Janet Bloomfield
 Janet Bloomfield    (activist) | |
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| Born | Janet Elizabeth Hood 10 October 1953 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 2 April 2007 (Age 53) UK |
| Alma mater | Sussex University |
| Member of | British-American Project |
| Party | Green Party of England and Wales |
Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1990s; member of the British-American Project
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Janet Bloomfield was a British peace campaigner who was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1993 to 1996. She was a Fellow of the British-American Project.[1] [2][3]
Biography
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, Bloomfield was educated at Abbeydale Grange School, Sheffield and Sussex University, where she obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Geography.[3]
Bloomfield was the Chair of the CND, the largest peace and disarmament organisation in Europe from 1993 to 1996.[3][4] During this time she helped to develop CND's campaign around the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which included the production of the influential Blueprint for a Nuclear Weapon Free World.
She was active in the anti-nuclear movement from 1981.[3] She was a local group secretary, national council and executive, regional worker in the West Midlands for CND. She was the National Vice-Chair for two years before being elected Chair in 1993. She was honorary Vice-President of CND at the time of her death.[4]
She was a consultant (Vice-President 1994–1997) to the Geneva-based International Peace Bureau, a network of non-aligned peace organisations in 44 countries. She was a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons[4] and convened the Abolition Now Campaign Working Group of Abolition, 2000.
Bloomfield organised the campaign to stop arms trade shows being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 1991. She organised and led the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage 1996 around nuclear and sacred sites of England, Scotland and Wales.[3] This was filmed and made into a documentary called "Sacred Fire".
She was a consultant to the Oxford Research Group.[4]
After 1997, Bloomfield's main work was as UK co-ordinator of the Atomic Mirror,[1][4] whose goal is to create a nuclear-free world. The Atomic Mirror works with activists, artists, and indigenous peoples from nuclear sites, developing initiatives and joint activities to inspire people to take action, and abolish nuclear weapons and power. The Atomic Mirror is a founding member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Programme, of which Bloomfield was a spokesperson.[5]
Affiliations
- Joined Green Party in 1996.
- Member of Thaxted Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)[4]
- Co-Clerk of the Peace Campaigning and Networking Group of the Quakers' Peace and Social Witness.[3][4]
References
- ↑ a b https://books.google.com/books?id=79igjs2cMo0C&dq=%22Janet+Bloomfield%22&pg=PA235
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pavement-protesters-mourn-for-pacific-atolls-after-french-call-early-halt-to-series-of-nuclear-bomb-tests-1317136.html
- ↑ a b c d e f https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/30/guardianobituaries.politics
- ↑ a b c d e f g Douglas Holdstock; Frank Barnaby (2003). The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002. London, UK: Routledge. p. ix. ISBN 9780714653822. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/13/books.arts
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