Next meeting:
All CND members are welcome at our regular meetings. Our next meeting will be:
Time: 7:00 pm,
Monday 11th Sept 2017Location: 'Brewers Fayre' in the new Premier Inn, on Lewins Mead, BS1 2NT
NOTE new location - see map here
Current Campaigning Activities:
Breaking News: UN negotiating
a global nuclear weapons ban!
In October 2016 123 countries voted in favour of
talks to agree a global nuclear ban. The majority of countries want to take the
necessary steps to create a nuclear free world. We have united before to ban
biological and chemical weapons, land mines and cluster bombs, and now it's
time to ban nuclear weapons.
But where is the UK government?
At the October vote, despite a UK policy to support multilateral nuclear
disarmament, the UK voted against the negotiations taking place actively
seeking to encourage other countries to also vote against. The UK Government has said it will continue to avoid participating in
the negotiations.
Write to your MP and ask them what they are doing to ensure that the UK
attends, participates and offers positive and concrete steps towards
disarmament.
Join us and the Bristol CND Town Crier on College Green on Tuesday 27th March at 5pm to share the good news of the negotiations and remind our government that they must participate!
Failed Missile Tests
"The
test last June allegedly led to an unarmed missile heading towards Florida
instead of a target off the coast of west Africa. CNN, quoting a US defence
official, reported that the missile was diverted over the sea where it
auto-destructed." (From the FT)
Has anyone asked the question as to who diverted the missile, after it was
found to be heading towards Florida, and then sent the signal for it to
destruct? Was it the US or was it Britain?
Help get the UK government to support a global nuclear ban
In October the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted to convene a conference to begin negotiations on a Treaty to ban nuclear weapons. The move was supported by 123 nations, with 16 abstaining and 38, including the UK, voting against..
National CND has set up a web page
here you can use to send Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson a letter urging him to ensure that the UK plays as constructive a r0le as possible during UN negotiations
Contact Details:
Phone: 075 272 95109
Join Bristol CND or renew your membership:
Alternatively, you can join Bristol CND or renew your membership by printing out the membership form and here and post it by Royal Mail (with a cheque or Banker Standing Order form). 'Peace Matters' newletter
See the latest edition of 'Peace Matters', our local newsletter below:
Recent Campaigning Activities:
- For a brief summary of Bruce Kent's arguments against Trident, see this two minute video produced when Bruce was on the Reading leg of his Scrap Trident tour.
- Read our piece ‘Can we be nuclear-free’ recently published in Copyright Magazine
- Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years on. Thank you to all those who joined us on 6th August in remembering the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Peace Grove in Castle Park. We planted a tree in memory of all those killed and left devastated by the horror, and wrote messages of peace to hang from the tree. See Evening Post article here.
Bruce Kent's visit to Bristol, in April 2014:
'Shout About Peace' : art, writing and film competitions
Click
here for details of all three competitions:
Constitution
See
here for Bristol CND's constitution
