Edinburgh CND will commemorate the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, with a vigil at 5pm on Saturday 6th August on Princes Street at the Junction with Castle Street.
There will be a short set by the Protest in Harmony singers.
We hope to see you there on this 77th anniversary.
Our next meeting will take place at 6pm on Tuesday 7th June. This will be an online meeting via Zoom – please get in touch if you would like to attend and haven’t received zoom details.
Agenda:
International Solidarity Festival (Saturday 25th June)
Report on recent events (May Day, Corstorphine Fair, Meadows Festival)
Leaflet printing costs
Bursary for staff attending NPT review in Vienna
40th Anniversary of Faslane Peace Camp (Sunday 12th June)
Fringe play re Hiroshima – “The Mistake” (Saturday 6th August?)
We will be at the Corstorphine Fair this weekend! Come and visit our stall (#18) on the west side of St Margaret’s Park between 11am and 4pm. We will have plants for sale, as well as CND merchandise.
Our next meeting will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 4th May. This will be an online meeting via Zoom: all are welcome to attend. If you are not on our mailing list and would like to join the meeting, please email us at edinburghcnd@yahoo.com.
Agenda:
May Day (Saturday 7th May)
Local Elections (Thursday 5th May)
Corstorphine Fair (Saturday 4th June)
40th Anniversary of Faslane Peace Camp (Sunday 12th June)
Edinburgh and Lothians May Day March and Rally will take place on Saturday 7th May.
Assemble 11.30 at the top of Johnston Terrace.
March at 12.00 to Rally at the Pleasance Theatre.
Speakers Iona Soper (C.N.D.)
Pauline Rourke (S.T.U.C.)
Carmen Simon (Edinburgh T.U.C.)
Coll Mccail (Fridays For the Future)
Brian Reynolds (R.M.T.)
Music Penny Stone
Calum Baird
Compere Susan Morrison
This year we are also supporting The Great May Day Cabaret , a cultural celebration of International Workers’ Day and the 125th anniversary of the Scottish Trade Union Congress.
This will take place on Sunday 1st May at the Southside Community Centre at 7.30 p.m.
Edinburgh CND Minutes of April Meeting, Ryries Bar 6pm 5/4/22
Present: Ken Benjamin, Malcolm Bruce, Anne Milne, Rob Patterson
Apologies: Akiko Haga, Barbara Mavor, David Somervell
1. Chernobyl 1986 Anniversary Tuesday 26th April. We agreed to publicise the SNP CND hybrid event on Saturday 30th on Ukraine, Nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
2. Mayday Events. There will be a Mayday cabaret on Sunday 1st, South Side Community Centre, RP to circulate details.
Edin CND will have a stall at the Pleasance rally, the destination of the Mayday march on Saturday 7th May.
Our next meeting will take place at 6pm on Tuesday 5th April. This will be an in person meeting in the Upper Bar of Ryrie’s Bar, Haymarket. All are welcome to come along!
Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland and ICAN have called a day of action on Friday 8th April 2022 to urge Scotland’s largest bank, NatWest Group, to divest from companies that make nuclear weapons. The group, which includes subsidiary RBS, holds investments worth £2 billion in nuclear weapons producers and has so far resisted calls to change its investment policy.
A protest will be held outside RBS, 30 Nicholson Street, Edinburgh from 12 until 1 pm and demonstrations are planned at other locations TBA. Sign up here to get involved: https://divest.icanw.org/natwest_day_of_action
Please share these details. NatWest is due to review its investment policy over the summer so the more people that take part in this action, the greater the pressure will be on the bank to change.