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Officers – elected October 2010; Chair: Dave Webb; Vice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sarah Cartin, Daniel Blaney;Treasurer: Linda Hugl; General Secretary: (appointed senior staff position): Kate Hudson.

CND National Council – elected October 2010. Directly elected: Pat Allen, Sophie Bolt, Jenny Clegg, Tom Cuthbert,Ian Fairlie, Janet Fenton, Myra Garrett, Gawain Little, Caroline Lucas MP, Vijay Mehta, Pat Sanchez, Tony Staunton, Rae Street,Jim Taggart, Carol Turner Nations, Regions and Areas: CND Cymru: John Cox (VP), Jill Gough; Scottish CND: Brian Larkin, AlanMackinnon, Arthur West; Cumbria & N. Lancs: Dick Allwright; East Midlands: Ian Cohen, Richard Johnson, Lesley Mathews;Greater Manchester: Philip Gilligan; Kent Area: Marilyn Sansom; London Region: Isobel McHarg, Jim Brann, Nicholas Russell;Merseyside: Gerald Poole; Southern Region: Michael Waugh; South Cheshire & N. Staffs: Jason Hill; South West Region: PeterLe Mare, Tom Milburn, Michal Lovejoy; Sussex Peace Alliance: Ros Cooke; West Midlands CND: vacant; Yorkshire CND: HelenJohn, Dominic Linley. Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Bob Russell; Labour CND: Joy Hurcombe; Student CND: Fiona Edwards;Youth and Student CND: vacant.

Vice-Presidents: Pat Arrowsmith, Tony Benn, John Cox, Joan Horrocks, Rebecca Johnson, Bruce Kent, Alistair Mackie,Alice Mahon, Paul Oestreicher, Walter Wolfgang.

Staff and volunteers Staff at Holloway Road: Sam Akaki: Parliamentary Officer [until January 2010]; Joy Annegarn:Membership, Finance; Kate Charteris: Membership and Database Officer; Eve Cuthbert: Finance and Network Manager;Ben Folley: Campaigns Officer (Parliamentary) [from March 2010]; Sue Longbottom: Designer; Mell Harrison: GroupDevelopment Officer [on one-year’s leave from May 2010]; Tansy Hoskins: Campaigns Officer (Trade Unions) [from September2010]; Anna Liddle: Peace Education Officer; Dawn Rothwell: Campaigns Officer (Research and Information); Luke Massey:Office & Personnel Manager; Anne Schulthess: Campaigns Officer (Youth & Community Engagement) [from May 2010];Ben Soffa: Press Officer; Beckett Vester: Fundraiser; Chris Wood: QPSW Campaigns Officer [until September 2010].

Many thanks and good luck to Sam Akaki and Chris Wood.

National and Regional staff: CND Cymru: Jill Gough; Scottish CND: John Ainslie; Greater Manchester CND: Jacqui Burke,Doug Weir; London Region CND: David Polden; Yorkshire CND: Denise Craghill, Hannah Tweddell. Other regional offices arerun by volunteers. Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Claire Poyner (part-time).Other specialist sections are run by volunteers from home.

Volunteers at Holloway Road: Pat Allen, Pat Arrowsmith, Jim Brann, Kitty Cooper, Ellie Delves, Dave Esbester, JessicaLittlewood, Gina Mackenzie, Eileen Maclean, Luba Mumford, Mary Ogbogoh, Annette Russell, Ellen Sheffield, Andrea Szilagyi,Jean Taylor, Jim Thomas, Ian Triggs, Tim Wardle, Muriel Wood.

Interns: Amy Brecken-Simons, James Funnell, Sarah Holtam, Tom Howie, Kat Lewis, Bwale Nkowane, Ed Ram, AndreaSzilagyi. Thank you to all those in and out of the office who volunteer their valuable time and energy.

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CAMPAIGN REVIEW 2010

IAM honoured to have been elected as the newChair of CND this year and want to thank KateHudson for her inspirational work and dedicationover the last seven years as Chair. I very much

look forward to working with her in her new role asGeneral Secretary.

This has been a very interesting and very promisingyear! One in which we have worked hard for a nuclearweapon free world at local, national and international

levels. During the general election campaign CND groups across thecountry held hustings and lobbied candidates to make Trident replacement a majorissue. This was greatly assisted by the online lobbying tool on the CND websitewhich enabled people to contact their candidates at the click of a mouse. No doubtthis and other campaigning pressure helped secure the delay to the decision onwhether or not to replace Trident to 2016. So there is all to play for!

At the same time as the election in the UK, CND was present at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York. We spoke at and hostedworkshops and helped to organise and run the International Abolition Conferenceat Riverside Church (with over 1,000 attendees and guest speakers Ban Ki-moonand Mayor Akiba from Hiroshima). We were also joint organisers of the DisarmNow march and rally in Times Square at which 15,000 sent out our commondisarmament message to UN delegates.

In November we were in Lisbon for the NATO Summit. CND was involved inthe No to War –No to NATO Counter Summit and International Protest whichhighlighted NATO’s expansionist policies, its nuclear presence in Europe and thedecision to join the provocative and costly NATO and US missile defence systems.

This Review covers just some of the highlights of our campaigning in 2010,illustrating the breadth and depth of our work. It by no means covers everythingand all the groups and supporters deserve a big thank you for their hard work,perseverance and spirit. Unfortunately, we are still being told that we need to spend£76 billion or more on replacing Trident but the argument as to whose budget themoney should come from was very interesting. Should it be the MoD or theTreasury that pays? In other words - is it really a weapon or a status symbol forpoliticians? The simple resolution to the argument would be of course to scrapTrident altogether and with it the huge nuclear burden that we are passing on tofuture generations.

CND members and groups all over the UK will continue to explain that the cuts inhealth, education and welfare programmes are unnecessary, if we just admit that wedo not need to retain a hugely expensive, wasteful and unnecessary nuclearweapons system! As a result of our work Trident replacement is being shiftedfurther into the future as it becomes increasingly difficult to justify – let’s continueto apply the pressure and make sure that it is finally cancelled altogether. The onecut that we definitely do need is Trident!

David Webb, CND Chair

Campaign forNuclear Disarmament

CND campaigns non-violently toachieve British nucleardisarmament – for scrapping theTrident nuclear weapons systemand preventing its replacement.

CND works to secure a NuclearWeapons Convention which willban nuclear weapons globally, aschemical and biological weaponshave been banned. We also workto end Britain’s participation inthe US Missile Defence systemand – with other campaignsinternationally – against missiledefence and weapons in space.

Other current campaigns includethe prevention and cessation ofwars in which nuclear weaponsmay be used, opposition toNATO and its nuclear policies,and to nuclear power.

CND is funded entirely by itsmembers and supporters, andour policies are decided upon byour annual national delegates’conference, where our nationalleadership is also elected.

Details of our national offices,and our network of regions andlocal groups can be found at theback of this Review.

CNDMordechai Vanunu House

162 Holloway Rd • London N7 8DQTel: 020 7700 2393Fax: 020 7700 [email protected]

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CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

OUR TOP PRIORITIES thisyear have been working toscrap Trident, ensure there is

no nuclear replacement of any sort, andsecure the global abolition of nuclearweapons. The situation has changedsignificantly in our favour: now thepossibility of scrapping the existing systemis on the agenda, as well as making surethere is no replacement. Polls continue toshow a majority for nuclear disarmament,so, as a result the emphasis of our workhas shifted from No Trident Replacementto Scrap Trident, as a realisable demand.

This year’s campaigning was dominatedby the general election and its aftermath.Election work focused on canvassing allcandidates on nuclear weapons, mostly viaour special online lobbying system whichthousands of members and supportersused to contact their candidates. Hundredsof responses were received – manycandidates even went against their party tooppose Trident. The issue had a boostfrom Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, whoraised Trident replacement in the televisedleadership hustings. However, hopes weredashed when the coalition governmentbacked Trident replacement.

We lobbied new Defence SecretaryLiam Fox and his Lib Dem DefenceMinister Nick Harvey, to includeTrident in the Strategic Defence and SecurityReview. Then we facilitated submissionsto the Treasury’s Spending Challenge,inviting people to suggest what shouldbe cut. Large numbers of people optedto scrap Trident. We have been pressingthe government to take note of theresponse!

Since then we have seen somemodest advances. In October, thegovernment published its Defence Reviewand its new National Security Strategywhich saw not only a delay to thedecision to replace Trident until 2016and a reduction in warhead numbers,but also a reduction of nuclear threats toa ’second tier’ level. Our key focus nowis to ensure that decision is a resounding‘No’. On the day of the Comprehensive

Spending Review, CND joined with theStop the War coalition to organise aprotest in Parliament Square, urging thatTrident and war should be cut, notspending on health, education andwelfare.

An important feature of our anti-Trident work has been our new researchand publications on Trident and the jobsissue (see page 20). We have exposed

the myth that Trident helps employmentand are using the new materialsparticularly with the trade unionmovement.

This year CND again backedopposition to Aldermaston WeaponsEstablishment planning applications fornew facilities, this time a hydrodynamicsfacility Hydrus (which recreates theextreme conditions within a nuclearexplosion without causing a detonation).Our online lobbying system allowedover a thousand objections to be logged.

We have produced new campaigningmaterial on Trident which has beenwidely used by local groups, togetherwith a new Scrap Trident: Ban all nuclearweapons petition (see page 20). CNDcontinues to convene the No TridentReplacement core group where

Scrap Trident

63% of the British publicwant spending cuts to

include scrapping Trident– BPIX/Mail on Sunday

poll, June 2010.

February, Aldermaston: CND supported the Big Blockade whichdrew campaigners from around the world. One of these wasNobel Laureate, Jody Williams (inset) who addressed our publicmeeting the following day at the LSE. Jody led the LandminesBan campaign and shared many ideas and lessons for thebanning of nuclear weapons.

