CCND events
Thursdays in Advent, 1 - 2pm, 26th November then 3rd, 10th, 17th December: Advent Vigil Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). Join us in Advent Vigil at the Tadley Gate. Bring candles; all Faiths and none welcome. Aldermaston AWE is off the A4 between Reading and Newbury. Tadley Gate is on the A340, parking opposite. Contact: Caroline 01865 241 290 maasgilbert@hotmail.com
1 March 2010: Embassies Walk. Join CCND as we visit each of the London Embassies of the Nuclear Weapons States, to ask how they are progressing with their 'unequivocal undertaking... to accomplish ... nuclear disamament...' (Final Document Review Conference of the NPT, May 19, 2000, New York). We will also visit the embassies of the New Agenda Coalition countries. Join us for some or all of the walk, which will be split into two or three separate walks (embassies being too far apart to do them all in a day!). More details later.020 7700 4200 email.
Easter Sunday, 4 April 2010: Flame of Hope. Christian CND will be participating in this walk along the south coast of Britain. The south coast walk (Dover to Southampton) is part of a feeder march relaying a Flame of Hope which will be carried to New York to join a flame brought from Hiroshima, in time for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. CCND's part of the relay will be from Dungeness to Hastings. You can join us for some or all of the walk, by foot or by bike, or you could run if you want to. Or you could just be there on the day when the Flame is handed over. More details from CCND, 020 7700 4200 email. Timetable available here Flyer here
UK events
15 February 2010: Big blockade at Aldermaston. There will be a 'Faiths Gate' and Christian CND will be supporting the event with a Witness and possibly an overnight vigil. More details later. http://www.tridentploughshares.org 0845 45 88 366.
2 - 11 April 2010: Flame of Hope for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. There will be a feeder march on the South Coast from Dover to Southampton, which will relay the Flame of Hope. The flame will then go on to New York to join a flame brought from Hiroshima. You can join CCND's part of the relay - see 4 April above. Contact CCND, christians@cnduk.org 020 7700 4200.
Planned dates for walk
2 April Dover to Hythe
3rd April Hythe to Lydd
4th April Lydd to Hastings (CCND's section)
5th April Hastings to Eastbourne
6th April Eastbourne to Seaford
7th April Seaford to Brighton
8th April Brighton to Worthing
9th April Worthing to Littlehampton
10th April Littlehampton to Chichester
11th April Chichester to Portsmouth
See also World Court Project website with more details of the Flame of Hope and contacts for the other days of the walk: http://tinyurl.com/qucqvr
For more UK events see: www.networkforpeace.org.uk/events.htm
International Events
13 - 15 November: International Peace Bureau Annual Conference in Washington DC. Provisional title: Rolling back militarism : a task for the global movement. Info: Kevin Martin, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1020, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone +1 (301) 565-4050, ext. 307 kmartin@peace-action.org www.peace-action.org
3 - 28 May 2010: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (RevCon) in New York. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/npt/nptindex1.html
For more international events see:
International Peace Bureau
Reaching Critical Will (a project of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom)
Friends Committee on National Legislation