Bristol CND Peace Matters

Posted: 24th April 2026

Bristol CND Peace Matters May 2026View this email in your browser

Bristol CND newsletter

View “Peace Matters”, May 2026

Please follow the link above or click here to read or download the latest edition of our local newsletter Peace Matters – information from Bristol, the UK and around the world about the campaign against nuclear weapons.

We are sending it to you and other local/national politicians and campaigning organisations in and around the Bristol area because we want to raise awareness of our campaigning activities and current key issues.

In this month’s edition there are articles including:

• Forty year anniversary of Chernobyl
• Bristol banners at Lakenheath Peace Camp!
• ‘Welfare not Warfare’ – the Trades Union case for the Alternative Defence Review
• No to NATO : CND campaigns for Britain to leave NATO and for the military alliance to be disbanded
• What’s next for defunct nuclear reactors Hinkley A and B?

.... and many more topicsPlease note the following events for your diary (see What’s On in Peace Matters for more details):

• Saturday 25th April , ‘No War on Iran – Send the Bombers Home’, demonstration, RAF/ USAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Bristol coach leaves Anchor Road 10.15am, tickets from here
• Saturday 25th April, Bristol CND stall at Bristol Radical History Festival, MShed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd Bristol BS1 4RN, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm,
• Sunday 26th April, Chernobyl Day.
• Sunday 26th April, monthly Peace Vigil For Victims Of War & Catastrophic Climate Change, Cascade Steps, Broad Quay, BS1 6QH, 1.30 – 2.30 pm
• Thursday 30th April, No Nuclear War: Protest the Expiry of the ‘New START’ Treaty, London, outside the Russian Embassy, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Friday 15th May, Conscientious Objectors Day
• Saturday 16th May, Nakba 78: March for Palestine, Central London. Bristol coach leaves Anchor Road 8 am, tickets here
• Tuesday 19th May, Welfare Not Warfare – The best Strategy in 2026? Free public meeting by WNS Trades Union Council, Front Room Theatre, 13 Central Walk, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1FF, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm  (doors open 6.45pm). Book tickets here
• Thursday 21st May, No Nuclear War: Protest the Expiry of the ‘New START’ Treaty, London, outside the US Embassy, Nine Elms Lane, SW11 7US
• Thursday 28th May,  Bristol CND Planning Meeting (Virtual), 7.00 pm