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CND groups made concerted efforts inthe run-up to the election: lobbyingcandidates, organising hustings and gettingletters and articles in their local press.Yorkshire CND, in common with otherregions, received the fewest responsesfrom the Conservative Party candidatesand the most from the Lib Dems and theGreen Party. The group organised a Peaceand Justice Hustings in Leeds Civic Hallwith representatives from all the mainpolitical parties in the area.

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representatives from a wide range ofdisarmament organisations meetregularly to discuss strategy and tacticsin our anti-Trident work. Recognisingthe importance of campaigning at thenuclear dockyard in Devonport,Plymouth where Trident submarines areserviced, we have continued to workwith local activists and supported ablockade in October. Our campaigningin Devonport links the issues of nuclearweapons, nuclear waste, cuts andinvestment in sustainable jobs.

Global Abolition2010 saw the nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty (NPT) Review Conference inNew York – a five yearly event whereprogress towards disarmament isassessed and advanced. This year’sevent was more constructive than theprevious one in 2005, and there wassome modest progress in securingrecognition for a Nuclear WeaponsConvention. CND had worked withother organisations internationallytowards this end and had a gooddelegation in attendance. We held asuccessful fringe meeting, joined anenormous march through New York,and helped organise a major NGOconference. A highlight of the NPT wasthe handing in of a global petitioncalling for nuclear abolition. Itcomprised over 16 million signatures,including tens of thousands fromBritain! In June, CND and theInternational Campaign to AbolishNuclear Weapons (ICAN) UK workedtogether to mark a post-NPT global dayof action by organising some newly-elected anti-nuclear MPs to hand in aletter to Downing Street. CNDcontinues to be an active part of ICAN– the international campaign whichfocuses on securing a Nuclear WeaponsConvention.

Kent Area CND members produceda special pre-election leaflet – 2010:Make or Break – making the case forscrapping Trident. A small band ofactivists distributed them in towncentres in every constituency in the area.Members also wrote to most of theircandidates, getting considered repliesfrom unexpected quarters.

West Midlands CND members hadpre-election stalls throughout the region,and questioned candidates on Trident athustings. Their dedicated parliamentaryteam continues to monitor parliamentenabling them to follow up elected MPsand write letters to their local newspapers.Bruce Kent addressed their lively publicmeeting attended by 60 people.

Later in the year, West MidlandsCND members joined thousands ofprotestors on the Right to Work Marchin Birmingham on the day theConservative Party Conference opened.Carrying No to Trident placards andleafleting the marchers, they continuedtheir campaigning with a silent vigiloutside the Conference Centre.

Greater Manchester & DistrictCND groups were very busy organisinglocal hustings (coordinating with theGreater Manchester Stop the WarCoalition), public meetings, rallies, andstreet stalls prior to the election.

May, New York: A global petition callingfor nuclear abolition was handed in at theNPT. It comprised over 16 millionsignatures, including tens of thousandsfrom Britain

June: CND joined with the Stop the War Coalition to organise a protest on the day ofthe Comprehensive Spending Review – cut Trident and war, not public spending

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Cumbria and Lancashire AreaCND members campaigned vigorouslyusing CND’s Election Pack. In March,members celebrated InternationalWomen’s Day with stalls in Lancasterand Nelson; overall they collected morethan 900 signatures for the No toTrident Replacement petitions.

London Region CND’s bi-monthlyPublic Fora included a well-attendedhustings and, since the election, membershave held monthly vigils protesting againstTrident in Parliament Square.

Sussex Peace Alliance members wereparticularly active during the election periodwriting to candidates beforehand and thento the elected MPs after. They havecorrespondents in all of the Sussexconstituencies and continue to inform theirMPs successfully prompting them to signEDMs and table Parliamentary Questions.

Oxford CND members from SouthernRegion CND have joined in many localanti-cuts demonstrations using ‘Cut TridentNot Welfare’ as their slogan.

Street stalls have been run byMerseyside CND members inBirkenhead, Liverpool and Maghull citycentres. They also ran monthly Tea inthe Park events throughout the summerin a park in Wallasey with stalls and music.Many young people were interested in thecause and the general public consensus wasthat Trident is a shameful waste of moneyin these hard times.

Several groups sought to makepeople aware of the importance of theNPT Review Conference 2010 in NewYork. Yorkshire CND organised aseries of six public talks by specialspeakers on various aspects of thenuclear weapons issue. Sussex PeaceAlliance members helped organise along stretch of the Flame of Hope walkbetween Dover and Portsmouth to callon world leaders to ban nuclearweapons. Members were also present asNGO delegates at the Conference inNew York.

During the autumn, Kent Area CNDheld a successful public meeting inTunbridge Wells on the outcomes of theReview Conference, generating muchgoodwill and support from long-standing members.

Nuclear ConvoysOxford CND members from SouthernRegion CND continue to work with Nuke-watch (see page 25), observing, pursuingand noting details about the nuclearconvoys pass ing through their area.

Aldermaston blockadingEarlier in the year many regional andlocal CND groups supported the BigBlockade at Aldermaston organised byTrident Ploughshares, includingmembers from London Region,Sussex Peace Alliance, Cumbria andLancashire and Yorkshire CNDgroups. A carful of ‘Zombies’ came

from Portsmouth, lots of young peoplecame from Poole, Bournemouth andChristchurch, and other Southern Regionmembers came from Oxford andPenzance. Participation in the blockade hasencouraged campaigning in Bournemouth,where two well-attended public meetingshave since been held.

Rolls RoyceEast Midlands CND campaignersconcentrate on the Rolls Royce factoryin Derby. As well as designing andmanufacturing the reactors for Tridentand other nuclear-powered subs, thecompany has now expanded into thearea of civil nuclear power havingbecome involved in a new researchcentre and new plant to manufacturecomponents for the industry. In March,East Midlands CND roused significantlocal press interest in their publicmeeting in Derby (organised with theJustice & Peace Group) on the theme‘Nuclear Dangers – the GreenAlternative’. Around 50 people attended(and contributions to the discussionwere made by several people from thelocal workforce). The speaker was DrStuart Parkinson from Scientists for GlobalResponsibility. The group holds monthlyprotests outside the factory with DerbyChurches Justice and Peace, Friends of theEarth and other Green groups. Differentthemes have included vigils for ChernobylDay and Hiroshima and Nagasakicommemorations and in October theyheld a Cut Trident, Create Green Jobsdemonstration.

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� Lobby your MP to sign EDM 909 calling on the government to ensure a full publicreview of our possession of nuclear weapons before the Trident replacement projectreaches Main Gate stage (after which construction of the submarines willbegin). At the same time ask him/her to sign EDM 498 demanding thegovernment supports negotiations for a Nuclear Weapons Convention to banall nuclear weapons worldwide.

� Use CND’s new leaflet on Trident and the cuts (ready for 2011) as well as theTrident, Jobs and the UK Economy four-page summary particularly for work withtrade unions.

� Make sure all your friends and family sign the Scrap Trident, Ban all NuclearWeapons petition – a copy is enclosed with your Campaign Review (please post itback to us before September 2011). Alternatively sign the petition online, send it toall your friends and share it on your Facebook page.

Action

Gtr Manchester CND helps to blockadethe Home Office Gate at Aldermaston

East Midlands CND protest outside theRolls Royce factory in Derby

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Devonport blockadePlymouth CND (part of South WestRegion) has been campaigning on thecrucial issues at Devonport Dockyard,showing what will really help employmentin the city. The group has gained thesupport of the Plymouth Trades UnionCouncil and the Green Party. There ismuch local concern about plans to cut upall the obsolete nuclear poweredsubmarines and store the radioactivewaste in this city inhabited by 250,000people. The group worked with TridentPloughshares to organise a Blockade ofthe dockyard gates. At least 120protestors came to the blockade includingmembers from London Region CND,South West Region (Exeter andPenzance), and activists from YorkshireCND and Eastern Region CND (someof whom locked on to a car!). A protestmarch in the city preceded the blockade.

Labour CND backed Diane Abbott forleader of the Labour Party in theleadership contest in summer because ofher consistent support for CND, andhow she spoke out strongly againstTrident replacement and opposed thewars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hercampaign successfully raised these issuesin the public debate.

Members sent resolutions to localLabour parties for submission to LabourParty Conference on the subjects ‘Supporta Nuclear Weapons Convention, ScrapTrident’ and ‘Troops out of Afghanistan’ -they were ruled out of order as usual. Thereal debate was at the fringe meetings,particularly the one organised by LabourCND, Labour Action for Peace and CND.MPs Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, EricJoyce and Yasmin Qureshi joined withKate Hudson and Mehdi Hasan from theNew Statesman to debate the subject of‘New leader, new foreign policy’; themeeting was so popular there was standingroom only for latecomers.

Christian CND had severalgatherings at the Atomic WeaponsEstablishment, Aldermaston. Theirbiggest being an overnight candlelit vigilpreceding the Big Blockade in February.

The closing ceremony and interfaithservice the following morning attracted anunusually large crowd including theBishops of Reading and Brentwood. InJune members organised a special NuclearAbolition Day event which members ofWest Midlands CND supported. Therewas a picnic and a colourful presentation atMain Gate entitled ‘Strictly Disarming’.

In March, in advance of the NPTReview Conference, Christian CND heldan Embassies Walk calling at 16 embassies

in London. The general response wasencouraging. Their other pre-Conferenceevent was organising 23 miles of theFlame of Hope Walk (Lydd to Hastingssection). There were stops along the waywhen they were greeted by Mayors, seniorclergy and the MP Michael Foster. Fourmembers represented Christian CND atthe Conference in New York, holdingearly morning interfaith prayer vigils,meeting diplomats and joining in NGOactivities.

