BAN Bromley Borough CND newsletter 2023

BAN 2023 Created by Ann Garrett, Edited by Rob Clark

Up Coming Events

April 26th - Chernobyl Day stall and vigil - Bromley Market Square 12 00 - 3pm

August 3rd - Hiroshima Vigil - opposite the Churchill Theatre 12 - 3pm - poems and statements
Sept 21st - Peace One Day event at Bromley Friends Meeting House 7 -10pm . Stalls, speaker, films, poetry and music.
November 10th - White Poppy Ceremony 10.30 - 11.00 a.m. at Bromley War Memorial [SE London Peace, Justice and Solidarity Network] speeches, poems and music. 1st Thursday of every month - Close Guantanamo demo outside parliament - 3pm. All Guantanamo events TBC. Zoom meetings take place each month. Every Saturday at 12noon. Free Julian Assange - vigils at Belmarsh .NTAG/Kick Nuclear meetings at 162 Holloway Road 7pm or on Zoom.

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Peace campaigners mark CND's 60th birthday

BEN CHACKO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018 Green MP Caroline Lucas opened proceedings, saying CND was about “hope — not in terms of some fluffy idea but as a very practical response to the huge threats that we face.” The meeting was sponsored by the National Education Union, whose joint general secretary Kevin Courtney sent greetings, while rail union RMT was represented by its president Sean Hoyle. Veteran campaigner Ernest Rodker recalled the first march from Aldermaston and Londoners “singing Don’t You Hear the H Bombs Thunder and cheering the marchers on” while another hero of the peace movement, Bruce Kent, derided the government’s claim to possess an “independent” nuclear deterrent when it is delivered by US missiles. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the existence of CND meant “there has always been a challenge to the idea that you go to war, drop bombs and worry about the consequences afterwards.” Pax Christi general secretary Pat Gaffney detailed the ro...

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Dr Marian Messmer Senior Research Fellow, International Security Programme The primary function of nuclear weapons is to deter war – and specifically nuclear war – between nuclear adversaries. But the Cold War was a different environment to today’s complex security environment, in which most nuclear-armed states have more than one nuclear competitor to deter, and many non-nuclear weapons states possess significant non-nuclear military capabilities. Read article by clicking HERE

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