Huddersfield Friends at the protest in London. Photo: Anne van Staveren for Britain Yearly Meeting.
Friends join ‘biggest in a generation’ Trident action
Friends join protest against government plans to renew Trident
Several groups of Quakers were among an estimated twenty thousand people in central London who protested against government plans to renew the Trident missile system.
Friends took part in demonstrations across Britain. Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, attended the London rally. He addressed participants in Trafalgar Square. Speaking with Rachel Lampard, vice president of Methodist Conference, Paul read a statement from interfaith representatives.
He said: ‘Our world faces many challenges including oppressive poverty, climate change, violent extremism and emerging national rivalry. Addressing these challenges requires strong relationships across nations, founded on mutual co-operation, trust and shared prosperity. Security policies based on the threat of the use of nuclear weapons are immoral and ultimately self-defeating.’
Friends protesting in London came from as far afield as West Yorkshire, Cornwall and Lancashire.