With tuition fees at £2.5 billion per year(more than the cost of running Trident!)and rising, Student CND has beenbuilding support for its Fund Education –No to Trident campaigning. This issue wascentral to its intervention in the NUSNational Conference in April whichproved to be a key opportunity to makenew links with student activists andstudent leaders from across the country.Hundreds of Student CND newsletterswere distributed from a popular stall at theConference and members co-organised apeace fringe with Stop the War Coalitionand the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.This was one of the biggest fringemeetings at the Conference with over 100people attending.

During the summer Student CND sentout a glossy new Fund Education – No toTrident Replacement briefing to severalhundred incoming Student UnionSabbatical Officers around the country.For Freshers’ Week the group produced aStudent CND newsletter to mobilisestudents around CND’s core campaigns.Members also held a successful stall at theUniversity of London Freshers’ Fair.

In October Student CND spoke at theProgressive Students Conference (anational event with students coming from30 different campuses). In November thegroup distributed new leaflets at theenormous (52,000 people) demonstrationagainst the government’s proposal toincrease tuition fees.

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The blockade at Devonport Dockyard

Sussex Peace Alliance members helpedorganise a long stretch of the Flame ofHope walk between Dover and Ports-mouth to call on world leaders to bannuclear weapons.

Student ‘zombies’ join the blockade atAldermaston

WE CONTINUE to work asappropriate with the Stop theWar Coalition and the British

Muslim Initiative. This year that includedthe joint organisation of the successfulTroops out of Afghanistan demo inNovember, a protest in January at theChilcot Inquiry on the occasion of TonyBlair being called to give evidence andprotests against the attacks on the ‘GazaFlotilla’ taking humanitarian aid to thepeople of Gaza.

As always many local and regional CNDgroup members come from all parts ofthe country to strengthen the numbers ofthe national anti-war demonstrations inLondon. At the same time they also carryout actions in their own towns and cities.At the start of the year Greater

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Not one more death

Manchester & District CND workedclosely with the Manchester PalestineSolidarity Campaign (PSC) and theGreater Manchester Stop the WarCoalition (STWC) and other groups toorganise vigils and other events around

the anniversary of Operation Cast Leadto remember all those civilians who diedin the devastating Israeli attacks on theGaza strip in 2008/9.

In summer many people came to seethe GMD CND concert organised withManchester PSC to host singer-songwriter David Ferrard. Everyoneagreed that making the link between thetwo causes was vital because of the issueof Israel’s nuclear weapons. The grouplinked with Manchester PSC and STWCagain to organise a large rally of morethan two thousand people outside theBBC Headquarters in response to theattack on the Gaza aid flotilla in May.

Sussex Peace Alliance memberssupported Eastbourne for Peace andLiberty in arranging an Open Forum onAfghanistan. Presentations anddiscussions were informed by factualbriefings and the Forum resulted in the

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20th November: Afghanistan Time to Go demonstration

January: Blair gives evidence at theChilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq

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formulation of a series of publicquestionnaires asking people for views onwhether people feel safer with Britishtroops in Afghanistan.

Penzance CND, from South WestRegion, has held their Peace Stall in thecentre of town nearly every Saturday forthe last 35 years. Since the bombing ofAfghanistan they have also held an hourlong vigil there every Saturday too.

Labour CND held a successfulconference at the start of the yearentitled ‘Reclaiming the peace, Throwaway our imperialist past, No to Trident,Troops out of Afghanistan’. Speakersincluded Jeremy Corbyn MP, BillyHayes the General Secretary of theCommunication Workers Union,Marion Hobbs the FormerDisarmament Minister of New Zealand,and Alice Ukoko, a Nigerian humanrights activist. Former Guantanamodetainee Omar Deghayes spoke abouthis ordeal spending six years inGuantanamo where he suffered routineabuse and torture, including beingblinded in one eye.

Labour CND continues to work forthe release of British Resident ShakerAamer who is a victim of US/UKforeign policy, still being detained inGuantanamo without charge.

Student CND played an active role inmobilising students to join the nationaldemonstration against the war inAfghanistan in November and FionaEdwards represented Student CND onthe platform of speakers at the closing

THIS YEAR’S anti-NATOcampaigning has focused on theNATO summit in Lisbon in

November where a new StrategicConcept was announced. Althoughthere were some verbal gestures towardsnuclear disarmament, nothing concretewas achieved in this area, and there wasno commitment to remove theremaining US tactical nukes from fiveEuropean countries, even though anumber of them have demanded theirremoval at government level.

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No to NATO

CND was centrally involved in theorganisation of a counter-summit inLisbon during the NATO leaders’summit. This was a successful eventaddressed by Jeremy Corbyn MP, CNDChair Dave Webb and National Councilmember Rae Street.

Earlier in the year we protestedoutside a NATO meeting in London,calling for British troops to be withdrawnfrom Afghanistan. A new briefing andleaflet have been produced, following theoutcomes of the NATO summit.

CND’s delegates joined the massive 30,000 strong demonstration of the Portuguesepeace movement in Lisbon at the Nato Summit

Women in Black and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom say Noto Nato in Trafalgar Square, London

ANTI-NUCLEAR powercampaigning has been ongoingthis year, with submissions made

to government consultations on newnuclear power stations. We were also ableto provide material to support localgroups to make their own submissionstoo. A highlight of the year was thepublication of our new briefing on theGerman government’s ‘KiKK’ study onthe incidence of childhood leukaemia inproximity to nuclear power stations. Wehave also produced a new leaflet againstnuclear power, explaining that it is not theanswer to climate change, supported localprotests at power stations and participatedin the green NGOs group whichcooperates on common issues.

In December we joined the climatechange demo, leafleting with our new Noto Nuclear Power leaflets.

In April Cumbria and Lancashire AreaCND joined with the Heysham AntiNuclear Alliance (HANA) to hold aMarket Square stall focusing on theanniversary of the terrible accident atChernobyl. Members also organised apublic meeting on Nuclear Power and theLocal Economy in April, drawingattention to the dangers of nuclear new-build in the area.

There was also a good turn-out for themeeting Greater Manchester & DistrictCND organised on nuclear power at thetime of the Chernobyl anniversary.Speakers included Dr Ian Fairlie, LindaWalker from the Chernobyl Children’sProject (UK) and Marianne Kirkby fromRadiation Free Lakeland.

One of London Region CND’s bi-monthly Public Fora included a talk inspring by Dr. Ian Fairlie on ChildhoodLeukaemia and Nuclear Power. In July,LRCND’s working group, the NuclearTrains Action Group, organised a 100-strong demonstration and die-in to callfor a halt to trains carrying highly-radioactive fuel rods being routed through

the Olympic site in East London. Amongother risks, the demonstration highlightedhow a terrorist attack on such a trainnear the site during the Olympics couldkill thousands downwind and requiremass evacuation.

Eastern Region CND memberscontinued to protest throughout the yearagainst nuclear power. In February theysupported a 10-hour blockade at Sizewellnuclear power station organised by theStop Nuclear Power Network (SNPN).To raise public awareness about wasteissues their blockading (with help fromthe Theatre of War) involved locking onto mock radioactive waste barrels. Theyare supporting those arrested at theblockade who are facing court action inJanuary 2011.

In April the group worked with theSNPN again to run a Chernobyl weekendcamp which around 100 people attended.With a welcome tent and informationaldisplay boards the camp was a greatsuccess in persuading local people to stop,learn more and ask questions. There wereworkshops on nuclear power, renewableenergy solutions and non-violent directaction. The event culminated in a livelydemonstration with speakers, music and adancing blockade at Sizewell’s gates.

On Chernobyl day itself EasternRegion CND members held aprocession with the Theatre of War to thelocal beach near Sizewell power station.They carried pebbles inscribed withspecial messages and built a cairn withthem in memory of all those affected bynuclear disasters. The event was witnessedby local media and independent filmmakers. There was a follow-up publicmeeting which initiated a ripple of lettersin the local paper.

In October Eastern Region memberssupported a four-hour SNPN blockade ofHinkley Point nuclear power station toprotest about the flawed and biased localConsultation on having a new reactorbuilt there. All activists wore badgermasks to show their opposition to planswhich would also destroy the habitat forlocal wildlife even including evictingbadgers from their sets.

East Midlands CND has beencampaigning hard with other groups andlocal people in their region to stop thecompany Augean dumping nuclear wastefrom Rolls Royce Raynesway and fromthe decommissioning of old powerstations at the Kings Cliffe landfill in

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4th December: CND’sbanner was at theClimate Change demo,where hundreds of thenew No to nuclearpower leaflets weredistributed

SCANS (Solent Campaign Against Nuclear Ships) protest outside Southampton CivicCentre, against the visit of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Torbay on the 15thNovember 2010 Photo: David Smith

Northamptonshire. Their hard workhelped get the application refused by thelocal council. Even so Augean is busyappealing against this decision. EasternRegion CND’s Chair, along withrepresentatives from the Low LevelRadiation Campaign, Friends of theEarth, the Green Party and the localcampaigning group, Waste Watchers, hasgiven important evidence to the hearing.

East Midlands CND is producing anew pamphlet based on their short historyof the debate about nuclear power inBritain published in the WISE (WorldInformation Service on Energy) monthlyNuclear Monitor. The group has alsobeen working on a new website, coveringall their activities, planned to go live at thestart of 2011.

Southern Region CND members arean important part of the Solent CoalitionAgainst Nuclear Ships (SCANS). Thisyear SCANS and Southampton CNDdemonstrated against the city’s adoptionof the new Astute class submarine HMSArtful and the nuclear-poweredsubmarine HMS Torbay’s visiting the cityin November. The Coalitioncommissioned new research by Large &Associates which highlighted seriousfailings in emergency planning in theevent of an accident in a submarinedocked at Southampton.

