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ploughsharethe journal of Christian CND
February 2013 Christians working and praying for a nuclear weapons-free world
In this issue:Lent & Easter Events
Against Arms Dealers at Church House
Recent eventsPlus news, events and prayer diary
2013 - a Year of Campaigning
Trip to ValducEmbassies Walk
NPT PrepCom
Burial and resurrection of the Alleluia
Shrove Tuesday & Easter Monday
Ash Wednesday
A Happy New Year to you all!
We have much planned for 2013 to take our campaign forward and hope
to meet many of you at the events highlighted in this issue of
“Ploughshare”. The Churches’ year has already started and the Advent
Vigils at Aldermaston were particularly successful. Keeping to the liturgi-
cal theme, you will find details about “Burying the Alleluia” on Shrove
Tuesday, and the long-standing Ash Wednesday Witness at the MOD. (If
any members want to do something similar in their own area and would
like liturgy suggestions, just contact the office.) The ‘Alleluia’ will be res-
urrected on Easter Monday, All Fools Day, during a big demonstration at
Aldermaston to emphasise the foolishness of nuclear weapons.
Looking towards the NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) Meeting
in Geneva at the end of April, our annual Embassies Walk takes place on
Thursday, March 21st when we visit the London Embassies of the
Nuclear Weapons States and other countries that have a particular inter-
est in nuclear weapons, to ask what progress has been made during the
last year. We will begin with a short service in St Martin’s-in-the-Fields in
Trafalgar Square at 10am. Do come if you can. You don’t have to walk
all the way! A small group of us will be going to Geneva at the end of
April. More details of how we will contribute, later.
The last “Ploughshare” explained the links between Aldermaston and
Valduc in France, as a result of the Teutates Treaty, and CCND is work-
ing on combined events with our French friends. One of these will be a
trip to Valduc which will be linked with a Hiroshima to Nagasaki Day’s
Fast in Paris.
AND for those of you who feel nothing is happening in your own area,
have a look at the itinerary for Bruce’s “Scrap Trident” walk in the spring
(see page 7) and the Iona Walk for Peace (see page 8). Let us know where
you would like an event linked with these.
During this cold part of the year, please keep on with making squares for
the Peace Quilt, (we still need quite a lot more.) and/or, for the knitters -
look at page 9.
Thank you for your support and prayers during the last year and may
2013 be full of blessings for our work and ourselves.
Page 2
Contents of this issue
Page 2 Editorial
Page 3 Opposing Arms
Dealers
Page 4 Advent Vigils 2012
Page 5 Holy Innocents 2012
Page 6 & 7 Lent & Easter Events
Page 8 Peace Pilgrimage
Page 9 Wool against Weapons
Page 10 As I see it
Page 11 Prayer Diary & News
Page 12 Diary
Ploughshare is published by
Christian Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament,
Mordechai Vanunu House,
162 Holloway Rd,
London N7 8DQ,
Tel 020 7700 4200,
fax 020 7700 2357
Web: http://ccnd.gn.apc.org/
Editorial team: Claire Poyner, Michael
Pulham and Patricia Pulham
Opinions expressed in signed
articles may not correspond to
CCND’s official position.
Copydate for next issue:
1 May 2013
Christian CND Executive:
Co-chairs: Michael Pulham and Chris
Gidden.
Treasurer: Neil Berry
Executive Council Members:
Kelvin Gascoyne, Caroline Gilbert,
Angela Rayner, Sue Bruno and Patricia
Pulham.
Members can be contacted via the
office.
Office worker: Claire Poyner
Editorial
Page 3News
Campaigners in Wrexham, North Wales
Photos by Anne Malins
Morning Prayer at Church House Westminster during the
Arms Dealers Conference
On 1st November 2012, several members of Christian
CND attended Morning Prayer and a vigil at Church
House. We issued a press release and were present at
the vigil because Church House Conference Centre was
used to host the Air Power Conference which was
sponsored by companies that sell weapons to question-
able regimes, and which included BAE. Given BAE’s
role in developing the next generation of Trident, the
Christian CND Exec considered that there was a strong
connection between our aim to promote nuclear disar-
mament and rejecting the use of the Conference
Centre for the event.
