Desite government silence, news is spreading that US nuclear weapons are coming back to Britain. That’s why Lakenheath airbase in the quiet Suffolk countryside is going to be a hive of activity from 14-26 April.
Lakenheath Alliance for Peace has organised a Peace Camp there, and CND is working with LAP to make it a festival of activities – including an international conference, with guests from across Europe, a climate day, a war crimes & genocide day, a Greenham Common day, and more.
Check out the details and links below.
WHAT THEY SAY
Sophie Bolt CND Gen Sec
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive in the world. They put us all at risk every day. Far from keeping people safe, all these nuclear weapons make Britain a target. Yet the government is more concerned about its special relationship with the US than people’s safety.
The peace camp comes just as we learn that Britain’s cover-up of a US nuclear weapons deployment has been in the works for at least four years, alongside proof that people living close to any US base in this country are at great risk. We encourage everyone to get involved with the peace camp.
Angie Zelter Lakenheath Alliance for Peace co-founder
It is horrifying and shameful that USAF Lakenheath, on British soil and with the connivance of the UK government is involved in war crimes and genocide. Pilots from Israel and Saudi Arabia are trained at Lakenheath and US planes and bombs go out to take part in the bombings in Gaza and Yemen. We are here to say this is not in our name.
Ginnie Herbet Greenham Common Woman
Women who protested at Greenham in the 1980s are now protesting at the return of US nukes to Lakenheath. Cruise missiles left Greenham Common, international law changed and the Common was handed back to the people. Forty years later and here we are protesting again as secret decisions are made and US nuclear weapons return to Lakenheath.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Get the Peace Camp programme and find out more about LAP here
Check if a CND group in your area can offer transport to the Peace Camp here
Learn what more CND wants you to do to stop US nukes here
Watch London CND’s podcast with Angie Zelter here