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Officers – elected October 2011: Chair: Dave Webb; Vice-Chairs: Daniel Blaney, Sarah Cartin, Jeremy CorbynMP; Treasurer: Linda Hugl. General Secretary (appointed): Kate Hudson

CND National Council – elected October 2011. Directly elected: Pat Allen, Adam Beese, Sophie Bolt, JennyClegg, Tom Cuthbert, Ian Fairlie, Janet Fenton, Caroline Lucas MP, Vijay Mehta, Pat Sanchez, Tony Staunton, RaeStreet – Adam Beese (from November 2011), Jim Taggart, Carol Turner, Hannah Tweddell, Katy West.Nations, Regions and Areas: CND Cymru: John Cox (V-P), Jill Gough, Jon Plumpton. Scottish CND: Brian Larkin, BillRamsay, Arthur West; Cumbria & Lancs Area: Dick Allwright; East Midlands: Ian Cohen, Richard Johnson, LesleyMathews; Greater Manchester: Philip Gilligan; Kent Area: John Hemsley; London Region: Jim Brann, Isobel McHarg,Nicholas Russell; Merseyside: Gerald Poole; Southern Region: Michael Waugh; South Cheshire & N. Staffs: Owen Sloss;South West Region: Peter Le Mare, Tom Milburn, Michal Lovejoy; Sussex Peace Alliance: Roslyn Cooke; West MidlandsCND: vacant; Yorkshire CND: Helen John, Dominic Linley Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Bob Russell – Chris Gidden(from November 2011), Labour CND: Joy Hurcombe, Student CND: Fiona Edwards, Youth and Student CND: vacant.

Vice-Presidents: Pat Arrowsmith, Tony Benn, John Cox, Joan Horrocks, Rebecca Johnson, Bruce Kent, Alistair Mackie,Alice Mahon, Paul Oestreicher, Walter Wolfgang.

Staff and volunteers: Staff at Holloway Road: Joy Annegarn: Membership, Finance [until December 2011]; KateCharteris: Membership and Database Officer; Eve Cuthbert: Finance and Network Manager; Ben Folley: CampaignsOfficer (Parliamentary); Tansy Hoskins: Campaigns Officer (Trade Unions); Anna Liddle: Peace Education Officer; SueLongbottom: Print Designer; Luke Massey: Office & Personnel Manager [until November 2011]; Press & CommunicationsOfficer [from November 2011]; Dawn Rothwell: Campaigns Officer (Research and Information); Anne Schulthess:Campaigns Officer (Youth & Community Engagement); Ben Soffa: Press Officer [until September 2011]; Beckett Vester:Fundraiser. Many thanks and best of luck to Ben Soffa and Joy Annegarn for all of their hard work over the years!

National and Regional staff: CND Cymru: Jill Gough ; Scottish CND: John Ainslie, Greater Manchester CND: Jacqui Burke,Doug Weir; London Region CND: David Polden; Yorkshire CND: Denise Craghill, Hannah Tweddell [until April 2011],Dominic Linley [from April 2011]. Other regional offices are run by volunteers.

Specialist Sections: Christian CND: Claire Poyner (part-time). Other specialist sections are run by volunteers from home.

Volunteers at Holloway Road: Pat Allen, Pat Arrowsmith, Helen Ball, Martin Bowley, Kitty Cooper, Dave Esbester, DuncanGodfrey, Gina Mackenzie, Eileen Maclean, Luba Mumford, Mary Ogbogoh, Annette Russell, Ellen Sheffield, AndreaSzilagyi, Jean Taylor, Jim Thomas, Ian Triggs, Tim Wardle, Muriel Wood.

Voluntary assistant positions: Sarah Holtam, Marie Le Blanc, Matt Little, Caroline Piccioni, Trudy Pye, Ed Ram, MarkSoames, Natasha Sullivan, Roberto Valussi.

Thank you to all those in and out of the office who volunteer their valuable time and energy.

CND personnel

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PROTEST is in the air today as people around the world occupy, actand call for change – for peace, democracy and economic justice.Throughout 2011, CND has also been at the forefront of demandingchange: for a nuclear free Britain – and a nuclear free world.

As ever, our core issues have been inextricably linkedto urgent political and economic issues. As the globaleconomic crisis has hit the UK the government hasslashed public spending while at the same timespending billions of pounds on war and on Tridentand its replacement. Our priority has been the ScrapTrident campaign, working to change these disastrouspolicies. Why waste billions on weapons of massdestruction that make us less safe, not more? Thespring highlight was the Cut Trident bloc on the

TUC’s March for the Alternative. We distributed tens of thousands of leaflets,making the case against Trident and winning many new trade union supporters.

Of course, our action has not only been marching on the streets. Lobbying, stalls,festivals, conferences – all have been taken up by our wonderful members andsupporters with enthusiasm. Thanks to feedback from our Parliamentarysupporters, we know that such popular pressure makes a difference in the politicalarena. And that’s not just on a national level. We’ve continued to work with nationaland international partners in support of the increasingly popular nuclear weaponsconvention idea – to ban all nukes globally. Thanks to worldwide activity, globalopinion has turned our way. We are the majority!

The year has seen tragedy too, and our thoughts are with those who have sufferedin Japan, from both Tsunami and the Fukushima disaster. We stood with ourfriends from the Japanese peace movement in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Augustin poignant remembrance. A nuclear free world is the aspiration that unites us.Hard work to bring that about is the path we have to tread. May I thank all ourmembers and supporters who embrace this cause with such energy and generosityof spirit. We will prevail!

Dave Webb, CND Chair

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

CND campaigns non-violently toachieve British nucleardisarmament – for scrapping theTrident nuclear weapons systemand preventing its replacement.

CND works to secure a nuclearweapons convention which willban nuclear weapons globally, aschemical and biological weaponshave been banned. We also workto end Britain’s participation inthe US Missile Defence systemand – with other campaignsinternationally – against missiledefence and weapons in space.

Other current campaigns includethe prevention and cessation ofwars in which nuclear weaponsmay be used, opposition toNATO and its nuclear policies,and to nuclear power.

CND is funded entirely by itsmembers and supporters, andour policies are decided upon byour annual national delegates’conference, where our nationalleadership is also elected.

Details of our national offices,and our network of regions andlocal groups can be found at theback of this Review.

CNDMordechai Vanunu House

162 Holloway Rd • London N7 8DQTel: 020 7700 2393 Fax: 020 7700 [email protected]

www.cnduk.org

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THIS year’s campaigning has seen asharp focus on the cost of Trident,and an increased emphasis on

scrapping the existing system as well ascancelling the replacement. Indeed thecosts issue has dominated in bothparliamentary and street campaigning.Thanks to Parliamentary CND, the issue ofgovernment spending on Tridentreplacement – ahead of any decision toproceed – has been widely debated andcriticised via Early Day Motions. Thegovernment’s own date of 2016 for adecision on replacement has beenrepeatedly stressed. Over a thousand of oursupporters have already used our onlinelobbying tool to ask Defence Minister NickHarvey to include the non-nuclear optionin his Trident Alternatives Review. At the same time we have worked to

raise the profile of Trident spending in theanti-cuts campaigns – particularly in themassive TUC demonstration in March, andin other protests and meetings around thecountry including a Budget day protest atDowning Street. New materials for groupshave highlighted the alternative choices forspending. Our trade union work –including a successful presence at theTolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival, attendance attrade union conferences and a number ofnew affiliations – has seen good progress asordinary people realise the pointless wasteof spending on nuclear weapons.Work to change party policies on

Trident has also been an important focus,as the next general election will take placeprior to the Trident decision in 2016.Fringe meetings were held at Conservative,Liberal Democrat and Labour PartyConferences. In the latter case we also ran asuccessful stall throughout the conferenceand participated in a range of fringe events.We have made submissions to the LabourParty Policy Review and to the DefenceCommittee Inquiry on the StrategicDefence and Security Review. To facilitatethe drawing together of anti-Trident forces,we have continued to convene the NoTrident Replacement Core Group.

