Action AWE has members, supporters and helpers all over the UK and internationally. If you’d like to join the Action at AWE and don’t know of any existing groups you could join, contact us and let us know where you’re based. There is a good chance we can put you in touch with someone else or a group in your area or not too far away. Also, check our Contact people involved page. There may be contact…
Action AWE is a campaign committed to nonviolence. Any Direct Action Training as listed or organised will be based on nonviolent methodology.Nonviolence however as a standard of practice can be adopted and used in many situations other than Direct Action. This video give a three minute history of some of the achievments of nonviolence over many years….. . Turning the Tide (TTT) has been working with campaigning groups since 1996 and has a pool of…
Preparation and planning is very often the key to success - also in civil resistance and direct action. A workshop can provide the basic tools for groups to organise and plan their own actions, as well as offering a space for practical skill sharing. The workshops are there for you and your group - they can be tailored to suit your requirements and needs. And don’t forget: having fun while preparing and taking action…
From RANT Trainers Collective SUMMARY An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously together on direct action or other projects. You can form an affinity group with your friends, people from your community, workplace, or organization. Affinity groups challenge top-down decision-making and organizing, and empower those involved to take creative direct action. Affinity groups allow people to “be” the action they want to see by giving complete…
The first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishmentclose to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons. The Aldermaston marches continued into the late 1960s when tens of thousands of people took part in the four-day marches.[103] One significant anti-nuclear mobilization in the 1980s was the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. It began in September 1981 after a Welsh group called…
Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies. How can we stop it? Don’t Bank on the Bomb is the first major global report on the financing of companies that manufacture, modernize and maintain nuclear weapons…
DID YOU know that nuclear warheads are regularly transported for hundreds of miles along UK roads? Police and Marines escort these military convoys between the warhead factory near Aldermaston and the Trident submarine base in Scotland. No radiation warning symbols are carried and neither the public nor local authorities are warned of these nuclear convoys. Nukewatch UK monitors these convoys with help from people like you. Nukewatch are then able to keep MP’s, journalists, local…
The Ministry of Defence has pledged at least £2 billion of spending on new developments at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), according to new information released in response to a Parliamentary Question from Caroline Lucas MP. The answer, which exposes the true scale of development at AWE, gives a breakdown of the costs for a number of new-build projects which are intended to keep the current Trident warhead in service and, if a future…
The lay person’s guide to REPPIR (Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Public Information Regulations), relating to AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield The principal radioactive materials utilised in the current design of UK nuclear warheads are Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) and highly enriched Uranium-235 (HEU-235). A single nuclear weapon produced by AWE is reckoned to contain several kilograms of Pu-239. At any time some part of the UK’s unsafeguarded stockpile of around 3.5 tonnes of weaponsgrade Pu-239 will be held on…
AWE plc is owned by a consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group, Lockheed Martin UK and Serco through AWE Management Ltd who hold a 25 year contract (until March 2025) to operate AWE. All AWE sites remain owned by the UK government who also hold a Golden Share in AWE plc. The company is based close to Aldermaston (although the nearest town is Tadley in Hampshire), with major facilities at Burghfield. AWE has two major sites, both based in Berkshire: AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield. The company’s headquarters is AWE Aldermaston, which covers…
“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
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Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.