Bristol CND Peace Matters July/August 2026

Posted: 9th July 2026

Bristol CND Peace Matters July/August 2026

Bristol CND newsletter

View “Peace Matters”, July/August 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:

• Increases in military spending will cost jobs : Analysis shows that the slashing of government departments’ budgets in the DIP to fund the MoD will lead to a net loss of 10,000 jobs
• Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Never Again! : Join Bristol CND on College Green, at 10.30 am on Sunday 9th August, for a ‘die in’ followed by speeches and music, to mark the anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Conscientious Objection in Britain’s Armed Forces : British Forces are still being used to provide training and other support to the Israeli military. Read about one Reservist who after ten years of service, successfully applied for discharge in protest at UK roles in Gaza genocide, increasing domestic authoritarianism and ongoing complicity in US–
  Israeli crimes against humanity.
• Britain overtakes Russia to become third largest nuclear weapons spender

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

• Thursday 9th July,  Bristol CND Planning Meeting (Virtual), 7.00 pm
• Friday 10th to Sunday 12th July, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
• Saturday 18th July, National March for Palestine, Assemble 12 noon in central London
• Saturday 18th July, Lakenheath Alliance for Peace Vigil, Brandon Road, Brandon, IP27 9PN
• Sunday 26th July, monthly Peace Vigil For Victims Of War & Catastrophic Climate Change, Cascade Steps, Broad Quay, BS1 6QH, 1.30 – 2.30 pm
• Saturday 1st August, Peace Gathering at Redcliffe Quaker burial ground, Assemble 11am at St Mary Redcliffe church, Bristol
• Thursday 6th August, Hiroshima Day
• Sunday 9th August, Nagasaki Day mass ‘die in’, at the exact time the bomb was dropped, followed by speeches and music, College Green, BS1 5UY. Assemble 10.30 on the Cathedral side
• Sunday 23rd August, monthly Peace Vigil For Victims Of War & Catastrophic Climate Change, Cascade Steps, Broad Quay, BS1 6QH, 1.30 – 2.30 pm