Global AbolitionWhilst we work for British disarmament wealso campaign for the global abolition ofnuclear weapons. One of the ways we dothis is through our continued work with theInternational Campaign for the Abolitionof Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). This takesplace at both national and internationallevel, with an emphasis on supporting theintroduction of a nuclear weaponsconvention to ban all nuclear weapons.This year we worked together with ICANon a global day of action for nuclearabolition in June, as well as with Europeanpartners to mark the P5 summit on nuclearproliferation in Paris. In October, our General Secretary, Kate

Hudson, was invited to meet with theFinnish Foreign Minister to discussprospects for a Middle East NuclearWeapons Free Zone, after Finland’sagreement to progress this initiativefollowing an NPT Review ConferenceAgreement in 2010. Cooperation with other disarmament

campaigns internationally is of centralimportance to CND and we were pleasedthat our Chair, Dave Webb, was able torepresent us at the Hiroshima and Nagasakimemorial events in Japan this year. Wehave also worked with the internationalinitiative Global Zero, as they have soughtto promote and publicise their filmCountdown to Zero. Whilst we had some

Scrap Trident

how much are youspending on

CND gets the message across with a billboard poster (above) placed in the MPs’exit at Westminster tube station, with supporting MPs and on bus adverts inLiverpool (below) to coincide with Labour Party Conference there.

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way from their different areas to hold theirbanners high and swell the numbers at ourCut Trident blocs on the national andregional TUC marches in London.

Yorkshire CND was very busyworking with trade union and anti-cutsgroups, organising street stalls, leafletingand organising a number of workshops.Oxford CND (from Southern Region)raised its banner both in the TUC marchin London and at protests organised bythe local TUC in Oxford. Additionally, thegroup hosted the Nuclear Free LocalAuthorities/Mayors for Peace conferenceon ‘Replacing Trident’ in July.

Kent Area CND underlined theimportance of raising awareness of anuclear weapons convention to many

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reservations about the approach taken bythe film, nevertheless we felt that could beusefully shown to promote debate anddiscussion on the issues of proliferationand disarmament and backed a number ofscreenings around the country.

CND regional and local groups have beenespecially active this year drawing attentionto the urgent need for Trident to be cutand not public services. With stalls in towncentres and at fairs and festivals (see pages16-17), and with their banners and placardsat cuts protests all over the country, groupmembers are firmly getting this messageacross. Many groups also travelled all the

interested visitors to their popular anti-Trident stalls in Tonbridge, Whitstable andFaversham. The group has incorporatedthe image of their old banner into an eye-catching new banner (see picture on page17). Members also held stalls using the newbanner at Countdown to Zero film showingsin Canterbury and Deal. At theCanterbury screening members engagedthe audience in an energetic debateabout the film itself and nucleardisarmament in general.Connecting Trident with militarism and

the arms trade in general is important formany of our groups. At the start of theyear Greater Manchester and DistrictCND helped found a new group calledManchester Against Militarism (MAM).

26 March: CND organised a highlyvisible Cut Trident not Jobs sectionon the TUC’s March for theAlternative which was attended byCND groups from all over thecountry

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MAM links together the work of the manypeace, anti-war and anti-militarism groupsacross Greater Manchester. Already MAMhas been active in opposing the DSEi armsfair and campaigning against Trident.GM&D CND is expecting MAM tohelp reach a younger audience.Otherwise, GM&D CND has had astrong presence in the region’s anti-cutscampaigning and particularly at theTUC-backed demonstration during theTory Party Conference.

Cumbria and Lancashire Area CNDand London Region CNDmembers alsoattended the Campaign Against ArmsTrade demonstrations, including at theDSEi fair. For the former group, the jobsissue is very important; BAE Systems hasseveral sites in Lancashire and the dockyardat Barrow aims to manufacture the Tridentreplacement subs With the help of StuartParkinson of Scientists for GlobalResponsibility, they intend to concentratefurther efforts on industrial diversificationand related employment issues in the area.

Southampton CND, as part ofSouthern Region CND, gained over half athousand petition signatures during aspecial four-day stint of campaigningagainst Trident replacement in summer.Each day was in a different part ofSouthampton and members also petitionedat the showing of the Countdown to Zero filmat the Harbour Lights cinema. The cityof Salisbury also saw lots ofcampaigning against Trident withSalisbury CND’s information andfundraising stall in the city centre.

Local and regional groups do vital workprotesting at the sites related to Trident andits replacement:

Rolls-RoyceEast Midlands CNDmembers have heldmonthly vigils and demonstrationsthroughout the year at the Rolls-RoyceRaynesway, Derby plant, where nuclearreactors for Trident and Astute submarinesare manufactured. The building of hugenew facilities there is nearing completion.The group has also drawn attention toRolls-Royce’s substantial involvement innuclear power new build with events thereto mark the Fukushima disaster and the

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(top to bottom) 29th October : Stop the Dump protest against proposals for anuclear waste dump in Plymouth; In New York in October, Roslyn Cook, of theSussex Peace Alliance presented Sergio Duarte, the UN Under-Secretary-General andHigh Representative for Disarmament Affairs, with signatures from The Criminalityof Nuclear Weapons campaign which allows citizens worldwide to affirm their beliefthat any use of nuclear weapons would be a war crime.

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25th anniversary of Chernobyl. This evenreached Japanese media with a Japanesenewspaper reporter interviewing thegroup on their objection to both thenuclear weapons and nuclear poweraspects of Rolls-Royce’s work. EastMidlands’ special new display boardsinform about the plant and theirdemonstrations and have been shown atvarious meetings around the region.

AWEOxford CND from Southern Regionjoined vigils at Aldermaston and cut thefence to provide ‘a doorway fordisarmament’. Members also joined theAldermaston Women’s Peace Campaignersat their camp and danced at theirhumorous ‘Domestic Extremist orDomestic Goddesses’ event.

DevonportPlymouth CND, with TridentPloughshares and local environmentgroups in the Nuclear Free Coalition, havebeen furiously active against the Devonportnuclear dockyard in the build-up to thecurrent public consultation on proposalsfor a nuclear waste dump in the city. TheMoD’s Submarine Dismantling Projectfavours cutting-up the radioactive wastefrom the submarines in Plymouth itself –the most profitable but mostenvironmentally hazardous process. YetPlymouth campaigners insist that

radioactive materials should be tamperedwith as little as possible, and nuclear wastehas to be stored away from centres ofhigh-density human population. They haveheld public meetings, direct action events,street protests and mass petitioning toencourage the biggest possible ‘No’ to thestorage and processing of intermediatelevel nuclear waste in the city. TheTavistock Peace Group have evenlaunched their own postcard campaign toensure transparency in the consultationprocess. Plymouth CND is also workingwith the local Occupy Plymouth camp,Transition Plymouth and the PlymouthClimate Council to demand investment ina green and sustainable future for the City,not the poverty of being known as the‘Sellafield of the South West’.The consultation runs to February 2012

and can be accessed atwww.mod.uk/submarinedismantling

Political lobbyingThe political lobbying work done by ourgroups is vital. For example, in 2011,Salisbury CND members workedparticularly hard engaging with their MPJohn Glen, a member of the ParliamentaryDefence Select Committee.

Sussex Peace Alliancemakes it apriority to keep up persistent pressure onthe government and local MPs. As part ofthis, they asked the Prime Minister whatprogress had been made towards a nuclear

weapons convention after the P5 meetingin Paris. The first Foreign Office replystudiously avoided any reference to aconvention! A later letter argued againstsuch a thing although it misunderstands theissue so much that the group plans totackle this in further correspondence.Sussex Peace Alliance has also been

questioning their MPs’ lack of care orinterest in answering letters, particularlyamong the Conservatives; the stockresponses the MPs send out do little toproperly answer queries on such animportant matter.

Student CNDCampaigning around the Cut Trident, notjobs, health and education slogan resonatesdeeply with students today. During the yearStudent CND mobilised hard for studentsto promote this message. Memberswielding CND placards joined and leafletedvarious cuts demonstrations including theTUC march and the 10,000-strong studentmarch in London in November to opposegovernment attacks on education funding. Otherwise, Student CND had an

excellent presence at the NUS NationalConference in April raising the profile ofits ‘Cut Trident Not Education’ campaignthrough a Student CND stall andnewsletter. Additionally, the grouporganised a very successful peace fringemeeting attended by over 80 studentswith the Stop the War Coalition and thePalestine Solidarity Campaign. Over thesummer the group produced a glossyFund Education – No to Trident Replacementbriefing and sent it to almost 1,000 newStudent Union Sabbatical Officers acrossthe country. The briefing providesstudent leaders with the arguments aboutwhy Britain’s nuclear weapons should bescrapped and how the billions savedwould be better spent on education.

