation emergency.

Plans to build six Astute submarineswere shelved by the MOD later in the yeardue to financial constraints.

By August Alan Simpson, the

Nottingham MP, was demanding aparliamentary debate of the US/UKMutual Defence Agreement. We held a dayschool furthering the links betweenourselves and the Devonport campaignwith Patrick van den Bulk, NationalCampaigns Organiser, Geri Laithwaite ofthe Nuclear-Free Coalition in Devon andBoston reporter Cameron Wilson. It wasour best meeting of the many we haveheld, and September saw several of ouractivists participating in the debates atAnnual Conference. With approval for fiveof our six aims of Res.10 EMCND looksforward to a busy 2005.

Our thanks must go to the groupsfrom Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire,Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, who haveprovided such an enthusiastic response toour actions and extended CND’s impactinto areas off the CND radar for so long.

Contact: 07870 218148.

Gtr Manchester & District CND GM&D CND continues to take a jointlead in Greater Manchester Stop the WarCoalition, organising, publicising and takingpart in public meetings, rallies anddemonstrations, both nationally andregionally. The GM&D CND worker wason the organising team for the GM STWannual conference, chairing sessions andcarrying out press and promotional work.

We have built on the strong links madewith other peace and anti-war groups andManchester city student groups and creatednew links with faith groups and youthgroups in the region. We regularly liaisewith university groups to co-ordinatetransport to demos at Menwith Hill,Fylingdales and national demos. We haveextended our outreach programme bygiving talks, creating student workshops,producing briefing materials, city and towncentre leafleting, staffing stalls at publicmeetings and during the universities’freshers week. The circulation list for theregular newsletter, Early Warning, continuesto grow.

Our press work has expanded with localand national press approaching us forstories, comments, research and feedback.

Many individuals and groups contributeto our fundraising but we are particularlygrateful to Clare Frisby for organising gigs

in the city centre which also raise CND’sprofile.

All GM&D CND local groups continueto be active with letter writing campaigns,holding public meetings, organising vigilsand stalls and lobbying their mayors andlocal councils on behalf of Mayors forPeace. They have also actively supportednational and regional demonstrations,actions and meetings.

Rae Street, Chair GM&D CND,attended the World Social Forum inMumbai and attended and spoke at theAGM of Labour Action for Peace andWILPF AGM.

Our worker helped to organise a vigilfor Tom Hurndall, Manchester studentkilled in Rafah, Palestine, (creating flyersand carrying out all press work).

We have made strong links with theSalford Working Class Movement Librarywho have undertaken to archive ourmaterials, banners and videos. We havealso passed on the library’s details to CNDNational’s archivist.

Rae Street was key speaker and we wereat the opening of the A-bomb exhibition atManchester Town Hall organised by theNFLA. Our worker carried out press workfor this exhibition. A group from GM&DCND also attended the Nuclear Weaponsseminar at Imperial War Museum North aspart of the A-bomb exhibition.

Public meetings which have beenorganised include Trial of Tony Blairduring the Labour Spring Conference inManchester, Hustings Meeting for localand European elections, an open airscreening of Noam Chomsky talk, NuclearClean-up (in partership with SERA)meeting, Hiroshima day and Release ofMordechai Vanunu vigils, a Spring Concertfor Peace and US Military Families Againstthe Occupation.

We have provided speakers and chairsfor the following meetings: Dharma YatraPeace Walk, Belgian language student visitto Manchester, Network for PeaceConference, Carmel College, regional Stopthe War groups (various meetings), GMStop the War vigils, CADU/Iraq SolidarityCampaign, Saddleworth Peace Walk,launch of Oldham Unite Against Racisim,Salford University media students, MABlocal meetings, Keele University, UNISON

regional AGM, media students in Burnley,Tom Hurndall vigil.

London Region CNDOur AGM in January elected a new chair,Sophie Bolt, as the previous chair, KateHudson, had been elected to chair ofCND. This was the start to another veryactive year for London Region CND.Members mobilised for demonstrationsagainst the occupation of Iraq, and localgroups organised activities with otherpeace and anti-war organisations such asStop the War Coalition, and faithcommunities. Also, a lot of energies wentinto campaigning against the threat of newnuclear weapons, and plans to build a lasertesting facility at Aldermaston AtomicWeapons Establishment. London Regionmembers represented CND on theworking group which organised the four-day march at Easter. LRCND membershelped organise the send-off rally inTrafalgar Square, and many local groupsparticipated in the march, achievingconsiderable local media coverage.

London activists have again been veryactive in campaigning at the bases,participating in demonstrations in Mayagainst the Trident refit and consequentialcontamination of the Tamar River atDevonport in May, at Lakenheath to mark‘Independence from the US’ day on 4 Julyand to draw attention to the US spy baseCroughton. In September, a minibus full ofus took part in the 350-strongdemonstration at Fylingdales against NMDand returned very inspired!

In May, London region promoted andparticipated in CND’s London MayoralPeace Hustings, which gave us theopportunity to raise anti-nuclear issues andquestion prospective candidates on theirpeace and anti-nuclear track records.

In July, we hosted a reception for adelegation from the Hiroshima PeaceMission, set up to campaign internationallyfor global abolition in the run-up to the2005 NPT Conference. Members wereprivileged to hear personal testimonies ofHibakshas, as well as discuss ideas for jointcampaigning. We also organised, jointlywith Hampstead CND, the annualHiroshima anniversary in Tavistock Square,which was very well attended, with

speakers including Tony Benn and BruceKent.

London Region has endeavoured totake our campaign out to all sections ofsociety. In March, we promoted CND atthe Capitalwoman conference, attended byover 3,000 women, and members held astall at London’s anti-racist ‘Respect’festival in July. We also had a beautifulrainbow peace presence on the lesbian andgay ‘Pride’ march on 3 July and helpedstaff a popular CND stall at the rally inTrafalgar Square. London Region has alsoworked to encourage the involvement ofyounger members. In April, we sponsoredStudent CND member Ben Soffa’s flightto Israel – together with other LRCNDmembers – to welcome MordechaiVanunu out of prison. Members alsoparticipated in a student anti-war march tothe US Embassy. London members helpedpromote CND’s many events at theEuropean Social Forum in October, whichproved to be an amazing opportunity toengage with international peace,environmental, anti-racist and anti-globalisation activists.

Sadly, in 2004, we lost Gordon Attfieldand Arthur Mendelsohn, who will begreatly missed.

Merseyside CND2004 has been a somewhat better year forCND on Merseyside with some modestadvances in our campaigning efforts. Westarted with our AGM at which JennyClegg from Greater Manchester CNDgave a very good overview of the relevantworldwide political situation with pointersto where CND might make campaigninggains. We also voted George Strattan as aLife President (the first we’ve ever had.)

We’ve attempted to use our local ‘PeaceGarden’ more as a public venue startingwith an event to commemorate Chernobylwith guest speakers, one from theMerseyside branch of the ChernobylChildren’s Project and the other a memberof the Liverpool Friends of Sabeel (aPalestine Christian Group). She had justreturned from Israel where she was one ofthe party welcoming Vanunu out of prison.In August Bruce Kent was one of theguest speakers at the annual event onHiroshima Day also in the Peace Garden.

We followed this with an open meeting inthe evening at which Bruce and PeterCranie, a local Green Party candidate,spoke. This was well attended including bymany people new-to-us. The final event weheld in the Peace Garden was the laying ofa wreath of white poppies onRemembrance Day, the first time we’vedone this. It was arranged at short noticebut considered very successful and will alsobecome an annual event in our calendar.

For anti-war campaigning we havesupported public meetings, seminars,marches, stalls and demonstrations run byStop War Coalition groups in Liverpool,Chester, Manchester and London. We alsohelped publicise a meeting with PeterKilfoyle MP speaking on ‘Peace in ourTime’ in February organised by a localchurch group. This was very well attended.Peter gave a blow by blow account ofexactly how the UK had come to beinvolved in Iraq speaking amusingly and atlength without notes.

At the national level we have sentmembers to demonstrate at Menwith Hill,Fylingdales, Plymouth and Faslane, to jointhe Aldermaston March and to attend theGlobal Network Conference in the USA.

