CND 2020 Conference: Real securitY lessons from the pandemic

18th october, 2-4.30pm An afternoon of discussions, workshops and practical activities reflecting on the changed situa- tion during the pandemic.

Open to all: click here to register. Timetable

14.00 Roundtable Real security, lessons from the You will receive pandemic the Zoom link by Rokhsana Fiaz, Roger McKenzie and email on Paul Rogers, in conversation with Saturday 17th Tom Unterrainer about the different ways in which to determine whether a society is safe

Refreshment Hugh Goodacre on acoustic gui- 15.00 tar, with a medley from the CND break Song Book

Visions of a green world click to join What factors will make our environ- Password: CND ment safe for the future? Amelia Womack and Phil Steele with Daniel Blaney as facilitator.

Security for the many click to join Breakout What does security look like for 15.15 Password: CND sessions local communities and working people? With Arthur West and Matt Fawcett

Creative campaigning click to join An artist-led, skills-sharing ses- Password: CND sion with Kirsty Reynolds, Hannah Please have a Kemp-Welch and Joe Jukes. square of paper on hand to make a paper crane

16.10 Keynote Jeremy Corbyn MP, introduced You will receive speech by Rachel Earlington the Zoom link by email on Saturday 17th Extracurricular Activities Available on the London CND website until 22.00 on Saturday 31 October.

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Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons A virtual exhibition curated by Hannah Kemp-Welch

How To Create A Local Peace Trail Demonstrated by Valerie Flessati, Movement for the Abolition of War click to watch Biographies

Daniel Blaney is Vice Chair of CND. He is currently serving a term as a local councillor and enjoying promoting walking and cycling in his local area as part of the council’s efforts to tackle air quality and the climate emergency.

Jeremy Corbyn MP was leader of the Labour Party 2015-2020. Je- remy is a long-time peace campaigner, a Vice President of CND and a former Chair of Stop the War Coalition.

Rachel Earlington is CND’s parliamentary officer, with a background of work in parliament for the Labour shadow cabinet. As a student in Bradford, Rachel was a prominent campaigner for peace and part of the NUS Black Students Campaign.

Matt Fawcett works for Yorkshire CND and is their campaign lead for the Nuclear Ban Communities campaign to persuade local councils and community leaders to declare their support for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Rokhsana Fiaz is the directly elected Mayor of Newham and a peace campaigner. She is a Mayors for Peace signatory, and when with the DSEI Arms Fair took place in the ExCel Centre last year in her East Lon- don Docklands borough, she hosted a Peace Day alternative event.

Valerie Flessati is a member of Movement for the Abolition of War and the originator of the London Peace Trail.

Hugh Goodacre is a lecturer at University College and Westminster Universities, as well as an amateur musician who regularly performs at trade union events.

Joe Jukes is CND’s Peace Education Officer and has helped en- gage thousands of students around England with nuclear weapons knowledge. He is continuing to run peace education assemblies and teacher training workshops in these uncertain times.

Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist who has exhibited internatio- nally. She works with communities across the UK, recording conversa- tions, stories and local histories, Hannah is a London CND Vice Chair and curator of London CND’s Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons exhibition. Roger McKenzie is Deputy General Secretary of Unison, with exten- sive experience of organising and campaigning in the public sector, with a focus on race equality issues and black self-organised struc- tures within the labour and trade union movement over many years. Roger appears on radio and TV as a spokesperson for his union, as well as on CND and peace platforms.

Kirsty Reynolds is an artist and activist. She is a participatory arts practitioner working creatively with communities to campaign for social change.

Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford Uni- versity and a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Research Group. He is Open Democracy’s international security adviser and contributes a regular column on global security. He is the author of several books, inclu- ding Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, and a regular broadcaster on radio and TV networks worldwide.

Phil Steele, a supporter of People Against Wylfa B which campaigns against a new nuclear power station on the Isle of Anglesey. He is edi- tor of Heddiwch, CND Cymru’s magazine.

Carol Turner is chair of London Region CND and a Vice Chair of CND UK. She is a member of Stop the War Coalition’s National Officer Group. Carol is a long-time peace campaigner, a former foreign policy advisor to British parliamentarians, and author of Corbyn and Trident: Labour’s Continuing Controversy.

Tom Unterrainer is a Director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foun- dation and a Vice Chair of CND. He is active in Nottingham and East Midlands CND, and also sits on the Labour Party International Policy Commission.

Arthur West is Co-Convenor of Scottish CND’s Trade Union Network, and a former chair of Scottish CND. Arthur is a life-long trade unionist and Unison branch secretary.

Amelia Womack has been Deputy Leader of the Green Party of En- gland and Wales since 2014. She works across a wide range of social and environmental issues, with a particular focus on women’s rights and climate change. Amelia is an End Ecocide campaigner, working with designer Vivienne Westwood to promote the change in environ- mental law. Technical support

Thank you for registering on Eventbrite!

Every event at this conference is hosted on a different Zoom link. - In order to join the breakout sessions (3.15PM), all you have to do is click on the link to the session of your choice indicated on the right column of the time- table above. - For the roundtable (2PM) and the keynote speech (4.10PM), Zoom will email you individual access links on Saturday 17th. One link for each session: check your inbox! This is because these sessions are webinars, so Zoom functions a bit differently for extra security. You will get reminder emails an hour before each session.

If you arrive early to a session, you will have to wait in the digital waiting room and will be admitted automatically when the session begins. If you are late, don’t worry! Someone will let you in.

When the session ends, close the window (click on the cross at the top right of your screen) and click on the next link to open a new Zoom window. Since you have all the links to attend the breakout room of your choice, you can also change rooms at any time by leaving the meeting (bottom right red button) and clicking on the link to ano- ther session.

If you experience any technical issue, please text Julie: 079380 66409.

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