It was very positive to meet with a mixed group of
people from Campaign Against the Arms Trade,
Christianity Uncut, Pax Christi, CCND, SCM and
parish churches. Through CAAT, many Christians also
submitted a petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
but as yet, have had no response from Lambeth Palace.
We will keep members informed of any further confer-
ences, sponsored by companies involved in the arms
trade, which are to be held at Church House or other
church venues.
Opposing Arms Dealers at Church House
Page 4 News
JJust looked up the Aldermaston Advent Vigil file
- we were certainly going in 2006! So that’s 6
years, does it go back any further? The
Aldermaston Advent Vigil was born as something
easy to do, just an hour, there and back in the day-
light. We did want it to be something that ordinary
church people from the locality could attend, not
just the very very committed, intend as usual, but
so far no success with that.
The Vigil was on Wednesdays in Advent, 1-2pm at
Tadley Gate, No to Trident Replacement; Yes to
Decommissioning; Yes to Peace. As usual the four
Wednesdays were parcelled out among local peace
groups, Oxford Pax Christi, Clergy against Nuclear
Arms, and Christian CND. That way no one would feel
they had to go along every single time. The first one on
the 28th November, was cancelled because of floods.
On the 5th December, Oxford CND was there in a
van, Kingston CND was there in a van, waving flags,
banners on the fence. The two Revd Davids, Partridge
and Patterson from CANA. The local press photogra-
pher was there. The Revd David Patterson led us in a
very good liturgy. Then we all went to the pub to get
warm.
John Prangley of Oxford Pax Christi did the liturgy for
the 12th, in fact transported most of
the Oxford contingent. It was when
the weather had got very cold, he had
rung us to say that he was the only
one going and he did wonder...but as
Angela Needham had come all the
way from Chester and was staying
with me, we were quite determined to
go, so we had a most beautiful drive
down, tree, hedges, field all brilliant
white with frost, most beautiful. And
we were in plenty of time for egg
and chips at Max’s transport cafe to
fortify ourselves for the Vigil. Alison
James from the Aldermaston Women
who lives nearby, and Kelvin
Gascoyne from Didcot came. As it
was so cold, and as we had Angela
Needham with us, we improvised a
‘striding about’ liturgy, calling on our
absent and departed friends. We are
among a so great cloud of witnesses
after all; and where better to remember friends, like
Helen Trask and Barbara Eggleston, and friends who
were a bit too far to come, like Barbara Sunderland, and
as we are outside Aldermaston, Jean Kaye and David
Platt. And then we went to the pub.
The 19th was a quieter, more valedictory affair.
Warmer, with rain; for the first time we were joined by
two nice young policemen. Francis Carline came from
Wallingford, and Alison, and Kelvin; we remembered
more friends, and then we went to the pub.
It is really quite a nice thing to do; it does use up time;
it’s probably worthwhile. This year Oxford CND gave it
terrific support. They had the Vigil on the front of
their newsletter. Kingston CND is new and unexpected
and very welcome; Martin Birdseye may have some-
thing to do with it; also hearing about it from the email
sent out from the office. So, we would be very happy to
hear any feedback, any ideas, improvements etc etc; and
also really well in advance of next Advent; What Day is
best for you? This year Wednesday just emerged; but it
could well be Thursday, so tell us, can you do
Wednesday? Can you do Thursday? And see you next
Advent. And thanks for coming.
Caroline Gilbert, [email protected]
Advent Vigils at Aldermaston, 2012
Vigil in the wet
News Page 5
AAcry from the heart for the children of Africa
and the Middle East. That was the theme of
the annual service to remember and pray for the
child victims of repression and military conflict
organised by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship on
behalf of Network of Christian Peace
Organisations.
The service was held in St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square, London, on Holy Innocents Day, 28th
December. The date in the Church calendar in memory
of the baby boys ordered to be killed by King Herod.