Local groups in Birkenhead, Maghull,Wallasey and Huyton hold regular stalls,leafleting sessions, fundraising events andopen meetings. The Global Ceasefire Day,21 September, was marked in Wallaseywith a Poetry evening – local children andadults sent us their poems for Peace.

BAE Warton is leafleted on a monthlybasis by Merseyside Against the ArmsTrade, a small group who also ran acampaign against the sponsorship of thePhilharmonic Hall by BAe Systems whichsucceeded in getting it stopped. Other localgroups whom we support are WirralChristian CND, Merseyside Peace Counciland Pax Christi.

The Office is open four days a week,we move to a new building early in thenew year, the newsletter is produced everyother month and the website kept up todate – all by the efforts of volunteers.

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has enabled us to do much more than wecould possibly do on our own. Theoutstanding fruits of this cooperation werethe exhibition ‘Hiroshima to World Peace’in Norwich Cathedral (3–17 August),which we did with Norwich Peace Council,and the day conference on campaigningskills on 30 October, which was under thebanner of EAPEACE (East Anglian Peacenetwork). We organised a demonstration atUSAF Mildenhall on the first anniversaryof the attack on Iraq with LakenheathAction Group; and supported all the LAGevents this year – notably the Peace Campon Hiroshima/Nagasaki weekend and thedemonstration at Lakenheath on 3October. We’ve also supported theNorwich Stop the War Coalition in theirmany events in the city centre, mostrecently a reading of the names ofthousands of Iraqi civilian dead, aprotest vigil on the eve of the attack onFallujah, and a protest procession onmedia bias on news from Iraq. We havealso contributed to a new weeklycolumn, ‘One World’, in the local paper,a column which deals broadly withpeace, disarmament, human rights andenvironmental issues.

We did our annual shadows paintingand leafleting for Hiroshima Day, and tookpart in a Nagasaki Day service in theCathedral.

Stimulated by the Trident Ploughsharesproject ‘Deadline for Disarmament’, wewrote to MP Charles Clarke (NorwichSouth) asking for a meeting to discussproliferation issues. After three letters tohim, Clarke finally agreed to see four ofus (we think he probably hoped wewould just go away). We put ourquestions on government policy and ourown views to him, and got littleagreement, but left with an opportunityto continue the dialogue, especially ondevelopments at Aldermaston and theMutual Defence Agreement.

Two of us attended, and muchenjoyed, CND Conference.

We’ve continued our bread-and-butter activities: stalls at a number oflocal fairs, and four issues of ournewsletter Defence, which serves to keepin touch with the majority of ourmembers who are not active.

Southern Region CNDAll groups commemorated Hiroshima andNagasaki days, mainly with lights and withletters to remind people what a nuclear warwould be like. On the Isle of Wight therewas a display of lights on the beach.Oxford produced a leaflet and a letter-writing campaign targeting MPs and aspecial peace camp was set up atAldermaston. The Sheriff of Southamptonspoke of her visit to Hiroshima at a bigLanterns for Peace event. Pat Arrowsmithalso gave a rousing speech. CND joinedwith others in protesting against thedocking of nuclear submarines atPortsmouth.

Salisbury CND was able to rejoice atthe release of Mordechai Vannunu. Thegroup had campaigned for his release formany years. He is not yet allowed to goabroad but did speak to the EuropeanSocial Forum on a telephone link.Abingdon has been promoting BruceKent’s anti-war film and has sold somecopies to schools. Oxford held a TreatyDay School in the summer to examine theNPT and held a protest Rally at RAFCroughton on 2 October.

All Southern groups were alerted to aplanning request by AWE for a new laserfacility which we suspect could be toenable the production of battle-field nukeswhich are already produced in the US.Protests were made to West Berks Council.Farringdon had its usual fete in July, whichhad its usual good weather and atmosphereof peace and friendship. It raised somemoney as well.

Morris Brodie and Pat Allen reminded

us that we have recently lost a greatcampaigner in the death f Bob Orrell. Hewas Chair of Ex-Services CND from1990-92 when he did much to strengthenlinks with the French Ex-Services andResistance movement.

Contact: Beryl Davidson, tel. 01235812247

S. Cheshire & N. Staffs CNDWe are based in Stoke-on-Trent, but coverparts of Cheshire and North Staffordshire(although Stafford has its own veryeffective peace group). Last March, weheld a small vigil in Newcastle-under-Lymeto mark the anniversary of the start of waragainst Iraq, while a few others joined themarch in London. We had our usualsummer stall and Hiroshima leaflets atSunday in the Park, a multi-cultural musicevent where the sun always shines.

Stewart Kemp of the Nuclear-FreeZone Secretariat spoke at our AGM, whereour elected mayor was the invited guest.He was interested in Mayors for Peace, andwe hope to persuade him to join, perhapswith a visit from Bruce Kent during hisNPT tour.

We are represented at CND Councilsand at Conference, but activity is difficultat the moment, due to the ever presentthreat from the BNP. This year, they willcontest local, national and mayoralelections in the region, so this is the focusfor many activists.

Although it is difficult to get peopleinvolved, they do appreciate information,so the newsletter is important, both forCND issues, and to publicise local events

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Isle of Wight CND organised flares on the beach in commemoration of Hiroshimaand Nagasaki

of many kinds. It also goes to MPs, otherlocal organisations, the mayor and thepress, with whom I have built up a goodrelationship.

We leafleted the local Film Theatrewhen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 wasshown – it was sold out on all three nights,and nearly everyone took a leaflet.

One of our members attended theEuropean Social Forum, and wrote areport for the newsletter. Anothercontinues to be a Trident Ploughshares(TP) activist. As I reported last year, theDirector of the Oxford Research Group,who also runs the PeaceUK.net and IraqBody Count websites, is one of ourmembers. Someone else corresponds witha group supporting Israeli conscientiousobjectors, and some wrote to MPs as partof TP’s Deadline for Disarmamentcampaign. Two members donated a goodquality tent which is now on long-termloan to Trident Ploughshares.

So perhaps we’re not so inactive afterall! We also get regular donations that arevery helpful. Thanks to a kind offer from anational member who read last year’sreport, we now have a good website atwww.scanscnd.org.uk. So if you think youcan offer something, or for a smallmembership fee, would just like to receivenewsletters and emails, get in touch. Westill have the Peace Centre at 56 TontineStreet, Hanley (01782 280998), oppositethe Post Office, but correspondenceshould go to the P.O. Box addressincluded in CND’s publications.

Sussex Peace AllianceSussex Peace Alliance (SPA) hasmaintained meetings at six-weekly intervals,sharing information with and between itsconstituent groups who continue tosupport us financially. We find the time setaside for general discussion of currentissues valuable, and have recently decidedto make these less discursive and morefocused.

In January Chichester MP, AndrewTyrie, provided the keynote speech at aRound Table in Chichester organised bySPA. The topic discussed was GlobalSecurity in the Age of Terrorism. Theparticipants included peace activists andrepresentatives from political, faith and

community groups in the county. Therewas a wide-ranging discussion and we haveplans to repeat this sort of event, based ona comprehensive survey of those who tookpart.

SPA members were instrumental inattracting the Hiroshima Peace Mission toBrighton in August where the DeputyMayor received the party at the Town Halland visited the Hiroshima Exhibition at theFriends Meeting House.

SPA’s resolution on the United Nationswas accepted without opposition at CNDAnnual Conference.

As usual our annual garden party inAugust provided an opportunity to meetpeople outside the SPA core membership.

We continue to write letters to localpoliticians, sometimes based on SPAbriefings, and encourage others to do thesame. An SPA briefing paper on theEuropean Parliament and the NPT wassent to candidates in advance of theEuropean Election. Other subjects thisyear have included the dangers of the‘Special Relationship’, the Mutual DefenceAgreement, the UN and International Law.In March, three women representingSussex Peace Alliance, the United NationsAssociation and Women’s InternationalLeague for Peace & Freedom respectivelyvisited all three Brighton MPs to talk aboutthe UN, the NPT, and the World TradeOrganisation.

We have reached out to a group ofBrighton Person-Centred Counsellors whofeel that aspects of their work might havemuch in common with peace activism.

