CND Heddwch 20 Summer 1999

Description

'Heddwch' is the supporter magazine for CND Cymru, the Welsh Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, published roughly quarterly from 1991 to the present day.
Contents
Page 1: Cartoon.
Page 2:
• The National Assembly - a chance for peace and justice? - CND Cymru hopes that the National Assembly will endorse the Nuclear Free Wales vision.
Page 3:
• Trident News:
- Trident Ploughshares Arrests reach 200 mark
- Swedish Ploughshares activists go to court
- Church of Scotland urges government to scrap Trident
- Trident sails on election day
- Peace Prize winner accepts gift from CND Cymru
Page 4-5:
• Tragedy: NATO’s Mistakes - Professor Ken Booth discusses Kosovo and the failures of NATO.
Page 6:
• Demonstrating for peace, non-violence and co-operation - CND Cymru has been organising and supporting demonstrations throughout Wales in opposition to the bombing of Yugoslavia.
• The Legacy of the violent conflict in the Balkans - The environmental costs of NATOs bombing campaign in Yugoslavia.
Page 7:
• The Urdd Gobaith Cymru Message of Peace and Goodwill
• US hopes to use Russia as an international nuclear waste dump
• Supporting grassroots community building in the Balkans
• Please write to Mordechai Vanunu! - Wales has been asked to encourage writing letters to Mordechai Vanunu in July and August.
Page 8:
• NATO’s plans for Europe - NATO plans for a nuclear-capable European Union.
• The Peace Pagoda at Comiso in Sicily - The Buddhist community in Sicily welcomes supporters from Wales to visit the Peace Pagoda.
• Hopeful humanity at the Hague Peace Conference 1999 - How can we replace the law of force with force of law?
Page 9:
• House of Lords wants volunteers to accept ‘safe’ radioactive waste disposal - Policy recommendations from the House of Lords Select Committee Report on Radioactive Waste.
• Nuclear Disarmament - dead in the water? - NATO’s new strategic concept presents another obstacle to the international nuclear disarmament process.
Page 10:
• Nuclear ship fire off the coast of Wales: spreading the pestilence - Engine room fire aboard ship carrying nuclear waste from Liverpool to Spain.
• Peace Education - Advert for an educationalist to promote Peace Education in Wales.
• National Secretary - Advert for help carrying out National Secretary duties.
• Will the MoD own up to the cost of the arms trade? - The Defence Select Committee invites the MoD to provide a costs and benefits assessment of defence exports.
• The NSPCC and the arms trade - The NSPCC claims they are not investing in the arms trade.
• Poetry Wales - “Poetry and War” can be purchased from Poetry Wales Press Ltd.
Page 11:
• Storing up Trouble at Trawsfynydd - CND Cymru and other NGOs attended a meeting on June 8th in Bangor to discuss the Trawsfynydd ‘safestore’ public inquiry.
• Cruising on Trawsfynydd Lake - you’ve seen the lake, now read the leaflet
Page 12:
• Iraq: sanctions as weapons of mass destruction - Andrea Needham writes about her visit to Iraq as part of a Voices in the Wilderness delegation.
• Postal Sanction Breaking in Narbeth - Dave Rolestone breaks postal sanctions by sending medicines to Iraq in Efailwen, Carmarthenshire.
Page 13:
• Jean Hutchinson’s Court Appeal - Jean Hutchinson of Brynaman and Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp appeals against a ‘guilty’ verdict for cutting the fence at AWE, Aldermaston.
• Hibakusha and Japanese peace campaigners bring their optimism to Wales - CND Cymru hosts Japanese nuclear bomb survivors and campaigners in South Wales.
Page 14:
• Diary Dates - Important dates in the coming months.
• Postal Slip to join CND Cymru
• CND Cymru Contacts