There were probably less people than in other years
because of floods. We said prayers asking for forgive-
ness for children suffering and killed, and asking God
to remember their names. The prayers included prayers
for children and young people killed and injured by
weapons made in the United Kingdom and for victims
of abuse. We listened to songs and poems and sang
hymns and carols, some from Zimbabwe and one by
Desmond Tutu. The address was by Sue Claydon, APF
Vice-chair, a message from South Sudan.
In the afternoon on the same day there was a service of
witness at the Innocent Victim’s Memorial outside
Westminster Abbey. We stood in a circle around the
memorial stone. We said prayers and sang hymns and
carols.
Kelvin Gascoyne
Advent Vigil at Aldermaston - see opposite page
Holy Innocents Day, 28th December 2012.
Page 6 Lent and Easter Events
#GoodbyeAlleluia
Christian CND present:
Procession & Burial of Alleluia: February 12th
Meet in front of the Imperial War Museum at 6pm
Procession to
Ministry of Defence
(Embankment)
IIn the medieval ages, Christians would hold a
mock funeral procession to bury an Alleluia
plaque as a symbolic “goodbye” to their Alleluia
during Lent. Even today, many Christians will not
utter the word for forty days until it is re-intro-
duced once more at the beginning of Easter.
The Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has
revived this custom as a way to lament our citizenship
of a country that owns and maintains nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons are capable of destroying our neigh-
bours, with whom we are called to live in peace. Jesus
told us to love our neighbours, and also to love our
enemies. Christian CND thus believes that possessing
nuclear weapons, even as a supposed “deterrent”, is
utterly immoral. We will bury our Alleluia plaque in a
coffin outside the Ministry of Defence because we
refuse to be silent in the face of evil.
In so far as our taxes are used to support the nuclear
status quo, we are complicit in the government’s poli-
cies, and for this, we repent. We wear black as a sign of
our sorrow. But we will repeatedly sing “Alleluia” dur-
ing the procession because we recognise that another
world is possible.
Sometimes the peace which Christ promised seems so
far off and we can feel that we are exiled in a foreign
land. But even as we learn to say “no” to empire-build-
ing, and we enter into the fasting of Lent, we do not
despair because we know that, following Christ, our
“Alleluia” will rise again.
On Easter Monday, we will resurrect the Alleluia plaque
at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment where
we will plant flowers to demonstrate that life can flour-
ish in the face of inhospitality and in the most difficult
circumstances.
Christian CND welcomes anybody that would like to
accompany us for the procession and burial of our
Alleluia. We are entirely ecumenical.
Please join us at 6pm on Shrove Tuesday (Feb 12th)
outside the Imperial War Museum (nearest tube
Lambeth North).
Page 7Lent and Easter Events
Round the World for Peace
Embassies Walk Thursday 21st March
Join our annual visit to the London
Embassies of the Nuclear Weapons States
and the New Agenda Coalition to ask them
what moves have been made towards
nuclear disarmament in the past year.
We will have requested a meeting with a
representative either on that day, or another
and will hand in a letter detailing the ques-
tions we would like to ask.
Meet at the Dick Sheppard Chapel at St.
Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square for a
short service before we set off in three
groups for our “Walk”. (Only the most
intrepid walk all the way! Tube details will
be available.)
Stop Fooling with Nuclear Weapons1st April 12noon at AWE Aldermaston.
Easter Monday is “All Fools Day”, and we will be gath-
ering in our thousands at this CND organised event to
tell the government, ‘Stop fooling with nuclear
weapons.’
Each of the gates at Aldermaston will have a different
theme. Christian CND are coordinating the Faith
Gate, (Tadley Gate). We will be Resurrecting the
Alleluia that we symbolically buried on Shrove Tuesday.
Bruce Kent’s Scrap Trident Tour
This April Fool’s demonstration will see the launch of
the national “Scrap Trident Tour” through April and
beyond when Bruce will be touring the country, cam-
paigning to Scrap Trident, working with a range of dif-
ferent organisations to highlight the wasteful spending
on Trident when so much investment is needed to
eradicate poverty, boost people-friendly development
and make our world a safer and more peaceful place to
live.
