Future Events
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Friends Meeting House,
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6.30 to 8.00pm
ALL WELCOME
Admission Free
Past Events
National Conference and AGM, Bradford
October 15-16.
AGM and Public talk
September 29, 2011
Dave Webb, Chair of CNDUK had a good audience of more than twenty for his talk about curent prospects fo nuclear disarmament. For a fuller report see the AGM Minutes.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day
August 6, 2011
Very sadly, the weather forecast was so bad that this important annual event had to be cancelled this year.
Chernobyl Day
April 26, 2011
Twenty-five years after the terrible events at Chernobyl nuclear power station we organised a special day of commemoration.
Early in the day LDCND members and some members of Greater Manchester CND hung banners around the town, reminding people that nuclear waste travels regularly through Lancaster.
In the afternoon we shared a Market Place stall with Transition City Lancaster, focused on alternatives to nuclear energy.
In the evening we held a ceremony with poetry readings, a talk from a volunteer with the Chernobyl Children's Project, beautiful harp music, and a short candle-lit vigil.
International Women's Day
March 8, 2011
Every year LDCND marks International Women's Day to highlight women's suffering in wartime. We had a stall in the Market Place where seven LDCND volunteers distributed Ban Ki-Moon's UN message to women worldwide, collected anti-Trident petition signatures and using a dot chart to plot people's spending priorities on women's services if Trident were cancelled.
Green Christmas Fair 2010
We had a stall again this year at the Green Fair in the Friends Meeting House selling an assortment of delicious home-made cakes, fudges and jams. We made a profit and collected 163 signatures on the new anti-Trident replacement petition.
AGM 2010
This year the veteran peace activist Lindis Percy gave a talk to our group called "Menwith Hill: Does Obama still want it?" at the Friends Meeting House.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Day 2010
The weather was sunny this year! This greatly aided our petitioning in Market Square against Trident replacement.
May Day Rally in Burnley
Some of our members attended the May Day rally in Burnley this year for the first time. It was an opportunity to meet other North-Lancashire area CND members.
Chernobyl Commemoration Day - Heysham Anti-Nuclear Alliance Public Meeting
The nuclear disaster that occurred on 26th April 1986 at Chernobyl in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic is a haunting lesson about the risks of nuclear power. It was the worst nuclear accident in history and the uncontrolled chain reaction destroyed the reactor releasing a cloud of radiation that blew over all of Europe. Lancaster District CND and Heysham Anti-Nuclear Alliance commemorated the accident this year to protest against the proposal to build a new nuclear power station at Heysham. The residents of Heysham, Morecambe and Lancaster deserve a better proposal for economic development during the recession than another nuclear reactor that will remain contaminated for centuries.
International Women's Day 2010
LDCND organized a stall in Market Square again this year, and we succeeded in talking with dozens of Lancaster citizens about the Government's plans for Trident Replacement and why we are opposed to them. We handed out many leaflets and also persuaded plenty of people to sign our petition. The weather was pleasant this year, which definitely helped us approach shoppers, and all help by our members that day was much appreciated.
"A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Mission Impossible"
This event was organized last February by Andrew Gibson a Lancaster University politics student who is actively involved in the Global Zero campaign. The lecture was filmed and is available online:
Bruce Kent Talk 3rd December 2009
Lancaster District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) welcomed the famous peace activist Bruce Kent at the Friends Meeting House on Thursday 3rd December for a talk entitled “Abolishing War in the 21st Century”.