Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland supports the Scrap Trident campaign. In a letter to Brian Larkin, Coordinator of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice...
Scottish Parliament Resolution on Trident Not Enough
This month the Scottish Parliament confirmed its opposition to nuclear weapons even as an SCND commissioned survey confirmed that 80% of people in Scotland...
TAKE URGENT ACTION opposing nuclear weapons by 3pm Wednesday
Email Your MSP by 3pm Wednesday 20 March The Scottish Parliament will debate and vote Wednesday on a resolution calling on the UK to...
EPJC joins in calling for EU to continue arms embargo on Syria
Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre joins with European Network Against Arms Trade in opposing any moves to amend the current EU arms embargo on...
Prison for Swedish Peace Activist
Swedish peace campaigner Martin Smedjeback today received a prison sentence of 14 days from a provincial court in the Scandinavian country. On July 29,...
Campaign Against the Arms Trade Awarded 2012 Right Livelihood Award.
On 7 December, UK campaigning organisation Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) was presented with a 2012 Right Livelihood Award in the Swedish Parliament. Here...
EPJC Speakers: Disarm Now Ploughshares Activist Bill Bichsel SJ & Leonna O’Neill of Faslane Peace Camp. 21 December 4.45-6.15pm, St Johns Church Hall
Disarming Trident: Nonviolent Direct Action in the US and Scotland. As one of the Disarm Now Ploughshares group 83 year old Jesuit priest Bill...
Write to Israeli Government – Demand Adameer Human Rights Defender be Released
Write to the Israeli government, military and legal authorities and demand that Adameer Human Rights Defender Ayman Nasser be released immediately. Ayman was arrested...
Statement on European Union by Omar Shabhan – Pal-Think Institute, Gaza
Dr Omar Shabhan spoke in the Peace and Justice Centre Speakers Series in April. This week his statement calling on Hamas to accept a...
Busk for Gaza
Busk for Gaza Friday November 2012 5:00pm Come and play, sing, perform poetry, dance, or any other art form in solidarity with the people...
Public Meeting this evening on the Gaza crisis
ALL WELCOME! Members of the public are invited to come to a Solidarity Open Planning Meeting on Gaza to discuss the way forward. Learn...
Saturday 17th: Emergency Demonstration – End the Gaza Massacres
Assemble 12noon Charlotte Square 12.30pm – March to Scottish Parliament Called by: We are All Hana Shalabi & Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Supported by:...
Edinburgh Human Rights Festival
On Saturday, 17th November 2012, from midday until 5pm, the Amnesty International groups in the Edinburgh area are hosting the second annual Edinburgh Human...
Armed Forces Day, the military and schools
On 30th June this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) takes place. The website for the day (http://www.armedforcesday.org.uk/) states that its purpose is to raise...
Toward a Nuclear-Free World
BY GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A. KISSINGER AND SAM NUNN The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material...