Welcome...
...to the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Resource Centre. Since 1980 we have aimed to respond to the expressed needs and ideas of individuals and organisations who aim to deepen understanding of, and commitment to, issues of peace and justice.
We host events and publish our monthly newsletter. The Centre also provides mailbox facilities, leaflet and poster display and meeting space to groups. Set up ecumenically, we are happy to work with all groups, faith based as well as secular. We work at being independent and accessible.
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Scotland's singing for peace - No Trident!!!
Here we have Scotland's for Peace reminding us that the power of song has always been a big part of campaigning when it comes to kicking nukes out of Scotland. It's crunch time for Trident, we really can't afford it!!!
Part two will follow soon...
Crunch Time For Trident
Protest against nuclear weapons in Scotland ! Sing Out for Peace - Crunch Time for Trident in Glasgow on Saturday 20 June.
Assemble in George Square at 11 am to set off at 11.30 am for Kelvingrove Park where there will be a rally with a difference at 12.30 pm. Protest in Harmony and other choirs will lead the singing of peace songs from the new Scottish CND Songbook. There will also be street theatre, face painting and the chance to meet and make friends over a picnic.
JOBS NOT BOMBS! Scotland´s Budget for Peace
BUDGET UPDATE
On Monday 20th April a group of workers took their own red boxes to Alastair Darlingś office round the corner from the Centre. They were presenting the budget alternatives to to squandering billions on useless and dangerous nuclear weapons to be based in Scotland.
The alternative budget was created by Scotland's For Peace. Their Budget for Peace Campaign attracted thousands of words in submissions from across civic Scotland.
Trident Sub Returns to Faslane
First footage of HMS Vanguard after collision with Le Triomphant in the Atlantic. Vanguard was moved at night into the Faslane shiplift in an attempt to avoid being seen. It is reported that there is a significant dent in the hull of Vanguard. The submarine is armed with 14 Trident missiles, 48 nuclear warheads and powered by a nuclear reactor. Filmed at 3 am.
I Met The Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.
Recent Features
Trident Ploughshares Blockades Aldermaston to Protest Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Trident Ploughshares activists working with Bikes Block Bombs, Scrap Cars-Scrap Trident, Aldermaston Women, and Eastern-region CND blockaded 4 gates at AWE Aldermaston on Monday 15th of June. They were protesting at the building of new nuclear weapons facilities and the lack of democratic accountability.
Locked on at the North gate, the surprise blockades have caused massive road blockages and construction vehicles have been prevented from getting into Aldermaston.
ANGIE ZELTER AT ALDERMASTON
TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES BLOCKADE AT ALDERMASTON ON 15TH JUNE 2009
It was a glorious morning as 5 separate groups made their way towards Aldermaston. At 6.30a.m. the Muriel Lesters arrived at North Gate to find it had not been opened yet for the park and ride coaches so they further locked it with their own chains and some super-glue and arranged themselves as comfortably as possible in their lock-ons and hung their peace banners.
GUDE CAUSE BULLETIN
GUDE CAUSE BULLETIN & UPDATE May 2009
What’s been happening…….
VISITS AND TALKS
- Glasgow
Special trains, finding the Glasgow banner, making a new Glasgow banner, looking at granny's suffagette teacups .... just some of the issues discussed at a scintillating meeting in Glasgow last Wednesday. The Women's Library provided a welcoming atmosphere for some very enthusiastic women who have decided to set up a Glasgow group - the date and place to be announced in the next week.
- Dundee
GUDE CAUSE BULLETIN
GUDE CAUSE
e-bulletin & Update
March 2009
GUDE CAUSE QUILTING PROJECT – Our first Squares
Need some inspiration or support to get started or want to meet up with other quilters – join the quilting bee from 6-9pm at Engender, on one of the following dates. All welcome! There are "instructional sheets" to get you started available on our website www.gudecause.org.uk
Mon 6 April
Mon 4 May
Mon 1 June
What’s been happening ………..
Gude Cause Fundraising Concert
The P&J joins many other organisations in writing to Obama and Putin
Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems. Read the letter here.
Dear Presidents Obama and Medvedev, Vice-President Joseph Biden, Prime Minister Putin, Secretary of State Clinton, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Congressional and Duma Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defense/Armed Services:
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Events
Upcoming events
- Women In Black Vigil(11 hours)
- CND Vigil for Peace(7 days)
- Women In Black Vigil(7 days)
- Friends of the Earth Comedy Benefit(11 days)
- Women In Black Vigil(14 days)
- Women In Black Vigil(21 days)