West Midlands CND As the funding for our part-timeworkers ran out at the end of 2003, westarted off in 2004 once again reliant onour team of enthusiastic and reliablevolunteers.

Our parliamentary team contacted localMPs to ask questions about DU, aboutdecisions on Trident, and about MDA. Wewrote to local councillors, drawing theirattention to the UN study onDisarmament and Non-ProliferationEducation. We also contacted the newLord Mayor of Birmingham about hispossible participation in the Mayors forPeace Project.

We have continued to have regularinformation stalls in Birmingham citycentre and at local festivals around theregion. In April, we held an eventoutside Birmingham Cathedral to markthe release of Mordecai Vanunu. ForHiroshima Day our members wereinvolved in four events in the region: avigil in the churchyard of BirminghamCathedral, a stall and a vigil in Hereford,and vigils in Malvern and Redditch.

We have also continued to benefitfrom the support of the Drop Beats NotBombs night clubs where the CNDsymbol and anti-nuclear message areregularly relayed to over 1,500 youngpeople.

Jenny Maxwell was the keynotespeaker at a Peace and Disarmamentgathering in Birmingham in January. OurVice-Chair Carol Naughton attended theNPT Prep-Com in New York in Mayand spoke about this event at a publicmeeting in June.

Dan Plesch was our speaker at ourAGM in April on the subject of newnuclear weapons developments,followed by a lively discussion.

We supported our members inMalvern who organised an event toprotest against the RUSI arms fair inSeptember. We once again wrote to theMalvern theatres to put forward ourpoint of view about this event.

As part of Keep Space for PeaceWeek we encouraged our members tojoin the demonstration at Croughton on2 October. For this event we prepared aletter which was sent to the BaseCommander.

We continue to produce a monthlynewsletter prepared and edited by JennyMaxwell, who continues to organise thenational letter-writing campaign on avariety of topics. Peter Ford maintainsour website, basing the updates on thenewsletter.

Over the summer we lost three long-standing volunteers, one to full-timeeducation and two to full-time work.However, we are confident that ourcontinuing volunteers will keep the workgoing and are looking forward torecruiting some new people.

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Yorkshire CNDYorkshire CND’s proud to have played asignificant part in another year ofcampaigning for peace. Early in the year weorganised a major blockade of Menwith Hillwith hundreds of people taking part and 30arrests. The blockade, which demandedconsiderable logistical planning, lasted forhours, closed all but one of the gates andcaused five-hour delays to the staff shiftover in the base. All those arrested werecautioned or had their charges dropped.Such was the success that Menwith Hill feltimpelled to issue a statement to the press –a rare occurrence indeed.

Over the summer Yorkshire CNDorganised an exhibition on Hiroshima andNagasaki in Leeds Met University tocomplement the international one that wasthere. We also held a sponsored walk of 70miles from Menwith Hill to Fylingdales inthree days (starting on Hiroshima day andending on Nagasaki day) which receivedgood media coverage.

Also over the summer we researchedand wrote a detailed report on spaceweapons, launched it publicly in Septemberwith an article in The Guardian and sent itto over 250 MPs. To prove the point wewere trying to make in the report weobtained a grant and donation tocommission an official ICM poll on thepublic’s knowledge and view on spaceweapons. Having publicised those excellentresults during ‘Keep Space For Peace’week we intend to use them again andagain to prove our point that the public areon the right side on this issue.

Also during ‘Keep Space for Peace’week Yorkshire CND marked ourgovernment’s foolish decision to supportStar Wars with a huge demonstration atFylingdales. Thom Yorke of Radioheadjoined Dave Webb, Dave Knight, KateHudson, FAN and 350 other people up onthe moors for a hope-filled demo. For thefirst time we saw hundreds march in peaceacross the base right up to the radar wherewe read out a statement from our friendsin No Nukes North in Alaska. Newcoverage, thanks to Thom Yorke’s greatlyappreciated support, was very good indeed.

Yorkshire CND was also one of thegroups around the world to notice early onthe significance of a little known satellite

development called NFIRE which hadpotential space weapons elements in it. Theoutrage we and others showed helped putthis development on the backburnerbefore most people had even heard of it.

On top of these major events YorkshireCND has organised two of our regionallyfamous Day Of Dance events, been atGlastonbury and Leeds Festivals, organiseda Christmas Peace and Crafts Fair, set upan online shop, given talks across theregion and around the UK, created newcampaign postcards, posters and materials,expanded the website to include moredetailed specialist sections and basicintroductions to issues and taken part inattempts to create a Northern NonviolenceCentre in Bradford.

And we’re not going to stop until we’vewon.

CND specialist sectionsChristian Campaign for NuclearDisarmament (CCND)In 2004, Christian Campaign for NuclearDisarmament were present at the NPTPrepCom in New York, alongside manyother NGOs.

We had some success in interestinggroups in our plans for a vigil and aninterfaith church service at the ReviewConference.

In particular, the Anglican Observer tothe UN Archdeacon ‘Tai’ helped out byproviding a desk, computer and access to a

photocopier in her office. Some of thecontacts we made a couple of years beforewere present at the UN, and we made surethey all knew what our plans were – andwhat they could do to help us!

CCND’s petition has been distributed,we already have a big bundle to go to NewYork with us.

CCND co-sponsored two successfulTreaties Day schools in 2004, one inOxford (at which the Lord Mayor ofOxford welcomed us) and one at theLondon School of Economics. Fundingfor both was from the Ted Dunn Fund,courtesy of INLAP.

CCND’s Prayer campaignSupporters are urged to:• Pray at 8.15am (time of Hiroshima

bomb), at 11.02 am (Nagasaki) and atnoon the Universal Prayer of Peace.

• Pray that the powerful of the world, theNuclear Weapons States, Britainincluded, will at last fulfil their pledge tonuclear disarmament.

• Pray and witness at the ReviewConference in New York in May 2005.

• Commit to a 'Rolling Fast' for nucleardisarmament – a fast passed on fromone participant to another.

• Sponsor someone to represent you atthe Review Conference.

Where?1. Locally in own communities: pray for

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Yorkshire CND organised a three day, 70 mile sponsored walk from Menwith Hill toFylingdales, starting on Hiroshima Day and ending on Nagasaki Day

step to world peace;2. Stand with us at the UN in New York

in May 2005 to witness at the NPTReview Conference and pray for thepromised nuclear disarmament;

3. At a ground-breaking Interfaith Servicein New York where all the faithcommunities will unite in prayer to endthe nuclear threat;

Work done so far1. CCND has booked some cheap shared

accommodation in New York2. Our colleagues in the US have helped in

booking the venue for the churchservice and informing local police aboutthe vigil, which takes place across theroad from the UN.

Work being done1. Applying for funding for going to New

York and for an intern in New York forthe weeks leading up to the ReviewConference.

2. Mailing out prayer leaflet to religiouspeace organisations in US.

Ex-Services CNDSubsequent to the sad death of SydStarr, our last Chair, some two yearsago, regrettably there was an almost totalloss of continuity. There was noreplacement. Over the same period,both our Treasurer and Secretary wereincapacitated by serious health problems.In effect that has meant a vacuumaffecting the past two years.

Unavoidably whatever we have donehas had to be improvised. It hasdepended heavily on the help andsupport of CND and having ourPresident and Bruce Kent to oversee oursituation.

We managed to mail out a newsletterin February, using the last availablemailing list, which was considerably outof date. We issued a further Newsletterin the summer. The two issues had amembership renewal form. Therenewals, scattered across the countryamount to about 70 and that gives aclear indication of the position now.

During the year, a significant bequestwas made by one of our Ex-ServicesCND members. The funds have beenused in the support of CND’scampaigning and are reported elsewhere.

International Advisory Group2004 started with the World Social Forumin Mumbai, India – attracting over 100,000people. Both Kate and Rae, representingCND, joined in the anti-war and nuclearweapons seminars, strengthening links withpeace activists from across the world. Weattended the anti-US foreign military basesseminar where we heard at first hand whatit meant to be Chagossians evicted fromtheir own homeland on Diego Garcia, andwe learnt of the impact of other basesaround the world and the growth of basesin central Asia, with the US colluding withoppressive regimes. We also heard of thesuccess of the non-violent campaign onthe island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, inhaving the US Navy withdraw and ceasetheir weapons testing (including DepletedUranium (DU) munitions) which localpeople were convinced was linked to theirraised incidence of cancers.

