Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
On Friday 25th July activists from the Merseyside Peace Network gathered at Newsham Park during the Giants’ visit to call for peace and to protest against the glorification of World War One. A selection of the photos is below – thanks to John Usher for allowing us to use them.
The next meeting of the Close Capenhurst Campaign will be at 6:30pm on 31st July at the Merseyside C.N.D. Office, 151 Dale St., Liverpool, L2 2AH. Everyone welcome!
Activists from the Merseyside Peace Network protest outside the Unite building against the Giants’ visit to Liverpool and the glorification of World War One. Thanks to Jeremy Hawthorne for the photo – more to follow.
Liverpool’s ‘Memoirs of August 1914’ Giants Parade which will take place over the weekend of 25-27th July has attracted the attention of local peace campaigners who, under the umbrella of Merseyside Peace Network are planning their own events.
During the parade held to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War peace corners will be set up where people can meet and talk about the issues involved.
Members of the public interested in the peace corners are invited to join members of the network on Friday at 7.30pm near St Francis of Assisi School in the city’s Newsham Park and on Saturday at noon outside Liverpool’s UNITE union building in Islington.
People attending are asked to wear white as a visual tribute to the peacemakers.
For more information you can call Gina Shaw on 07812739478
We would very much like to film this event so if anyone could do this then please get in touch!
Direct Rail Services [ DRS ] is the train company which transports radioactive “spent” fuel rods removed from nuclear power stations to the Sellafield spent fuel plant in Cumbria.
These waste trains are transported through some of the most highly populated areas in the UK.
They have to be carried within special containers to prevent them heating up. The flasks continually leak low-level radiation.
D.R.S. have two depots. One of them is at Crewe, and the other one is at Carlisle.
On July 19th D.R.S. will be holding an open day at the Crewe depot.
Activists from Merseyside C.N.D. and a number of other groups will be leafleting it between 11.00. & 14.00.
On the same day members of Merseyside C.N.D. will be leafleting outside Warrington station, which is one of the many towns through which this waste is transported. There will be activists leafleting outside other stations throughout the UK.
More information about this will be available on the M.C.N.D. website within the next few weeks.
For more information about this issue see the Nuclear Trains Action Group (N.T.A.G.) website: