Category: MCND News

The latest edition of the Merseyside CND newsletter is now available to download

Highlights include:

• the Stop Trident national demonstration
• anti-Trident Parliamentary lobby
• anti-war poetry
• Pax Christi pilgrimage of pardon, reconciliation and peace

Merseyside CND’s AGM will be held at 5pm, Wednesday 3^rd February in Conference Room 1, L.C.V.S., 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, L2. The meeting will include reports on the past year’s events, plans for the future and the elections of Officers.

Please note that this is open to MCND members only.

Constituency Lobby

With Parliament set to vote on the replacement of Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has called for a nation-wide constituency lobby of MPs on 22^nd and 23^rd January. Since they are making the decision it is the Members of Parliament who must be persuaded not to allow a new generation of morally reprehensible, obscenely expensive and ultimately useless nuclear weapons.

We have compiled a list of all Merseyside MPs’ contact details to help you make an appointment and persuade your MP to vote against Trident replacement.

National Demonstration

Merseyside CND is organising a coach to the national demonstration which will leave from St. John’s Lane, Liverpool at 6:45am and, after stopping of at Chester Bus Station at 7:20am, will arrive in London at approximately 12:30. We’ll be leaving London at around 17:00 and should be back in Liverpool by 23:00. Tickets, priced at £20 – Concessions and £25 – Waged, will be available from the MCND Office (151 Dale St., Liverpool, L2) and News from Nowhere in the new year.

This is likely to be our last chance to show large-scale public opposition to Trident before the Parliamentary vote, so please join us!

With a Parliamentary vote happening tomorrow anti-war activists leafleted the city centre’s Church St. demanding that the U.K. does not bomb Syria. Images from the event, taken by John Usher, are below.

If you haven’t already done so please contact your M.P. to tell them to vote against the Government.

Merseyside CND would like to thank everyone who attended our Remembrance Day event at St. John’s Gardens on 11^th.
Following an introduction from Co-Chair Peter Wilson, a two minutes’ silence was observed after which Gerry Poole laid a wreath in honour of all those people who have lost their lives to war. To finish off Neville Grundy provided music which included the anti-war classic Down by the Riverside

Thanks to Kim Bryan for the photographs.