Christian CNDIn February CCND pooled knowledge andhelped chair a special Abolition 2000meeting to consider the new Anglo-FrenchTreaty which links the two nations intoclose co-operation on nuclear weaponsresearch. Ash Wednesday saw group

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9th November: Cut Trident not education at the 10,000-strong students’ march

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welcomes the strong anti-Trident positionof the Scottish voters. The ScottishLabour Party has a leadership electionand has contacted candidates withquestionnaires: follow the candidates’response on Twitter @labourcnd

Autonomous campaigning:Nukewatch CND gave some financial support toNukewatch during 2011. This group doesvery useful work tracking nuclear weaponmovements, one of the only independentways that we have for verifying the size andstatus of the UK's nuclear arsenal.The group is actively helped by

Oxford CND members. Nukewatchreports that during 2011 nuclearweapons convoy movements continuedat a baseline level, with a similarfrequency to 2010. Three warheadconvoys were observed travellingbetween AWE Burghfield and theCoulport arms depot in Scotland inApril, July, and September. The groupbelieves these convoys were

transporting nuclear warheads betweenScotland and the Atomic WeaponsEstablishment (AWE) as part of theregular stockpile maintenance andmonitoring cycle.Convoy exercise journeys are also

thought to have taken place in March andSeptember. Exercise Senator 11, theMoD’s annual convoy emergency exercisetook place at HMS Gannet, Ayrshire, inSeptember involving civilian emergencyservices, although convoy vehiclesthemselves did not take part in the exercise.Convoy movements continued during

the military action by UK forces in Libyadespite being suspended during otherperiods of serious conflict such as theKosovo intervention and the invasions ofAfghanistan and Iraq.Special Nuclear Materials convoys were

observed in January, May, July, andSeptember. The group believes they werecarrying nuclear materials or warheadcomponents between AWE sites. Thesetypes of convoys were also spotted enroute to Rolls-Royce Nuclear atRaynesway, Derby in July, transportingenriched uranium from AWE for themanufacture of reactor fuel for new Astuteclass submarines, and transporting reactorfuel to Barrow in March for fitting in asubmarine under construction.If you see a convoy, it is really

important to contact Nukewatch whichwill then be able to track its movements.As soon as possible call 0845 45 88 365or 0845 45 88 367 with details, notingwhat you saw, when you saw it, where,and in what direction the convoyvehicles were travelling.

members play a major role in preparingfor a vigil at the MoD in London. AtAWE Aldermaston the group also heldvigils at Lent.Members also waved their banner at the

TUC marches and in summer, campaigningagainst nuclear weapons globally, they madevisits to the Pakistani and Indian HighCommissions and the embassies ofSweden, Japan and Russia. The groupreports that these visits were particularlyworthwhile and reports of the proceedingscan be obtained from their office.

Labour CNDSpeaking at Labour CND’s conference andAGM in March were Ken Livingstone,Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sunny Hundal (LiberalConspiracy blog), Jon Lansman (LeftFutures blog), Marion Hobbs, (NewZealand’s former Minister ofDisarmament) and CND General SecretaryKate Hudson. The conference called for anew foreign policy for Labour and for theLabour Party to break with the failedpolicies of the past, scrap Trident andwithdraw from NATO. Labour CND continues to engage with

Labour Party members to press the party toscrap Trident and support the global pushfor an international nuclear weaponsconvention. The group has been asking itsmembers to particularly oppose shadowDefence Secretary Jim Murphy’s commentsthat nuclear weapons make us secure.Every year Labour CND puts forward

draft resolutions to the party conference. In2011 the group sent three draft resolutionsto all local Labour Parties to scrap Trident,stop bombing Libya and end UK militaryintervention in Afghanistan. However, thebest debating was to be had at the packedfringe meeting the group helped organisewith CND and Labour Action for Peace.There, MPs Cathy Jameison and JeremyCorbyn asserted that there is no moral,economic or military case for Trident. NewMSP Neil Findlay affirmed how publicopinion is firmly opposed to Trident andthe Labour Party needs to listen to thevoice of the people.Check out Labour’s newly updated-

website and sign their statement opposingthe Coalition government’s commitmentto replace Trident. Labour CND

Take every opportunity to call for Trident to be cutand not jobs, education or health in yourcommunity by:n Supporting anti-cuts protests with the CND Cut

Trident placards (see page 21); n Contacting your MP and letting him/her know

that you want Trident cut; n Writing letters to your local paper, making the

case against Trident and sending them detailsand photos of your actions.

Take action

MSP Neil Findlay addressed the packedfringe meeting at Labour PartyConference, organised by CND, LabourCND and Labour Action for Peace

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No US Missile DefenceCAMPAIGNING against missile

defence has progressed, thanks toYorkshire CND which gives a

strong lead to CND’s campaigning in thisarea. The presence of two bases usedfor the system – Fylingdales andMenwith Hill – provides a major focusand our materials and information havebeen updated – we now have a newleaflet (see page 21). CND NationalConference in 2011 was held inBradford, where its second day wasspent as a Day of Action on MissileDefence, updating our knowledge ofmissile defence through workshopdiscussion, and through ademonstration to Menwith Hill itself,where a letter was handed in to the BaseCommander. We have also continued toco-ordinate with other European groupsand to participate in the GlobalNetwork against Weapons and NuclearPower in Space.

Menwith HillThe Menwith Hill Day of Action was aspecial day for many CND groups toshow their opposition to US MissileDefence and find out more about thebase, including GM&D CND,Penzance CND as part of South WestRegion, Southern Region CND, andMerseyside CND among others.The Day of Action was also

Yorkshire CND’s opportunity tocelebrate the launch of its new WalkersGuide to Menwith Hill. This new guide isaimed at raising awareness of thecontinuing expansion of the base, its roleas part of the US Missile Defence System,and its function of illegal surveillance aspart of offensive US wars.

Yorkshire CND has otherwise beenactively supporting both Dr SteveSchofield’s research into Menwith Hill’srole and its economic impact on the localcommunity, and that of Anne Lee as she

continues her research into the layout andlogistics of the spy base. Liaising withFabian Hamilton MP, the group hasasked a number of parliamentaryquestions, the answers to which revealmore details regarding staffing,contractors and base expenditure.

Cumbria and Lancashire CNDand East Midlands CNDmembers,among others, also attended the CampaignAgainst American Bases (CAAB) annualIndependence from America Daydemonstration at the Menwith Hill base inJuly. East Midlands CND invitedCAAB’s Lindis Percy to speak on CivilRights, Surveillance and Spy Bases at apublic meeting in Chesterfield whichresulted in a much larger group joiningthe July demonstration.

FylingdalesA highlight of campaigning againstFylingdales in 2011 for Yorkshire CND,was its teaming up with TridentPloughshares to organise a weekend ofaction at the base in July. This included apeace vigil and walk around the base andwas held in conjunction with the Swedishconference event War Starts Here. TheFylingdales action was important inengaging the local community in Pickeringwith the missile ‘defence’ issue.

Croughton The Oxfordshire Peace Campaign’sannual march and rally to theCroughton base was attended by severalCND groups including Oxford CND,whose members are key in theCampaign, and Southampton CND.Speakers at the rally were: AmyHailwood from the Fellowship ofReconciliation who explained how thisUS listening and communications baseis linked to the use of drones; KevinLister of Plane Stupid who discussedthe links between military spending andenvironmental damage; and RebeccaJohnson of the Acronym Institute whospoke on international developmentsrelated to nuclear disarmament.

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14th October: Menwith Hill Day of Action with many CND groups and supporters

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Not one more deathWEcontinue to work with the

Stop the War Coalition andBritish Muslim Initiative as

appropriate. The year started withprotests outside the Chilcot Inquiry withthe demand that those responsible fortaking the UK into the illegal war on Iraqshould be brought to justice.Subsequently, we opposed the NATObombing of Libya, expressing concernsabout the potential use of depleteduranium and calling for a negotiatedsolution to the country’s crisis. InOctober we marked the 10th anniversaryof the war on Afghanistan with a majorcultural and political assembly inLondon’s Trafalgar Square, urging thegovernment to bring the troops home.

