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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Letter to Pope: veteran peace activist Bruce Kent calls for papal condemnation of nuclear weapons

Veteran peace activist and former Catholic priest Bruce Kent, 83, has written to Pope Francis calling on him to condemn nuclear weapons worldwide. Citing the inaction of the UK’s Catholic Bishops on the issue of Trident replacement, Bruce Kent asked the ... [Published Compaign for Nuclear Disarmament - May 17 2013]

Entities: Bruce Kent, Nuclear Weapon, Condemnation, Weapons of Mass Destruction

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Roman Catholic Church

Catholic Church & nuclear weapons - an open Letter to Pope Francis from Bruce Kent

Dear Pope Francis,Whether this letter will ever reach you I have no idea, but it is worth trying to contact you. As an ordinary Catholic I wish you well in the great task to which you have been called. You are in the prayers of millions who need your ... [Published Independent Catholic News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Weapon, Bruce Kent, Pope Francis I, Roman Catholic Church

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

We can't afford Trident and we don't need it

AS a Birkenhead boy once reported on the futility of war, so did CND’s Bruce Kent his “Scrap Trident Tour” at the Lauries Centre this week.Bruce and others highlighted the connection between the £100 billion to be spent on the neither strategically sound ... [Published Wirral Globe - May 08 2013]

Entities: Bruce Kent, Weapons System

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Latest edition of Vocation for Justice available online

The latest issue of the Columban 12-page newsletter 'Vocation for Justice' is now available online. Columbans are urging readers to support the Religious Lobby of Parliament on FOOD on 15 May and the Hyde Park FOOD event on Saturday 8 June, in advance ... [Published Independent Catholic News - May 03 2013]

Entities: Paul Donovan, Bruce Kent, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Sarah Teather

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Pupils talk North Korea and nuclear weapons with anti-nuclear campaigner

NUCLEAR weapons and North Korea were the topics of discussion at Shenfield High School when a veteran peace campaigner came to Brentwood.Attentive pupils listened to 83-year-old Bruce Kent, from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), on Friday.Jill ... [Published This is Total Essex - May 01 2013]

Entities: Anti-Nuclear, Nuclear Weapon, North Korea, Bruce Kent

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Power corrupts, even in Church

Upon retiring several years ago, I became a regular church attendee. During this time I have tried to understand why some churches, not all, are seeing a decline in attendance.The typical secular view is that religion is losing support. Let me offer another ... [Published Wigston People - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Corruption, Bruce Kent, London Marathon, Whistle-Blower

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Peace campaigner visits Reigate and Redhill town centres on countrywide tour

Renowned peace campaigner Bruce Kent visited Reigate and Redhill this week as part of his countrywide 'Scrap Trident' tour.The well-known campaigner spent 45 minutes in both town centres, encouraging shoppers to stop and think about the issue of Trident ... [Published This is Local London - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Bruce Kent, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Public Health, missile, Social Welfare

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

CND cannot rewrite its own history

Last week I recorded an edition of Hardtalk for the BBC which has gone out today. It is a discussion with Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), on the future of nuclear weaponry. The discussion is available ... [Published The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Kate Hudson, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, Communist Party

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Scrap Trident Tour - Kingston Upon Thames

Join Kingston Peace Council/CND and Bruce Kent from for a chat and photos from 1:30 pm outside the shopping centre.For further details, visit the Kingston Peace Council website at: http://www.kpc.gn.apc.org/ ... [Published Compaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Kingston (Jamaica), Bruce Kent

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Video: Veteran anti-nuclear campaigner visits Peterborough

Long-standing anti-nuclear campaigner Bruce Kent visited Peterborough as part of a national tour against the Government?s $100 billion plans to replace the Trident missile system.The political activist joined local campaigners in Long Causeway as part ... [Published Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Anti-Nuclear, Bruce Kent, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Hypocrisy, Nuclear Weapon

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

CND's Bruce visits city

Anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Bruce Kent called for Britain to ditch its submarine-based deterrent as part of a "scrap Trident missile tour".Mr Kent said it was immoral to consider embarking on replacing the missiles when so many people across Britain ... [Published Leicester Mercury - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Bruce Kent, missile, Peter Soulsby, De Montfort University

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 2 reports

Anti-nuclear campaigner urges R-R to stop building reactors for subs

ONE of the UK's leading campaigners for nuclear disarmament has called for Rolls-Royce to stop building submarine reactors and move into green energy instead.Bruce Kent, 84, the honorary vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), ... [Published Derby Telegraph - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Bruce Kent, Anti-Nuclear, Reactor

Quotes

Speaking after a prayer meeting at the BishopBishop Street MethodistMethodist church, Mr Kent, who is vice-president of national CND, said: "it seems to me that we, as a country, are moving towards replacing, at vast expense, our trident submarines and their murderous missiles and warheads."

CND's Bruce visits city [Published Leicester Mercury - Apr 23 2013]

Asked who was making money out of nuclear weapons, Mr Kent had said: "the company that runs the derby rolls-royce affair is not paying tax in this country so (in that case) i don't know who is making money out of it."

Anti-nuclear campaigner urges R-R to stop building reactors for subs [Published Derby Telegraph - Apr 19 2013]

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CND cannot rewrite its own history [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 29 2013]
Scrap Trident Tour - Kingston Upon Thames [Published Compaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Apr 26 2013]
Video: Veteran anti-nuclear campaigner visits P... [Published Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Apr 25 2013]
CND's Bruce visits city [Published Leicester Mercury - Apr 23 2013]
Letters: Mordechai Vanunu's suffering [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 19 2013]
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Scrap Trident Tour - Totnes [Published Compaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Apr 18 2013]
Letters to the Editor: May 2013 [Published History Today - Apr 17 2013]
Pax Christi calls for military spending to be d... [Published Independent Catholic News - Apr 16 2013]
A Staggering Century - and the New Statesman yo... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Apr 16 2013]
“The twots”: Letter from a would-be New Statesm... [Published New Statesman - Apr 16 2013]
Peace campaigner Bruce Kent to visit Redhill an... [Published This is Local London - Apr 15 2013]
Derby Cathedral talk on 'Nuclear Weapons in an ... [Published Mickleover People - Apr 15 2013]
Now people are waking up - Bruce Kent on CND at 83 [Published Local Berkshire - Apr 14 2013]
Political activist Bruce Kent visits Bath [Published Bath Chronicle - Apr 13 2013]
Veteran peace campaigner slams Britain’s ‘hypoc... [Published York Press - Apr 13 2013]
Activist calls to axe Trident during talk in Be... [Published Bedfordshire on Sunday - Apr 10 2013]
Letters: But the greatest of these is love [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 26 2013]
From the archive: What Do They Want? Victory fo... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Feb 15 2013]
No to war criminal Blair at UCL [Published Socialist Worker - Nov 13 2012]

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CND cannot rewrite its own history [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 29 2013] Last week I recorded an edition of Hardtalk for the BBC which has gone out today. It is a discussion with Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), on the future of nuclear weaponry. The discussion is available ...
From the archive: What Do They Want? Victory fo... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Feb 15 2013] Ten years ago today, Lloyd Evans joined the anti-Iraq war march in London. Evans had an open mind about the war, until he joined the peace movement and met Bianca Jagger. Here is the piece in full from our archive. I’m bursting with excitement. I can ...