Supporters of Reading Peace Group had an early start to the day, heading down to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield to conduct a morning peace vigil to greet AWE staff as they turned up for work - our local contribution to the Marchmonth of action. We set up at the Burghfield Road entrance to The Mearings lane which leads to the main gate, by the checkpoint which has been set up by police to…
A Group of cycling activists called ‘Wheel Stop Trident’ are pedaling from London to AWE Burghfield on Friday March 27th 2015 as part of Action AWE’s Act, Speak,Vote >Disarm month of action. “The UK government is planning to spend £100 billion on new nuclear weapons, at a time when so many vital public services are experiencing massive cuts. We think this is completely wrong – so we are cycling from London to Burghfield, near Reading, where the…
Radio interview with ‘Trident: A British War Crime’ singer Oratorio singer Paula Boulton, one of the performers inside the House of Commons Lobby on Wednesday 11th March, was interviewed on BBC Radio Northampton after sharing her text version of the action with her local contact. They thought it was an upbeat story of an unusual Flash mob for drive time - but of course Paula used it to say why they were protesting. …
7 Miles of Pinkness from Philip Booth on Vimeo. Ben Hedley, Philip Booth and Steve Hurrell were the three behind a NEW 5 minute film that covers the story of Stroud’s Jaine Rose who inspired thousands to first knit, then to unroll 7 miles of pink scarf on Nagasaki Day, 9th August 2014 between two nuclear bomb factories. On 13th March 2015 the film was one of three short films to be recognised in the…
Oratorio – Trident: A British War Crime – music, lyrics, samples, here!
The Morning Star Thursday 12TH posted by Will Stone in Britain Anti-Trident campaigners flooded the Commons lobby yesterday to sing songs to MPs warning against the controversial renewal of Britain’s nuclear weapons. They performed an oratorio dubbed Trident Is A War Crime, which received thunderous applause from passing tourists, as apprehensive MPs scuttled to the chamber to attend Prime Minister questions (PMQs). The Action AWE campaigners claim they turned to singing because so many MPs…
Camilla Cancantata updated her ‘Trident is a War Crime Oratorio’ for singers with Action AWE to lobby their MPs in the House of Commons, Westminster, today. 14 singers from England and Wales gathered in the House of Commons calling their MPs to the central lobby hall and were accompanied by 6 others who supported them by negotiating with the security police as well as taking pictures. Small groups of singers entered the lobby hall…
During the afternoon of Thursday 12th March, a small group of local peace campaigners from Oxford CND, Croughton, Milton Keynes and Chicago demonstrated with placards and flags at the North end of The Meerings, near the main gate of AWE Burghfield. Show as slideshow This was part of the Month of Action at AWE Burghfield.
Action AWE Contact Symon Hill (07920 037 719) or Angie Zelter (07456 588 943) News release - 11.03.15 Commons lobby filled with singers objecting to Trident MPs have been taken by surprise by about twenty people who entered the lobby of the House of Commons this morning and performed an oratorio called Trident is a War Crime. They are calling on MPs not to support “state terrorism” through nuclear weapons. They say they have turned to singing because…
The deployment of WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) is still a major threat to the peace and existence of the planet. This Oratorio is one creative way of exploring the themes and engendering discussion about the UK’s nuclear weapons - an appropriate activity in the year of the 70th anniversary of the US use of nuclear weapons against Japan in 1945. This dramatic a capella piece is written for SATB, 4 - 8 parts,…
“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
WORLD IN CHAIINS
TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