CND groups joined us at the Anti-WarMass Assembly in London in Octoberincluding several local groups fromLondon Region CND’s area.Prior to travelling down to join the

assembly, East Midlands CND organisedan interesting talk with expert author GregMuttit, on Oil and Politics in OccupiedIraq to help understand overarchingmotives for conflict in the region. Many of London Region CND’s local

groups’ members also joined us on ourStop Bombing Libya demonstrations inLondon during 2011. The group also heldone of its bi-monthly public fora on thisissue as well as on other matters relatingto Palestine, the UK’s war-making in theMiddle East and the government’s robustsupport of the arms trade in general.

DronesThe ever-increasing use of drones inAfghanistan, Pakistan and Libya hasconcerned CND groups greatly. YorkshireCND supported the launch of a fledgingnew peace camp at RAF Waddingtonwhere a new squadron is to be based topilot these unmanned killing machines. Three key drones-related sites are

based in East Midlands CND’s region.

In autumn, members undertook a bigmobilisation/awareness-raisingcampaign with planning meetings, city-centre stalls, leafleting with newlydesigned flyers, and letters to the localpapers. This concluded with a livelydemonstration of 50 people (includingfrom De Montfort University, localmosques, the Palestine SolidarityCampaign, Amnesty International andthe Leicester Society of Friends) outsidethe Thales/Elbit factory in Leicester,where the Watchkeeper drone is beingmanufactured. A local filmmakerrecorded the demonstration which was

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8th October: Vice-President Pat Arrowsmith helped put the real war criminals behindbars during Guantanamo actions at the Anti-War Mass Assembly in London

12th July: Stop Bombing Libya rally

Yorkshire CND at the new peace campat RAF Waddington

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supporting bombing on Libyaby providing fighter jets to enforce the no-fly zone, despite much opposition from itspeople and the country not being aNATO member.

GM&D CND member Rae Street at theIrish NATO meeting

supported by helpful police. A mildpanic greeted an attempt by the group topresent a 200-signature petition to thefactory when the gates were hurriedlyclosed and padlocks snapped shut.

Remembrance DayMerseyside CND held its annualRemembrance Day event in Liverpool’sPeace Garden with the laying of a whitepoppy wreath followed by music andpoetry. Thanks to Liverpool CityCouncil’s help the Peace Garden’smemorial bench, dedicated in 2008 topast members and all the victims ofHiroshima, has been fully restored andre-instated after being vandalised.

Crime of Aggression Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty, partof Sussex Peace Alliance, workedwith their LibDem MP Stephen Lloydto arrange a parliamentary meeting inNovember to inform parliamentariansabout the Crime of Aggression. This crime has now been defined

under the Rome Statute of theInternational Criminal Court (ICC),however the Foreign Office does notplan to incorporate it into UK law untilat least 2018.

Student CND has played a leading role inbuilding student opposition to thebombing of Libya: rallying students to jointhe various demonstrations and the Anti-War Mass Assembly and helping organiseNUS representative speeches at theseevents. During the war, Student CNDalso initiated a Students Against the Waron Libya statement which was signed by abroad range of student leaders includingNUS representatives, Student UnionOfficers and many leading studentactivists from across the country.

Christian CND members activelysupported the InternationalConscientious Objectors’ Day in Mayand Pax Christi’s vigil at WestminsterCathedral. The group also carried out aday of action and prayer vigil during theDSEi arms fair in London.

No to NATO

THIS year’s anti-NATOcampaigning has centred on thefollow-up to the 2010 Lisbon

summit which extended the global reachof NATO and brought US missile‘defence’ in Europe under the auspicesof NATO. During the year we havecontinued to work in partnership withthe European No to NATO network andits US partners, in preparation for the nextmajor NATO Heads of State summit inChicago in 2012. CND Vice-Chair JeremyCorbyn MP represented us at the No toNATO counter summit, organised tocoincide with the Bonn NATO ForeignMinisters’ summit in December.

Former Vice-Chair and Council memberRae Street as part of Greater Manchester& District CND, provides knowledgeand energy in our No to NATOcampaigning by joining CND delegationsat anti-NATO events and attending andspeaking at meetings across Europe.

Oxford CND was represented at anti-NATO protests in Sweden which was

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NATO out of Libya: Tony Benn addressed the crowd at the Anti-War Mass Assembly

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OUR anti-nuclear campaigning in2011 was dominated by theFukushima tragedy and the

uproar and debate that it caused globallyabout nuclear power. Much of our workfocused on exposing and opposing ourgovernment’s determination to back newnuclear power stations in Britain, in spiteof a number of other countries – includingGermany – deciding to choose non-nuclear futures. Many of our members andsupporters have lobbied Energy SecretaryChris Huhne to urge him to take Britainon a non-nuclear energy path. It was ofgreat regret to us that these developmentstook place in the 25th anniversary year ofthe Chernobyl disaster. A positive note has been struck by the

founding of Stop New Nuclear, a newalliance in which CND is delighted toparticipate, to campaign against new buildnuclear power stations, with its first eventtaking place at Hinkley Point in Octoberwhere the first new nuclear power stationis planned to be built.

Hinkley Point blockadeMany CND members, including thosefrom Yorkshire CND, London RegionCND, Cumbria and Lancs CND,Plymouth CND and East MidlandsCND, mobilised for and attended theweekend-long events against new nuclearpower build at the Hinkley site in

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(from top to bottom) 26th April: MPs Michael Meacher, Caroline Lucas and ProfessorDillwyn Williams addressed a public meeting organised by CND and Medact to markthe 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster; 20th March: Fukushima vigil; 3rdOctober: Stop New Nuclear Mass Blockade at Hinkley Point nuclear power plant

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Somerset organised by Stop New Nuclear.Oxford CND’s excellent refreshmentstent provided sustaining nourishment forall the blockaders there and at the Sizewellcamp in April in which several CNDgroups also participated.

Chernobyl/Fukushima vigilsCND groups highlighted the dangers ofnuclear power at their 25th anniversary ofthe Chernobyl disaster commemorationevents in April. This was also anopportunity to send sympathy andthoughts to those affected by the Japaneseearthquake and nuclear catastrophe at theFukushima plant. Cumbria andLancashire CND held major eventsacross the area on this issue which alsoemphasised the need for safer, renewablesources of energy. On Chernobyl Day, Greater

Manchester & District CND joinedwith the Chernobyl Children’s Project andMayors for Peace to organise aninternational vigil. This began with aclassical concert followed by the audiencemembers forming the number 25 incandles in St Ann’s Square in Manchester.

Merseyside CND’s event alsoincluded a candlelit vigil on the steps of St

Luke’s – a bombed out Church inLiverpool’s centre. This preceded theirshowing of the When the Wind Blows filminside, made even more evocative anddisturbing by the deepening gloom in theroofless church.

London Region CND’s remembrancevigil held outside parliament before CND’spublic parliamentary meeting hostedspeakers from the Chernobyl Children’sProject, the Independent WHOorganisation, and Medact.

Nuclear trains The Nuclear Trains Action Group, partof London Region CND, has beencampaigning to stop trains carryingradioactive nuclear waste through EastLondon and past the Olympics site. Thegroup organised stalls and then a rally and

die-in outside Stratford Station insummer. Their awareness-raising nodoubt contributed towards a Transportfor London announcement that thenuclear trains would be suspended duringthe Games (see opposite).

Public meetingsOther campaigning actions on this issuehave included Oxford CND workingwith their local Green Party group to holda public meeting in November onNuclear Power – after Fukushima.Sheffield CND also co-ordinated withthe Green Party on the national level toorganise a nuclear power debate at itsParty Conference with General SecretaryKate Hudson on the speakers’ panel. In the midlands, East Midlands

CND hosted a meeting with Dr DavidToke, the University of Birmingham’sSenior Lecturer on Energy Policy andCND Council member Dr Ian Fairlie tospeak on Nuclear Dangers and the GreenAlternative. West Midlands CNDprovided speakers for Lichfield Speaker’sCorner and organised various eventsincluding a showing of the film IntoEternity and a commemoration of theChernobyl nuclear accident event. In theirregion too, Hereford Peace Council alsoheld a public meeting power tocommemorate Chernobyl andcorresponded in detail with their localMPs on this subject.

