London CND says Free Palestine

CND was prominent on the 29th May Free Palestine demo, one of the biggest for many years. As the G7 is coming to Cornwall, we’re taking to the streets again this Saturday to demand no more complicity with Israeli apartheid. Why? The G7 includes the biggest suppliers of arms and military technology to the Israeli state, which are vital to enforce Israel’s regime of oppression.

London CND Co-Chairs Carol Turner and Hannah Kemp-Welch (left) pictured here in Hyde Park with CND general secretary Kate Hudson.

• Join us outside 10 Downing Street at 1pm this Saturday! Our message: 'Stop militarism and war – use our resources to deal with the climate catastrophe, pandemics and inequality’. CND placards will be there.

• If you can’t come, CND encourages all its supporters to take a selfie with a note/poster showing why you’re against the G7. Send to web@resistG7.org.

Fukushima Vigil at Japanese Embassy

Nuclear Power, No Thanks!

After 14 months of suspension due to Pandemic and lockdown, the Fukushima Vigil at the Japanese Embassy and TEPCO London Office has returned on May 7th, 2021.

Here are a few pictures of the vigil.

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London CND at #KillTheBill

The government is planning to make important changes to the law that will restrict the right to protest when lockdown restrictions ease.

CND and London CND oppose this new planned legislation, and joined the national #KillTheBill protest on May 1st in London. After gathering in Trafalgar Square from midday, we marched past Buckingham Palace then through Victoria, past the Department for Education and the Home Office, and finally across the river to Vauxhall Gardens.

About the bill

The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill would give the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, powers to create laws to define ‘serious disruption’ to communities and organisations, on which police can then rely to impose conditions on protests. As the Netpol Kill The Bill Coalition statement explains:

The Bill intensifies police brutality against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and criminalises their way of life.

The Bill gives the police the power to criminalise protests for being “noisy”, disruptive or “annoying”.

The Bill uses ‘protecting’ women as a cover to expand police powers and increase custodial sentences. These measures are not sufficient to prevent violence, and are troubling considering police officers’ implication in cases of violence against women.

The Bill expands stop and search powers, which are already regularly used to harass and terrorise young black people.

The Bill will silence the calls for justice by families of those whose loved ones have died at the hands of the police.

The Bill makes those at the sharpest edge of state violence even more unsafe – including migrants, sex workers, Disabled people, and racialised communities. 

But in a victory for protestors, the next stage of the bill has now been delayed until later in the year after huge opposition. This protest aimed to increase the pressure to scrap the bill altogether.

What now?

Our ability to campaign against nuclear weapons is only as strong as our democratic freedom to dissent and protest. We must continue to stand firm against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill.

CND signed an open letter to the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary with other organisations highlighting our concerns, and you can express your opposition to the Bill by signing the Netpol petitition here: