A peaceful 2019 to all our supporters. We are not having a formal meeting this month but we will be at the east end of Princes Street from 1230 on Saturday 12th January.

STOP PRESS!!!! Scotland’s nuclear power – the case against restarting Hunterston B, Ian Fairlie. 9th January, 4pm, Room 214, Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE (near George Square Gardens) Hunterston B is a nuclear power station in the west of Scotland that started generating electricity in 1976. It was closed in the Spring of 2018 for remedial work following the discovery of an unexpectedly large number of cracks in the graphite bricks around the nuclear reactor core. Its owners EDF (Électricité de France) plan a restart in a couple of months. Ian Fairlie (www.ianfairlie.org)  is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment. His expert advice warns against this and advocates permanent closure. Come and hear the case. https://www.edinburghfirst.co.uk/venues/appleton-tower/         He is also speaking the same day in the Scottish Parliament between 1 pm and 2.15 pm and the next day at a Scottish CND meeting, Wellington Church of Scotland, 77 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LE, at 2 pm  

++++++First CAAT meeting of 2018 is on Monday 14 January, 7pm to 8.45pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL. See their new website for details of what they did in 2018 and events to come.                             Ben Ladraa recently walked 5000 kms from Sweden to Palestine to raise awareness about the human rights violations taking place under the military occupation of Palestine. Come hear Benjamin talk of his experiences on 17th January  Organised by  EdinbrughAction 4 Palestine.
There are a number of yes hub events week-end starting 11th (including anti-nuclear talk on Friday) see web: http://yescafeedinburghsouth.weebly.com/                                                                                            ———————–

2018: As CND marked its 60th anniversary, global nuclear dangers have proliferated alarmingly and shown just how essential our movement is. Most worryingly, President Trump has announced he intends to withdraw the United States from the crucial Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in early February.                                  On December 5th, CND handed in thousands of signed lobby cards to the Foreign Office, urging the government to protect the INF treaty. Shamefully, we’ve yet to receive an encouraging response.Now the situation has deteriorated dramatically. The US has announced it will begin the process of withdrawing from the INF treaty on February 2nd, meaning we could soon see ground based nuclear weapons on European soil for the first time in over 30 years.
We must save the INF, but time is running out. We have six months from the withdrawal date before it is torn up for good. With your help we want to take out a full-page advert in The Guardian on this crucial date – February 2nd – to write an open letter to the Foreign Secretary urging the government to condemn this move and to do everything in its power to reverse this decision. http://www.cnduk.org ++++On a more hopeful note, communities around the world are declaring their support for the UN global ban on nuclear weapons. Manchester became the first city in Europe to back the treaty at the end of last year, and was followed by Renfrewshire.If communities get together and show their support we can put pressure on the government to engage with the global ban treaty. Can your group campaign for your local council to adopt a motion in favour of a ban? Click here for more information               ——————————–