West Midlands CND has a specialparliamentary team which scoursparliamentary proceedings in order topursue relevant issues in the local pressand with their MPs and the DefenceSecretary. In 2011, for example, memberswrote to Liam Fox about his statementson depleted uranium. Othercorrespondence concerned thedecommissioning costs of nuclear powerstations, radioactive pollution in DalgetyBay in Fife, and the Royal Society’sproposal for a Global Nuclear Forum.

Nuclear wasteEast Lancashire CND and NorthCumbria CND continue to work withRadiation Free Lakeland to opposegovernment proposals for a gigantic, under -ground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria.

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Nuclear trains will now be suspended during the Olympic Games

Global support for nuclearpower has dropped to 38%.

80% of British people thinknuclear power is a limited andsoon obsolete form ofproducing energy for thefuture (73% globally).

Ipsos/Reuters News 2011

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GETTING OUT to newaudiences is always a priorityand attending festivals,

conferences and other public events isone way to do that. One of the year’shighlights was our attendance atGlastonbury, where our presence was feltin many ways: 12,000 copies of FestivalCampaign magazine were distributed,Caroline Lucas MP spoke for us on thePyramid Stage, and many festival-goersmade their mark (literally!) on our peace-themed graffiti wall. We also had a teamat Bestival, a burgeoning music festival onthe Isle of Wight. Party conferences are always a

significant feature of our autumn work,getting our message out to party activistsand working to change policy whereappropriate. This year we participated inConservative, Green, Labour and LibDem Conferences. We also ran stalls at anumber of trade union conferences wherewe have been receiving a lot of positivefeedback on our Cut Trident campaign.Other arenas where we have taken ourmessage out include: CAAT NationalGathering, British Youth Council events,People and Planet Conference, Coalitionof Resistance Conference, Campaignagainst Climate Change Conference andULU Freshers’ Fair.

CND groups do a marvellous jobreaching out to different audiences,making links with other groups andgetting the message across about Tridentby organising their own festivals andholding stalls at fairs and conferencesorganised by others.

Hiroshima and NagasakicommemorationsEast Midlands CND members inNottingham undertook an extensive dayof action to mark Hiroshima Day withan early morning vigil, city-centre stallsand a procession through the city, abicycle tour to leaflet the outlying

districts followed by attending the vigilat Rolls-Royce in Derby.As part of Cumbria and Lancashire

region, East Lancashire CND’s vigil inthe Burnley Peace Garden consisted of aHiroshima Peace Bell ringing, poetryreadings, hanging of the Sadoko OrigamiCranes, and the launch of many floatinglighted lanterns on the River Brun.

Greater Manchester & DistrictCND worked closely with theManchester Mayors for Peace to screenthe film Twice Bombed: The Legacy ofYamaguchi Tsutomu on Nagasaki Day.

South Cheshire and NorthStaffordshire CND’s (SCANS) vigil andstall coincided with Stoke Pride wheremembers talked to lots of people aboutthe significance of Hiroshima Day and thecase against Trident and made manyuseful new contacts.

West Midlands CND used atombstone prop to attract passers-by totheir commemoration event outsideBirmingham Cathedral. The eventincluded poetry readings, music from theClarion Singers and an address by the

Dean of the Cathedral. London Region CND’s Ceremony of

Remembrance in Tavistock Square drewtogether around 250 people. Among thespeakers were Tony Benn, Bruce Kent,Cllr. Abdul Quadir, the Mayor ofCamden, Rev. S. Nagase, and 105-year oldpeace campaigner Hetty Bower.

Merseyside CND organised awreath-laying by the Lord Mayor ofLiverpool with music, and poetry. Theturn-out was higher than previously andan important impression was made onthe younger participants.

Oxford CND involved their localcommunity and religious groups with 100Candles for Peace floated on the Thames.

Other fairs and festivalsGM&D CND’sManchester PeaceFestival 2011 was a great success with filmshowings, music events, and the actorMaxine Peake appearing in its Words forPeace event. Hundreds of copies ofCND’s Festival Campaign magazine werehanded out.

East Midlands CND also found theFestival Campaign was very popular atStainsby Folk Festival and EastMidlands Vegan Fair. Significant interestshown in CND has prompted the group

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Regions

Festivals, fairs and conferences

CND at Glastonbury Festival

East Lancashire CND organised aHiroshima vigil in the Burnley PeaceGarden

CND at Tolpuddle Festival

East Midlands CND’s Hiroshima/ Nagasaki vigil outside Rolls-Royce

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to consider developing new local leafletsand ways to sustain support for peoplein the region with no immediatelyaccessible active group.

West Midlands CND held stalls atMoseley festival, WolverhamptonWorkers’ Day festival, Ludlow Green Fairand the West Midlands Vegan Festival.

Merseyside CND had another Peaceand Ecology Festival enjoyed by many.The quality of the twelve live music actswas particularly impressive; the festivalhas become a ‘must-do’ gig for some ofLiverpool’s best singers. Fifteen othercampaigning organisations held stalls atthe event and all who attended felt itwas an especially worthwhile event. Musical events are Merseyside CND’s

speciality. Marking the UN Peace Day inSeptember it ran two successful concerts,one in Liverpool and one in Wallasey. The group also raised sufficient funds

for their Strattan Music Scholarship forthe Workers’ Music Association summercourse. This was set up in memory ofGeorge Strattan, peace campaigner,socialist and folk singer who helpedestablish Merseyside CND with his wifeVi and supported the group unstintinglyfor many decades. The UN Peace Day was also

important for Penzance CND, as partof South West region, which ran a PeaceFestival and Picnic in the local park.Local press covered the event opened bythe Mayor of Penzance and supportedby many local artists. On other occasions, the Penzance Peace

Flag was flown at the Peace News Camp andat the Shambala Festival where membersdistributed many Festival Campaigns.

Peace EducationMembers from Penzance CND, andothers including SCANS CND andSouthampton CND, have been usingCND’s Peace Education materials in theirlocal schools to good effect. For example,Southampton CND was invited toHamble College’s Peace Day to discusspeace and nuclear disarmament with threedifferent classes. SCANS CND gave aseries of presentations to Year 8 classes inone of their local schools. See page 24 for more on CND’s peace

education work, and contact Anna Liddlefor details of the resources:[email protected]

Film showings Across the country, many CND groups,joined in discussion events and heldstalls at and arranged screenings of theCountdown to Zero film. SCANS CNDorganised one at the Stoke Film Theatrewith Staffordshire University mediastudies students in June. A panel of theiractivists took part in a question andanswer session after the film leading to alively discussion that was still goingstrong when the caretaker arrived tolock up the building.

East Midlands CND arranged forshowings of the films Beating the Bomband Into Eternity at Chesterfield andLeicester CND’s AGMs respectively.Members also held a stall in a Derbycinema for the showing of Countdown toZero. Other cinemas in the regionrefused their stall on the grounds that itwould be ‘too political’!Hereford Peace Council members held

a stall at the Hereford Freshers’ Fair and adiscussion on the film Just War by JoeJenkins, Peace Tax campaignerActor Sheila Hancock opened the

new Peace Garden in Seaford andSussex Peace Alliance members wereamongst the 150 people attending theceremony. The garden will be anotherfocus for peace activities to supplementthe Peace memorial site on BeachyHead. Thanks to excellent work by local

activists, Hastings Town Council haspassed a resolution for the town to joinMayors for Peace, so there are now fourMayors for Peace councils in Sussex.

At the start of August, Christian CNDworked very hard with Oxford CND inorganising the Nagasaki Daycommemoration in Oxford. Memberswere especially active too planning forthe Peace Zone at the big GreenbeltChristian festival held at the end ofAugust. The group has also been busyworking on a future programme ofschool visits, contacting schools in thesouth east to introduce its schools teamand offering talks on war, peace andnuclear weapons.

