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Peace, Sustainability & Equality
SCOTTISH PEACE NETWORK COMMEMORATES SOMME
On July 1st at 5pm, the Scottish Peace Network is holding a centenary event at the Dewar’s statue on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city...
Janet Fenton
Jul 1, 20162 min read
HOLYROOD MAY 2016
The election in Scotland delivered surprises. A first impression that the Tories are back on the rise might dismay nuclear disarmament...
Janet Fenton
Jun 27, 20162 min read
LESSONS FROM HIROSHIMA FOR A SMALL COUNTRY
Testimony from SETSUKO THURLOW, HIBAKUSHA Supporting THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR BAN 4.30pm Mon. May 9th Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace...
Janet Fenton
Apr 28, 20162 min read
FUKUSHIMA WOMEN
Donald Dewar Statue, Buchanan St, Glasgow, 10 – 11 am, Friday 11 March. Five years ago, on 11th March 2011 there was a major nuclear...
Janet Fenton
Mar 10, 20162 min read


BAN THE BOMB ACROSS THE WORLD
With the Gambia becoming the 125th country signed up to Humanitarian Pledge to ban all nuclear weapons while the UK is resisting the...
Janet Fenton
Feb 24, 20162 min read
EU PARLIAMENT
To All EU Parliamentarians We started our meeting with a minute’s reflection on the terrible events in Paris last night, and our hopes...
Janet Fenton
Dec 11, 20153 min read
DEAR SECRETARY…
Dear Mr Mundell, In May’s general election the people of Scotland voted overwhelmingly for candidates whose anti-Trident stance was a key...
Janet Fenton
Dec 7, 20152 min read
SCND Annual Conference Saturday 7 November 2015 in St Columba’s by the Castle Church, 14 Johnston Te
Scotland opposes Trident, and the Scottish First Minister has signed up to support a global ban on nuclear weapons. Unfortunately she...
Janet Fenton
Oct 31, 20151 min read
Press release: 18th September 2015 For immediate use Holyrood Hosts Key Disarmament Meeting
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (Scottish Branch) The Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),...
Janet Fenton
Sep 22, 20153 min read
Austrian Ambassador in Scotland: Towards a Global Nuclear Weapons Ban
The ambassador from Austria who initiated the Humanitarian Pledge to ban all nuclear weapons is coming to Scotland TOWARDS A NUCLEAR...
Janet Fenton
Aug 26, 20152 min read
#ON THE WIRE
#ON THE WIRE There is a tradition of decorating the barriers that represent oppression – the Berlin Wall, the Peace Wall in Belfast and...
Janet Fenton
Jun 28, 20152 min read
human rights act
A referendum can be a victory for democracy, provided everyone knows what they want to happen. Well done the Irish, I am so proud of my...
Janet Fenton
Jun 3, 20153 min read
KEZIA FOR TOP JOB??
So the pro-Trident Kezia is to stand tor the leadership of Scottish Labour. Is that the branch office of the leaderless Labour Party...
Janet Fenton
May 22, 20151 min read
TRIDENT IS THE REAL HYPOCRISY WHEN IT COMES TO SECURITY
I am getting sick of hearing (especially from tired old Laybore Trident supporting hacks) that the SNP position on NATO (embodied by...
Janet Fenton
Apr 7, 20152 min read
PEATON PEACE PIRATE ARTICLES
PEATON PEACE PIRATES Article 1 WE be committed to disarming the UK Trident of them dastardly nuclear weapons Article 2 WE be committed to...
Janet Fenton
Feb 24, 20151 min read
BAIRNS NOT BOMBS – LET’S PROTEST!
“ Nuclear weapons constitute the greatest immediate threat to the health and welfare of mankind …. no health service in any area of the...
Janet Fenton
Jan 29, 20154 min read
BAIRNS NOT BOMBS
At noon on November 30 the Scrap Trident coalition held a mass public demonstration at Faslane. ‘Trident Still Has To Go – Now’. to...
Janet Fenton
Jan 27, 20152 min read
BURNS NIGHT and WRITING WEEKEND
For many years, Wiston Lodge has been hosting Burns nights that are very different, with an informality underscoring the real quality of...
Janet Fenton
Jan 2, 20152 min read


MESSAGE FROM AUSTRIAN SUMMIT AT FASLANE
Five protesters were arrested and charged after the campaign group Trident Ploughshares painted the demand for the abolition of all...
Janet Fenton
Dec 17, 20143 min read
News from Vienna
In her first article from the conference published on Open Democracy, Dr Rebecca Johnson (Acronym Institute) sets the scene with an...
Janet Fenton
Dec 8, 20141 min read
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