This month Scottish CND are emphasising Climate Not Trident in their leaflet campaign. We need to get the message out to other organisations and events. Here are some events coming up which people can attend:

1.Monday 15th April Extinction Rebellion Scotland are holding the ‘Festival of Climate Reality’ at the Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU – a day of workshops, talks and trainings, 10-5pm: come and hear the truth about the climate crisis and learn how you can do something about it. This is important work, possibly nothing has ever been as important.Tell The Truth. Act Now.                                                                         —————-                                                                                                                                                  2. Wednesday 17th April: SCND fringe meeting at the STUC conference 1230pm Room 2 City Chambers Dundee: Developing Sustainable and Socially useful jobs in today’s economy.                                                                                                                                                            —————-                                                                                                                                           ++++++2 (a). Saturday 20th April: Leaflets available at the Love Culture, Hate Racism event at the Augustine church 12-4pm                                                                                ————–                                                                                                                                                    3. CHANGE OF DATE: THURSDAY 25th APRIL: Edinburgh CND will join the Don’t Bank on the Bomb outside the RBS AGM is at their corporate HQ on Glasgow Rd at Gogarburn EH12 1HQ;  meet at the road entrance 1 – 4pm that day with a few placards etc.    +++++ To get there take a bus to Gogarburn A8 Bus stop on the Glasgow Rd: Stop ID: 36232428. This stop is just past the RBS Bridge. View the Bus stop and find a list of buses that stop there on Google Maps at: https://goo.gl/maps/Be2ruP7FM3J2 .                                                                                                       —————                                                                                                                                                   4. Saturday 27th April 2019 (the day after Chernobyl day). Surround Springfields Salwick, near Preston in Lancashire The outline timetable for the day is as follows:          12:00-1:00 Assemble outside Springfields Nuclear Fuels            1:00 Speakers, live music,                 3pm forming of human chain to surround the base              Exhibition in the nearby village hall            5:00 Live link with indigenous communities resisting uranium mining, in the village hall       7:00 End.  Veggies will be providing food and hot drinks during the day, and there is a nearby pub.  That said, it is advisable to bring plenty of water and you may like to bring hot drinks in a flask.  April weather is of course unpredictable, so be prepared for rain or shine.      Please note that trains will not be running between Edinburgh and Carlisle that day (replacement bus service) so it may be necessary to travel down the day before   +++++There will be a minibus pick-up from Preston railway station at 1100, 1200 and 1300.  When you exit the station look for a minibus with a ‘Surround’ sign in its windscreen.    +++++++those who can’t make it to Springfields may be interested in the anti-fracking demo outside the SNP conference in Edinburgh: Gies a Legal Ban! 9:00 am– 11:00 am  EICC—                                                                                                                ————                                                                                                                                                                     5. Trouble Ahead: Risks and Rising Costs in the UK Nuclear Weapons Programme This 60 page report reveals in detail the grave risks and dramatically rising costs emerging in the UK’s nuclear weapons upgrade programmes. The 12 month study identifies precarious interdependencies, critical safety and project risks, and flawed cost projections in a programme that looks increasingly unlikely to meet its targets. Implications for policy-makers are outlined along with a set of recommendations Please register to confirm a place at the 30th April launch.                                                                  —————-                                                                                                                                                  6. Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre : Earth Day Monday 22nd April:  Peace & Justice News this month focuses on the relationship between security, peace and the environment. Our Editorial calls on the Scottish Government to step up CO2 emission targets in the Climate Change Bill to ZERO by 2040 and link the budget to the Climate Change Plan.  Send an email to your MSP here.  Peace & Justice News Read the full pdf here                                                     —————                                                                                                                                        7.Beyond Nuclear: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org6.1. A factory churning out small modular reactors like Lego pieces may sound appealing in theory. But small reactors were rejected decades ago, are untested designs still on the drawing board, are too big an upfront investment, and can do nothing in time or at all to address climate change. We devote this week’s issue of the Digest to two stories on SMRs and our fact sheet debunking their myths and deceptions.   6.2.     Dr. Helen Caldicott won’t back down. Or is it that we won’t let her? We profile an extraordinary woman, a fighter who wants peace, a militant who confronts the military industrial complex. And a moving Cuban dramatic film looks at what happened when children sickened by Chernobyl were brought to a Havana hospital.  ++++6.3 A landmark new book on the true extent of Chernobyl health and environmental impacts, and how these figures were downplayed and diluted, deserves to be read and disseminated widely. One who lived through the experience, Chernobyl liquidator, Natalia Manzurova, tells her story and describes her own dire health outcomes due to her work.                                                                                                             —————-                                                                                                                                                  8. The recent Fridays for Future protests demonstrate a global dissatisfaction with the continuing failure of governments and industry to protect the climate. And the setting of the Doomsday Clock hands to 2 minutes to midnight in January this year indicates a continuing high risk of a nuclear conflict. However, ‘devastating climate change and the risk of a nuclear war will not be prevented unless the international community tackles the economic and political influence of the fossil fuel and nuclear weapons industries’, according to participants of Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, an international conference held in Basel, Switzerland on April 12-13, 2019.                                                         —————–                                                                                                                                                9. For an interesting take on the Chernobyl affair and nuclear accidents, we recommend the following novel. Alex will be talking about his book at ECND’s meeting as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival 1st October