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Merseyside CND stall at their Peace andEcology Festival in Liverpool City CentrePhoto: Kai Andersen

Christian CND joined with Oxford CNDto commemorate the Hiroshima andNagasaki bombings

Specialist sections

Kent Area CND’s new banner on theirstall

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THE Scottish National Party’slandslide election results may meanmore in the future for Wales than

our Welsh election results – which have puta Labour government in Cardiff. At somepoint in the future, Scotland could be in aposition to banish British nuclear weaponsfrom its soil. Of some interest to CNDCymru is a 2011 RUSI report suggestingthat, in this event, one of the two otherpossible sites in Britain where nuclearweapons could then be based is MilfordHaven, an area of high unemployment.

Torrwch Trident!As elsewhere across Britain, ourcampaigning focus has been Cut Trident!Bilingual campaigning material has beenproduced and distributed across Wales.Speakers representing CND Cymru haveattended events up and down the countryin Bangor, Cardiff, Wrexham, Aberystwythand Llanelli. And national and local mediaattention provided us with ampleopportunity to mention the dirty words‘Trident and its replacement’ including atthe National Eisteddfod and the 30thanniversary of the March from Cardiff toGreenham Common.

Academi Heddwch Cymru/Wales Peace Institute Two years on, many of us await the resultsof a Welsh government ‘Consultation’canvassing the views of interestedindividuals and groups about establishing aWales Peace Institute. If adopted it couldprovide a platform for analysis and debatein relation to war preparations, conflict,violence and militarism, as these issues

affect Wales. To this end, serious, peerreviewed and credible research couldbecome available to present an accurate,unbiased picture of the situations andissues of concern in Wales. Wide supportfor this project has been sustained fromWales-wide cultural, faith, political andcivil society organisations.

Militarism and Remote KillingCND Cymru provides resources andsupport to others in Wales on peace andjustice campaigns. The Assembly-fundedAberporth ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) Centre of Excellence’ has beenpermitted to test-fly UAVs. The defencecompany Qinetiq is testing a UAV for theMoD here before it is deployed inAfghanistan to identify ‘targets’. Proteststhroughout the year culminated in theestablishment of a special commemoration

garden for all those killed as a result ofUAV deployment.In February, CND Cymru revealed that

the General Dynamics factory in Gwenthad manufactured and supplied militarycommunications equipment to the Libyangovernment following a 2008 £85 milliondeal. The equipment helped provide ‘securecommunications’ to enable the Libyansecurity forces to fight the ‘rebels’. Wecollected several hundred signatures,including from major Welsh church leaders,for an open letter to Newbridge RugbyFootball Club which had acceptedsponsorship by General Dynamics. CND Cymru also successfully

encouraged the Mayors of Gangjeong andJeju Island (South Korea) to sign up toMayors for Peace as part of their actions tohalt the construction of a US military navalbase on their land.

Dim P�er Niwclear!The Fukushima disaster provoked furtherdebate around the building of new nuclearpower stations. As sponsors of andspeakers at an October Conference ‘CymruGwyrdd a Ddi Niwclear’, CND Cymru hascontinued to campaign with PAWB(People Against Wylfa B), the WelshAnti-Nuclear Alliance (WANA), StopHinkley, the Nuclear Free LocalAuthorities, Stop New Nuclear andothers in Britain and internationally.

As this is written, the sad news hasarrived of the death of CND CymruVice-Chair, Olwen Davies. She has beena long time peace campaigner, anti-apartheid protester, miners’ strikesupporter, Chernobyl Children’s Projectstalwart and, of course, former BritishCND Council and active CNDInternational Advisory Group member.We well know that dear, determined,singing Olwen would tell us to stand upand keep the message firm and strong:‘Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth Ryn ni

yma o hyd!’‘Despite everything and everybody,

We’re still here today!’

CND Cymru

Olwen Davies

CND Cymru at the Stop New Nuclearprotest, Bridgwater near Hinkley Point

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2011 was a year of change inScotland. On the national politicallevel the Scottish National Party

(SNP) won a clear majority in the ScottishParliament in May. Within CND, ourChair, Alan Mackinnon, stepped downafter many years of dedicatedcommitment. He plans to do voluntarywork as a doctor overseas and we wishhim every success. Looking forward, wewelcome our new Chair, Arthur West,and hope our new office location,adjacent to Glasgow University, willenable us to recruit more volunteers andimprove our work with students.

Lobbying the ScottishgovernmentWe worked hard in the election run-up,contacting all the candidates about theirviews on Trident and a nuclear weaponsconvention and publicising theirresponses online. We encouraged ourmembers to lobby candidates on theirposition regarding Trident, and succeededin ensuring that Trident was an electionissue. Since most people are againstTrident in Scotland and the issue was so

strongly highlighted, it is likely that thiscontributed to the overall majorityobtained by the strongly anti-Trident SNP. Our ongoing dialogue with the

Scottish government continues in orderto progress our input to the workinggroup, Scotland Without NuclearWeapons. We arranged a meeting withthe new government, with TridentPloughshares also attending, to discussthe challenge to Trident’s legality alongwith proposals that Parliament shouldask Westminster to remove nuclearweapons from Scotland and enter intonegotiations towards a nuclear weaponsconvention. Our delegation was listenedto sympathetically and there was muchuseful dialogue.

Reaching outOur primary school children’s Paint forPeace competition received a largenumber of entries and these weredisplayed at the Make Peace Festival inGlasgow. The festival culminated with usforming a large human CND symbol inthe centre of Glasgow.Scotland’s for Peace, initiated by

Scottish CND, is the broad partnershipbetween churches, trade unions,campaigning groups and representativesfrom Scottish Civic Society. It meetsregularly and is developing newapproaches to security and defence forScotland in preparation for a 2012conference. This is aimed at the debatenow underway in Scottish politics aboutthe independence referendum due to takeplace between 2014 and 2016. We alsosupport similar work within SNP CND. In the spring, Scotland’s for Peace

organised an excellent seminar onAfghanistan with Orzala Ashraf from theAfghan Women’s Network and KathyGalloway from Christian Aid. On theUN-designated International Peace Dayin September, international activists fromICAN, WILPF and Irish CND led ourpanel discussion.Following the Fukushima accident in

Japan we liaised with Friends of the EarthScotland in campaigning against nuclearpower and lobbied MSPs. Dr Ian Fairliesupported our work with hispresentations at the film screenings ofChernobyl Heart in Glasgow andEdinburgh on the 25th April anniversaryof the disaster.We are delighted to see a resurgence of

organisation and campaigning from theactivists at the Faslane Peace Camp. Wevery much look forward to working inpartnership with them in 2012.During 2011, Scottish CND supported

many important initiatives from the Stopthe War Coalition, the Scottish TradeUnion Congress and the Better Waycampaign. We also supported the ScottishClergy Against Nuclear Arms’ (SCANA)Easter Faslane event and Bruce Kent’sannual pilgrimage to the north ofScotland which roots out any remainingresidents requiring conversion to ourcause. We continue to be inspired by ourbranches, groups and affiliates runningstreet stalls throughout the year,organising moving Hiroshima Day events,and holding a weekly vigil at the gates ofthe Faslane base.

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Scottish CND

Supporters form the CND symbol in George Square, Glasgow at the Make Peace Festival

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Responding to our appeals

WE are very grateful to all ofyou who donated in responseto one of our appeals during

the year. Through your generosity almost£120,000 was raised and this enabled usto achieve a great deal, not least having ahuge billboard at Westminster station tocoincide with the announcement of thebudget, and bus adverts in Liverpool (seepage 4). We plan to repeat the bus advertsin London in March – see the mail sheetthat came with this magazine for moredetails, or go to www.cnduk.org/londonbusfor more information. We’d also like tothank everyone who took part in the firstannual CND raffle, congratulations toMiss M Windebank and more than 50other lucky prize-winners.

CND merchandise andmaterialsWe are always adding new things to theCND online shop. There you can find ourmost recent range of hoodies and thealways-attractive CND logo t-shirts in manydifferent colours. You can also order all ofour campaigns materials straight from theshop, including the new radiation and NoUS Missile Defence leaflets. Have a lookfor yourself: www.cnduk.org/shop. Allproceeds from the online shop go to CND.

