March 2012 will be a busy month in Edinburgh. Here are some of the events:

Monday 5th March
EdinburghCND meeting at ACE, 17 Montgomery Place West EH7 5HA. 6pm for 6.30pm. Showing and discussing the film 'Beating the Bomb'
 
Saturday 10th March
11am to 12 noon. EdinburghCND vigil outside St Johns Chuch Princes Street
 
Saturday 10th March
David Rovics (protest singer from USA)  performs at The Village, South Fort St Edinburgh, EH6 4DN. 8pm to 11pm. Sponsored by EdinburghCND and Edinburgh Stop the War. Tickets available at the door.
 
Monday 19th March
Edinburgh Stop the War PUBLIC MEETING on Iran. The Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace  Edinburgh, EH1 2JL 7.30 pm
 
Friday 30th March
Bruce Kent veteran peace campaigner and CND vice president speaks in Edinburgh. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and will be held at  The Lauriston Centre, 28 Lauriston Street EH3 9DJ. THe meeting is organised by the the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons and is supported by EdinburghCND

 The Scottish branch of the Women's  International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) are raising the money to fund travel expenses to get a woman from a developing country to the International Congress of WILPF in Costa Rica at the beginning of August 2011. The buffet dinner will be at the Raj, 89 Henderson St Leith EH6 6ED on Friday night (13th May)at 7.30pm.The cost of the dinner will be £20 each, half of which will go to this good cause.

It is particularly important to WILPF to facilitate the participation of women who are involved in small-scale food production as one of the themes for this Congress will be global issues around human security, food production and food sovreignty.

We hope to have a good night out, with a guest speaker Marlyn Glen (former MSP and an active supporter of CND), raffles and chat. Please contact EdinburghCND or the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre for more details.

EdinburghCND members Lisa Rigby and Penny Stone will be speaking and singing at the Edinburgh MayDay rally in Princes Street Gardens West. The rally will folow a march from Johnstone Terrace starting at 11am on Saturday 7th May

On Thursday 17th March 35 members and supporters of EdinburghCND held a vigil in solidarity with the people of Japan whose lives have been devastated by the disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents. Members of Protest in Harmony sang for us and we leafletted passers by calling for an end to nuclear power generation in all countries..
 
We will be following up this action on Saturday 9th April 11am to 12noon outside St Johns Church: corner Lothian Road and Princes Street. This will be one of a number of activities will be happening around the UK this weekend of (9-10 April).