In June we participated in the week-long forum, ‘Towards a World WithoutViolence’, in Barcelona organised by theInternational Peace Bureau and Fundaciode la Pau, the Spanish peace group. AgainCND representatives were there, includingDave Knight and Dave Webb, whoorganised a well-attended workshop onmissile defence. The organisers had alsoinvited Rosalie Bertell, who gave a spiritedcontribution in a workshop, chaired byBruce Kent, on the environmental impactof war.

For the Hiroshima and Nagasakicommemorative ceremonies this year wesponsored Peter Leary, Student CND, toattend the 2004 World Conference againstA & H Bombs in Japan. In turn we invitedHiroshi Taka, Secretary General of theJapan Council for A and H Bombs, tocome to speak in London at CND AnnualConference.

CND also keeps in touch with peacecampaigners within the USA, strugglingagainst their own government’s nuclearweapons policies and militarism. Kate haduseful discussions with United for Peaceand Social Justice, the nation wide anti-wargroup, as well as other peace activists, inApril at the NPT. We built on this whenRae was invited to speak at a peaceconference as part of the Boston SocialForum, which attracted a new, and

younger, audience. The Boston meetingwas organised by Joseph Gerson, of theAmerican Friends Service Committee, aleading anti-nuclear weapons activist. Thevisit also allowed us to speak to local peacegroups and renew contacts with other anti-nuclear campaigners, notably StephenKobasa who organises the TridentResistance Network. We need toremember that the Trident nuclear-armedsubmarine system is not a UK‘independent’ system and is closely boundup with the US Trident programme.

At the European Social Forum inOctober in London we made new links –particularly with those opposing NATO(Trident is ‘integrated’ into NATO) – withactivists from across Europe, includingTurkey. It was here that we agreed on anew venture for CND: to organise jointlywith Le Mouvement de la Paix, (France), inManchester, on 5 March, a conference on‘A Europe for Peace’.

CND’s international work is supportedby members across the country andespecially the IAG team and thevolunteers: in the office, Pat Allen andoutside, Pat Sanchez.

Labour CND In conjunction with our annual meetinglast May, Labour CND held a one-dayconference on Violent Peace? Pre-emptivewars, humanitarian intervention and newgeneration nukes...which way for Labour?Sessions included an eye-witness report onIraq from Hani Lasim and an update onMordechai Vanunu’s recent release. Ourspeakers included Neil Gerrard MP, StanGasparovski of the Committee for Peacein the Balkans, Dr John Sloboda of IraqBody Count, John Holmes theCommunication Workers Unionrepresentative on the Labour NationalExecutive, Ann Black also on the LabourNEC, Pete Willsman of the NationalPolicy Forum, as well as CND Chair KateHudson and Sophie Bolt, Chair of LondonCND.

At the Labour Party nationalconference, we supported the CND stalland distributed Labour CND badges andother materials. With CND and LabourAction for Peace we also organised asuccessful fringe meeting, Labour: the

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Party of War or Peace? with Tony Benn,Jeremy Corbyn MP, John Holmes, KateHudson, Sabah Jawad, Alice Mahon MP,Michael Meacher MP, and Keith Sonnett,Deputy General Secretary of Unison.

We were also successful in calling for adebate on Iraq, despite a lot of pressurefrom government and party representativesto keep it off the agenda as they had in2003. The mover of a composite calling fora date to be set for early withdrawal ofBritish troops, Pat Healy, Chair of NorthKensington CLP, also a Labour CNDsupporter, and we therefore hadconsiderable influence in helping draw up aresolution for debate. This position waslost due to some of the larger trade unions– including Unison and the Transport andGeneral Workers – reversing their ownunion policy and the position agreed at theTrades Union Congress a month earlier. Alot of work needs to be done in the unionsto turn this situation around. If any tradeunionists reading this want to help, pleaseget in touch with Labour CND.

Labour CND has played a full part inthe activities of CND at all levels. Thisincludes lobbying Labour councils forsupport for the Mayors for Peace initiativewhich British CND has taken on board.We have produced a number of regularnewsletters circulated to our subscribersand CND regions and areas to keepsupporters abreast of our activities.

We are holding our 2005 AGM onSaturday 25 June – and are lookingforward to another busy year.

Student CNDStudent CND has had a very active year.We have held meetings and stalls oncampuses, been involved in protests andnon-violent direct action, and producedand distributed leaflets, posters, and othermaterials specifically aimed at gettingstudents involved in CND.

Student CND has continued tocampaign against the ongoing war andoccupation of Iraq. We have organised,spoken at and participated in, successfulmeetings in colleges up and down thecountry to raise awareness of the issue andexposing the hypocrisy behind thejustifications for war while the realweapons of mass destruction are much

closer to home. Throughout our campaigning, we have

raised awareness of the links between the‘pre-emptive’ war on Iraq, increasing USaggression and the development ofNational Missile Defence (NMD) and thethreat of new nuclear weapons. We held asuccessful student march and picket of theUS Embassy with the Federation ofStudent Islamic Societies and Student Stopthe War Coalition, and had a high profileon the national demonstrations,distributing thousands of leaflets andhundreds of placards.

As part of our campaign to raiseawareness about NMD, we havehighlighted the role of both Menwith Hilland Fylingdales and mobilised students atthese bases. We have continued to supportthe Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp.Student CND has also raised awarenessabout the plans to build the laser testingfacility at Aldermaston AWE and helpedsteward the first stage of the Aldermastondemonstration.

One of the highlights of the year hasbeen the opportunities Student CND hashad to campaign internationally against warand nuclear weapons. In April, Ben Soffawas at the release of Mordechai Vanunu,and subsequently, Goldsmiths studentsmade a documentary interviewingMordechai in Israel. We were privileged torepresent CND at the World ConferenceAgainst Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs inHiroshima and Nagasaki in August. Thevisit was profoundly moving andeducational, and we believe will beinvaluable over the next year as we markthe 60th anniversary of the horrific attackson these cities with a ‘No MoreHiroshimas – No More Nagasakis’campaign pack and events.

Student CND was also actively involvedin the European Social Forum in October.We organised two successful meetings: oneopposing arms trade investment inuniversities organised along with People &Planet and CAAT and another, in whichover 400 people participated, ‘Youth,Students and the Anti-War Movement’.This included speakers from across Europeincluding Mouvement de la Paix fromFrance and Platform Aturem La Guerrafrom Catalonia. From these Student CND

has made new international contacts.Following on from the ESF we will beactively working in colleges to ensurestrong student involvement at theforthcoming G8 summit and FaslaneBlockade in July.

At the National Union of Students’Annual Conference, we ensured thatCND’s peace and anti-nuclear issues werehigh on the agenda, and had a good profileat the event. Student CND has also wonsupport from the NUS Women’sCampaign for the abolition of Trident,against NMD, and supporting Women'speace camps and NVDA at US bases.

AutonomouscampaignsNukewatch After several years of steady monitoring ofTrident warhead deliveries from Burghfieldto Coulport, 2004 saw changes in convoypatterns that have been challenging to keepup with. Whether it’s to avoid Nukewatchor the ever present terrorist threat or forother operational reasons we don’t knowbut the MOD has begun varying bothroutes and timings.

The effect of these changes is thatinstead of taking three days to travel fromBurghfield or Aldermaston to Coulportconvoys have been doing the trip in onlytwo days and we have reason to believethat there are plans to do to it as onecontinuous run. This cuts down onovernight stopovers outside their usualoperating bases, with RAF Leeming beingused for instance, rather than RAFWittering and Albermarle Barracks.

However it also means that risks havebeen increased. The policy of only runningduring daylight hours has been abandonedand driving hours per day have increased

We think that crews may be changedover during the journey and this willcertainly have to be the case in a one-dayrun but it still means long stressful shiftswith such a cargo.