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CAMPAIGNING on missiledefence has progressed, thanks toYorkshire CND which leads

CND’s campaigning in this area and hasupdated our materials and information. Asuccessful protest took place at the missiledefence base at Fylingdales in June. Wehave also continued to coordinate withother European groups and to participatein the Global Network against Weaponsand Nuclear Power in Space.

In June Yorkshire CND and TridentPloughshares organised an event calledReclaiming the Moor, around Fylingdales.Thirty demonstrators, including membersof Cumbria and Lancashire Area CNDand West Midlands CND, battled theelements (mainly torrential rain) and faceda disproportionate MoD police presenceto approach the base from three differentdirections. Once there they handed in aletter to the Base Commander.

Cumbria and Lancashire CNDmembers supported several eventsorganised by the Campaign for theAccountability of American Bases (CAAB)at Menwith Hill including theIndependence from America day ofprotest in July and the Who are theInvisibles? protest in October as part ofKeep Space for Peace week.. The groupwelcomed Lindis Percy from CAAB to a

talk on missile defence in September.Yorkshire CND launched A Walker’s

Guide to Fylingdales during this year’sKeep Space for Peace Week. The guidedwalk took place on an unseasonably warmand sunny day and revealed the importantgeological and historical features of the areaand toured the outskirts of the base. Thegroup also organised a screening of thenew documentary Pax Americana and theWeaponization of Space in Leeds andBradford as part of the week’s events.Yorkshire CND has updated itsimportant US Missile Defence exhibition(comprising four large, attractive,informative display boards) and it wasshown in the Bradford Central Library.The exhibition is available for all groupsand members to use: please [email protected] or call 01274730 795 to organise your own showing.

Oxford CND is an important memberof the Oxfordshire Peace Campaign. Itsannual march and rally to the Croughtonbase, the big US listening andcommunications centre, during KeepSpace for Peace Week was informative andenjoyable. Around 60 demonstratorslistened to Peter Burt from the NuclearInformation Service and the ReverendDavid Platt. Mark Levene from CrisisForum explained how the base is also ahub of the Airforce Global Weather Centresupplying meteorological information to allAmerica’s forces and that its ‘PerimeterDenial Capability’ plans to keep out hordesof climate change refugees. Thedemonstrators were entertained by LesBicyclettes – a cabaret act mocking theUSAF base – and the Sea Green Singers.

No US Missile Defence

Eastern Region’s Chernobyl Day protestat Sizewell nuclear power station

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• Write to Chris Huhne MP,Department of Energy and ClimateChange Secretary, asking him toditch new nuclear power plans:Department for Energy and ClimateChange, 3 Whitehall Place, LondonSW1A 2AW (see CND’s NuclearPower page on the website for allthe arguments).

• If you live near a nuclear powerstation join in and help out one ofthe local groups campaigning there.

Speaking at the Croughton rally

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AHIGHLIGHT of the year hasbeen our hosting, with theQuakers, of the Hiroshima Peace

Museum Exhibition (displayed for the firsttime in London), at Friends House inLondon. We were also delighted towelcome Mr Kawamoto, a survivor fromHiroshima who opened the exhibition witha moving testimony and spoke at a numberof local groups’ public meetings during theexhibition run.

Our participation at party conferenceshas increased this year. We hosted fringemeetings at all three major partyconferences and stalls at the Labour partyand Lib Dem Conferences, as well as co-hosting a hustings for the Labour Partyleadership contest with the New Statesmanmagazine. We also hosted a fringe and hada stall at the Trades Union Congress.

This year’s participation at Glastonburyfestival was very successful, with two stalls,a programme of events and activities –including a screening of the Beating the Bombfilm about CND and its campaigning.Around 15,000 copies of Festival Campaignmagazine were distributed at the festivaland over 1,200 people signed letters toDavid Cameron. We then organised aDowning Street hand-in of the letters withthe MP who represents Glastonbury.

Several hundred people came to theNagasaki and Hiroshima Remembranceevent London Region CND organised inTavistock Square. Speakers includedHiroshima survivor Mr Kawamoto, KenLivingstone, the Mayor of Camden andHetty Bowers. There was poetry from thePurple Poets and singing from theWorkers’ Music Association, Raised Voicesand tenor Anthony Flaum.

People came from all over the regioncarrying both new and historical banners tothe vigil on Hiroshima Day held outsideStoke on Trent’s Town Hall and organisedby South Cheshire and North StaffordshireCND. Representatives from TridentPloughshares, NorSCARF (a local anti-

racist group) and Guduwara Temple alsojoined the vigil.

Yorkshire CND worked in conjunctionwith a new pop up art space to host theHiroshima Peace Museum’s A-Bombexhibition in August. It was considered agreat way to engage people in CND’scampaigns. The Lord Mayor and LadyMayoress of Bradford attended their vigilwhich attracted the largest turnout inmany years.

The Lord Mayor of Liverpool attendedMerseyside CND’s wreath-layingceremony. Over half of those attendingwere ‘new faces’ and students.

West Midlands CND members heldspecial commemorations and vigilthroughout the region including inHereford, Malvern and Birmingham andarranged for photograph exhibitions intheir cathedrals and libraries.

Exeter CND members of South WestRegion raised awareness about the

bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki withtwo stalls: one with paper crane-makingand leafleting in Exeter High Street; one atRoy Bailey’s Concert for Peace at theSidmouth Folk Festival (with a captiveaudience of several hundred).

In spring Greater Manchester &District CND began a long-running andsuccessful touring exhibition of the nationalCND Anniversary panels and their specialPeace Tree interactive artwork. Theexhibition was shown in ManchesterCathedral and churches, temples, meetinghouses and community centres across theregion. The group also joined the NuclearFree Local Authorities (NFLA) Secretariatplanning group to help create theManchester Peace Trail and Children’sPeace Trail. In autumn the group played akey role organising the Manchester PeaceFestival which was an enormous success. Itincluded: the Michael Foot exhibition at theWorking Class Movement Library; a rockconcert; a folk music concert with Leon

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Festivals, fairs and conferences

1,200 letters signed at Glastonbury werehanded in to David Cameron

Fourth Merseyside CND Peace & EcologyFestival at St.Luke’s Church in LiverpoolCity Centre, July 4th 2010Photo: James Donnelly

CND at the 1234 Shoreditch festivalAt Glastonbury Festival

Rosselson; comedy with Jewish comedianIvor Dembina. The Festival alsoincorporated a Peace Play in a Day projectat two schools in Manchester. One of theschools performed their play in front of theMayor of Nagasaki during the Nuclear-FreeLocal Authorities anniversary events inNovember (see page 18).

The Peace and Ecology Festival run byMerseyside CND every summer inLiverpool’s bombed-out church is now anestablished and successful city centre annualevent. This year about 15 differentcampaigning groups held stalls at theFestival and the music and poetry readingswere received by a young and enthusiasticaudience. Highlights including thePeacemakers 15 piece band (worldbeat vibewith a dash of folk) and the newly-formedLiverpool Socialist Choir.

Merseyside CND was also activeduring International Women’s Daycelebrations in March and Merseyside’sMay Day celebrations. Members ran a stallat the National Union of TeachersConference in Liverpool and helped staffthe CND stall at the Lib Dem Conferencein Liverpool in September.

Many groups have held screenings ofthe new film Beating the Bomb. MerseysideCND marked the UN Day of Peace with ashowing which was followed by intensediscussion. The Bishop of Birkenheadsupported Wallasey CND’s Peace Fair andConcert prior to the Day of Peace.

Sussex Peace Alliance members joinedin the Mid Sussex Global Peace Campaign’scelebration of the Day of Peace on BurgessHill with children’s activities, a screening ofthe film Peace One Day and a classical andfolk music concert held in a local church.

In May West Midlands CND joinedwith members of the United NationsAssociation in Birmingham Peace Gardenson International Conscientious Objectors’Day to celebrate conscientious objectors:both lifelong pacifists and those who,already in the army, claim the right to refuseto kill under certain circumstances.

In July members of Norwich CNDfrom Eastern Region were active helping toorganise the Norwich Peace Festival atwhich their stall was very well-visited.Eastern Region members also heldsuccessful stalls at the Harlequin Fayre in

August (where they also held a workshopon nuclear physics and organised filmshowings) and at the WaveneyGreenpeace Fair.

Exeter CND members from SouthWest Region worked at the Glastonburyand Reading Festivals raising funds forCND.

Kent Area CND helps support theUniversity of Kent Student CNDrepresentative who regularly attends theirmeetings and events. The two groupsorganised a stall at the annual Freshers’ Fair.

This year was Christian CND’s 50thAnniversary and they marked it with aPilgrimage to Peace event in CoventryCathedral at the end of October as partof Coventry City Council’s annual PeaceMonth commemorations. CND Vice-Presidents Bruce Kent and Canon PaulOestreicher were the keynote speakers.

Christian CND supported theshowing of the Hiroshima PeaceMuseum Exhibition. The group alsoorganised a vigil service in TavistockSquare and walk to Battersea PeacePagoda on Nagasaki Day carrying a‘Pilgrims Staff’ decorated with peacecranes made in Hiroshima.

In August Christian CND sponsoredBruce Kent as one of the main Grandstandspeakers at the Greenbelt Christian ArtsFestival (20,000 people attended). Theywere also influential in the organising groupof the event helping to ensure nucleardisarmament was one of the event’s keyissues of interest.

Youth & Student CND membersraised much needed funds for CNDyouth work through Workers’ Beer atGlastonbury.