LegaciesEach of us leaves our mark on the world,through our relationships with otherpeople, and through our beliefs and ideas.Many of our supporters have been able tocontinue to speak out for nucleardisarmament even after they are gone byleaving a gift to CND in their wills.Since CND’s first meeting in 1958 we

have had many successes, important treatieslike the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treatyhave been signed, developments in nuclearweaponry such as the neutron bomb havebeen successfully opposed, and, overall,CND and the peace movement havehelped create an environment in which theuse of nuclear weapons is anathema.We may not all live to see the day when

nuclear weapons are finally banned, but, byleaving a legacy to CND, it is possible tohelp ensure future generations are freefrom the nuclear threat. Call us on 0207700 2393 or email [email protected] ifyou would like more information.

Our 2010 accounts CND’s accounts for the year ending 31stDecember 2010 have been examined andapproved by CND Council. Copies areavailable on our website and from theCND office.

Support us

Nuclear Education Trust (NET)NET continued to fund all of CND's excellent Peace Education work during2011. The Trust has set aside its remaining funds to cover the salary costs ofthe CND Peace Education Officer until the end of 2014. NET trustees areplanning to increase its fundraising activities in 2012. The 2010 accounts canbe found on the NET website.

During 2011 the Charity Commission expressed concern about the relationshipbetween NET and CND. The NET trustees took this very seriously and improved anumber of processes, the website and publicity material, some of which areongoing improvements. This will ensure that when CND receives funds from NET,standard criteria are met (which they were previously, but not in a verifiable way).NET trustees can then be seen to be acting in the best interests of the charity.Other changes were made at the trustees’ instigation, the most notable being theappointment of a new Chair, Madeline Held MBE (formerly NET’s Vice Chair).Madeline has recently retired and is able to commit time and energy to her newrole. She was instrumental in allaying all the Charity Commission’s concerns. So,although NET has very limited funds at present, the trustees have been invigoratedby Charity Commission discussions and look forward to the coming year.

n See www.nucleareducationtrust.net for more information

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No Trident replacement

Scrap Trident: save £100billionThe new Scrap Trident: save £100 billionleaflet coherently outlines all the argumentsagainst Trident, and in particular the costsone. It’s a must-have leaflet for all ourcurrent anti-Trident campaigning.

The Great Trident Job Threat We are continually developing and finetuning our arguments on the jobs issue.Our newest briefing The Great Trident JobThreat has been very popular with tradeunion members, especially at theUNITE conference and the TUC

demonstrations.This briefing isinvaluable inchallenging tradeunion andparliamentarymisperceptionsthat jobs will belost if Trident iscancelled. Infact theopposite istrue; spending£100 billion on

Trident replacement will mean that tensof thousands of jobs will be lost in otheremployment sectors. This attractive, fullcolour, four-page briefing is ideal forstalls. All trade union members, also

please make sure you use it to discussthis issue at your branch meeting with aview to CND affiliation and creating anational discussion.

Cut Trident placardsMake sure you’ve got one of our CutTrident placards to raise high at anti-cutsprotests to get this important messageacross. The placards are also excellent todraw attention to your street stalls.Order today: they are A2-sized card,come in twos, and are free (donations forpostage please). You will need to staplethem onto your own sticks.

No US Missile ‘Defence’Our new US missile ‘defence’ – offensive andexpensive leaflet succinctly coversimportant points on how the US’scontinuing geographic and technologicalexpansion of the missile defence system iscausing an arms race, the UK’s role in allof this, and how it makes us a target.

Nuclear radiation By popular demand, this new leafletexplains how the nuclear weapons and

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Support for your campaigning

Join the letter-writing teamCND’s letter-writing team ensures that important policy makers areinformed and encouraged to take action on nuclear weapons and peace-related issues nearly every month throughout the year. Most importantly,the letters directly feed in to our most relevant lobbying drives and so addextra weight to our contact with policy makers. For example, in 2011 ourletter-writers contacted: former Defence Minister Liam Fox and PM DavidCameron calling for parliament to vote for further decisions on Trident;their MPs on the Trident Review; West Berkshire Council to opposedevelopments at AWE Burghfield.

Many thanks to Anni Rehin who volunteers to co-ordinate and draft theletters. To join the team contact Kate at [email protected] or callthe national office, indicating whether you want to receive information bypost or e-mail.

Please join us. The more letters we write, the more influence we’ll have!

We strive to ensure our campaigns materials are as relevant as possible to the currentclimate and contain the most up-to-date information.

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nuclear power industries are exposing usto unnecessary, toxic radioactiveemissions through accidents, leaks and

routinely permitted releases of radioactivematerials into our environment. Theleaflet calls for a safe nuclear-free world

New purple CNDmembershipleafletHelp us to raiseawareness about CNDand recruit new memberswith this eye-catchingleaflet containing factsabout what we do and

why, and a tear-off Join or Donatesection. To ring the changes we’ve nowprinted it on new, glossy, purple paper.

Remember Chernobyl: acontinuing nuclear tragedyFor the 25th anniversary of Chernobylin 2011 we produced a new briefingRemember Chernobyl: a continuing nucleartragedy which gives useful information onthis catastrophic accident and thenumbers of those who suffered or diedas a result.

Campaign magazineRead interesting opinion pieces, newsupdates, and details about CND activitiesby subscribing to CND’s Campaignmagazine. All members receive thesummer edition. Subscribe to the springand autumn issues by [email protected]. Thanks to NETand Ex-Services CND for funding theprinting of our briefings.

Our current leaflets andbriefingsPlease make sure you’re got the latestleaflets and briefings on all of ourcampaigns. Order leaflets from our websiteshop www.cnduk.org/shop and read anddownload the briefings from theinformation and briefings section:www.cnduk.org/information or call theoffice 020 7700 2393 to request your copies.

Online campaigning CND’s online campaigning initiatives are simple, effective and easy to join in with.

Keep in touch: n Sign up for the CND E-Campaign bulletins

For the most up-to date details on CND actions sign up to our regularemail bulletins by simply entering your e-mail address on our website homepage (right hand box at the top).

n Join us on FacebookFollow us on Facebook where we post the latest photos and updates fromall our actions, and links to online articles and news items –www.facebook.com/cnduk. We’ve nearly 8,000 followers already; help usdouble that by making sure you’re one of them!

n Follow us on TwitterJoin the conversation with us on Twitter – @CNDuk. Again, we’ve gotthousands of followers on Twitter but we need to increase this to manythousands more, so follow us today.

n Take online action From e-mailing your MP to contacting David Cameron our online actionsare quick and easy to do. And they have an important impact. In 2011thousands of you used our online lobbying tools to call on Nick Harvey toinclude the non-nuclear weapons option in the Trident Review, to object toa planning applications for developments at AWE Burghfield and to contactyour MP urging them to sign important Early Day Motions.

n Listen to Reality Radio Reality Radio is a CND-supported initiative. It provides regular pod-casts ofinterviews with an array of prominent campaigners, journalists and expertsin their field to give you the latest news and political analysis for anoverview of the current political, economic and social climate within whichour campaigns are grounded.

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THE past year has seen somegreat coverage of CND in themedia, both domestically and

internationally. From our Cut Tridentcampaigning to our work highlightingthe dangers of nuclear power –especially in the wake of the Fukushimadisaster – we have been frequently indemand as well as proactively pushingthe media agenda.The huge anti-cuts demonstration in

March saw a great turnout for the CutTrident contingent, with great coverageand photojournalism in The Guardian, theBBC, The Independent, and many othernational and regional media outlets. CND Conference in October saw a

Day of Action at Menwith Hill whichreceived great publicity from regionalmedia including the BBC and ITV, aswell as a full report in the Morning Star.

World eventsFollowing the tragic events inFukushima, CND was inundated withrequests for comments and quotes fromspokespeople; interviews; television andradio appearances; and opinion pieceson the disaster itself and nuclear powerin general. Our vigil outside Whitehall insolidarity with all those affected was wellattended and well covered by the media.Our international reach is alsoreinforced through frequentcontributions to European, MiddleEastern and Russian outlets fromspokespeople such as General SecretaryKate Hudson.

Shaping the agendaThe blockade of Hinkley Point inOctober, as part of our work in the StopNew Nuclear alliance garnered hugeswathes of publicity from local tointernational media. This has raised theprofile of this strong coalition of anti-nuclear groups and given us a greatplatform to build on. The blockade was

covered by the BBC, The Guardian, theDaily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, TheEcologist as well as many internationalmedia outlets. We also co-ordinate ourParliamentary work with our Press workin order to reveal and release informationon governmental developments. Thesecan quickly become stories for themainstream media which highlight CND’score campaigns.