New routes have also been used in2004, or rather a return to old routes notused for many years. In September,Nukewatchers witnessed a convoyreturning south continue on down the M6past Stoke rather than take the A66 or A69turnings that cross to the east. Further

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sightings have pieced together the changeto a western route. There was a lot ofmedia coverage of this around Stafford.

Nukewatch Scotland concentratedattention on Stirling with very visibleroadside protests in May and September.On both occasions convoys were broughtto a standstill.

During 2005 we will be contacting localauthorities about the increased risks arisingfrom the continuous running regime. Wealso need more Nukewatchers to cover theincrease in routes and hours. If you canhelp please get in touch to join the emaillist and/or the phone tree.

Contact: Di 02380 554443; TJ 01132621640; Roz 01555 820550.

Trident PloughsharesIn Trident Ploughshares it has beenanother year packed with direct action andconfrontation with the criminal justicesystem.

During 2004 many Trident and Trident-related sites were invaded, blockaded and

decorated: Devonport: another camp, withthe MoD admitting that recentcampaigning activity there had put back, byfive years, the relationship between the cityand the dockyard; Faslane and Coulport:small blockades throughout the year, a bigblockade in August with 70 arrests, andlots of intrusions, by land and sea, duringthe two-week camp at Peaton Wood;Aldermaston: some fine and meaningfulartwork on buildings inside the fence;Burghfield: a break-in to give leaflets aboutwar crime to base personnel; the LockheedMartin HQ in London: a sit-in andrepeated attention throughout the year;Northwood: a Citizens’ Inspection to markthe release of Mordechai Vanunu.

In October a 25-foot submarine with18 people inside blocked the entrance toDowning Street for five hours.

Back in July Camilla Cancantata’sTrident oratorio, a musical slating of thefailure of the courts to tackle Trident, washeard by gobsmacked and intrigued judgesand lawyers in the Parliament Hall within

the High Court complex in Edinburgh.The theme is hugely relevant. “We needstrong, courageous independent judges”,said Pat Sanchez as she appealed in thesame court against a Faslane breach of thepeace conviction. Well, we don’t seem tohave found them yet. The nearest thingwas the magistrate in Reading who allowedthe Burghfield intruders to present aninternational law case and gave status tothe Nuremberg Principles, handing downonly token punishment. But the rest of therecord makes depressing reading. ScottishHigh Court judges made an ass of the lawby ruling that blockading at Faslane is abreach of the peace even if you don’t causeany alarm or disturbance. But the JudicialChump of the Year Award goes to JusticeOverend (or should it be Over-the-edge?)in Plymouth who ruled out theinternational law defence of the PlymouthThree and opined that dropping a nuclearweapon would not be illegal.

Inevitably this led to prison for some.Jane Tallents, Ivor Birnie, Ray Davies,Dave Rolstone, Ludd Appeltans, PetterJoelson, Adam Conway, Mark Leach, RozBullen, Margaret Jones, Jane Smith, KarenFallon, Babs MacGregor, David Heller andTove Ladberg all did time.

This year is full of challenge andopportunity for the nuclear disarmamentmovement, among them the NPTConference in May, the G8 summit inScotland in July and the 60th anniversariesof Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One criticaland friendly outsider has complimented TPactivists for doing “what it says on the tin”and we intend to continue to live up tothat. We will be actively involved in theBlock the Builders campaign andBomspotting XL in Belgium, we campagain at Devonport from 19– 22 May(with a blockade on 19th), blockadeFaslane on 4 July along with British andScottish CND and plan to camp at Derby,to target the Rolls Royce factory there, ona date to be arranged.

Contact: www.tridentploughshares.org

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23 August 2004: Trident Ploughshares lock on at the oil fuel depot gate at the BigBlockade

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Membership

Thank you for increases instanding order payments. It’s time for a report back on a

two-fold request we made to all oursupporters who make membershippayments or donations by standingorder. Starting in the Autumn of 2003we began to send out our new andimproved membership cards to standingorder members first, with a letter askingthat rather than increase membershiprates, we were asking members toincrease their standing orders to anamount that they choose. The responsehas been incredible! Though a fewresponses are still trickling in, at thispoint supporters have pledged a totalincrease of £16,642 per year, which is inaddition to the amount they already payus. And it’s not too late to send yoursnow if you have been putting it off!

The second part of this appeal was sentto all members paying by standing orderwho pay £5 or less per year. Unfortunately,we are no longer able to afford to providemembership services to those supporterswho pay this amount as it doesn’t coverthe cost of sending newsletters andmembership communication. So wecreated a new category called Donor, andsent a letter to all who paid this amount tolet them know that if they wish to remain amember, we ask that they increase theirpayments to the minimum rate for theirmembership category. Otherwise, wewould be very happy to retain their supportas Donors, and they would continue toreceive our Annual Review each year.

Again, the response has beenwonderful, and though this grouprepresented a small proportion of ourmembership, we are very pleased thatmany elected to increase their paymentsin order to remain members.

Thank you very much to all of youwho responded. These additional fundsare very much needed and will help agreat deal with our future campaigning.Knowing that this money will becoming in allows us to plan ahead.

Thanks also to those of you who wroteto us saying you cannot increase yourpayments at the moment, but wish youcould, and to all of you who continueyour support of CND in whatever waysyou can.

If you don’t pay by standing order atthe moment and would like to, pleasefill in the membership form on the firstpage of this Annual Review, even if you

are already a member. Paying bystanding order saves us a great deal ofmoney in administration, and they areeasy to set up, convenient for you, andhelp CND to plan ahead.

The new and improvedmembership database Last September we finally converted ourRaiser’s Edge version 6 membershipdatabase to the new and improvedversion 7. This won’t mean very muchto most of you, but rest assured it is abetter product and will help us bettermanage all your membership andsupporter records. The transition wentvery smoothly, but it has taken us sometime to get all the membership systemsback up and running. So we may havebeen delayed in responding to yourquery or in processing your membershippayment. We apologise for anyinconvenience this may have caused,and thank you for your patience andsupport.

VolunteersI hate to think where the MembershipDepartment would be without ourvolunteers! I know for certain we wouldnot be able to stay on top of all our

New and rejoining members Jan 03- Dec 03

Signing up at one of our manymembership stalls over the yearPhoto: Sue Longbottom

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What you can doRaise money for CND throughThe Phone Co-Op.See the insert with this magazine to seehow you can raise money for CND bychanging your phone supplier to ThePhone Co-Op.

Email listPlease, if you have an email address wecan contact you on, then [email protected]. It is a quick and cheapway of communicating with ourmembers, and also environmentallyfriendly!

If you want to hear the latest newsabout CND first, then sign up to ouremail list. It is crucial that wecommunicate with you! And byproviding us with your email address wecan contact you at short notice if thereis an important action coming up.

Member get memberIf CND is to survive long enough torealise our aims, we need to attract newmembers. We are working hard on thisat the office, but we do also need yourhelp. Do you have friends or relativesthat you think might want to join CND?Please call the office if you would likerecruitment postcards or leaflets to besent to you, or with details of peopleyou think might like to receive amembership pack.

VisibilityOther ways in which you can makeCND more visible are by wearing abadge or T-shirt, displaying a car sticker,or sticking a poster in your window.

They can be ordered by phone or online. Visit www.cnduk.org to purchasefrom our new on-line shop.

Local Group ContactThere are many CND groups scatteredacross the country. They are the basis ofCND, involving people locally andcampaigning on your doorstep. Phoneand find out if there is a group in your

area. If there isn’t one in your area, wehave information packs available onsetting up groups.

If you’re a student, why not set up astudent CND group in your university?This is a very effective way ofcampaigning, and relatively easy to do.For more information, contact eitherYouth and Student CND or StudentCND, c/o the National Office.

CampaignCampaign is CND’s newsletter especiallyfor activists. It’s produced three times ayear, with the Summer issue going to allmembers. This is essential reading andan easy way of keeping up to date withall activities.

Let us know if you want to be addedto the mailing list to receive all issues.

LobbyThe lobbying of Parliament byindividuals is essential and gives CND’slobbying work the credibility and weightit needs to succeed. Lobby, ourparliamentary newsletter, givesbackground information on the politicsof nuclear disarmament and providesskeleton letters for you to adapt to yourown use.