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Specialist sections

Cumbria and Lancashire Area CNDorganised a Hiroshima/Nagasaki papercrane-making stall at their stall inLancaster Market Square

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress ofBradford attended Yorkshire CND’s vigil

London Region CND’s Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration event

Mr Kawamoto speaking at the launch ofthe Hiroshima exhibition in London

CND’s Vice-President Canon PaulOestreicher speaks at Christian CND’s50th anniversary event in CoventryCathedral’s old ruins

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Pre-election campaigning

IN the early part of the year ScottishCND’s main focus was on raising theissue of Trident in the election

campaign. Letters were sent to all thecandidates signed by Cardinal Keith O’Brien,Rt Rev Bill Hewitt (Moderator of theChurch of Scotland) and Isobel Lindsay(Convenor of Scotland’s for Peace and Vice-Chair of Scottish CND). The responses tothis survey were published in an article in TheHerald. We encouraged supporters to sendspecially designed ‘Cut Trident’ cards to allthose standing in the election. Several localCND groups also organised hustingsmeeting. A major demonstration CutTrident not Jobs was held in Edinburghwith speakers including First Minister AlexSalmond. The profile of the Trident issuewas effectively raised in Scotland, particularlyby the SNP and the Liberal Democrats,both at national and constituency level.

Post-electionIn May we held a Post-Election conferencewhich brought together representatives ofthe main political parties and CND activists.The meeting concluded that we shouldcontinue to lobby MPs and MSPs to takeadvantage of the political situation atWestminster and the Scottish Parliamentelections in 2011.

Jobs and TridentAn excellent new report, Trident, Jobs andthe UK Economy, written by AlanMackinnon, John Foster and JohnAinslie for CND, was launched by CNDat the TUC Congress in September (seepage 20). It was also discussed at ameeting with Scottish trade unionactivists in October.

August activitiesThe anniversaries of the bombings ofHiroshima and Nagasaki were marked bylocal events in ten locations acrossScotland, many attended by 50 to 100people. Local groups also supported theFootprints for Peace walk in August. Thewalk followed the routes taken by nuclearweapons’ convoys and raised publicawareness of the transport of Tridentwarheads through the countryside. Asignificant contingent from France played amajor role in the walk.

In the pressWhen the Navy’s newest Astute classnuclear-powered submarine ran agroundin Skye we were able to quickly put outa press release along with a report onhow similar incidents in the past werethe result of basic navigation errors anda lack of common sense. Our comments

were widely published along with detailsof the earlier accidents.

The Scottish press, particularly theSunday Herald, has carried regular articleson nuclear safety at Faslane, and we havebeen able to contribute to these. Themost recent of these concerned Ministryof Defence plans to privatise work at theCoulport nuclear store. Scottish CND’scomments on this were covered both inprint and on BBC Scotland.

Collective workScottish CND continues to work incoalition with other organisations. ThroughScotland’s for Peace we maintain close linkswith a range of civic groups, includingreligious bodies and trade unions. We alsoencourage cross-party opposition toTrident through our involvement in theScottish Parliament Cross Party Groupon Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear FreeLocal Authorities (Scotland) and Mayorsfor Peace.

We have engaged in the internationaldisarmament campaign. In May ScottishCND Chair, Alan Mackinnon, attended thenuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ReviewConference in New York. In Septemberthere was a successful meeting in theScottish Parliament to build support for aNuclear Weapons Convention.

March, Edinburgh: Scotland's for Peace – Cut Trident Not Jobs demo. Speakers included Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond andKate Hudson

Scottish CND


Success!

AFTER a year of hard work,argument and struggle, the bestdisarmament news from Wales is

the cancellation of the St Athan MilitaryCollege project. For a minimum of £14billion it would have committed Wales andBritain to a massive military institution onWelsh soil; completely antipathetic to theethos of sustainable development andinternational citizenship espoused by ourWelsh Assembly Government (WAG).When Jill Evans MEP, CND Cymru Chair,first calmly spoke the truth in opposing theproject she was publically called ‘a nutter’by Labour MP John Smith.

Wales was bribed with the promise ofjobs but in reality it was a job reductionexercise for the armed services. Only a fewhundred unskilled jobs would have beenavailable for locals. Advance paymentsfrom the MoD and the WAG were a gravytrain for private consultants. From theproject launch in 2007 to the current daythe private sector price has increased from£11 to £14billion. Millions of pounds ofpublic money were wasted on planningprocedures. WAG civil servants wereemployed to see the project launchedwith no debate, only press rhetoric andlobbyists’ ‘spin’.

CND Cymru and British CND must bevigilant. The MoD plans to modernisemilitary training by bringing the differentforces to work more closely together willremain. New remote killing methods usingsatellites and cyber space, missiles, robots,and drones, force strategic rethinking. Arms

companies rely on fear and ‘endless war’ tomaintain their growth, encouraging asystem which ‘legitimises’ the possessionof WMD.

Wales Peace InstituteVice-Chair John Cox deserves specialmention for his work in negotiating withthe Petitions Committee of the WelshAssembly Government along withAssembly Members of all parties in ourefforts to legitimise the concept of a WalesPeace Institute.

AberporthThe campaign to stop an area of Westand Mid Wales developing into a ‘Centreof Excellence’ (sic) for Unmanned AerialVehicles (drones) continues. Testing anddevelopment at Aberporth currentlyinvolves the MoD Watchkeeperunmanned aerial vehicle. CND Cymru isdelighted to be working with Bro EmlynPeace and Justice Group and Cymdeithasy Cymod on this issue. CND Cymruparticipated in the Fellowship ofReconciliation conference on drones inLondon in September.

Trident and ‘Security andDefence’ ReviewConstant campaigning against Trident andany replacement continues. Unusuallythrough the Westminster Elections, localhustings and the Defence and SecurityReview announcement, nuclear weaponswere easy to get on the press and mediaagenda for the first time in several yearsin Wales.

At the Aldermaston and DevonportBlockades CND Cymru was, as always,proud to be alongside and part of thewonderful Trident Ploughshares.

The brilliant Wrexham Peace andJustice Group were out on the Wrexhamstreets in sympathy with the DevonportBlockade, showing how little it takes tocause a stir!

Nuclear powerWork to prevent the building of newnuclear power stations especially atWylfa and on our borders has come tothe fore this year. We work with PeopleAgainst Wylfa-B (PAWB), the StopHinkley Campaign, Welsh Anti-NuclearAlliance and the brilliant Nuclear FreeLocal Authorities.

Groups and individuals all aroundWales informed by Heddwch, e-lists andour webpages have been on the streets,writing letters and supportingcampaigns. As always, it is important toremember that in our small country it isnecessary and our privilege to networkclosely and work together with manygroups on many related issues.

CND Cymru

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“Miss, do you have lots of nuclearweapons where you work?”Aside from such questions from a rarepupil (who must have been asleep duringa workshop), Peace Education in 2010has gone from strength to strength, andreached thousands of new schoolstudents and their teachers all over thecountry throughout the year.

Under Pressure: How PressureGroups OperateResponding to demand, we have releaseda brand new resource pack on how CNDoperates as a pressure group tocomplement the GCSE Citizenshipcurriculum. Students learn to recognisethe strength of their own influence anddesign their own campaigns based on theknowledge gained from this pack.Hundreds of copies have already beendistributed and young people havecommented that the resources make themfeel as though they are able to makepositive changes on issues about whichthey feel strongly.

Crane-folding CollectivesWe have received news of whole yeargroups of hundreds of students foldingorigami paper cranes and following theschemes of work in the Sadako’s Cranes forPeace booklet. The other educationresources have also been enthusiasticallyreceived by teachers who’ve commentedthat they are: ‘absolutely fantastic’ and‘not only can they be used successfully ineducating on nuclear issues, but they haveapplication for other topics’.

One resource, The Bomb Factor, wasmade into a programme for Teachers TV.The programme has received over athousand viewings within the first coupleof months, despite it being first shownover the summer holidays.

We have also had articles in teachingjournals and magazines, including REToday (the national publication forReligious Education teachers) and beeninvited to contribute further articles tovarious different journals in 2011

In 2010 we attended many conferences(including those for Science and Englishteachers) to ensure that the PeaceEducation materials are used across thecurriculum. They have also beendistributed at training events and placedon recommended lists from examiningboards for Citizenship.

We have given more than a dozenteacher training sessions, receiving muchpositive feedback from them such as‘upbeat and engaging’ and ‘informativeand extremely useful’. One teacher-trainerreported that student teachers haddescribed their session as ‘one of the bestexternal sessions of the year’. And ateacher who attended a regional trainingevent was inspired to run a sessionpromoting the resources to teachersacross her city, creating a snowball effect.

Peace Play in a dayAround the International Day of Peace inSeptember, we visited two schools inManchester accompanied by a theatrepractitioner to work with teenagers increating a ‘peace play in a day’. The resultswere excellent: the students worked hardand produced some beautifulperformances exploring the stories ofthose affected by Hiroshima, Nagasakiand nuclear testing. One group’sperformance was so moving that theywere invited to perform before the Mayor

of Nagasaki when their delegation visitedin November.

Nagasaki delegation visitDuring the Nagasaki delegation’s visit tothe People’s History Museum schools’events were organised so that students hadthe chance to hear the story of aHibakusha, a survivor of the Nagasakibomb. Over 100 students from sevenschools came to the museum to see theexhibition on loan from the Nagasaki PeaceMuseum and hear the testimony of thesurvivor. Many students were moved totears and their teachers commented on theprivilege of being able to attend such anevent, and said that the ‘pupils gained a lotfrom hearing a firsthand account of anevent that they will be studying in the verynear future’.

