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Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament works to abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. Become a member today! #ScrapTrident #NuclearBan
Glasgow
Joined April 2010
“Bottling it for later use “ being the operative term. Scotland can deal with energy intermittency with improved energy storage and grid upgrades. These require major investments - but so do nuclear power stations. Strong sense from @Common_Weal’s Craig Dalzell.
Dr Craig Dalzell writes in our @ScotNational column that Scotland doesn’t need nuclear power. Link below 🔗
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Thanks to all the attendees, speakers and movement allies who supported our major disarmament conference in Glasgow on Saturday, challenging nuclear militarism and proposing an alternative future for Scotland. Make sure to keep updated with SCND news: https://t.co/Yf0I2W51dq
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Great speeches at yesterday's @ScottishCND conference on the nuclear nightmare, all viewable on their YouTube channel. @LabourRichard was brilliant on moral case for unilateral nuclear disarmament #JobsNotBombs #WelfareNotWarfare He's abt 4hrs 38 mins in.
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It was an honour to speak at @ScottishCND today and talk about how increasing military spending is not the answer to the social problems created by austerity. Instead, let’s invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.
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Pat Kane and Indra Adnan closing out our conference: “Though those of us who understand his policies know his claims to be a peacemaker are not true, Trump has popularised peace in his rhetoric. That is an interesting development that shows the power of the peace message.”
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@Jonathon_Shafi @stwscotland SCND Vice-Chair Isobel Lindsay: “The speed of military technological change is so fast - it is an out of control spiral and I’m not sure that the world’s military leaders know fully what is going on.” “We must make the public aware of these threats if our leadership won’t.”
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@Jonathon_Shafi @stwscotland “The UK government’s political programme goes against almost everything I have worked towards in my career… We have already spent more on the maintenance of Trident than we ever spent on the winter fuel allowance for the elderly.” Richard Leonard MSP in Glasgow this afternoon.
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@Jonathon_Shafi “We absolutely have to reject the argument that nuclear weapons keep us safe. But we also have to reject this distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons, as if they are totally separate spheres of power and violence.” - Sophie Johnson of @stwscotland.
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@Jonathon_Shafi Professor Stuart Parkinson of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) presenting about the potential global impacts of nuclear explosions including nuclear winter. The UK’s SSBN Trident system is powerful enough to trigger nuclear winter alone.
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@Jonathon_Shafi speaking at our conference in Glasgow this afternoon about a global system in crisis and the essential role of mass, broad-based movements in safeguarding humanity in the coming decades.
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Good discussion @ScottishCND conference today. Trade unions are part of this movement. Security for all must mean investing in the schools, health service, transport infrastructure. @RMTunion #WelfareNotWarfare
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Former MP Deidre Brock discussing the increasing number of nuclear risk incidents at MoD facilities on Scotland. “For far too long Scotland has been used as a dumping ground for the MoD and a testing ground for its weaponry…”
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Cat Scothorne of Green New Deal Rising: “At this point in history, championing environmental and social causes without addressing wealth inequality feels disingenuous.”
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“It’s not only in the worst-case scenario that nuclear weapons are an environmental threat. I want to thank Scottish CND and other organisations… who have raised the issue of daily environmental risks at nuclear weapons facilities in Scotland.” - Patrick Harvie MSP.
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@RMT_Scotland “You may be able to have a civilian nuclear power sector without a nuclear weapons programme, but you cannot have a nuclear weapons programme without nuclear power. So when politicians advocate for nuclear power, most often it is cover for supporting nuclear weapons.”
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@AnnDHenderson @ScottishCND Excellent speakers. I wasn't able to attend, but really appreciate the brilliant @ScottishCND live feed on YouTube & you can play it back if you've missed parts #JobsNotBombs #BanTheBomb #NuclearWeaponsAreMyRedLine #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet #JustTransition
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“Everyone agrees that we are facing imminent economic and environmental disaster. And yet the government is doing nothing about it except making cuts whilst ensuring massive profits for arms manufacturers.” Gordon Martin of @RMT_Scotland speaking in Glasgow right now.
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“In Westminster, unfortunately, politicians from across the house are queuing up to extol the benefits of private capital investment. What the government won’t do is tell the truth that the increase in military spending is the solution to a decade of crippling austerity.”
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