CND Cymru

May 15 7.00pm SWANSEA UNIVERSITY James Callaghan Lecture Theatre Public Lecture: “Meeting Thomas Merton” Jim Forest (Author; Lay Orthodox Theologian; Peace Activist; and Friend of Thomas Merton) Admission Free This lecture will provide the supreme opportunity to hear what it was really like to meet Thomas Merton. Please come along to find out! Everyone is [...]

Thanks to Côr Cochion Caerdydd Report from CND Cymru Vice Chair Ray Davies: The traditional May Day march in Cardiff highlighted some of the issues affecting working class lives in Wales and beyond; the present coalition government’s death by strangulation of the welfare benefits system, the Bedroom Tax, deep cuts in disability benefits, and high [...]

As David Cameron visited Faslane Naval Base today and announced the nuclear threat has “increased since the Cold War” the broad based Scrap Trident Coalition [1] argued his remarks were ludicrous scaremongering and called for investment in green jobs and human services instead of immoral and wasteful nuclear weapons.

Activists held a Scrap Trident banner at the North Gate of Faslane as the Prime Minister visited Victorious, one of the Vanguard class submarines which carries up to 40 Trident nuclear weapons each 8-10 times the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb.

55 years after the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s first London to Aldermaston march in Easter 1958, CND Cymru will be joining others from all over Britain in returning to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) – Britain’s nuclear bomb factory on Monday 1st April (12 noon – 2pm).

See the pdf   Military Recruitment Response from the Petitions Committee – 13 02 26 Responses (by April 16th) should be sent to: petition@wales.gov.uk or Willlam Powell AM, Chair, Petitions Committee, Bae Caerdydd, Caerdydd CF99 1NA.

Photo by Wendy Lewis, Côr Cochion Caerdydd The 10th anniversary of the huge march against Bush and Blair’s illegal war in Iraq, which saw 14 million take to the streets worldwide, was marked with a vigil at the Nye Bevan Statue in Queen St. That day in February 2003, 2 million people from all walks [...]

  A vigil will be held in Cardiff City centre tomorrow afternoon to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 2 million strong anti-war protest which took place in London on February 15th 2003. It was the biggest public demonstration in British history. People really believed that Tony Blair was listening to his voters and not [...]

There are several events coming up in the next couple of months or so that need your support! As you must know, nothing can happen with out you and we hope you will be able to get involved in some of the following.

In the early hours of the morning of Monday 4th February two peace activists, Sylvia Boyes and Mary Millington were arrested attempting to enter Faslane home to the UK’s nuclear weapon armed submarines. Their actions come a week after David Cameron pledged to increase defence spending including investment in nuclear weapons. The Ministry of Defence [...]

23 March 2013 10.00am – 4.30pm Y Morlan Aberystwyth  Today CND Cymru urged supporters and all who care about peace and justice in the world to put the date of the next Academi Heddwch Cymru Conference in their diaries. The main purpose of the event will be to progress the campaign for the setting up [...]