To ensure that the testimony will reacheven more students, it was filmed by TVProduction students from the University ofCentral Lancashire and will be made into aDVD to be launched in March 2011 anddistributed to schools countrywide.

Looking forwardThe DVD will hopefully be just one ofmany exciting developments in 2011 asCND Peace Education continues toexpand and develop. Email Anna Liddleon [email protected] to getinvolved.

Peace Education

Pupils from Whalley Range High School performed a short play at the Peoples’ HistoryMuseum for a delgation from Japan and met with Yoshiro Yamawaki, survivor of theNagasaki bomb Photo: M.E.N. Syndication

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BOTH our campaigning activitiesand our responses to worldevents have continued to gain

coverage in wide sections of the mediathis year. This included February’sAldermaston blockade which was coveredby the BBC, the Times, Mirror, Independent,Guardian, plus regional newspapers, radioand TV, and our hosting of an exhibitionof Hiroshima artefacts (see page 12)which garnered worldwide coverage onCNN news, an online feature from theIndependent, and coverage in Londonregional media.

In demandOur views in response to national andglobal events are often in demand; weprovide spokespeople and quotes to abroad range of nuclear, global securityand defence policy issues. We aim to geta CND voice in many debates, with, forexample, General Secretary KateHudson appearing on Sky News todiscuss the Anglo-French nuclear treaty,whilst the Evening Standard quoted ourreaction to Tony Blair’s appearance atthe Chilcot Inquiry. Other stories wehave prompted have looked moreclosely at local campaigns with a nationalresonance, such as in The Guardian articlecovering local concerns that Plymouthbecome a nuclear dumping ground.

Frequent coverageOur message has not been restricted toour more traditional outlets either. CNDspokespeople have appeared regularly onTalkSport and other commercial radiostations, as well as on BFBS – the globalradio network for the UK armed forces.By late November, The Guardian hadmentioned CND in over 100 articles andwe continue to enjoy very frequentcoverage in the Morning Star, Tribune,Ekklesia and The Friend. We’ve publishedresearch and opinion pieces on newsblogs such as LeftFootForward andregularly see our letters published innational newspapers.

International reportingCND continues to gain extensivecoverage internationally, with frequentrequests for comment from European,Russian and Middle-Eastern media. TheJapanese newspaper Akahata, with acirculation of 1.6 million, featured thevisit of CND Treasurer Linda Hugl toHiroshima in addition to covering ourHiroshima commemorations in Britainand other events.

A big thank-you to local andregional groupsOnce again, the work of local andregional CND groups in getting storiesinto the regional media has been vital inpresenting our issues within a localcontext. CND groups do an excellent jobof generating coverage of their events andviews, and we can always provide contactsand assistance from the CND office ifneeded. One easy way of translatingCND’s national statements into some-thing more local is to check our websitefor the latest press release and ‘recycle’ itas a letter to your local newspaper.

CND in the media

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No Trident replacement:Tackling the jobs issueOur excellent new Trident Jobs and the UKEconomy report effectively tackles the myththat replacing Trident would create morejobs for defence workers. On thecontrary, it would destroy thousands ofjobs all over Britain and is an obstacle toindustrial investment in sectors likesustainable energy. Its attractive, colourfulfour-page summary presents thearguments in a clear, concise manner and

is particularlyhandy forgetting thepoints acrossquickly – idealfor stalls andparticularly fortrade unionwork. The in-depth report ispacked witharguments andfacts – down-

load both from the Briefings pageof the CND website or else call 020 77002393 to get printed copies.

Updated leaflets andpostcardsWith the general election over we updatedour leaflets and postcards to reflect thecontinuing efforts for No Tridentreplacement. Please send the new purplepostcard to your MP even if you sentthem one of the red ones with a similardesign last year. It’s important to keepemphasising the cost and securitythemes – especially in this time ofmassive cuts. We mustn’t let our MPsforget about this issue.

The new Scrap TridentpetitionThanks to much of our hard work over theyears the political debate has moved on.

Given the current cuts climate we muststress how much we don’t want the currentsystem we’ve got, never mind itsreplacement! Consequently, our new ScrapTrident, Ban all Nuclear Weapons petitionreiterates the need to get rid of the currentsystem, cancel plans for any replacement,and negotiate a worldwide ban on nuclearweapons, such as a Nuclear WeaponsConvention. Get everyone you know tosign the petition and remember to post itback to us (hand-in planned for September2011), or alternatively sign the petitiononline, send it to all your friends and shareit on your Facebook page.

No nuclear powerOur popular Q&A on this issue has beenupdated, and we have also published animportant new two-sided summary of thefindings of German government-commissioned research (KiKK study)

which showed significant increases incancer in children under five who live nearnuclear power stations. We also have anew leaflet stressing the links betweennuclear power and nuclear weaponsproliferation and explaining why nuclearpower is dirty, dangerous and expensiveand not the answer to climate change.

No US Missile DefenceA new leaflet and briefing on this issueare planned for 2011.

No to NATOThis issue is particularly important at thepresent time (see page 9) so please use theupdated leaflet and briefing to make sureyou’re informed and helping to inform

Support for your campaigning

Join the letter-writing teamCND’s letter-writing team ensures that nearly every month throughout theyear important policy makers are informed and encouraged to take actionon nuclear weapons and peace-related issues. Among other things, in2010 our letter-writers wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer aroundthe time of the Spending Challenge consultation asking him to cut nuclearweapons out of the budget. Later they wrote to the Defence SecretaryLiam Fox about the UK’s role in NATO urging him to support the push toget US nuclear weapons out of Europe.

To join the team contact Kate at [email protected] or call thenational office, indicating whether you want to receive information by postor email.

Please join us. The more letters we write, the more influence we’ll have!

Whether you want to lobby your MP, get a letter in your local newspaper or hand out useful information at afestival or street stall, CND campaigns materials are regularly developed and updated to ensure you have theright message to hand at the right time to influence and empower people.

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•New guide to the variousinternational treaties: A summary ofthe many different treaties relating tonuclear weapons International agree-ments relating to nuclear weapons: aguide is a new online briefing to help youmake sense of the details of the varioustreaties so you can tell your CTBT fromyour START – see the briefings page.Call the office for a printed version.•CND briefings, Q&As and reportscan be downloaded from theInformation pages of our website.Leaflets and postcards can be orderedfrom our online webshop. Alternativelycall the CND office on 020 7700 2393.

CampaignWith opinion pieces, newsupdates, and details aboutCND activities, keepinformed by subscribing toCND’s Campaign magazine.All members receive thesummer edition. You canalso subscribe to the springand autumn issues byemailing [email protected]. All materialscan be ordered as hardcopies or simply down-loaded from the website.

Thanks to NET andEx-Services CND forfunding the printing ofour briefings.

New mediaCND continues to expand its onlinepresence with new campaigning toolsand ways of keeping supportersinformed. As well as helping establishedcampaigners to take action instantlythese tools allow us to connect with thegrowing numbers of people – especiallyyounger activists – who agree with ourstance but are disinclined to formally‘join’ organisations.

The CND websiteThere have been over half a million visitsto our website this year, somethingwe hope to increase by a majorupgrade of the website which iscurrently in progress.

Online campaigningOnline campaigning actions arebecoming an increasingly popular wayfor people to interact with theirrepresentatives. Since the GeneralElection over 7,000 emails have beensent to MPs, Ministers and others viaour online lobbying tools, with 5,500messages sent to candidates in the run-up to the vote.

Our e-Campaign email newsletter isreceived by over 11,000 people andgives the most up-to-date details aboutCND actions. Please sign-up by filling inyour email address in the box on thefront page of our website.

Facebook and TwitterIn the past year we have doubled ournumber of fans on Facebook to 5,300whilst 1,500 receive up to the minuteupdates from us via Twitter. KateHudson’s blog, which provides regularcommentary on nuclear news, also hasa growing readership.

Reality RadioA major new initiative this year hasbeen the launch of the CND-supported‘Reality Radio’ – an internet radio stationon the CND website, producing regularpodcasts on a broad range of globalissues. Listeners can download in-depthinterviews to listen to an array ofprominent campaigners, journalists andothers any time they choose.

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AUTUMN 2010THE MAGAZINE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

IsTrident on the

way out?

Let’s make it happen

FIRST OF ALL a big thank you toeveryone who donated to ourappeals in 2010. We rely on your

support to do the work that we do. Manypeople have been feeling the pinch as therecession grinds on, and we are all themore grateful for your financial support inthese difficult times. We never cease to beamazed and humbled by the generosityand dedication of CND members, andour recent appeal has been no exception.We have had a fantastic response. Thishas been a good year politically for thecampaign, with your help we can make2011 even better.

Setting our 2011 budget hasbeen a difficult task as CND nolonger has the level of reservesthat we were able to build upduring the last 5-6 yearsfollowing several significantlegacies to CND. Those legaciesenabled us to create new staffposts, leading to more intensiveand effective campaigning, whichwill be evident to you all; however this hasalso led to increased costs. As a result, verymany budget and grant bids have been cut,salaries will not rise with inflation and thepicture for 2012 is a concern.

However, fundraising income hasincreased in the last year or two and newideas are being generated to maintain andincrease income further but the effects ofthe recession makes prediction of suchincome difficult. It is even more essentialthen that you, as our most ardentsupporters, who know the importance ofour work, respond as generously as youcan to our appeals – every little bit helps!

CND Direct DebitSome of you will have received lettersasking you to change your StandingOrder to a Direct Debit this year –thanks to everyone who has done so –Direct Debits are easier for us toadminister and cost less in bank charges.You can start a Direct Debit on ourwebsite, or call us on 020 7700 2393. Doremember that if you start a new Direct

Debit youmust cancelany existing

Standing Order with your bank.

