CND shines spotlight on nuclear cover-up of US bombs in Britain with blockade of RAF Lakenheath, 26 April
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will be shining a spotlight on the British government’s ongoing cover-up of plans for a US nuclear weapons deployment to Britain, during a blockade of the main gate of RAF Lakenheath on Saturday, 26 April.
Campaigners will be joined by ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Keir Starmer’ along with replicas of the B61-12 guided nuclear bomb. CND activists are coming from across the country to take part in the blockade of the main gate of the base from 12 noon.
• Saturday, 26 April
• Blockade starts at 12 noon
• RAF Lakenheath Gate 1, Brandon Road, Suffolk, IP27 9PN
The blockade takes place on the final day of the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace* peace camp, which has seen a continuous presence of campaigners outside the main gate of the base since 14 April, as well as events highlighting Lakenheath’s role in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the role of the military in climate breakdown, and NATO’s nuclear network in Europe.
The blockade comes as CND’s lawyers forced the Ministry of Defence to declassify a significant nationwide exemption certificate, issued in March 2021 by former Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, on the grounds of ‘national security’. The document shockingly exempts US Visiting Forces from adhering to British nuclear safety regulations at its bases across Britain, which includes RAF Lakenheath.
CND is calling on PM Keir Starmer to come clean about this cover-up and to publicly announce that US nuclear weapons will not be deployed to Britain.
CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt said:
“Trump’s reckless ‘America First’ agenda is increasing international tensions every day. Siting US nuclear bombs in Britain will put us on the frontline of any military confrontation. The British government needs to step back from its so-called ‘special relationship’ with the US and refuse to host these deadly bombs. The US has poured millions of dollars into upgrading the base in preparation for siting new nuclear bombs. Yet the government refuses to come clean.
“RAF Lakenheath has a history of near nuclear accidents which were covered up for decades. The best way to protect people in East Anglia and across the country is to not have nuclear weapons in the first place. With nuclear dangers on the rise, the presence of US nuclear weapons in Britain makes us a target in the event of a nuclear war – with catastrophic consequences. Any accidents involving a nuclear weapon would have a devastating environmental and humanitarian impact which no amount of drilling could prepare us for. CND is calling on everyone who is concerned about this to join us at the blockade on RAF Lakenheath’s main gate this Saturday, 26 April.”
Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Trail Caravan on Saturday, April 26th
April 17th, 2025, nuclearactive,org
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that it would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb waste by depositing it into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close. DOE broke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26th, But DOE has a new plan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60 more years for legacy bomb waste and for newly-generated bomb waste from fabricating new weapons. https://wipp.energy.gov/
To alert the public about DOE’s plans, the Stop Forever WIPP Coalition will host the Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Caravan on Saturday, April 26th beginning at 9 am at the DeVargas Mall in Santa Fe. The Caravan will travel south on St. Francis Drive to Interstate 25 and towards Las Vegas, New Mexico with stops along the way. You are invited to be part of the Caravan. For more information, please visit https://stopforeverwipp.org/……………………………………………………………………………………………….. https://nuclearactive.org/
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), to blockade RAF Lakenheath after US exemption to British nuclear safety rules revealed
Berny Torre, Sunday, April 13, 2025, https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cnd-blockade-raf-lakenheath-after-us-exemption-british-nuclear-safety-rules-revealed
PROTESTERS will set up a two-week peace camp outside RAF Lakenheath tomorrow after it emerged that all United States forces in Britain are exempt from meeting nuclear safety regulations.
And CND said that activists will block the Suffolk base on April 26, the last day of their vigil.
Declassified documents uncovered by CND show that former defence secretary Ben Wallace signed the “sensitive” waiver exempting US troops from telling local authorities they are storing nuclear weapons and exempt from sticking to regulations applied to radiation risks, leaving local authorities unable to draft disaster emergency plans.
It is known that RAF Lakenheath is being prepared to host new US nuclear weapons, but the March 2021 waiver exempts all US bases in Britain.
CND general secretary Sophie Bolt said: “Far from keeping people safe, all these nuclear weapons make Britain a target. Yet the government is more concerned about its special relationship with the US than people’s safety.
“The peace camp comes just as we learn that Britain’s cover-up of a US nuclear weapons deployment has been in the works for at least four years, alongside proof that people living close to any US base in this country, not just in East Anglia, are at great risk.”
