CND Cymru

[lang_en] Peace Institutes exist in many countries – several for decades. Some are quasi-government institutions, others are completely independent – but most have elements of both. This brief outline illustrates the wide spectrum of constitutions and activities. ‘Briefing Paper : Academi Heddwch Cymru/Wales Peace Institute ENGLISH [/lang_en] [lang_cy] Mae sefydliadau heddwch yn bodoli mewn nifer [...]

Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, will tomorrow give symbolic leadership to a global protest in support of a network of thousands of Japanese mothers who are campaigning to save the children of Japan from radiation resulting from the Fukushima catastrophe. Ms Jagger will be hand-delivering a letter to [...]

More than 150 people marched through Bridgwater today to protest against EDF Energy’s plan for two new mega-reactors at Somerset’s Hinkley Point nuclear power station. In the first of a series of demonstrations over the next three days, protesters converged opposite EDF Energy’s regional headquarters with an array of costumes and banners before marching through [...]

Welsh Campaigners Say No to Nuclear Campaigners from across Wales are preparing to travel to Somerset to protest again EDF Energy’s plans to build two new nuclear reactors next to the existing nuclear site. On Saturday 1st October, anti-nuclear protesters will join local residents in a march and rally close to EDF Energy’s regional HQ [...]

Aberporth, Newcastle Emlyn and Carmarthen Join the Worldwide Celebration for UN International Day of Peace As part of today’s International Day of Peace celebrations this morning, a group gathered at ‘Aberporth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Centre of Excellence’ to launch a commemorative garden. The garden is to remember the victims who suffer from the deployment of UAVs [...]

    Wales for Peace Tomorrow (September 21st), CND Cymru will be supporting organisations across Wales celebrating and strengthening the ideals of peace between peoples and nations. The United Nations’ International Day of Peace, marked every year on 21st September, is a day when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and [...]

A personal reflection by CND Cymru Vice Chair Ray Davies: “How proud I was to join the start of the march from Cardiff to Greenham common, 30 years ago. To be truthful, I didn’t really want to go on the march- I was up to my neck in the Steel Strike, but was bullied by [...]

Over the next two weeks, people from across Wales will be commemorating the first Walk to Greenham Common (near Newbury in Berkshire, England) in 1981. The original 120 mile walk, planned by Ann Pettit and Karmen Cutler around a Carmarthenshire kitchen table, was a means of protesting against British Government consent to the USA who, [...]

As Hinkley Point is just across the Bristol Channel from us, it would be good to have a large contingent of people from South Wales taking part in the blockade. Please pass this information on to anyone you know who might be interested, whether members of CND or not.
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