MerchandiseAs ever we have an astonishing array ofCND merchandise available on our website,www.cnduk.org/shop. If you still have anypennies left over after Christmas you shouldprobably go and invest them immediately inCND t-shirts, mugs, badges, DVDs andflags. If you’ve not had a look recentlycheck out our new kids’ t-shirts andhoodies, cotton bags, new mugs and flags –all manner of delights.

LegaciesLegacies left to CND continue to beessential in helping us fund ourcampaigning. They enable oursupporters to continue making adifference to the cause beyond their ownlifetimes. We are immensely grateful toall our members who have put a bequestto us in their will.

If you would like more informationabout leaving a legacy to CND you canfind it at www.cnduk.org/legacies,otherwise call us on 020 7700 2393 oremail [email protected] and we cansend you a copy of our information packA Legacy for Peace.

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Support us

Nuclear Education TrustNET continues to fund all of CND’s excellent Peace Education work andduring 2010 made an important contribution to the briefings andinformation sheets that CND prepared. NET made only two grant awardsin 2010, reflecting the decline in reserves and the need to focus on NETpriorities. Those grants were for CND Peace Education work in 2011, witha small grant for the Greater Manchester and District CND Peace Weekthat took place in September. The NET Trustees have prioritised CND’sPeace Education work, which continues to receive plaudits from manyeducationalists.� See www.nucleareducationtrust.net for more information

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Oct 15/16 2010, University of Bradford, Yorkshire

In 2011, CND national Conference and AGM will incorporate a day of action atmilitary bases in Yorkshire as part of the Keep Space for Peace Week.

Conference gives CND members the opportunity: to vote on policyand campaigns for the coming year; meet CND council members,staff and other members; and build links within the organisationand with supporters. Conference and AGM will be held onSaturday 15th October and will include officer hustings,ballots for directly-elected council membership andpolicy debates.

On Sunday 16th October, Conference will take to thebases! Taking advantage of the proximity of the two USMissile Defence bases at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales,Conference delegates are invited show their opposition tothe expanding US Missile Defence programme at the bases. A full programme ofactivities is being organised and will be available for delegates nearer the time.

Up to date information and all conference forms can be found on our website –use the drop down menu under ‘About’, which is on all pages.

Registration fees (including any transport to bases)£12 per individual; £40 per group of delegates of CND membership organisations.Attendance at the AGM is free of charge.

Key deadlines• Directly-elected Council member nomination deadline: Wednesday 29 June.

Please also supply your nominee’s email address; your name will also bepublished.

• Resolution deadline: Monday 4th July

Groups will receive a mailing in early April; all members will receive full details inthe summer edition of Campaign

All correspondence to ‘Conference’ at the CND office or [email protected]

CND Annual Conference and AGM 2011

Kate Hudson, General Secretary

Shift party policies

THE DELAY of the decision onreplacing Trident until 2016 isextremely welcome and presents

us with a huge opportunity to defeatreplacement once and for all. The fact thatTrident will almost certainly be a generalelection issue presents us with some cleargoals, notably to shift party policies in theintervening period. However, partypolicy/political shifts require mass popularpressure to be applied to electedrepresentatives. They also require a furthershift in public opinion against nuclearweapons on a sustainable political basis.Our goal over the next year must be to laythe groundwork for such shifts byworking to further win hearts and mindsagainst Trident.

Emphasise cost and securityissuesThe wider context continues to befavourable to our work, as thegovernment’s cuts agenda has drivennuclear spending into the public spotlight.Public opinion remains solidly againstTrident spending – a situation whichcould change if the economic situationeases, hence the need to ensure that publicopposition is increasingly underpinned byan understanding of other argumentsagainst nuclear weapons. Whilst thecuts/costs argument should remain ourprimary strand – particularly in terms ofopportunity cost, whether that be welfare,jobs, alternative industrial development insustainable energy – nevertheless a strongfocus on the irrelevance of Trident tomeet our security needs and theproliferation consequences of itsretention must be strongly emphasised.Recent government policies make thesearguments easier, in particular theNational Security Strategy reduction ofthe threat of state nuclear attack to atier two threat.

Looking ahead to 2011Extend our alliancesA key emphasis must be the renewal andextension of our alliances and partnershipswithin civil society. This requires work withthe following: trade unions, trades unioncouncils, faith communities, youth andstudent organisations, other campaigningorganisations working on war, militaryspending, the environment, debt anddevelopments, the economy and cuts.The intention is to drive our anti-nuclearagenda into these areas, intervening inpolitical debates, to raise the profile ofboth anti-nuclear campaigning and CND

itself. This proactive interventionistapproach must also take place in theprint and broadcast media at national andlocal level and in all forms of new media.Local groups can develop theircampaigning on the basis of bringing thenational issue to the local level as well asusing nationally-provided materials. Localpublic meetings are also important bothto raise the profile of the issue andconsolidate local alliances through choiceof speakers. Please call us at the CNDoffice if you would like us to provide aspeaker. Good luck!

Broadening and deepening the Scrap Trident campaign: priorities for the year ahead

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Aldermaston Women’sPeace Campaign (AWPC)Since 2002 we’ve focused on stopping theTrident replacement-related facilities beingbuilt at Aldermaston and Burghfield. Theyear 2010 began with continued invest-ment in new infrastructure. It endedwith new nuclear co-operation withFrance and reconsideration of facilitiesfor which planning permission hadalready been granted.

Plus ça changeLast winter, engaging with other groups(including CND), we campaigned againstthe planning application for a new uraniumfacility (Pegasus). It was approved inFebruary, despite getting the consultationperiod extended and a significant responseagainst the application.

AWPC later campaigned against theHydrodynamics facility (Hydrus) planningapplication – approved in September.However, in November the MoDconfirmed that, due to the deal to shareFrance’s Valduc facility, ‘Hydrus-will notnow proceed as originally envisaged ... thefull implications ... and the means oftransitioning ... are under review.’

The condensed readIn January AWPC took the unprecedentedstep of cancelling camp because of ice andsnow. Elsewhere we participated in anaction training workshop preparing forFebruary’s Aldermaston blockade. Sixwomen were arrested during the blockade,four of whom were charged and bailed forseveral months.

In May AWPC had a small butimportant presence at SERCO’s AGM[Serco is one of the three companiesmanaging AWE] to interact with boardmembers over safety, legal and moralissues.

As the year progressed, camp womenbegan objecting to increasingly invasivepolice surveillance of the camp: a formal

complaint has been made.Out and about, we had a presence at

Glastonbury, Tolpuddle and Womadfestivals, and at London FeministNetwork conference and the Peace NewsSummer Camp.

Pause for thought?Following October’s Strategic Defence andComprehensive Spending Reviews with arelative pause or perhaps sidestep in themarch towards replacement, we will nowreflect on our strategies and priorities.

�For more information please visitwww.aldermaston.net

Campaign AgainstDepleted Uranium (CADU)CADU’s priority in 2010 has beenpromoting the work of the UK UraniumWeapons Network (comprising 10 member

organisations). As secretariat, we fundraisedfor a part-time worker, updated materialsand developed a new Network identity.

We have been building a sustainablepolitical campaign to pressurise theMoD into withdrawing its DU weaponsfrom service. This was undertaken inconcert with the International Campaignto Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW),also run from Manchester.

Lev Eakins, our new NetworkCampaigner joined us in June and setabout developing our political work.Databases were created, new briefingsproduced and a strategy planned.Meetings were sought with, and rejectedby, the Foreign Office. However, we didcatch up with Defence Minister NickHarvey in Liverpool.

The UN is voting on a third DUresolution in the autumn, its contentinspired by the US’s continuing refusalto release targeting data for at least 400tonnes of DU used in Iraq in 1991 and2003. Without this data, hazardawareness programmes, monitoring anddecontamination is impossible becauseno accurate locations can be identified.To stimulate UK awareness about this,Early Day Motion 825 was tabled withcross-party political support; at the time

Autonomous campaignsCND supports and gives grants to the work of the following autonomous campaigns:

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of writing it has 86 signatures. InOctober, however the UK, US, Franceand Israel all voted against the DUresolution at the UN First Committee;136 other states voted in favour.

In November a publicity stunt wasorganised at the US Embassy – a giantmirror was held up to reflect theongoing lack of US transparency. As thefinal vote on the UN resolutionapproached, we organised a letter to theDaily Telegraph signed by representativesfrom all the Westminster parties callingon the government to vote in favour orabstain. And the MoD’s position on allthis? Humanitarian and environmentalconcerns are of no interest to us – we’llkeep using DU until we get somethingbetter. Our work continues.

�For more information please visit theCADU website: www.cadu.org.uk

NukewatchNukewatch observes, records and conductsin-depth research, working with parliament-arians and making Freedom of Informationrequests, on nuclear weapons convoystravelling across Britain. We are alwayshappy to give talks to local peace groups.

Convoys on the roadConvoy movements increased during 2010,following fewer movements in 2008/9because of serious faults at the AtomicWeapons Establishment (AWE)Burghfield’s facilities.

Three warhead convoys travelledbetween Burghfield and the Coulportarms depot in Scotland. Special NuclearMaterials convoys were observed on theroad in June (journeys fromAldermaston and Burghfield to RAFBrize Norton to dispatch radioactivecargoes on flights to the US) andNovember (a delivery and a dispatchfrom Aldermaston).

October’s Strategic Defence and SecurityReview announced the government’sintention to reduce the number ofnuclear warheads deployed on theTrident submarines. An upturn inwarhead convoy numbers is likely overthe next couple of years as warheads arewithdrawn from service and returned tothe stockpile.

