Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre

I have travelled from Scotland to join my friends and colleagues working for peace in order to do what I can to stop the work on the Trident Nuclear Weapons system even if only for an hour or two.

It's a long way to come, it has taken many hours and cost me quite a high proportion of my income to be here and has disrupted my busy life and inconvenienced my children and workmates at home.

By Brian Larkin
Ten miles from the "bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond," on the shores of another picturesque Scottish loch, lurk the menacing black hulks of four Trident submarines. Unlike the fabled Loch Ness monster, these behemoths represent a very real danger to humanity.

Geoffrey Carnall writes in relation to the Antrim shootings..."Responsibility for the shooting of two British soldiers in a barracks in Northern Ireland has been claimed by the ‘Real IRA’, one of the Irish Republican groups which has never accepted the Good Friday Agreement. Politicians of all the mainstream political parties have condemned this attempt to keep alive the traditional scenario of Irish resistance to a British military occupation.

Rise Up Singing

“I believe that I am upholding international law, and that this is my duty as a citizen of this country, and of the world.”

To hear myself saying this was a great relief, as I had deliberately not prepared a statement to make when the charges “breach of the peace” were brought against me at Faslane Nuclear Base. I was relieved that what came out was both logical and correct.

Originally posted to the old P & J website by Geoffrey Carnall

On the BBC’s ‘Today’ programme on 22nd January, Helena Kennedy spoke about the initiative to follow up the Power Inquiry: ‘Make it an Issue’. This was the latest phase of her concern to re-energise the democratic process, to re-connect people with politics. The cash-for-honours scandal had only reinforced the impression that people with money had far more influence than was good either for them or the wider community.

It is not always easy to make the news, and it is important to keep trying!

“Publicity is vitally important to any campaign in raising public awareness, contacting and connecting with like-minded individuals and groups, and updating those involved and public alike to any developments or victories.