Bristol CND Peace Matters,Dec 2023

Posted: 28th November 2023

Bristol CND newsletter

View “Peace Matters”, Dec 2023

Please follow the link above or click here to read or download the latest edition of our local newsletter Peace Matters – information from Bristol, the UK and around the world about the campaign against nuclear weapons.

We are sending it to you and other local/national politicians and campaigning organisations in and around the Bristol area because we want to raise awareness of our campaigning activities and current key issues

In this month’s edition there are articles including:

• Gaza: Before the ‘pause’ in the conflict CND’s Chair, Tom Unterrainer, wrote the about the catastrophe in Gaza, and the risks presented by Israeli nuclear weapons
• CND legal challenge to nuclear weapons facilities development at RAF Lakenheath
• Labour CND challenges party position on nuclear weapons
• British nuclear-armed submarine narrowly avoids disaster
• AWE Aldermaston and Devonport Royal Dockyard to remain in ‘special measures’

...and many other topics.Please note the following events for your diary:

• Thurs 30th Nov : Bristol CND Planning Meeting (Virtual), 7.00 pm
• Fri 1st Dec : Stop the War in Gaza – Organising for a Just and Lasting Peace, public meeting organised by Stop the War, Hamilton House, BS1 3QY, 6.45 pm – 8.30 pm
• Sat 2nd Dec : March for Gaza – Ceasefire Now, organised by Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Clifton Downs Water Tower, Bristol, 12.30 pm
• Thurs 7th to Sun 10th Dec : Bristol CND’s ‘Peace Crane’ tree at ‘Treefest’, St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, Thurs: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Fri and Sat: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, Sun: 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm
• Sat 9th Dec : ‘Now We Rise’ – Day of Action for Climate Justice. Demonstration in London starts 12.00 in St James’s
  Square, SW1Y 4LE. Demonstration in Cardiff starts 12:00 at the Cardiff Law Courts, CF10 3PG