Friends join CND Easter witness
Quakers joined those marking the sixtieth anniversary of CND at Aldermaston
Quakers from around the country were among those who gathered at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire on Easter Sunday to mark sixty years since the first Aldermaston march.
The anniversary celebrations included music, speeches and a giant reproduction of the iconic CND logo, installed in front of the bomb factory, to pay tribute to the 1958 march. It is part of a UK-wide tour that celebrates sixty years of CND and visits over twenty sites, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol and the White Cliffs of Dover. There was also an installation marking the 122 nations who signed the anti-nuclear ban pledge last summer.
Kate Hudson, CND general secretary, said: ‘Protest, speeches, music and poems will recall the sixty years of campaigning against nuclear weapons since that first path-breaking Aldermaston march, and we will look to the future. We will recall our movement’s many achievements as well as recommitting to protest and political action to eliminate all nuclear weapons.’