Letter-writingWriting to local newspapers, TV orradio is often an easy and effective wayto get nuclear disarmament into thenews. If you feel any local coverage isbiased then call or write to them – allcomplaints are logged and passed on tothe producers.

LegacyLeaving CND a legacy in your will helpsus to plan for the future. CND has aleaflet available that outlines how tomake a will or change an existing will.Please call the office to request a leaflet,or download one from our website atwww.cnduk.org.

correspondence with CND members andsupporters. Our vollies, as we affection-ately refer to them, are an absolutely vitalpart of the membership team and withoutthem queries would pile up, membershipcards would gather dust waiting to beposted to the correct recipient, informa-tion requests would not be handled, andmembers would not receive remindersthat their membership renewals weredue. In addition to these, and other,essential tasks the volunteers help uskeep things in perspective as they workalongside us.

Nearly every volunteer who spendstime in the office ends up doingsomething to help out the membershipteam, but we must thank severalspecific vollies who have workedtirelessly, and continue to do so. A greatbig thanks to Dave Esbester and AnnaChaplin, who continue to devote timeto answering queries and processingpayments. And, as always, we continueour eternal gratitude to Stuart Minto,Denis Turner, Iain Triggs, DorotheaBaker, and Samantha Charlesworth forall their help in membership. Thanksmust also be extended to all the otherpeople who come in to help out whentheir schedules allow.

New members for 2004Please refer to the chart for abreakdown of supporters joining CNDper month, separated into General,Youth & Student, and Pensioners.There have been a couple peaks but forthe most part it remains steady. Weneed people to force the government todo the right thing! I’ve heard manypeople who have said they are upsetabout nuclear weapons or the transportof nuclear waste, Missile Defense onUK land and the illegal war andongoing occupation of Iraq, yet theystill don’t join. Spread the word, wehave a job to do!

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Thanks to everyone who had madedonations to CND over the pastyear. As always, your donations

have enabled us to continue campaigningwith the loudest possible voice, and we lookforward to continuing to do this, with yoursupport.

The last year has been a busy one – withlots of good events to look back on. Thefirst, in May, was at The Legion, in OldStreet, where we were joined by Bob Stanley,Matt Black, Chris Allen, Damon Albarn andRemi for a great evening of music andspeakers. Tony Benn, Bruce Kent and KateHudson spoke, and the Protest and Surviveevent was a huge success.

Later in the year, in October, we heldanother Protest and Survive event, this timeto launch the Countdown to HiroshimaCampaign. Again, we had wonderfulspeakers, Kate Hudson, Bruce Kent andJeremy Corbyn, and music again fromDamon and Remi, Erol Alkan and ChrisAllen from the light surgeons. It was a greatevent and something that we hope to keepdoing on a more regular basis in the future.

This year has also seen us set up asuccessful affinity partnership with thephone co-op, please see the insert with thispublication to see how you can raise moneyfor CND by simply changing your phonesupplier!

We’ve also set up a new, snazzy andsecure on-line shop where you can nowpurchase all your CND merchandise overthe internet. You can also donate, and joinon-line, so please refer your friends to ourwebsite if you think they might like tosupport the campaign

We were lucky enough to receive a largechunk of money this year from Ex-ServicesCND, who received a legacy, and kindlydonated a chunk of this money to us.

We were able to do lots of good stuffwith it, including producing an extra editionof Campaign magazine, especially for theGlastonbury festival, which was a greataddition to our festival campaigning. Themoney was also used to produce a greatSpace Weapons briefing, our ESF leaflet,and the costs of sending a Student CND

member to Japan.We also used the money to help pay the

costs of Aldermaston 2004, for the costs ofhiring a meeting room for our fringemeeting at Labour Party Conference and forthe accommodation costs for Mr HiroshiTaka, Secretary General of Gensuikyo, TheJapanese Anti-Nuclear Movement.

So a big thank you to Ex-Services CNDfor their help.

Many thanks also to Joan Horrocks andMANA (Musicians Against Nuclear Arms)who arrange musical masterpieces tofundraise for CND and other peaceorganisations.

We’d also like to take this opportunity tothank everyone who gave a donation at thisyears Annual Conference – we managed tocollect £1,112.71.

Look out for lots more exciting eventsand fundraising ideas throughout the nextyear – and if you have any ideas how wecould improve this, then call the office!

FundraisingBruce Kent’s

No More HiroshimasTour

Bruce is touring the countrythis spring promoting theNPT, campaigning for NO

MORE Hiroshimas,encouraging petition signing

by the public and localdignitories,

promoting the Mayors forPeace initiativeand much more

Please donate generously tosupport this event

and our other NPT work

Send a cheque made out to CNDto 162 Holloway Road,

London N7 8DQ

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Treasurer’s Report2003 Accounts

These were presented in thesummer issue of Campaign butthey are also summarised here;

the detailed accounts are available onrequest to the CND office and are alsoon the website.

The accounts for 2003 indicate ahealthier financial situation than thosefor 2002. In 2003 we spent almost£557,000, which was exactly matchedby our income for the year, so theCampaigning Reserve remains the sameat £71,000. Both income andexpenditure were increased comparedto 2002 because of our anti-waractivities, even though 2002 includedthe cost and fundraising for the LegalChallenge. The cost of organising theanti- war demonstrations, alongsideStop the War Coalition and MuslimAssociation of Britain, was substantial,but our income from increasedmembership, donations andmerchandise sales also increased. CNDalso received compensation for ‘loss oflight’ due to development at the rear ofour building.

Membership and fundraising costsincreased due to dealing with increasednumbers of members and membershipenquiries and because of the cost ofadverts to raise our profile, which werepaid for by specific donations. Costswould have been higher but three staffwho left in 2003, equivalent to 1.8employees, were not replaced due tothe financial uncertainties at that time.

In addition to maintaining ourCampaigning Reserve, our GeneralReserve increased in value from£90,000 in 2002 to £103,000 in 2003,close to its ideal level of three monthsrunning costs.

2004 AccountsThese will be prepared after the end ofthis financial year and will be presentedto the membership in the 2004 mid-year mailing once they have beenaudited.

Both income and expenditure will bebelow 2003 levels because of decreasedanti-war campaigning. Membershiprenewals are already down by 10%,mainly amongst those who have joinedsince 2002. Active consideration is beinggiven to how we can retain newmembers. However, appeal donationsand legacies are likely to be greater thanpredicted for the 2004 budget andpublic liability insurance costs weresignificantly reduced. Mid-year, this, andthe better than expected 2003 figures,led AFG to conclude that there wereenough funds to employ a full-timemember of staff, at least for a year, topartly replace those who left in 2003.

When setting the 2005 budget, theoperating reserve was predicted to be atleast £44,000 by the end of 2004, downfrom £71,000 at the end of 2003. This isbetter than the zero operating reserve

predicted when the budget was set lastyear but was not large enough toaccommodate all the expenditurerequests for 2005.

2005 BudgetThe 2005 budget has recently been set andincluded provision for continuation of theextra staffing initiated in 2004. Once againexpenditure is budgeted to be more thanincome leading to a virtually zerooperating reserve by the end of 2005.Tight spending controls will ensure thatexpenditure will be no more thanbudgeted, unless there is new incomespecifically aimed at a certain project, butwe do need to try to increase income.However this is where you, our members,can help – please be as generous aspossible when you receive an appeal fromCND or, even better, make a regulardonation to CND.

Campaigning £269K

Support costs £139K

Policy, management &

admin £21K

Membership & fundraising

£129K

Subscriptions £261K

Sales £5K

Donations £245K

Legacies £25K Other £20K

Income 2003 £557,000

Expenditure 2003 £557,000

Countdown to Hiroshima

In this 60th anniversary year, a majorfocus for our work will be theimpact of the atomic bombing of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through ourcampaigning we aim to raise awarenessof the human cost of nuclear war, and tohighlight the current dangers of nuclearwar and the need for global abolition.We are producing a briefing and leaflet,stepping up our peace education work,promoting the showing of theHiroshima-Nagasaki exhibition fromJapan, arranging a film show, andworking to get the maximum number of

signatures on petitions for globalabolition. Bruce Kent is undertaking anational CND tour in February andMarch to encourage Mayors and localnotables to sign the petition before theNPT Review Conference, and we areurging local groups to get their localMayors to sign up as Mayors for Peace,following the initiative of the Mayors ofHiroshima and Nagasaki. We are alsohoping to have a good level ofparticipation at the commemorativeconference of the Japanese Councilagainst A and H bombs, in Japan overthe anniversary days.