For details of the route contact Anne at the national
CND office 020 7700 2393.
NPT PrepCom
CCND representatives will be going to Geneva for the
first week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory
Committee Meeting (PrepCom) starting on 22nd April,
to lobby delegates and hear what the States Delegations
have to say. Our Embassies Walk is one of the things
we do to prepare for this.
We will hold an early morning Interfaith Prayer Vigil
each day for progress towards ridding the world of
nuclear weapons.
As well as this, we have been fortunate in booking a
slot for a side event fringe meeting to publicise the
Teutates Treaty, which will have speakers from UK and
France.
2013 UK Justice and Peace PilgrimagePage 8
Itinerary
MAY
Sun 19: IONA-Oban
Mon 20: Oban-Taynuit
Tue 21: Taynuit-Cladich
Wed 22: Cladich-Inveraray
Thu 23: Inveraray-Cairndow
Fri 24: Cairndow-Arrochar
Sat 25: Arrochar-Faslane
Sun 26: FASLANE EVENT- Dumbarton
Mon27: Dumbarton-Milngavie
Tues 28: Milngavie-Glasgow
Wed 29: GLASGOW EVENT
Thu 30: Glasgow-Airdrie
Fri 31: Airdrie-Bathgate
JUNE
Sat 1st: Bathgate-Edinburgh
Sun 2: EDINBURGH EVENT
Mon 3: Edinburgh-Gorebridge
Tue 4: Gorebridge-Stow
Wed 5: Stow-Melrose
Thu 6: MELROSE-REST-DAY
Fri 7: Melrose-Harestanes
Sat 8: Harestanes-Yetholm
Sun 9: Yetholm-Wooler
Mon 10: Wooler-Holy Island
Tue 11: HOLY ISLAND-Budle Bay
Wed 12: Budle Bay-Craster
Thu 13: Craster-Alnwick
Fri 14: Alnwick-Rothbury
Sat 15: Rothbury-Kirkwhelp’ton
Sun 16: Kirkwhelp’ton-Hexham
Mon 17: HEXHAM-REST / EVENT
Tue 18: Hexham-Stocksfield
Wed 19: Stocksfield-Newcastle
Thu 20: Newcastle-Durham
Fri 21: DURHAM-Sedgefield
Sat 22: Sedgefield-Darlington
Sun 23: Darlington-Northallerton
Mon 24: Northallerton-Ripon
Tue 25: Ripon-Harrogate
Wed 26: Harrogate-Kirk Hamm
Thu 27: Kirk Hamm-York
Fri 28: YORK REST / EVENT
Sat 29: York-Selby
Sun 30: Selby-Pontefract
JULY
Mon 1st: Pontefract-Doncaster
Tue 2: Doncaster-Bawtry
Wed 3: Bawtry-Gainsboro’
Thu 4: Gainsboro’-Lincoln
Fri 5: LINCOLN REST / EVENT
Sat 6: Lincoln-Sleaford
Sun 7: Sleaford-Bourne
Mon 8: Bourne-Peterborough
Tue 9: Peterborough-Little Gidding
Wed 10: Little Gidding-Huntingdon
Thu 11: Huntingdon-Cambridge
Fri 12: CAMBRIDGE REST / EVENT
Sat 13: Cambridge-Saffron Walden
Sun 14: Saffron Walden-Buntingford
Mon 15: Buntingford-Hertford
Tue 16: Hertford-St Albans
Wed 17: St Albans-Barnet
Thu 18: Barnet-LONDON!
Fri 19: WESTMINSTER EVENT (?)
SAT 20: LONDON EVENT
The aim of the 2013 Pilgrimage is to focus public
attention on the Government’s proposal to spend £100
billion pounds renewing the Trident nuclear weapons
system, while continuing to slash NHS, education and
social welfare budgets.
The Pilgrimage will be organised in stages, and people
will be invited to join in walking as many or few stages
as they can manage.
As the Pilgrimage makes its way southwards, there will
be numerous opportunities for local churches, Quaker
Meetings and other groups along the route to promote
discussion on Trident and wider issues of social and
economic justice.