New mediaCND has continued to grow in itsonline presence. We have a burgeoningfollowing on Twitter and Facebook,where our capacity for disseminating

information and for dialogue withsupporters and non-supporters alike isflourishing (see opposite). In addition tothis we frequently publish articles oninfluential news blogs such as Left FootForward and Liberal Conspiracy.

Local and regional groupsCND’s local and regional groups areindispensible in gaining regional mediaattention. It has been great to see groupstie the overarching ‘Cut Trident’campaign to cuts going on in their areassuch as local schools or hospitals. This isa powerful tool in our campaign – sokeep up the great work!

CND in the media

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CND Peace Educationresources

OUR specially-designededucation resource materialscontinue to be very popular.

Around 2,000 of the main resourcematerials pack, and the two resourcebooklets: Under Pressure: How PressureGroups Operate and Sadako’s Cranes forpeace were distributed in 2011. Theresources have now also been down -loaded thousands of times via a new linkon The Times Education Supplementwebsite. In 2011 the materials werepromoted at the many education-specificconferences and exhibitions weattended. Moreover, they are also listedas ‘recommended materials’ now byvarious examination boards. Teachers find the resources very

useful for their lessons and we receivemuch positive feedback. In the TeachingCitizenship magazine, for example oneteacher wrote, ‘I would highlyrecommend this superb takeawayresource [...] All the activities are livelyand inspiring and are a real credit to theindividuals who devised them’. As well as being recommended by

others in teaching circles, we’ve had ourown articles published in the Social ScienceTeacher, and the National Association ofTeachers of Religious Education (NATRE)newsletter. Our Peace Education officerwas also an educational publishers’ ‘expertblogger’ during October.

Room for improvementTo keep the resources fresh, we areproducing updates and extensions of ourpopular activity The Bomb Factor, includingnew country cards. Watch this space! Abrand new activity based on the testimonyof a Nagasaki survivor is also underdevelopment. It will be useful for ReligiousStudies, History, English and Citizenshipteachers, helping them engage students in

the arguments around why Hiroshima andNagasaki were bombed by nuclearweapons at the end of World War II.

Visits to schoolsSchools’ visits up and down the countryhave shown how very keen youngpeople are both to discuss the issues

and, inspired by CND’s work, todevelop their own campaigns. Theyalways have such interesting questionsand opinions about nuclear issues andpressure groups in general. InSeptember, we took part in a school’sPeace One Day celebrations whichincluded a special assembly and ourassistance throughout the day on thepupils’ presentations to call for peace.

Teacher training A huge success in 2011 has been thegrowing popularity of our teachertraining sessions, especially with Post-Graduate Certificate in Education(PGCE) groups. In fact, for the 2011-12academic year, we are booked to covermore than 30 of these groups. Tutors’and trainees’ reactions have been verypositive: student teachers have evenasked for our session to be movedforward for the next academic year sothat they can benefit sooner. Different universities have joined

together to receive the sessions inpartnership and one institution rated it thebest external session for the second yearin a row! We have now begun to offer thetraining sessions to English teachers inaddition to the existing sessions forCitizenship, Religious Studies and SocialScience teachers. These sessions havebecome a priority for CND PeaceEducation work as they enable thematerials, and the subsequent debates theyencourage, to reach even more youngpeople through their teachers.

Looking forwardOur new Hiroshima and Nagasakiresource will be just one of the excitingnew developments as CND PeaceEducation continues to expandthroughout 2012. If you would like toget involved, please [email protected]

Peace EducationCND’s Peace Education programme has involved us working with more schools, teachers and teacher-trainers than ever before. Below are details of what we’ve achieved in 2011:

Anna Liddle, Peace Education Officer

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Looking ahead to 2012world to the idea of a nuclear weaponsconvention, and the agreement to hold aconference in 2012 to advance discussionon a Middle East weapons of massdestruction free zone. Both receive strongsupport from CND and we will not onlybe attending the NPT meeting which istaking place in Vienna, but we will alsowork with international partners and otherUK disarmament organisations to supportboth initiatives.

No to NATOThe last few years have seen NATOexpanding its global reach. However,public scrutiny and opposition haveincreased too and its summits haveincreasingly become centres for protestby the peace movement internationally.Building on our participation in theEuropean No to NATO network over anumber of years, we will be supportingthe Network for a NATO-Free Worldcounter-summit conference in Chicagoon 18-19th May 2012, when bothNATO and the G8 will be meetingthere. The counter-summit will call forcomplete withdrawal of all US andNATO troops from Afghanistan andthe withdrawal of all foreign-deployedUS troops, bases, nuclear weapons andmissile ‘defence’ systems.

Cut Trident

THEglobal economic crisis andthe government spending cuts inBritain both serve to underline the

appalling opportunity cost of wastefulspending on Trident. Economicarguments will remain central to ourcampaigning to scrap Trident and preventits replacement, whilst we will also stressthe dangers of provoking proliferationthrough our failure to disarm. An earlyfocus will be the Budget Day in Marchwhere we are planning a bus campaign inLondon, like the successful Cut Tridentbus campaign in Liverpool during theLabour Party conference. With a majorityalready against Trident, we will be workingto extend our alliances throughout civilsociety, including amongst trade unions,youth and students, and faith communities.In October, our annual nationalconference (see right) will feature a publicday of debate on Trident, designed toengage with new allies on the road tonuclear disarmament.

Global AbolitionThis year sees the first nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meeting sincethe Review Conference in 2010. Thatevent saw progress both in terms of afavourable response by many states in the

n Lobby your MP to sign EDM 1924 calling for a review of Trident thatincludes the non-nuclear weapons option. After the Queen’s speech inMay, a new Early Day Motion will be tabled so please check out ouronline lobbying tool linked to the home page on our website to seelatest EDMs we are supporting.

n Write to the Foreign Office in advance of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty international meeting in May to ask what action theUK is taking on multilateral disarmament and call on our government tosupport negotiations towards a nuclear weapons convention. See theonline tool on our website for a template letter, or write to ForeignSecretary William Hague, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, KingCharles Street, London. SW1A 2AH

Sign up for CND’s Campaign magazine, join up to our e-mail bulletins andfollow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up-to-date – see page 22.

13-14th October,LondonCND's annual Conference and AGMweekend is a really important eventin the year for CND as it informs ourcampaigning focus for the yearahead and provides a vital stimulusfor debate and sharing knowledge.Please put this date in your diarynow and check out our website orsee our summer Campaign magazinein the coming months for details ofthe venue and timetable.

For part of our 2012 CNDConference and AGM weekend,alongside a day of vital conferencebusiness, we are also planning apublic anti-Trident debate, drawing inother parts of civil society to help makeour movement even stronger. We lookforward to seeing you there.

Registration fees£12 per individual; £40 per group ofdelegates of CND membershiporganisations. Attendance at theAGM is free of charge.

Key deadlinesDirectly elected Council membernomination deadline: Wednesday 4 July 2012Resolutions deadline:Monday 9th July

Groups will receive a mailing in earlyApril; all members will receive fulldetails in the summer edition ofCampaign.

All correspondence to ‘Conference’at the CND office [email protected]

For up to date information and toregister online seewww.cnduk.org/conference.

CND AnnualConference andAGM 2012

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CND RegionsCumbria & LancashireArea [email protected] 3399, 113 East RoadLancaster LA1 3EE

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ContactsSouth Cheshire andNorth Staffs [email protected] 7891 3528Burslem School of ArtQueen Street, BurslemStoke-on-Trent ST6 3EJ

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Specialist sectionsChristian CNDwww.gn.apc.org/[email protected] 7700 4200Mordechai Vanunu House162 Holloway RoadLondon N7 8DQ

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Local and othergroupsAbingdon Peace [email protected] 01235 526265

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East Lancashire [email protected] 01254 886 439 Lyndene , Blackburn Old Road Great HarwoodBlackburn BB6 7UW

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Medway [email protected] 01634 360415

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Musicians AgainstNuclear Arms – MANA www.mana.org.uk [email protected] 020 8455 1030 71 Greenfield GardensLondon NW2 1HU

North Cumbria [email protected] 01768 897071 Brookside, High Bank HillPenrith CA10 1EZ

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