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,…
Brief Summary of the 3 blockades at AWE Burghfield on 2nd March 2015, taken from on-site witnesses and compiled by Angie Zelter on 10th March. The Thames Valley Police Liaisons informed Action AWE at the weekend that there was a green line painted on the MoD road (The Mearings) and that anyone stepping across this would be arrested. On the day it was evident that several hundred police had been drafted in from…
Two blockaders from Las Canarias Alternativa Antimilitarista.MOC were at Burghfield Lockdown, and they got lots of media attention for their actions! Read the reports below. Repercusión en prensa de la acción de bloqueo en la fábrica de armas nucleares de AWE Burghfield Resumen de prensa sobre la acción de bloqueo internacional en la fábrica de armas nucleares de AWE Burghfield: Naiz Berria Uriola La Ser: EL Drago La Provincia: Antimilitaristas del Archipiélago protestan contra una…
NIS exclusive A flagship £600 million construction project at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment – the centrepiece of plans to rebuild the UK’s nuclear weapons factory to manufacture the next generation UK Trident warheads - has been put on hold following a series of design problems, project management failures, and regulatory setbacks. Work on Project Pegasus, a new facility under construction at AWE Aldermaston for manufacturing enriched uranium nuclear warhead components and highly enriched uranium…
The obscenity of spending £100 billion to upgrade Trident at a time of crippling financial cuts must be one of the defining arguments of May’s general election. Following a successful demonstration outside Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital by CND Cymru and Côr Cochion- “NHS Not Trident” -, we headed for AWE Burghfield determined to bring the nuclear bomb facility to a standstill. After Non violent Direct Action training the previous evening, and a few hours’ sleep,…
Maybe some of you don’t know and wonder, this is what it was like for me last Monday. First I am convinced that nuclear weapons are unacceptable and that I must do what I can to try to stop their proliferation. Burghfield is where they are assembled this should be stopped. AAWE is organising a blockade (no mean task) I register and on the Sunday, travel to Reading and make my way to the convergence…
Blocage le 2 mars 2015 à la base de Burghfield en Grande-Bretagne, où l’on stocke les missiles nucléaires anglais. * Le lundi 28 février 2015, un groupe de 10 militants (en lien avec Armes nucléaires Stop et Maison de Vigilance) + une cinéaste (en lien avec les Désobéissants) quittent la France en convoi > un mini-bus et une fourgonnette. Il s’agit de venir en soutien aux copains militants de Trident Ploughshare qui ont appelé à…
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Pax Christi members and some Quakers gathered at The Mearings , North Entrance at 6.20 am on 2 March. Carrying a banner, Christians Together for Peace and Justice, they walked into the road way to attempt to prevent workers from entering but were quickly pulled away by the police. We re-grouped at the side of the road with our banners and agreed to maintain our presence there. During the Sunday preparation three lovely students from…
Congratulations and really huge thanks to everyone who blockaded at and supported Burghfield Lockdown and thanks for all the encouraging messages of support throughout the event. We learned early in the day that the MoD, anticipating a successful blockade had made an advance decision to close the Burghfield site for the day of the blockade. Consequently the day was a bigger success than we had hoped for. Work throughout the site was prevented and enormous traffic queues…
First published 12:00 Thursday 5 March 2015 in News by Helen Morton, Senior Reporter ABOUT 150 people formed human barricades in the road outside AWE Burghfield to prevent vehicles from entering the site. Anti-nuclear protestors began to gather at 5am on Monday to lie across the entrances to the Atomic Weapons Establishment. The all-day blockade, which lasted more than 10 hours, saw two entry gates to Burghfield closed and the third was partially…
“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.