Will you join with us in walking some of the way
between Iona and London next year? And if you can,
in helping to arrange hospitality for participants in the
Pilgrimage as it passes through your home area...
For further information and if you have any queries,
see http://www.justpeacepilgrimage.com/
Contact: Andrew Greaves, Garden Cottage, Ingoe,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE20 0SP. Tel: 01661 855111
07425931511
Page 9Campaigning
As you will have read in the last edition of
Ploughshare, Christian CND has joined Action
Aldermaston Weapons Eradication (AAWE). We’re
excited that it has put us into contact with others who
are enthusiastically working for nuclear disarmament.
Creativity and imagination are crucial in resisting the
attempts of successive governments to legitimise
weapons of mass destruction, and Jaine from Wool
Against Weapons has sent CCND the following mes-
sage to encourage us to get knitting, and to
spread the word.
Wool Against Weapons, founded by Stroud
resident Jaine Rose, is a project to knit a 7
mile long pink peace scarf that will be
stretched between atomic weapons facto-
ries at Aldermaston and Burghfield in
Berkshire in the summer of 2014. This is
part of a series of non-violent direct action campaigns,
in conjunction with Action AWE to make people aware
of the production of these weapons and put pressure
on the Government to rethink its current plan to
spend over £80 billion pounds on renewing the Trident
Nuclear Weapons programme in 2016.
Jaine Rose said: “I am very excited to be linking up
thousands of knitters, crocheters and weavers in a fun
and accessible protest to send a clear message to our
Government and the larger world - that we want to
challenge current global militarism and redirect our
resources in to health care, education, environment and
positive change. We need about 11,000 metre long
pieces of scarf - so it’s all hands to the deck! It will
look fantastic when we unroll it on 16th August 2014
between these two sites - knitting for peace, what a
hugely empowering and inspiring thing we can all be a
part of!”
Why pink? “I was quite taken with the idea of pink
after seeing an image of a Danish Army tank that had
been covered with a beautiful pink peace blanket - like
a big tea cosy. It is such a powerful anti-war image. I
also have been excited about CodePink - a women-ini-
tiated grassroots and social justice movement in
America that works to end US funded wars and occu-
pations and bring awareness to global military power.
Pink is feminine, beautiful and strong, an anti-war
colour indeed!”
Why knitted? “We have a fantastic history in the U.K
where knitting is concerned. During the first World
War, the Red Cross distributed 250,000 leaflets encour-
aging people to ‘knit your bit’ - which started a knitted
marathon and produced over 30 million knitted gar-
ments including socks and jumpers for soldiers and
refugees. The main focus today is resolutely anti-war,
but the sentiment remains - dust down your needles,
join in, have a voice, fight for what is right!”
Jaine needs thousands of scarf pieces knit-
ted - every bit counts! Pieces can be knit-
ted with any type of wool or acrylic wool -
any shade of pink. They need to measure
60cm x 100cm and be in any stitch. Be
creative! There is a pattern for a CND
logo for experienced knitters. More details
can be found at
www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk or Jaine Rose can be
contacted on 01453 751604 - she’s very friendly! If you
want to take part, please send any completed knitted
squares to: Christian CND, Mordechai Vanunu House,
162 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DQ. We will collect
them and arrange for their delivery to Jaine. If you
feel you cannot take part, but would like to publicise
the campaign further (perhaps at your place of worship
or in one of your windows at home), see enclosed an
A5 leaflet.
(We are aware that we only recently asked you to sub-
mit squares for the peace quilt, of which there will be
more news later in the year, but our members respond-
ed so enthusiastically to the quilt that the Exec felt
there would be considerable interest in this knitting
project.)
Wool against Weapons
We still need more squares too!
Page 10
WWhen the awfulness of nuclear weapons is
contemplated, the depth of the matter is
great. There are so many bad consequences: not
only if used, but even from their possession.
Persons of faith see blasphemy; the wonderful
work of a good creator abused and so much suffer-
ing too.