Lakenheath Alliance for Peace co-founder Angie Zelter said: “It is horrifying and shameful that USAF Lakenheath, on British soil and with the connivance of the UK government, is involved in war crimes and genocide.
“Pilots from Israel and Saudi Arabia are trained at Lakenheath and US planes and bombs go out to take part in the bombings in Gaza and Yemen.
“We are here to say this is not in our name and to warn service personnel in the base that they should never obey illegal orders and should refuse to take part in the never-ending wars that are destroying people and planet.”
Greenham Common campaigner Ginnie Herbert said: “The cruise missiles left Greenham Common, international law changed and the common was handed back to the people.
“Forty years later and here we are protesting again as secret decisions are made and US nuclear weapons return to Lakenheath.”
The new camp will include a programme of events and actions taking place at the base and in nearby towns and villages.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “It remains a long-standing UK and Nato policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.”
In Chicago: Testimonies of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims and International People’s Tribunal Promotion Events
Helen Plum Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA https://abombtribunal.campaignus.me/34/?q=YToxOntzOjEyOiJrZXl3b3JkX3R5cGUiO3M6MzoiYWxsIjt9&bmode=view&idx=159506865&t=board
Following the conclusion of the 3rd Meeting of States Parties (MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the delegation of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims and SPARK traveled to Chicago. The schedule in Chicago was organized through the invitation of Yuki Miyamoto, a professor at DePaul University and member of the International Organizing Committee, and the arrangements of Brad Wolf, Co-Coordinator of the International Organizing Committee.
On March 9, a roundtable discussion was held at the Helen Plum Library, hosted by Kathy Kelly, President of World BEYOND War. After the event, Kathy Kelly joined the International Organizing Committee. The event was attended by 15 participants, who listened to testimonies from the victims and learned about the International People’s Tribunal. One participant, identifying as a second-generation Jewish Holocaust survivor, expressed sympathy by saying, “As an American, I apologize for the pain you have endured.” Additionally, journalist Robert C. Koehler, who attended the event, wrote and posted an article online titled “The Journey Beyond Nukes Begins with an Apology.“
On the morning of March 10, an event was held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After listening to the testimonies of Korean atomic bomb victims, one student shared, “It is not just about numbers; hearing the stories from those who directly experienced it really touches my heart.” Another student said, “I was uncertain about taking this class, but now that I’ve attended, I feel like I’ve learned so much. I think this is such an important topic.” The student also inquired about the main goals of the International People’s Tribunal.
Later that same day, at 6 PM, an event was held at DePaul University, attended by around 80 people, including Korean Americans from the first, second, and third generations. After hearing testimonies from the victims and learning about the International People’s Tribunal, students who had visited Hiroshima presented and discussed their works.
On March 11, an event was held at the University of Illinois Chicago, organized by Professor Michael Jean. He later became a new member of the International Organizing Committee and expressed his intention to participate in next year’s International People’s Tribunal. Several participants also pledged to take part in next year’s tribunal after the event.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to all those who worked tirelessly to create meaningful connections, raise awareness about the plight of the Korean atomic bomb victims, and promote the International People’s Tribunal in Chicago.
“Getting people to do what they can from where they are”: NFLAs support Democracy Day inspiring peace activists to make Councils anti-nuke allies
The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities are proud to support the forthcoming Elected Representatives and Democracy Day being hosted by the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace (LAP) on Tuesday 22nd April, and urges elected members from all parties and none who oppose nuclear weapons to attend.
This event is part of a two weeks International Peace Camp and Conference – 14th – 26th April 2025 organised by the LAP at RAF Lakenheath – https://lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk The NFLAs are a partner organisation within the Alliance.
‘RAF’ Lakenheath is in fact the largest United States Air Force base in the United Kingdom, and is expected to, or has already, become the host to newly reintroduced US air-launched nuclear weapons which will be accommodated and maintained in a bespoke facility.
The LAP is hosting a series of themed days during the Peace Camp to which all activists are invited and there will also be a 24:7 vigil at the main gates of the airbase:
LAP is inviting elected members at all levels, whether Councillors in parish, district, county or unitary authorities or Parliamentarians in our devolved national assemblies or at Westminster, to attend and by invitation to speak during Democracy Day.
Confirmed speakers include Baroness Natalie Bennett, former Leader of the Green Party, and several Norfolk and Suffolk Councillors, one of whom used to be an emergency planner.
