Back from RAF Lakenheath [Photos]

On Saturday 19th November, CND organised a second national demonstration at RAF Lakenheath, a military base in the UK that is run by the US. This follows annoucements that the US Department of Defense has added the UK to a list of NATO nuclear weapons storage locations in Europe being upgraded under a multi-million dollar infrastructure programme. This means that US nuclear weapons will be coming to RAF Lakenheath.

110 nuclear bombs were stored at the airbase but they were removed by 2008 following persistent popular protest. CND firmly opposes their return, which would only increase global tensions and put Britain on the frontline in a NATO/Russia war.

After a first action in May, protesters from London, Norwhich, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham returned with the same message: No US Nukes in Britain.

Here are some pictures of the day.

 

Chair of Cambridge Student CND, Junayd Islam, delivers a rousing speech

 

Left: Reverend Gyoro Nagase, of the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order, based at the Peace Pagoda in Battersea park in London.

 

CND General Secretary Kate Hudson introduces speakers

 
 

Protester from Musicians for Peace and Disarmament holds a placard saying ‘No Nukes Here (Again..)’

 

Deputy Board Chair of the IPPNW and MEDACT activist, Dr Bimal Khadka

 

The choir Raised Voices sings ‘Ban the Bomb’

Protestor with signs reading ‘Warheads Dishonor Nuclear War Victims’ knits a giant scarf

 

The CND banner floats in front of the RAF Lakenheath entrance gate

 
 

Chair of CND Dave Webb speaks about space wars in his capacity of convenor of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and a member of Scientists for Global Responsibility.

 
 

Rae Street from Manchester CND

 

Protestors dressed up as Ben Wallace (UK Defence Secretary) and US President Joe Biden

 

The Automn light fades on RAF Lakenheath, spreading on the horizon

 

Activist David Polden walks on the side of the fence, decorated with banners

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Protestors sign the CND petition ‘Stop US Nukes Coming to Lakenheath’

 

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