New warhead carrier vehiclesThis year the MoD took delivery of TruckCargo Heavy Duty (TCHD) Mark 3vehicles (based on a Mercedes Actrostractor unit with a refurbished Mark 2trailer see photo). They are planned toreplace the current Foden TCHD Mark 2warhead carriers and the ageing blue HighSecurity Vehicles used to transport SpecialNuclear Materials by the end of 2010.

Photographs of the new Mark 3 vehicleswere posted on the Nukewatch websitewithin 24 hours of their first appearance for

a live trial journey from Burghfield toCoulport. A Parliamentary Questionrevealed that the total cost of the newconvoy vehicles plus research and develop-ment was £12 million. At a unit cost of wellover £1 million per vehicle, the new trucksare almost certainly the most expensivevehicles travelling on Britain’s roads.

Other activitiesNukewatchers monitor AWE’s extensiveconstruction programme. Nukewatch Southmembers played a major role in monitoringthe ‘Aldex 10’ emergency exercise at AWEAldermaston in November.

If you see a convoy, help Nukewatch bynoting when you saw it, where, and thedirection of travel. Immediately call:Di: 0845 45 88 364 or 07880 557035Jane: 0845 45 88 367 or 07778 267833

Roz/Mark: 0845 45 88 365 or 07972096499. For more information please seewww.nukewatch.org.uk

Trident PloughsharesTrident Ploughshares organised severalhigh profile actions this year at Tridentbases in England and Scotland, withvaluable support from CND.

In February, hundreds of people,including Nobel Peace Prize winners,bishops and people from all over Europe,blockaded all eight entrances to theAldermaston nuclear warhead factory. Theyheld their ground in freezing cold tempera-tures for seven hours, with 26 arrests.

In June, together with Yorkshire CND,we organised a (very damp) walk on themoors at Fylingdales to raise awareness ofthe key role of the US Early WarningStation in any future nuclear war.

September saw us hosting a four-daygathering in Reading concentrating onongoing warhead developments atAldermaston and Burghfield. Participantsjoined other anti-nuclear groups to collect250 objections to the Project Hydrusapplication. On the final day, 20 peopleblockaded one of Aldermaston’s gates fortwo and a half hours.

Over a hundred people from acrossBritain, and from Switzerland and the USblockaded the main gates to Plymouth’sDevonport dockyard for four and a halfhours in November. There were 14 arrests,including arrests of ‘skeletons’ and‘zombies’ who had locked onto their car toblock the main gate, and of Theo Simonfrom the band Seize the Day who tried tolock himself to a police car!

We organised two blockades withinthree days at Faslane as part of a Europe-wide day of action at Easter, a T-shirtprotest inside the lobby of Parliament inJune, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65thanniversary commemorations in August.Our members spray-painted theDumbarton court building in October,joined an anti-NATO women’s T-shirtaction in London in November andhelped maintain a weekly vigil at Faslanewith Helensburgh CND and a monthlyvigil at Aldermaston.

� For more details of these actions,visit: http://www.tridentploughshares.org

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Trident Ploughshares blockaded the maingates at Devonport for four and a half hours

The new Mercedes truck and the mostexpensive vehicle on Britain’s roadsPhoto: Nukewatch

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CND RegionsBristol & West Region CND0117 971 [email protected]

Cumbria & LancashireArea CND13 East Road, Lancaster LA1 3EE01524 [email protected]

East Midlands CND43 Cobden Road,Chesterfield S40 [email protected]

Eastern Region CNDThe Flint House, Dunburgh Road,Geldeston, Beccles NR34 0LL0845 337 [email protected]

Kent Area CND2 Mill Cottages, Mill Lane,Preston, Canterbury CT3 1HG0122 7722 [email protected]

London Region CNDMordechai Vanunu House, 162Holloway Rd, London N7 8DQ020 7607 [email protected]

Greater Manchester andDistrict CNDBridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street,Manchester M4 7HR0161 273 [email protected]

Merseyside CND52 Mount Pleasant,Liverpool L3 5SD0151 702 [email protected]

Mid Somerset CND12 Neales Way, Evercreech,Shepton Mallet BA4 6LA01749 830 [email protected]

ContactsNorwich CND258 Earlham Road,Norwich NR2 3RH01603 [email protected]

South Cheshire andNorth Staffs CNDBarrow Office 2, GroundworkEnterprise Centre, Albany Works,Moorland Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent ST6 1EB01782 [email protected]

Southern Region CNDFlat 12, Eliot House,483 Portswood Road,Southampton SO17 2TH023 8032 [email protected]

South West Region CNDThe Peace Shop, 31 New BridgeStreet, Exeter EX4 3AH01392 [email protected]

Sussex Peace Alliance CND67 Summerheath Road,Hailsham BN27 3DR01323 844 [email protected]/SPA/

Tyne and Wear CND1 Rectory Avenue Gosforth,Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3 1XS0191 285 7260

West Midlands CND54 Allison Street, Digbeth,Birmingham B5 5TH0121 643 [email protected]

Yorkshire CND2 Ashgrove, Bradford BD7 1BN01274 730 [email protected]

National OfficesCND CymruLlys Gwyn, Glynarthen, Llandysul,Ceredigion SA44 6PS, Cymru01239 85 11 [email protected]

Scottish CND15 Barrland StreetGlasgow G41 1QH0141 423 [email protected]

Irish CNDPO Box 6327Dublin 6Republic of Ireland00 353 86 362 [email protected]

Peace CampsAldermaston Women’sPeace Camptel: 07969 739 [email protected]

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

Menwith Hill Women’sPeace CampContact Yorkshire CND for details.

Specialist sectionsChristian CNDMordechai Vanunu House162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQ020 7700 [email protected]/ccnd

Labour CND11 Pembury RoadWorthing BN14 [email protected]

Student CNDMordechai Vanunu House162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQ020 7700 [email protected]

Youth and Student CNDMordechai Vanunu House162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQ020 7700 [email protected]

Local and othergroupsAbingdon Peace Group01235 [email protected]

Bath CND01225 [email protected]

Birkenhead CND9 Holt Hill TerraceBirkenhead CH42 5LB0151 201 [email protected]

Bolton CND/Stop theWar01204 522839

Brentwood CND26 Mascalls GardensBrentwood CM14 5LT01277 216 [email protected]

Bromley and BeckenhamCND31 Plaistow GroveBromley BR1 3PB020 8460 [email protected]

Buxton Against War01298 [email protected]

Regional and local activity is essential in getting our message heard. Contact yournearest group to find out how you can get involved.


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Central Manchester CND0161 969 [email protected]

Chesterfield CND32 Church StreetMatlock DE4 3BY01629 580852 or 077 3212 [email protected]

Chippenham CND01249 651 565

Crawley CND01293 542 853

Croydon [email protected]

East Lancashire CNDLyndene, Blackburn Old RoadGreat HarwoodBlackburn BB6 7UW01254 886 [email protected]

East Surrey CND020 8668 3090

Enfield Peace Campaign020 8364 2606

Exeter CNDThe Peace Shop31 New Bridge StreetExeter EX4 3AH01392 431 [email protected]

Faringdon Peace Group01367 710308www.faringdonpeacegroup.org.uk

Hackney and IslingtonCNDMordechai Vanunu House162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQ020 8533 [email protected]

Hall Green CND01217 074 [email protected]

Haringey CNDFlat 1B, 347 Archway RoadLondon N6 5AA0207 607 [email protected]

Headingley and KirkstallCND079 39143 [email protected]

Hereford Peace Council44 Kernal RoadHereford HR4 0PR

01432 342 [email protected]

Horsham Peace Alliance01403 251 [email protected]

Isle of Wight CND01983 855 [email protected]

Kettering CND01536 743 [email protected]

Kingsbridge Peace GroupCrosscombe, Towns LaneLoddiswell TQ7 4QY015 4855 [email protected]

Kingston PeaceCouncil/CND020 8898 [email protected]

Lancaster District CND13 East RoadLancaster LA1 3EE01524 [email protected]

Leicester CND0116 225 [email protected]

Lewes and District CND01273 473 [email protected]

Lewisham andGreenwich CND020 8857 [email protected]

Maghull and LydiateCND0151 526 7293

Maidenhead andCookham CND01628 522331

Marple and District CND078 0392 8778

Medway CND01634 360415medwaycnd@blueyonder.co.ukwww.medwaycnd.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Mitcham CND020 8648 9037

Musicians AgainstNuclear Arms – MANA020 8455 [email protected]

Northumbrians For Peace01434 604 [email protected]

Nottingham CND0115 981 [email protected]

Orpington CND01689 837 [email protected]

Oxford CND38 Yarnells HillOxford OX2 9BE01865 [email protected]

Peace Action Durham0191 386 [email protected]

Penzance CNDPetanna Peace BarnCarnyorth, St JustPenzance TR19 7QD01736 [email protected]

Plymouth CND01822 832815

Prestwich & WhitefieldCND1 Kingswood Road, PrestwichManchester M25 3AB0161 798 [email protected]

Redbridge CND020 8989 7425

Reigate and Redhill CND01737 248 [email protected]

Rickmansworth andChorleywood CND01923 777 754

Rochdale andLittleborough Peace Group01706 370 [email protected]://rochdaleandlittleboroughpeacegroup.blogspot.com

Saddleworth PeaceMovement01457 [email protected]

Salford CND0161 793 [email protected]

Salisbury CND01722 [email protected]

Sheffield CND01142 967 [email protected]

South Somerset PeaceGroup01460 [email protected]

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St Albans CND6 Hordle GardensSt Albans AL1 1JW01727 [email protected]/chris.kershaw/cnd.htm

Sydenham and ForestHill CND020 8699 8597

Tavistock Peace ActionGroup01822 [email protected]

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West London CND020 8743 [email protected]

Wimbledon DisarmamentCoalition/CND020 8543 [email protected]

Woking Action for Peace01483 768 [email protected]

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