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For the Chinese-American organisation, see Committee of 100 (United States). For the lobbying group in Delaware, see Committee of 100 (Delaware).

The Committee of 100, for peace and against war and nuclear weapons, was a British anti-war group. It was set up in 1960 by Bertrand Russell, who resigned from the presidency of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in order to form this more militant group. Its members used and advocated civil disobedience to achieve their aims. The Committee of 100 (Traditional Chinese: 百人會) is a non-partisan group of prominent Americans of Chinese descent with the mission to pool their strengths and experience to address important issues concerning the Chinese American community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations. ... Official language(s) None Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Area  Ranked 49th  - Total 2,491 sq mi (6,452 km²)  - Width 30 miles (48 km)  - Length 100 miles (161 km)  - % water 21. ... The Committee of 100 is a Wilmington, Delaware based lobbying group that deals with issues relating to economic development, local finance, and land use policy in the state of Delaware, particularly the northern part of New Castle County. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician and advocate for social reform. ... Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... The word militant has come to refer to any individual or party engaged in aggressive physical or verbal combat, normally for a cause. ... Anti-war activist Midge Potts is arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 2005. ...

Bertrand Russell explained the reasoning behind the Committee of 100 in an article in the New Statesman in February 1961:

"The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has done and is doing valuable and very successful work to make known the facts, but the press is becoming used to its doings and beginning to doubt their news value. It has therefore seemed to some of us necessary to supplement its campaign by such actions as the press is sure to report. There is another, and perhaps more important reason for the practice of civil disobedience in this time of utmost peril. There is a very widespread feeling that however bad their policies may be, there is nothing that private people can do about it. This is a complete mistake. If all those who disapprove of government policy were to join massive demonstrations of civil disobedience they could render government folly impossible and compel the so-called statesmen to acquiesce in measures that would make human survival possible. Such a vast movement, inspired by outraged public opinion is possible, perhaps it is imminent. If you join it you will be doing something important to preserve your family, compatriots and the world." ^[1]

Their first act of disobedience was scheduled as a march against Whitehall's defence policy. The members were to block roads at Holy Loch and Trafalgar Square on September 17, 1961, but were summoned to court on September 12 because they "incited members of the public to commit breaches of the peace" and were likely to continue to do so. In the courtroom, they were asked to bind themselves to a promise of good behaviour for 12 months. Of the thirty-six summoned, thirty-two chose the one-month prison sentence. Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament. ... The Holy Loch seen across the Firth of Clyde with Dunoon on the left The Holy Loch is a body of water in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. ... Trafalgar Square viewed from the northeast corner. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Breach of the peace is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries, and in a wider public order sense in Britain. ...

References

1. ^ Bertrand Russell, "Civil Disobedience", New Statesman, 17 February 1961

See also

• Anti-war
• Peace movement

Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. ...

External links

• Web site about CND history
• Left-wing account of the Peace Movement in the 1950s and 1960s