Elected members who wish to speak or who are willing to give media interviews at the airbase entrance on Democracy Day are invited to submit expressions of interest via https://lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk/front-page/get-involved/
LAP is also seeking to arrange a workshop with campaign group MP Watch https://www.mpwatch.org/ which ‘works alongside MPs and communities to champion evidence-based climate and nature-based policies.’
LAP event organiser and former Norwich City Councillor, Lesley Grahame, described “how there has never been any democratic debate about nuclear weapons” with the purpose of Democracy Day being about “getting people to do what they can from where they are”.
NFLA Secretary Richard Outram has put together a briefing paper on this theme containing tips for activists seeking to make their elected member and their Council an ally in the campaign for nuclear disarmament.
This briefing can be found at:
Event to mark 40th anniversary of mysterious death of Willie McRae
The National 31st March 2025, By James Walker, https://www.thenational.scot/news/25052033.event-mark-40th-anniversary-mysterious-death-willie-mcrae/
AN EVENT is to be held in the Highlands to mark the anniversary of the mysterious death of Willie McRae.
In 1980, McRae – a top lawyer and senior SNP member – made headlines after representing a group opposed to dumping nuclear waste in the Ayrshire hills at a public inquiry.
He won, and the victory proved a major setback in plans for having nuclear waste buried across the UK.
But on the evening of Good Friday, April 5, 1985, McRae set off from his flat in Glasgow’s southside for his holiday cottage close to Dornie in Wester Ross. He never arrived.
Instead, on April 6, his car was found by the side of the road. He was in the front seat with a bullet through his right temple.
On Sunday, April 7, McRae died without ever regaining consciousness.
A post-mortem concluded suicide, but questions have persisted for decades. A gun was not found when the scene was first visited by the police, but was when the scene was searched the following week.
Now, a group of Yessers is looking to hold an event to draw new attention to McRae’s case.
“Forty years has passed since a man was found dying on a Highland road in mysterious circumstances. Not just any man, but a seeker of justice and a thorn in the side of the establishment,” Pete Smith, an event organiser and a member of Yes Highlands and Islands, told The National.
He added: “Willie McRae took a massive secret to his grave and we intend to seek justice for McRae by demanding a public enquiry into the case.”
There are six speakers lined up, including Ron Culley whose book Firebrand examines the McRae case in detail and is also mentioned on the flyer which has been created for the event (above).
A piper and – reportedly – a film crew will also be in attendance.
The organisers also wished to stress that this is not an independence event, although added that the “quest for Scotland’s self governance is of course linked to this killing”.
The event will be held at the Willie McRae Memorial Cairn, on the A87 at the side of Loch Lorne, at 12 noon on April 5.
Attendees will then head to the nearby Invergarry Hotel for speeches – with those wishing to attend asked to register via Eventbrite due to limited space.
Organisers were also keen to highlight that parking is limited near the cairn.
Uranium’s Poison Power in Leafy Cheshire
Remembering the 14th anniversary of Fukushima, campaigners will be
gathering and invite people to join them, outside the URENCO plant at
Capenhurst in Cheshire on March 11th at 2pm. The continuing nuclear
disaster at Fukushima caused by the 2011 tsunami underlines the constant
danger that nuclear presents due to events totally beyond the control of
power station operators.
Radiation Free Lakeland 5th March 2025 https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/uraniums-poison-power-in-leafy-cheshire/
1 March -Remembering All Nuclear Victims.
The commemoration started as a way to remember the victims of the Castle Bravo test of March 1, 1954 which exposed much of the Marshall Islands to radioactive fallout. This was the largest nuclear weapon that the U.S. ever tested, with over twice the designed yield, and the wind blew the fallout over populated areas.
Now we also commemorate other nuclear victims – from Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, nuclear testing, nuclear waste cleanup, human radiation experiments, depleted uranium weapons and uranium mining and processing.