End the Occupation: nationaldemonstration: 19 MarchWorking together with the Stop the WarCoalition and the Muslim Association ofBritain, CND will be mobilising for this daycalling for an end to the occupation of Iraq.Transport is being organised from aroundthe country, so please contact local groupsfor details.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation TreatyReview Conference: May 2005We will be participating at the conference inNew York to lobby diplomats and makethe case for starting the process of globalabolition – and to save the ‘unequivocalundertaking’ to do so – agreed five yearsago. We will also be organising a fringemeeting and producing a briefing. If anyoneis interested in joining our delegation, pleasecontact Sam Akaki in the CND Office.CND Vice-Chair Jeremy Corbyn MP isworking to secure an Adjournment Debatein Parliament on this issue in the run-up tothe NPT Review Conference.

G8 Summit, Scotland: 6–8 JulyThis year the G8 Summit will include adiscussion of ‘counter-proliferation’.Working together with TridentPloughshares and Scottish CND, we areaiming for a huge mobilisation on 4 July fora Big Blockade of the Faslane Tridentsubmarine Base. We will be supporting themassive ‘Make Poverty History’demonstration on Saturday 2 July organisedby development NGOs, mobilising onthemes like ‘Bread not Bombs’, andworking to make the counter-summitorganised by G8 Alternatives a big successtoo. During the Summit itself, we arelooking for ways to get near to theGleneagles site to make our protest heard.We hope to build on the success of theEuropean Social Forum and continue tomake the links between different campaignsand raise the anti-nuclear agenda.

Anti-Star Wars Conference: 1 OctoberYorkshire CND is planning a major

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CND in 2005Many campaigning plans and events are already in place, butthese will be supplemented by other initiatives and responsesto world events as they occur. Please contact your local groupor regional representative, listed on the following pages, if youwould like to get more involved - and remember to check outthe Events Diary on our website www.cnduk.org

A Europe for Peace

A one-day international peace conference to bring people together who are are working to resist

militarism, nuclearism and NATO.

Saturday 5 March 2005Manchester

Prominent speakers, sessions for debate, including looking atthe new EU constitution.

Cost: £6/8.5 euros unwaged, £12/17 euros waged and £20/30 euros solidarity.

More information and booking forms from Greater Manchester andDistrict CND 0161 273 8283 www.gmdcnd.org.uk

Organised by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Mouvement de la Paix

A militarised, nuclear, armed Europe? OR

A Europe which promotes peaceful, non-militarysolutions to conflict?

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OfficersChair: Kate HudsonVice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sophie Bolt, Rae StreetTreasurer: Linda Hugl

CND National Council: Directly ElectedAlice Mahon MP, Joan Horrocks, Pat Sanchez, Sue Davis, PatArrowsmith, Carol Turner, MonicaFrisch, Jenny Clegg, Helen John;Gawain Little; Caroline Lucas MEP,Rebecca Mordan, Pat Allen, TomCuthbert, Liz Hutchins

CND National Council: Nations, Regions and AreasCND Cymru: David Bradley, Monica Bradley, John Cox, Cumbria and N. Lancs: Chris PrettymanEast Midlands: Tom Cuthbert, Richard Johnson Greater Manchester: Joan Abrams London Region: Jim Addington, Jim Brann, Vijay MehtaMerseyside: Gina ShawSCANS: Pauline PhillipsScottish CND: Jim Taggart, Jane Tallents, Adam BeeseSouthern Region: Anna Chaplin, Alan Meager; Michael WaughSouth West Region: Tom Milburn, Peter Le Mare, Geri LaithwaiteSurrey Peace Action Network: Ailsa JohnsonSussex Peace Alliance: Linda HuglWest Midlands CND: Iain Naughton,Joe SturgeYorkshire CND: Miriam Moss, Dave Webb

Specialist SectionsChristian CND: Bob RussellLabour CND: Simon Clarke Student CND: Peter LearyYouth and Student CND: Oliver Little,Helen Robertson, Alex Campbell

Vice-PresidentsJanet Bloomfield John CoxJoan HorrocksBruce KentDave KnightAlistair MackiePaul OestreicherRon ToddWalter Wolfgang

Staff at Holloway RoadSam Akaki: Parliamentary, CampaignsJoy Annegarn: Membership, FinancePatrick van den Bulck: CampaignsFay Counts: Membership and DatabaseSystemsSheila Jones: ArchivistSue Longbottom: Print and websitedesigner Kim Manning-Cooper: Fundraising andMarketingEve Ponting: Finance and NetworkManagerRuth Tanner: Press Officer Genia Browning: Office Manager

Volunteers in Holloway RoadStuart Minto, Pat Allen, Marjory Trevor,Denis Turner, Ian Triggs, DorotheaBaker, Tony Watkins, Jean Taylor, EllenSheffield, Anna Chaplin, Muriel Woods,Stuart Stephenson, Gill Poller, PatArrowsmith, Dave Spencer; SamanthaCharlesworth, Daniel Evans, Jim Brann,Rosemary Rogers, Sara Smith, AdamBloom, Bobby Sandhu, Simon Tucker,Sarah Love, Jane Bell, AnnelieseMidgely, Diana Safieh, Dave Esbester,Pam Cowans, Shahid Khan, AbbasZaidi, Samantha Fletcher, AnnaStevens, Houman Barekat

InternsKate Radford, Rick Wayman, OwenUscher, Moon Kyung Yon, AnaheedAl-Hardan, Karen Dowling, RebeccaHyman

Staff in Nations and RegionsCND Cymru: Jill Stallard (volunteer)Scottish CND: John Ainslie, Phill JonesYorkshire CND: Neil Kingsnorth,Denise CraghillGreater Manchester CND: JacquiDarbyshire, Clare FrisbyLondon Region CND: David Polden

Specialist sectionsChristian CND: Claire Poyner (part-time). Other specialist sections are runby volunteers from home. Thanks go toall volunteers who staff offices andshops all over the country.

GoodbyesMany thanks and good luck to all.

CND Personnel conference on Star Wars in October, forKeep Space for Peace. More details soon,but keep the date free in your Diary.

Other events:Parliamentary Lobby: 9 March We are working again this year with theUNA and other NGOs to lobby MPs on anumber of issues, most important for usbeing the Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty. During the afternoon there will alsobe a meeting with MPs and expert speakersfor you to participate in, before or aftermeeting with your own MP.

Please contact the UNA website atwww.una-uk.org for further details. Pleasecome along and make the day a success.

Parliamentary Lobby: 13 JulyWe are working with the PalestineSolidarity Campaign and the Campaign toFree Mordechai Vanunu and For aNuclear Weapons-Free Middle East, tolobby MPs to press for a nuclear weaponsfree Middle East. Please put the date inyour diary.

Block the BuildersWe are supporting the initiative of theAldermaston Women’s Peace Camp to askpeople to sign up to a massive non-violentblockade of Aldermaston on the firstMonday after work starts on the site.People are also needed in support roles.For details see www.aldermaston.net orcontact AWPC on 07969 739 812

General Election: May?It is very likely that the country will behaving a general election in May. We willbe producing an election briefing and packand encouraging CND groups to holdelection hustings with candidates to raise allour key issues.

ConferencesWe hope this year to increase ourparticipation at trade union conferences. Ifanyone would like to help with this work,either as a member of a union or to helprun a stall, please contact Genia in CNDnational office. We will also participateagain at the Labour Party conference. Ourown Conference will be on 15-16 October.


