Seats on buses from Edinburgh and Glasgow are booking up quickly – but you still have a chance to reserve spaces for you and your friends. Remember to note the details of the bus departures as you book:
The Edinburgh bus leaves from Charlotte Square at 9:45am – please arrive at 9:30am if you have booked, to make sure we depart on time! The Glasgow bus leaves from North Hanover Street, near Costa Cafe, at 11am – please arrive at 10:45am.
If you are hoping to join the demonstration from Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth or Stirling, contact Mike at cndabdn@gmail.com to reserve your space and for further information about pickup times and locations.
Scottish CND have been demonstrating at the Faslane naval base for decades. As the home of the UK’s sole nuclear weapons system since the 1990s, it has been essential to our movement to hold a frequent presence there and show that the people of Scotland object to omnicide weapons being stationed on our coast.
“Guided Tour of the Unacceptable”, a fantastic, activist-produced documentary, explores why Faslane is so integral to the UK’s nuclear system, as well as documenting the generations-long opposition of the Scottish peace movement to the installation. This film will be temporarily accessible from the 26th March – 7th May online.
We are now living through a period of renewed urgency to stand up against the nuclear threat. Nuclear-armed states are acting with increasing belligerence around the globe, undermining national and international security while cynically claiming to defend these. Even those nations that proclaim support for “multilateral” measures for disarmament are acting to weaken the international frameworks for limiting the risk of nuclear war, and thereby incentivising supposed adversary states to do the same.
That is why there has never been a better time to join SCND at Faslane and send the message: No nuclear arms race, No nuclear war, Stop the nuclear nightmare.
In Scotland, while our parliament is excluded from having any say on military affairs, we are lucky to have political parties and leaders opposed to nuclear weapons, and who are outspoken against them. It is crucial that our parliament remains composed of as many such members as possible, so that popular discontent with the nuclear occupation of Scotland remains politically represented after the elections in May.
At the demonstration, we will be encouraging our members and supporters to vote for candidates in their respective constituencies that oppose nuclear weapons.
Another major issue at the election will be proposals by some parties for new nuclear power in Scotland. There are a whole array of arguments as to why new nuclear would be a poor decision in Scotland, not least the deep connections between the military and civilian nuclear sectors.
It was an opportune time to host nuclear expert Linda Pentz Gunter this week in Edinburgh, for the launch of her brand new book: No to Nuclear: Why nuclear power destroys lives, derails climate progress and provokes war. For a comprehensive case for voting against nuclear power in May’s elections, you couldn’t do better than reading Linda’s book!
Finally, the recording of our webinar marking 4 years in Ukraine is now available to watch back in full on YouTube. We hope that those registrants who sadly could not attend will enjoy the nuanced and fruitful discussion we had with our guests Almut Rochowanski and Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica.
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