| Nuclear Victims CommemorationWharfinger Building, 1 Marina Way, Eureka, CAAt balcony overlooking the Golden Rule on the Marina’s A Dockor if too wet/cold, in the Humboldt Yacht Club – Wharfinger building 10:00 am Commemoration Speaker Boat visits and sailingEureka Public Marina, A Dock11:00 am Boat Visits12:00 pm Sailing* (Weather Permitting)1:30 pm Boat Visits3:00 pm Sailing* (Weather Permitting)4:30 pm Boat Visits5:00 pm Be our guest at the Humboldt Yacht Club cocktail hour! *To request a chance to sail on March 1-2 or some other day, please visit vfpgoldenruleproject.org/guest-crew/ or call Michelle Marsonette at 541-971-9077. |
| Sunday, March 2: Boat Visits, Sailingand Golden Rule Film Festival! |
| Join us for boat visits and sailing, then meet film producers, project managers and crew for films and story telling! Boat Visits, SailingEureka Public Marina, 1 Marina Way, A Dock (near the Wharfinger Building)10:00 am Sailing* (Weather Permitting)11:30 am Boat Visits1:00 pm Sailing* (Weather Permitting)*To request a chance to sail on March 1-2 or some other day, please visit vfpgoldenruleproject.org/guest-crew/ or call Michelle Marsonette at 541-971-9077. |
The VFP Golden Rule Project is co-sponsoring this webinar of the VFP Nuclear Abolition Working Group:
Arming for Armageddon: How US Militarism could lead to Nuclear War
Dangerous and deadly developments in Ukraine, Palestine, the Koreas, and China
featuring…
K. J. NOH is a Korean journalist, political analyst, and educator specializing in the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific region. He is a member of Veterans for Peace, a co-founder of Pivot to Peace. and co-host of The China Report on the Breakthrough News Network.
ANN WRIGHT, author and international peace activist, will moderate. Ann is a former U.S. Army colonel and State Dept. official who resigned in protest of the U.S. war on Iraq.
NORMAN SOLOMON is a journalist, media critic, activist with Roots Action and Institute for Public Accuracy, and friend of Daniel Ellsberg
Thursday, March 6, 2025
7 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 4 pm Pacific
Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Third Meeting of States Parties will take place on 3 to 7 March 2025 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, with H.E. Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin (Kazakhstan) serving as President. A draft agenda for the meeting is under consideration by States Parties. This page will provide updates about the meeting itself and practical information for civil society organisations that wish to participate. Information is also available on the UN website.
Key dates:
- 20 December 2024 – Deadline for organisational accreditation
- 3 January 2025 – Deadline for NGO side event applications to ICAN
- 3 January 2025 – Deadline for government side event & exhibition applications by Member States
- 4 January 2025 – UNODA will confirm whether your organisation has been approved or denied
- 17 February 2025 – Deadline for the submission of Working Papers to ICAN
- 24 February 2025 – Final date to submit your full delegation list to ODA and to register on Indico
- 2 March 2025 – ICAN Campaigner Forum
- 3-7 March 2025 – third Meeting of States Parties
more………………………………………………………… https://www.icanw.org/tpnw_third_meeting_of_states_parties?fbclid=IwY2xjawIeAAlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTXXryuB-SuwWTYOJO87uOU8J9YHwXtEnzijT4ZaFqZ3ccR7_4Kit5RHtg_aem_VpSB80BKJCpThsbOqIulaA
21 February WEBINAR – What Scientists Are Telling Us About Radiation that Nuclear Boosters Won’t
Feb 21, 2025 03:00 AM in Etc/GMT-10 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6Urz_iGSR2Zvb43N08_GQ#/registration
Contacts: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, 914-589-5988 Mary Olson, olson.mary@gmail.com, 828-242–5621
A webinar sponsored by the NGO Gender + Radiation Impact Project, with leading experts on the impacts of radiation, to answer your questions about new research concerning harmful impacts of the nuclear energy and weapons industries. Join us! Presenters are Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear, author of the book ‘The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation,’ and Dr. Amanda Nichols, lead author of ‘Gender and Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda, Addressing Disproportionate Harm,’ a new report by the UN Institute on Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). The event will be moderated by Mary Olson, Founder of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project.
A growing body of evidence reveals ionizing radiation disproportionately impacts women and young children. Those arguing for expanding nuclear power and weapons production pointedly ignore and contradict evidence of their harms — part of a pattern of suppression that goes back to the dawn of the nuclear age a century ago. Scientists who first revealed radiation’s harmful impacts were pilloried and had their funding and data seized. The pattern of suppression still holds today, but with the rush toward nuclear-powered AI centers and a new nuclear arms race looming, it has kicked into high gear. False claims and preposterous talk points from the nuclear industry are increasingly and uncritically repeated without challenge. For a quick, sourced primer on these issues, see the recent OpEd “They won’t tell you these truths about nuclear energy” in The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5118792-nuclear-power-industry-radiation-debunk/
15 – 29 March 2025 Virtual Film Festival: The Untold Stories of Nuclear Weapons
15 – 29 March, World Beyond War,
Join World BEYOND War for our 5th annual virtual film festival!
