Future Events
Market Stall
Drop by our Stall on Market Square - every Saturday from 12.30-2.00 pm.
Committee Meeting
Committee meetings are held regularly in central Cambridge. Everyone is welcome. The dates and venues are mentioned in the weekly Stop the War email that you will receive if you have joined.
Recent Events
Faslane365 Cambridge Lock-down
This weekend a group of peace protesters from Cambridge blockaded the Trident Nuclear Submarine base in Scotland.
Eight of us locked together in the road outside the North Gate of the base on Saturday afternoon helped by a support group. It took the police over an hour to cut us all apart a task that would have taken Cambridge bicycle thieves about 5 minutes. The protest was filmed by student filmakers who accompanied us and we hope to show their film at a public showing in Cambridge.
We took this action in support of Faslane365 because we believe that nuclear weapons are the most obscene manifestation of violence in the modern world the ultimate expression of militarism and state terrorism. Nuclear weapons distort all of our efforts to create a just and sustainable society in a fragile interdependent world.
Hanging on to nuclear weapons carries heavy costs for our security, society, civil liberties and human rights. At a time of hospital closures, increasing threats to all of our public services, the Government proposes to spend £76 billion on renewing and maintaining Trident nuclear weapons.
Upgrading Trident is in direct contravention of our obligations under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, to negotiate in good faith for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In every foreseeable scenario, nuclear weapons would violate international law.
Finally, nuclear weapons increase the risk that a deterrent is supposed to prevent. The government is playing on fear, while it embarks on criminal acts of aggression in the Middle East, sowing seeds of conflict and despair. Faslane 365 highlights this colossal waste of resources and the true costs of nuclear weapons.
We live in a society in which our 'leaders' think that it is of greater importance to spend $287 million an hour on the war in Iraq, rather than fund every conceivable public service according to need, wipe out global poverty and disease, create a just and equal society for all and put an end to the wars and occupations which are the breeding grounds for division and hatred.
People's Assembly: Islamophobia and the War on Terror
On Saturday 18 November, the Stop the War Coalition held a Conference in London to discuss the rise of Islamophobia and how
to fight it.
You can download a summary of the speeches here.
End Bush and Blair's Wars Public Meeting
David Howarth MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Jane Shallice spoke at a public meeting in Cambridge on the 16th of November 2006.
You can download a report of the meeting here.
Handing in the Ceasefire Petition to No 10
Delegates from the Stop the War Coalition, including representatives from CamPeace, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and the CWU met David Howarth at Downing Street to hand in the petition of signatures collected over the summer during the War on Lebanon. The petition attacked the government's complicity in refusing to call for a ceasefire and prevent the deaths of 1,300 Lebanese civilians and hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Faslane365
We joined the Eastern Region of CND at the end
of October for a 48 hour blockade of Faslane.
Download the blog entry.
Lakenheath
Sunday the 1st of October saw 25 people from Cambridge join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at the US airforce base at Lakenheath in Suffolk.
Time To Go
Cambridge Stop the War sent two coaches to Manchester on Sunday the 23rd September 2006 for the national Time To Go march in advance of the Labour Party Conference.