COME ON DOWN TO WandA  FOR SOME COMMUNITY ACTION

Take action on peace, environment, land reform, human migration, reduce violence, make peace. Posters for our windows, space here for tunes and games as well as meetings

Are you interested in a new non-competitive creative (no rules!) board game?

Try playing

SECURITY!

Argue what security could be in cooperative communities. Tell it how it really is!

To give it a try, invite us along. or get in touch with a few friends and we can play together - your place or at WandA! The full colour quality set will cost around £25 so consider sponsoring a set for your group, or buying it for your fam.

We support Conscientious Objectors - both past and present - around the world, imprisoned or forced to flee for resisting military conscription.We stand in solidarity with Conscientious Objectors in Israel / Palestine, Ukraine, Russia and all whose human rights are threatened because they refuse to take up arms.

Meet at 6.15pm for 6.30pm Thursday 15 May at the Peace Tree* in Princes Street Gardens for songs from Protest in Harmony, hear about COs and an update on the Opposing War Memorial. Singing will continue as we walk up to the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace EH1 2JL to hear from our speakers.

Book via https://peace15may.eventbrite.co.uk / Share Facebook event.

The recent WandA News is still available to pick up, and even when WandA is closed, you can find a copy on the front gate (suggested donation £2) 

24 pages packed with interesting facts and pictures. It is also possible to download the PDF, but the A5 booklet fits nicely in your pocket or bag, you can read it when there is no signal, and pass it on to a pal!. Download link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S2MsEbWPdHklVSZXjfFBKOpoNagDXXRk/view?usp=sharing

Secure Scotland is hosting two special visitors from Quazakstan in June  Indira Weaver who has been fundraising and drawing attention to the Qazac situation, and film maker and Youth Representative Aigerim Seitenova with a screening of the film, Jara, on the experiences of women who have been affected by the hundreds of nuclear explosions detonated by Russia in their country to 'test' the power of their nuclear weapons in the 1950's and sixties.

There will be a meeting in the Scottish Parliament on 11th June and we are showing Jara on the 12th at WandA more details in the next alert or check out the website here

https://aigerimseitenova.com/jara_radioactivepatriarchy

Margaret Ferguson Burns reported from Lakenheath:

"Strangely, Suffolk Constabulary are protecting the United States Air Force, at RAF/USAF Lakenheath, from us making a peaceful non-violent protest - rather than protecting us from the United States Air Force with their United States Army security, personnel, F-35A Lightning II and the rest there - getting ready to send out couriers of global annihilation in the form of nuclear weapons-armed bombers.

There's even the possibility that these cuckoos could one day turn on their host. What would Suffolk Constabulary do then?

Suffolk Constabulary "Keeping Suffolk safe" - from what? Us with our heartfelt call for humanity, for peace and justice; or US nuclear weapons activity on our doorstep?

Whereas we have a Red Line in our hearts and minds against nuclear weapons, USAF Lakenheath has a White Line, painted on the ground, to hold us out - no touching or crossing the line without threat of arrest. All very douce, and designed to minimise the perception of the dangers within.

Get the US military out of our lands. Close the Bases before it is too late.

https://cnduk.org/.../raf-lakenheath-us-nuclear-weapons.../

MFB xx 

Check out SCND and CND UK pages for more news from the Scots who went to Lakenheath to say NO to the US

BEYOND HUMAN RIGHTS - POSTPONED IN ERROR

A mistake extended the deadline for submissions till the end of May! This has allowed us to squeeze in an extra exhibition from the Network of Photographers for Palestine - see the details about it below, and you have a bit longer to submit for this one!

Secure Scotland’s exploration of the real meaning of security in our next exhibition is about extending the concept of security and welfare beyond the human-centred. We are actively seeking submissions.

 In “The Age of Insecurity” Astra Taylor points out that the wreckage we are making of the climate and the ecosystems arises from an exclusive concentration on human security without regard for the rest of reality. And, of course, an exclusively human-centred approach to security is chain-sawing the branch on which we precariously perch. (Book is available to buy from WandA)

We are (still) actively seeking submissions (till end of May). Visit, email secretary@securescotland.scot or call Janet 07795594573 or David 07876593016

Thank you to all of you who pay a monthly standing order to Secure Scotland, Please consider if you can join the folks who are helping with regular monthly payments, which give stability. If we had 200 individuals or groups with a standing order for £10 a month we’d be able to plan and budget for months at a time. Find details on the donate page of the website. One-off donations are also appreciated, as are offers of volunteering with the welcoming duties!

Words and Actions for Peace (WandA), is hosted by Secure Scotland, which receives financial support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

WandA is drop-in gallery and resource base - available for public or private meetings, film and acoustic music nights

General enquiries contact@wordsandactions.scot 

Open Monday - Friday 10.00 - 16.00 

(Secure Scotland, Peace & Justice Scotland, Scottish WILPF, CAAT and others work from WandA )

Secure Scotland Media enquiries +44 (0)7795594573

or +44 (0)7876593016

Secure Scotland Project enquiries hello@securescotland.scot  

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