Join World BEYOND War for our annual virtual film festival throughout the month of March to explore the untold stories of nuclear weapons, in commemoration of Nuclear Remembrance Day (March 1).
Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to humanity. 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the impacts of which are still felt to this day. The tentacles of the nuclear weapons industry are far-reaching, from the uranium mining, to the testing, to the waste disposal. World BEYOND War’s 2025 film festival shares the untold stories of nuclear weapons – from the Marshall Islands to St. Louis, Missouri, to the Saharan desert – in light of the escalating conflicts of our time, to expose the historic and current impacts of nuclear weapons and serve as a clarion call that it is time once and for all to ban the bomb.
Scroll down to learn more about each film and our special guests, and to purchase tickets!……………………………………………………………………………………………………. more https://worldbeyondwar.org/filmfest2025/?link_id=6&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-wbw-news-action-the-futility-of-war&email_referrer=email_2604296&email_subject=wbw-news-action-country-is-humanity
April 19-26: SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARE, Spring Action Week, NM, 2025
Co-sponsored by Veterans For Peace, Ban Killer Drones and CODEPINK
Join ourSpring Action Week
April 19-26, 2025
Holloman Drone Training Base, Southern NM
The largest drone training base in the U.S., where 700+ drone pilots and operators graduate annually!
16 years ago the American public started to become aware of the secret and very illegal assassin drone program. Soon afterwards the peace community mobilized against it, while the US Air Force top brass were bragging about what a tremendous advancement drones were, enabling our forces to destroy “enemy terrorists” without putting our troops at risk. As drone whistleblower Daniel Hale stated, drones “embolden commanders” making it easier for them to orchestrate more horrendous crimes against humanity.
16 years later Americans are forced to ask ourselves: Who are the real terrorists? Israeli and U.S. drones have been a primary weapon in the 16 month long genocidal seige on Gaza that has nearly completely obliterated Palestinian communities, killing tens of thousands of civilians, including over 700 infants, and leaving the survivors without adequate food, water, shelter or medical care. Homicide, Hospitalcide, Scholasticide, Ecocide, Urbicide, Medicide, Truthicide, Climatocide…the list is endless. This obscene aggression has expanded across borders into the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran and elsewhere. What will we do as Americans to halt this insanity?
The settler-colonial genocidal campaign in Gaza and elsewhere, using AI and remotely controlled drones to dominate the world has destabilized our world, as the first drone whistleblowers warned us 10 years ago. What will we do? “Silence is complicity,” warned the late, great Martin Luther King Jr. Let’s enter the belly of the beast:
Be Fearless Angelic Troublemakers determined to demilitarize our country and our planet together. Mother earth needs us now more than ever before.
Join us at Holloman in April for all or part of the week: A week of persistent peaceful action to nonviolently resist, educate and promote GI resistance. Palestine will take front stage: NO WEAPONS or TAX $$ for GENOCIDE!
WE MUST DEMILITARIZE OUR SOCIETY. Time is running out. Join Our Organizing Team…help it grow! Check out our website for more info. Camping and Hotel Options available.
Shut Down Drone Warfare Team
Hinkley Point C: Petition to protect fish in Severn Estuary
29th January, By Seth Dellow, Digital Reporter, 29 Jan 25
https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/24893585.hinkley-point-c-petition-protect-fish-severn-estuary/
ENVIRONMENTAL groups have launched a petition to protect the Severn Estuary and ensure the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C is compliant with regulations.
17 groups including the West Country Rivers Trust and CPRE have joined forces to call on the Energy Secretary to ensure that an acoustic fish deterrent is installed at Hinkley Point C, with ‘comprehensive mitigation and compensation’ for all species.
It follows comments made by the Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, in an article for Mail Online, which lambasted efforts to block major infrastructure projects, singling out opposition to the acoustic fish deterrent which EDF had originally proposed for Hinkley Point C.
Mark Lloyd, CEO of The Rivers Trust, said: “It is very disappointing that the Prime Minister was so disparaging and dismissive about the need for acoustic fish deterrents on the water intakes for the new nuclear power station being built at Hinkley by EDF.”
You can find out more about the petition here: https://bit.ly/40QeM24
EDF recently confirmed that the “only option currently likely to be accepted as a mitigation” is the creation of a salt marsh. It would act as an environmental mitigation for the harm the project would bring to 44 tonnes of fish.
