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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 20:59 |
National Conference
This year conference was held in Bradford and this meant a better representation of the northern branches. Sheffield were there proudly representing you with five attendees: 3 delegates, one observer and one individual member. On Saturday morning the AGM took place with elections to officer posts and the council members ballot. In the afternoon policy debates on Trident and in the afternoon policy debates continued on Anglo French Agreement, Nuclear Power & Radioactive waste, NATO & Libya, Missile Defence & militarisation of space, Missile ‘defence’ in North East Asia, India, Pakistan, and the CTBT, Peace in the middle East, Criminality of Nuclear Weapons, and CND campaigning. A list of policy resolutions adopted and election results are available on the CND website.
On Sunday around 70 conference delegates and supporters joined together at Menwith Hill for a Day of Action. This included a demonstration, peace picnic and walk around part of the base to view the radomes. CND Chair Dave Webb handed in a letter to the RAF Base Commander (whose role is 'to provide advice to the US Base Commander' there). Anne Lee, a long-time dedicated and knowledgeable activist against the base, told how the different areas of the base were used. On many occasions she has managed to break into the base and gather useful information about its secret workings.
Nuclear Power Post Fukushima
Those of you who had the good fortune to attend the panel on this subject held during the national Green party Conference in Sheffield (8-12 September) of which Sheffield CND was joint organiser – will know that there was a fierce debate with Prof. Neil Hyatt who teaches about nuclear waste management at Sheffield University. Professor Hyatt has since made the very positive move to invite CND and Green Party members to attend his lectures on the subject. These would be held on 21st November. Please get in touch with David Garlovsky at
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who has agreed to liaise. An evening event is also suggested.
Peace and Craft Fair
We will be having a stall as usual at this event in the Town Hall on Nov 12th from 10-30 to 4pm. If you can spare some time to help on the stall that would be very welcome.
Greenham Celebration
November 19th Quaker meeting House 2pm to 6pm. We are holding an event to commemorate 30 years since the founding of the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common. Helen John has been invited to tell us of her recollections of Greenham and tell us about the camp now being established at RAF Waddington to protest against the use of drones - unmanned aerial vehicles. Bring along anything you would like putting on the fence at Waddington as we hope in the future to arrange to visit the camp there. Cynthia Cockburn, feminist academic working on Gender & Anti Militarism has also been invited.
AGM
We have changed our usual AGM meeting date from November to January this year when we hope to have a Scottish CND member to talk to us about the implications of Scotland’s anti nuclear policy. The probable date will be Jan 18th. However your membership (still only £6/£8) renewal will still be due from November's meeting please send to Stewart Kemp or bring along to the meeting.
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