On August 6, Sheffield Creative Action for Peace held a ceremony commemorating the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The Lord Mayor highlighted the importance of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Concerns about the UK’s expanding nuclear arsenal were raised, alongside a call for Sheffield to support the Treaty.
Category Archives: Nuclear Weapons
‘Gentle, Angry Women’ retrace 110-mile march to Greenham Common in award-winning film at Showroom
by Danielle Hutchinson Press and Publicity Officer, Awen Productions and Folklife Films ‘Gentle, Angry Women’ is the latest documentary film by award-winning Cornish film company Awen Productions. The story follows three young women as they retrace the march to Greenham Common, forty years on from the first Women’s Peace Protests. The film has just won theContinueContinue reading “‘Gentle, Angry Women’ retrace 110-mile march to Greenham Common in award-winning film at Showroom”
Labour’s priorities are totally wrong
Labour’s Defence Investment Plan sets totally the wrong priorities. Nuclear weapons make us less secure. The biggest threat is the climate emergency.
Sheffield remembers Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
A guest blog by Rachel Rowlands Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Cllr Safiya Saeed Lord Mayor Safiya Saeed spoke at a ceremony held in Tudor Square on August 9th, marking the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of two Japanese cities, which killed around 200,000 people and nuclear contamination from which continues to poison the environmentContinueContinue reading “Sheffield remembers Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”
Have our leaders forgotten the dangers of nuclear power and weapons?
CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen to record levels, and Europe has been sweltering under a heat dome. But climate scientist Mark Lynas caused a stir in the environmental movement by suggesting that nuclear war is now a bigger threat than our changing climate. Nuclear war could indeed lead to the extinction of humankind.ContinueContinue reading “Have our leaders forgotten the dangers of nuclear power and weapons?”