A formal consultation on the salt marsh location was delayed earlier in January. Some residents along the Severn, including landowners and farmers, previously expressed their opposition to the plans.
Four possible locations have been proposed for a salt marsh along the River Severn, including Kingston Seymour, Arlingham, Littleton, and Rodley.
Plans were dropped for Pawlett Hams following opposition from residents and branded a “disaster” by Bridgwater’s MP, Sir Ashley Fox.
EDF has confirmed that its process for Hinkley Point C and the project “is working with local communities and stakeholders to find solutions that work for both communities and the environment.”
Save Severn Estuary’s Fish: Demand Action from Hinkley — Sign the petition.
The Rivers Trust 24th Jan 2025
Hinkley Nuclear Power Station must not remove protection for millions of fish in the Severn Estuary. Help us hold EDF accountable and ensure the Severn Estuary’s ecosystems are protected.
he new nuclear power station at Hinkley (HPC) will draw the equivalent of 3 Olympic swimming pools of cooling water per minute from the Severn Estuary, one of the UK’s most highly designated nature conservation sites.
The huge intake pipes, equivalent to the cross-section of 6 double decker buses, are required to have an Acoustic Fish Deterrent (AFD) fitted to prevent millions of fish being sucked into the system and killed.
10 years into construction and EDF are still putting off fitting this important fish protection.
The Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) is not against the power station providing vital power for the UK, BUT, is just demanding that the fish protection measures be installed as originally consented and that damage to the Severn Estuary ecosystem is properly addressed.
Sign the petition now……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/hinkley-nuclear-power-station-must-not-remove-protection-for-millions-of-fish-in-the-severn-estuary
Global Day of Action to #CloseBases
February 23, 2025 — at a military base near you!
The thousands of military bases, both foreign and domestic, around the world are a critical piece of the war machine that must be dismantled. Closing bases is a necessary step to shift the global security paradigm towards a demilitarized approach that centers common security — no one is safe until all are safe.
We call on individuals and organizations around the world to join the Global Day of Action to #CloseBases on February 23 by organizing protests at military base sites near you.
- Bases often perpetuate colonialism, removing Indigenous people from their lands. From Panama to Guam to Puerto Rico to Okinawa to dozens of other locations across the world, militaries have taken valuable land from local populations, often pushing out Indigenous people in the process, without their consent and without reparations. For example, the entire population of the Chagos Islands was forcibly removed from the island of Diego Garcia by the UK so that it could be leased to the U.S. for an airbase.
- Bases cost an exorbitant amount of $$. The cost of U.S. foreign military bases alone is estimated at $80 billion a year, money that could be better spent on healthcare, education, renewable energy, and so much more.
- Bases exacerbate environmental damage and the climate crisis. Military emissions are exempted from climate agreements, like the Kyoto Protocol. The construction of bases has caused irreparable ecological damage, such as the destruction of coral reefs and the environment for endangered species in Henoko, Okinawa. Furthermore, it is well documented at hundreds of sites around the world that military bases leach toxic so-called “forever chemicals” (PFAS/PFOS) into local water supplies, which has had devastating health consequences for nearby communities.
Bases can have violent and harmful impacts on local communities.
Militaries have a notorious legacy of sexual violence, including kidnapping, rape, and murders of women and girls in nearby communities. Yet troops stationed at foreign bases are often afforded impunity for their crimes due to Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) with the so-called “host” country. Bases can also bring a rise in property taxes and inflation in areas surrounding them which has been known to push locals out.- Bases heighten tensions and provoke war-making. The presence of hundreds of thousands of troops, massive arsenals, and thousands of aircraft, tanks, and ships in every corner of the globe facilitates war-making and promotes an arms race. Additionally, bases make locations into targets for attack. And foreign bases implicate countries in the crimes of foreign militaries.
………………………….More actions coming soon!
Contact us at greta@worldbeyondwar.org for action planning assistance.
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1 This Month
10 March A LIVE WEBINAR THE REAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER
What the Industry Isn’t Telling Us
1:00 PM Mountain, 2 pm Central, 3 pm Eastern. Live on the Keepers of the Water Facebook page
18 March Webinar @ 1 PM EST: An Assessment of SMR Projects: The Case of Canada
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of the week – STOP SMALL MODULAR REACTORS IN CANADA
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