The Christian, brought up sharp by the incredible sacri-
fice of Christ and therefore aware of the amazing love
of the Father, prays. Some, realising nuclear horror is
not God’s will, also consider what they might prayerful-
ly do. Not that they themselves may be completely suc-
cessful (ultimate achievement is for God) but because
they have been asked to act in the world. This was how
Christian campaigning against nuclear weapons began.
The basic argument is simple: nuclear weapons are
immoral, even if they are held ‘only to deter’, because
intention to use them must be beyond doubt.
Otherwise there is no deterrence. This means that
those who countenance them (though most do not
realise this) have murder in their hearts. Unrecognised
maybe, but still murder, since these weapons are so
indiscriminate.
This hidden, internal cancer could be
pervading whole societies. As Richard T.
McSorley, SJ, said in “Peacemaking Day
by Day” (Pax Christi, USA) :
“The taproot of violence in our society
is our intent to use nuclear weapons.
Once we have agreed to that, all other
evil is minor by comparison. Until we
squarely face the question of our con-
sent to use nuclear weapons, any hope of
large scale improvement of public
morality is doomed to failure.”
As well as not realising what lies in one’s
heart, I guess it is also possible to choose
to ignore or to adopt denial almost sub-
consciously. After all, this can be a diffi-
cult matter to face up to because the
desire for ‘protection’ strongly beckons.
(You’ll notice I’ve placed the word ‘pro-
tection’ in inverted commas to distinguish
it from our real protection.) Whatever the reason, those
who campaign against nuclear weapons can easily find
themselves swimming against an ignoring tide of
refusal. They can experience some cold-shouldering and
avoidance of relevant discussion. Even if they are
church members, they may feel they are held rather at
arms-length and have to ‘go it alone’.
Other sections of ‘Justice and Peace’, such as giving to
charity to alleviate suffering, attract approval much
more easily. Contrastingly, the person who takes a step
further and works to try to right the things that can
cause suffering, runs the risk of being labeled ‘political’.
Of course, there is a spiritual remedy. Those who find
themselves distanced and unapproved can, in humility,
place their isolation alongside the separation that Christ
himself felt. He can give them the strength to speak
and act in the right way.
Michael Pulham 24/9/2012
[The above article represents the thoughts of one per-
son. Members may like to comment, offer their views,
or respond from their own experience.]
As I See It(Awfulness and Humility)
Chris Gidden minds our stall at CND Conference, October 2012
FEBRUARY Lent starts on 12th February. Pray for
the success of our Lenten events on Shrove Tuesday
and Ash Wednesday and that we are filled with energy
and purpose in our work for peace.
14th February - St Valentine’s Day. May all our cam-
paigning be done in a spirit of love, remembering that
we will only be successful if we ourselves show that
love in the way we work.
MARCH
21st March: Remember the “Embassies Walk”. Pray
especially for the nations whose representatives we visit.
31st March Easter Sunday , Alleluia!
APRIL Pray for Bruce Kent’s “Scrap
Trident” walk and all who take part.
1st April: April Fools Day: Pray that we are
able to show how foolish nuclear weapons
are and that the demonstration at
Aldermaston helps to spread that message.
22nd April: The start of the PrepCom in Geneva.
Pray for a renewed spirit of cooperation among the
nations and some real movement towards nuclear disar-
mament.
19th May: For the Iona Walk for Peace that the mes-
sage of peace and love is spread in all the places it
passes through.
Page 11News and Prayer Diary
Prayer Diary
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CCND member.
Excellent New Church Leaflet!
A splendid new A4 guide called “Better Off Without
Trident” has been produced by the Baptist, Methodist
and United Reformed Churches.
Do ask your Minister for a copy. Failing that, you can
get copies from their Joint Public Issues Team
(Churches working together for peace and justice) at
either www.jointpublicissues.org.uk or from: Joint
Public Issues Team, c/o Methodist Church House, 28
Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JR
Bring it to the attention of your church meetings and
put it on your church notice board.
Nuclear Weapons -What Can Christians Do?
This pack for the churches has seen three editions and
work is now under way for a fourth. This will be in the
form of a booklet. Not only will it be updated but,
because of its A4 size, the ‘action and guidance’ pages
will still be able to be easily photocopied.