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Regions and areas

Cambridgeshire Area CND37 Blackwood Rd, Eaton SoconSt Neots PE19 8THtel: 01480 350977email: [email protected]

Cumbria and N Lancs CND34 Trafalgar Street, Denton, Carlisle CA2 5XYtel: 01228 524351

East Midlands CND 50 Baker St, Lutterworth LE17 4BGtel: 01455 557167 mobile: 07870 218148; email:[email protected]

Kent Area CND78 Priory Hill, Dover CT17 0ADtel: 01304 225078 email:[email protected]

London Region CNDc/o 162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQtel: 020 7607 2302email: [email protected]

Gtr Manchester andDistrict CNDBridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick StAncoats, Manchester M4 7HRtel: 0161 273 8283fax: 0161 273 8293email: [email protected]: www.gmdcnd.org.uk

Merseyside CND24 Hardman StreetLiverpool L1 9AXtel: 0151 708 7764email: [email protected]

Mid Somerset CND12 Neales WayEvercreech, Shepton MalletSomerset BA4 6LAtel/fax: 01749 830 741email: [email protected]

Norwich CNDGreen House, 42-46 Bethel StNorwich NR2 1NR tel: 01508 550446 email:[email protected]

ContactsSouthern Region CNDFlat 12, Eliot House 483 Portsmouth RoadSouthampton SO17 2TH tel: 023 8032 8335

South Cheshire andNorth Staffs CNDPO Box 2127Stoke on Trent ST1 1LYtel: 01782 280 998www.scanscnd.org.uk

South West Region CNDRegent House, Week St. MaryHolsworthy, Devon EX22 6UJtel: 01288 341 254email: [email protected]

Suffolk CND63 Benbow Court, Capel Drive Felixstowe IP11 2FRtel/fax: 01728 833336

Surrey Peace ActionNetwork45 High Street, BletchingleySurrey RH1 4PBtel: 01883 740478

Sussex Peace Alliance 67 Summerheath RdHailsham BN27 3DRtel: 01323 844 269email: [email protected]

Tyne & Wear CND1 Rectory Avenue, GosforthNewcastle upon Tyne NE3 1XStel: 0191 285 7260; email:[email protected]

West Midlands CND54 Allison StreetBirmingham B5 5THtel: 0121 643 4617

email: [email protected]

Yorkshire CND22 Edmund StreetBradford BD5 0BHtel: 01274 730 795email: [email protected]

National offices

CND CymruNantgaredig Cynghordy Llanymddyfri Dyfed SA20 OLRtel: 01550 [email protected]

Scottish CND15 Barrland StreetGlasgow G41 1QHtel: 0141 423 1222fax: 0141 423 1231email: [email protected]

Irish CNDP.O. Box 6327Dublin 6, Eiretel/fax: 00 353 1 8367264email: [email protected]://indigo.ie/~goodwill/icnd.html

Specialist sections

Christian CND andParliamentary CND can be contacted c/o 162 Holloway Road London N7 8DQ tel: 020 7700 2393 fax: 020 7700 2357CCND: www.gn.apc.org/ccnd

Ex-Services CNDc/o 162 Holloway Rd, LondonN7 8DQ. 020 7700 2393

Labour CND29 Stodmarsh House Cowley Road London SW9 6HHtel: 020 7820 9709 email:[email protected]: www.labourcnd.org.uk

Student CNDc/o 262 Bellenden RoadLondon SE15 4BYemail: [email protected]

Youth & Student CND162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQtel: 0207 607 3616email: [email protected]

Peace Camps

Aldermaston Women’sPeace CampSecond weekend of everymonth. tel: 07969 739 812email: [email protected]

Faslane Peace CampPermanent. A814, Shandon HelensburghDumbartonshire G84 8NT tel: 01436 820901 email: [email protected]

Menwith Hill Women’sPeace Camp3rd weekend of every month PO Box 105 Harrogate HG3 2FEtel: 01943 468593 email:[email protected]: www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org/mhs/wpcmhs.htm

Sellafield Women’s PeaceCampContact: 0113 262 9365. Box Z, 16 Sholebroke Ave, Leeds LS7 3HB.email: [email protected]

CND Annual Conference 200515 and 16 October: Venue to be decided

Preliminary timetable:Council nomination deadline (directly elected):Wed 6 July. Please supply contact details for your

nominee. This year the name/s of the proposer/s ofnominees will be published.

Resolution deadline Mon 11 July. Groups will receivea mail out early April. All members will receive full

details in the summer edition of Campaign. All correspondence to Genia at the CND Office

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Local groups

Abingdon Peace Group01235 526265Bath CND01225 312574; email:[email protected] CND 01277 650301Birkenhead CND0151 677 6896Blackpool & Fylde CND01253 [email protected] CND 01204 522839Brentwood CND01277 216712; email:[email protected] & West Region CND0117 971 5451 email:[email protected] & Beckenham CND 0208 460 1295

Central Manchester CND0161 494 [email protected] Peace Group01608 810 662Cheltenham CND01242 582985Chesterfield CND 01246 455 178Chiltern Peace & JusticeGroup 01494 771547Colchester PeaceCampaign07944 484561; email:[email protected] CND01249 651 565Colchester Peace Campaign07944 484561 email:[email protected] Peace House01203 663031Crawley CND01293 524 590Durham Peace Campaignemail: [email protected]

East Surrey CND 0208 668 3090Enfield Peace Campaign0208 364 2606Exeter CND01392 431447; email:[email protected] Peace Group 01367 241707Finchley & District CND0208 445 5506

Gosport Families forPeace 01705 527998Hackney & IslingtonCND 0208 533 1691; email:[email protected] Green CND0121 778 2672Haringey CND 0208 341 5997 email:[email protected] & District CND01923 232430Hastings CND01424 437820Headingley and KirkstallCND 0113 274 1011; email:[email protected] Hempstead CND01442 255 785Hereford Peace Council01432 274316Horsham Peace Alliance01403 251 [email protected] CND 01482 494 796Huyton CND0151 489 4242; email:[email protected]

Isle of Wight CND01983 855359; email:[email protected] District CND 01539 724660Kettering CND 01536 83392Kings Lynn & DistrictCND 01553 761447Kingston Peace Council/CND 0208 399 [email protected]

Labour Action for Peace01604 495431labour-peace-action.org.ukLancaster and DistrictCND 01524 68971; email:[email protected] CND 01162 705 604email: [email protected] & District CND 01273 473912; email:[email protected] & GreenwichCND 020 8857 1095 email: [email protected] PeaceGroup 01706 378 043email: [email protected]

London CooperativeParty Council0207 357 0230Lutterworth CND 01455 557167; mobile:07870 218148; email:[email protected] and LydiateCND 0151 526 7293Maidenhead & CookhamCND 01628 522 331Marple and District CND0161 427 1191Medway CND01634 360 415; email: [email protected] Peace Group01707 [email protected] CND 0208 648 9037Musicians AgainstNuclear Arms0208 455 1030Newham CND0208 989 [email protected] Cumbria CND01228 524351North Manchester CND0161 740 6505Nottingham CNDtel: 0115 981 2034; [email protected]

Orpington CND01689 837 848; email: [email protected] CND01865 [email protected] CND01736 787 056; email:[email protected] CND 01733 233047; email:[email protected] & WhitefieldCND 0161 733 0868

Quaker Peace and SocialWitness 020 7663 1067Reading Peace Group0118 967 1362; email:[email protected] & Redhill CND 01883 740 478Richmond & Barnes CND020 8876 0856Rickmansworth &Chorleywood CND01923 777754

Saddleworth PeaceMovement01457 876013; email:[email protected] Walden AgainstNuclear Weapons 01799 527449Salford CND0161 793 5122Salisbury CND 01722 333065Sevenoaks & SwanleyCND 01959 522165Sheffield CND0114 296 7596 email:[email protected] Peace Group01743 355 311Sonning Common PeaceGroup 01734 723295Southampton CND 02380 229363Southdowns CND01243 542518Southend CND01702 558682; email:[email protected] Albans CND 01727 861 247; email: [email protected] CND01438 226360Sydenham & Forest HillCCNNDD 0208 699 8597Tower Hamlets CND0207 515 4681 email:[email protected]

Wallasey CND 0151 638 4666; email:[email protected] Forest CND0208 523 0574Wanstead & WoodfordCND 020 8989 3242Watford CND01923 249551West London CND0208 743 4189 [email protected] Norwood CND0208 670 0622WimbledonDisarmament Coalition0208 543 0362Woking Action for Peace01483 [email protected]

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