Edinburgh Peace and Justice Resource Centre

Here are the arrangements for those traveling to the national demo in Edinburgh on 13 March, plus some updated info.
Assembly will be at the Scottish Parliament at 11.00 on the grass area towards the park.
March off at 11.30, setting off up the Royal Mile
The Rally will be in the Grassmarket at 12.15

- TRAINS will probably be on strike on the day, ie not running.

Website: www.mesp.org.uk

Minibuses will be travelling to and from the Big Blockade in February from Edinburgh, Glasgow and other parts of Scotland depending on demand.
We expect to leave Scotland on Sunday and go to a resting place near enough to get to Aldermaston fresh on Monday morning. After the blockade, everyone will be able go to a convergence space to await the release of people who have been arrested, (who will be collected) and meet up and hear each other's stories before the journey home.

A Festive event to look at one way of tackling climate change and celebrating the turn of the year on Sunday 13 December at 7.30pm!
The Centre is very happy to have Henderson's at St John's lovely veggie cafe next door (yes same Hendersons as Hanover Street) at the site of the old Cornerstone cafe. At our first collaborative event we hope to raise funds for the Centre, let you enjoy a bit of a ceilidh and introduce the idea of 80/20 eating as an important action for Climate Change that we can all make a commitment to. And all at once!

Just after eight thirty this morning, several members of Trident Ploughshares blocked the entrance of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for quarter of an hour as Parliamentarians from NATO countries met for the final session of the assembly. Foreign Secretary David Milliband and the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen were due to speak following a minute’s silence.

SATURDAY NOV 7th is not just two days after Guy Fawkes night, This is the Peace & Justice Centre FUND RAISER
ceilidh at The Rudolph Steiner Hall 60 Spylaw Road, EH10 5BR.
THE weel kent BELLE STAR Ceilidh band, with Adam Holmes, Finalist in this year's BBC Young Traditional Musician, singer songwriter, and Lisa Paton with Townhouse and Stairheid Gossip's Eileen Penman adding to the entertainment.

21st of September is the International day of Peace, a day which means a lot to all of us. Such a big significant word: PEACE.
Mahatma Gandhi definition for Peace: "Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us, we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence".

A group of Trident Ploughshares have entered the baselast 17th of September to call for the process of disarmament of Trident nuclear weapons to begin. We are here to remind all concerned that the UK government, as signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty undertook more than 40 years ago to complete the disarmament of its nuclear weapons. The continuing deployment of Trident seriously threatens global security and peace, encouraging further proliferation.

August is the month in which the 1945 US government unleashed the horror of nuclear weapons on the world; first Hiroshima City and a few days later Nagasaki were sacrificed in the most terrible show of power ever seen on the planet.

"One of the strange contradictions of our contemporary world is that there are nation states pledged to the maintenance of civilised values that claim the right to use a weapon that can exterminate all life in the target city down to the last microbe. Its use would automatically pollute the environment not only of the victim state but of all surrounding neutral states and cause damage that lasts for over twenty thousand years. Despots like Genghis Khan would dearly have loved to enjoy this power, the brutality of which goes far beyond anything they could envisage."
HE Judge Christopher Weeramantry

Thursday the 6th of August

Glasgow-
Peace Tree Kelvingrove Park (opposite Kelvin Hall), 19:30.
Speakers Pauine McNeill MSP (Labour), Bill Kidd MSP (SNP) and Green Party Speaker, followed by songs and the floating of peace cranes down the River Kelvin.
Edinburgh-
The Mound, 18:00.
Please bring music, poems, candles, banners...

The European Court of Human Rights has moved to criminalise support for Palestinian human rights. The EU has consistently rewarded an Israel sinking ever deeper into crime, with open ethnic cleansers as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister. Now the judiciary joins the executive in aligning with Israel and criminalising those who support the call from Palestine for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against the bloody violence of the Israeli state. Hardly suprising when the British Government is involved in an equally bloody military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.