Our A4 ‘Church Statements’ poster is still available for
you to place on your church notice board. Just contact
our office for free copies.
Page 12
13 February: Ash Wednesday. An annual liturgy and witness
of Repentance and Resistance to nuclear war preparations
will take place at the Ministry of Defence, London and other
military sites. Gather at Victoria Embankment Gardens at
3.00pm. Organised by Pax Christi with Christian CND,
London Catholic Worker, Catholic Peace Action. Info: Pax
Christi, St Joseph’s, Watford Way, London, NW4 4TY 0208
203 4884 www.paxchristi.org.uk
20 February: Nuclear Energy Generation and Its Relation
to Nuclear Weapons. Talk by Paul Flynn MP. Organised by
Cardiff UNA. 7pm at Temple of Peace, Cathays Park.
http://cardiffuna.btck.co.uk/ [email protected]
27 February: Action AWE Campaign Launch! Action AWE
is excited to announce its public launch will be held in: The
Conference Room, Reading International Solidarity Centre
(RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS. 7.30pm.
Info: 0845 4588 362 [email protected]
20 March: NJPN Open Networking Day. Speaker: Bishop
William Kenney CP, President of Justice & Peace Europe,
on The Future of Europe. 10.30 at St Paul’s Comprehensive
School, Phoenix Drive, Leadenhall, Milton Keynes MK6
5EN. Info: NJPN 39 Eccleston Square London SW1V 1BX
020 7901 4864 [email protected]
www.justice-and-peace.org.uk
April: Bruce Kent’s ‘Scrap Trident Tour’ begins. See page 7.
13 - 15 April: Scrap Trident Weekend. Glasgow
Demonstration Saturday 13th April. NVDA Training &
Workshops Sunday 14th April. BIG BLOCKADE to SHUT
DOWN FASLANE Monday 15th April.
http://notonatoscotland.org.uk
19 May - 20 July: Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic
Justice. Beginning at Iona at Pentecost (Sunday May 19th)
2013, finishing at the Palace of Westminster in London: an
act of witness and communal celebration, drawing strength
and inspiration from historic centres of prayer along the
way. See http://www.justpeacepilgrimage.com/ for details
and dates or ring Andrew Greaves, 01661 855111
07425931511.
6 - 9 August: Paris & Burghfield 4 day Fast. A 4 day fast in
sorrow at the destruction caused by the US nuclear bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that caused the deaths of hun-
dreds of thousands of civilians and destroyed these 2 cities
in 1945.Preliminary programme in Burghfield: Tuesday 6th
August - Fast begins at main gate of AWE Burghfield - with
Hiroshima shadow painting. Wednesday 7th August - Peace
Crane Walk from AWE Burghfield to AWE Aldermaston
and back. Thursday 8th August - Slow Walking Meditation
around AWE Burghfield.. Friday 9th August - Nagasaki
Lament at AWE Burghfield. http://actionawe.org/paris-
burghfield-4-day-fast-6th-9th-august-2013/
6 August: Hiroshima Day. Commemorations around the
country. Send us details of your events and your photos for
inclusion in Ploughshare!
9 August: Nagasaki Day. As above. Let us know about your
events and send us your photos!
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1 April: (April Fool’s Day and also Easter Monday).
CND gathers round Aldermaston to tell the govern-
ment to stop fooling with nuclear weapons. Christian
CND will be at the Tadley Gate to resurrect the
Aleluia (see page 6) and hold an Easter service.
21 March: Embassies Walk. in London. More details
later. All welcome.
12 February: Christian CND will hold a liturgy in
which we bury an Alleluia plaque in a coffin at the
MOD Headquarters in London. PLEASE WEAR
BLACK! We’ll meet at the Imperial War Museum at
6pm and carry the “Alleluia” plaque via St. Thomas’s
Hospital and the Houses of Parliament to the MOD
Headquarters. We will sing hymns and pray along the
way.
The consumption of pancakes will take place after-
wards (details to be confirmed nearer the time).
All welcome.