Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre

On Saturday 16 April Scottish Clergy Against Nuclear Arms held an Easter Witness Against Faslane. About 200 Christians and other peacemakers outside the North Gate of Faslane where a Trident is based. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Alan MacDonald and Bruce Kent, retired Secretary General of CND spoke to the gathering . They were united in declaring that the possession of nuclear weapons is contrary to the Easter message of peace.

The next Scottish Parliament can make a real difference if citizens ensure that the candidates know what the real issues are, regardless of which party they belong to.

One third of Scottish children are living in poverty. Instead of providing the resources their families need now and the education to lift them out of that poverty, the coalition government plans welfare cuts of £18 billion. Meanwhile they waste billions every year on UK nuclear weapons, and expect to waste more than £76 billion on upgrading Trident.

The Global Day of Action on Military Spending is a day to mobilize people around the world against the excessive military spending which promotes war and threatens human security.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that 2010 global military expenditure was $1630 billion, an increase of 1.3 percent from 2009. Although this represents the slowest rate of increase since 2001, governments are still investing in war when they could actually be investing in peace and human security.

Sara Kruzan was just two months past her 16th birthday when she shot and killed George Howard. Howard had raped Sara and then turned her onto the street as a prostitute when she was just 13. Sara's life had already been plagued with physical, sexual and emotional abuse from others.

Greenpeace activists shut down environmental assessment hearings on a proposal to build new reactors at Darlington in response to the Joint Review Panel's refusal to suspend the hearings until lessons are learned from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

Here is a video of the wedding of Nuclear Weapons Conventionor NWC for short (aka KA) and Scotland, (aka Alex) The wedding was conducted by the rev Ainslie Walton.

In attendance were the mother of the bride, Women's International League for Peace and

Saturday the 5th of June was a busy day for us. While Medhat was representing the Centre at the demonstration in Edinburgh about the Israeli government's treatment of the aid flotilla, we still ensured a fun day at Faslane on Nuclear Abolition Day and Annabel kept the Centre open.

If you agree with the Peace and Justice Centre coordinator, come along on 5th June to the next big demo at Faslane. It's to campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Convention that will ban these horrific and deadly so-called weapons outright and allow us to think about how we can build real human security instead of threatening other countries and making our a target for terrorist. More info on our Facebook page or the calendar on this website.

After the remake of Nineteen linking the war in Vietnam to the war in Afghanistan, at least from the perspective of the disastrous effect on a generation of young Americans, here is another video of an anti war song begging our US fellow global citizens to remember that we can learn from history.