Programme of events during Fast 6th-9th August 2015

July 26, 2015
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Trident Ploughshares (TP) and other groups. Thursday 6th August 2015 TP Fasters - 8.15 a.m. Commemoration and vigil at the time of dropping of Hiroshima bomb in Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Extension (near Horse Guards Avenue / Ministry of Defence), SW1. Gather at 8 a.m. 9-2,30 Some of the Fasters will join the Hiroshima Day Peace Walk organised by Christian CND 2 – 2.30 p.m. Die-in outside main entrance to Ministry of Defence. Interfaith Service…

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Should Britain Keep its Nuclear Weapons?

July 13, 2015
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Nuclear Information Service - June 2015 newsletter

June 23, 2015
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Nuclear Information Service – June 2015 newsletter

NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues     NIS Update Newsletter: June 2015 Contents of this month’s NIS Update newsletter from Nuclear Information Service: Ministry of Defence reviews command arrangements to sort out nuclear weapons “mess”. Trident whistleblower William McNeilly ‘sacked to save the Navy’s image’. Atomic Weapons Establishment management contract to be terminated? Atomic Weapons…

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Fast in Central London for the 70th commemoration of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.

May 12, 2015
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This year the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Fast is coming to London! The fast is an international initiative which has been followed in France for over 30 years now, and for several years in Germany also. For two years running it has also been held in Burghfield with support from Action AWE and Trident Ploughshares. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and there is a strong will across Europe to mark…

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BBC:The nuclear dimension to UK election

May 5, 2015
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Anthony Zurcher The British naval base in Faslane, Scotland, is home to four Vanguard submarines - and the source of a fierce debate that illustrates the sticky political issues presented by the rise of the Scottish National Party in this year’s general election. While it may be hard for most Americans to imagine, those four submarines, equipped with ballistic missiles, are the sum total of the UK’s atomic arsenal. While the US has ICBMs, bombers…

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Action AWE co-founder Dr. Rebecca Johnson debates on BBC 2 Daily Politics program

May 1, 2015
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Action AWE co-founder Dr. Rebecca Johnson debates on BBC 2 Daily Politics program

Action AWE co-founder and Green Party member Rebecca Johnson publicly called for ‘stupid’ Trident to be scrapped and urged the UK to join international negotiations to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons, when she went head to head with the UK Defence Secretary and defence spokespeople of the other four main parties in the general election’s Daily Politics debate on the BBC: Watch on BBC iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05sjgtg/daily-politics-2015-election-debates-defence-and-security People from outside the UK who can’t access BBC…

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It’s time for Britain to move on from nuclear weapons

April 14, 2015
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It’s time for Britain to move on from nuclear weapons

Pinning our security on a nuclear deterrent encourages others to do the same   The election campaign to date suggests that decommissioning Trident nuclear weapons is a dangerous, minority demand led by the SNP, the Greens and Plaid Cymru. Yet poll after poll reveals that it is in fact a majority popular demand throughout the UK. One poll recently revealed that 81% of 500 general election candidates are opposed to renewal. There are increasingly obvious…

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Faslane blockade: 36 arrests made as hundreds gather at naval base to protest against Trident nuclear missiles

April 13, 2015
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Faslane blockade: 36 arrests made as hundreds gather at naval base to protest against Trident nuclear missiles

By Gordon Robertson GREEN MSP Patrick Harvie amongst those attending the demonstration on the Clyde organised by the Scrap Trident campaign. AROUND 250 anti-nuclear protestors have blockaded Faslane naval base on the Clyde. All entrances to the facility, home to the UK’s Trident submarines, are now blocked while police have arrested 36 activists at the site. The demo is part of the Scrap Trident campaign, which urges voters to back only those candidates who firmly…

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UK: ‘Scrap Trident!’ The SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon and thousands rally in Glasgow

April 4, 2015
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Election 2015: Thousands attend anti-Trident rally in Glasgow

April 4, 2015
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Thousands of protesters have taken part in a rally in Glasgow, calling for Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons programme to be scrapped. The protest was organised by the Scrap Trident coalition, as the focus on the general election campaign trail in Scotland turned to nuclear weapons. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon addressed the rally in George Square. Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens and Labour election candidate Katy Clark also spoke. A police estimate suggested about 2,500…

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Love, hope and beauty against nuclear weapons

April 2, 2015
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Love, hope and beauty against nuclear weapons

The Ecologist 24th March 2015 The UK’s Trident nuclear missile system has the power of 1,500 Hiroshima bombs, writes Angie Zelter - and to use it would be a monstrous and probably suicidal crime against humanity. Should we spend £130 billion renewing it? Or on schools, hospitals, libraries, social care and cycleways? The inspiring ActionAWE campaign is waking people up to the choice we face. People can be so creative in their protests. Whether engaged…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

– Ken Loach

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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