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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…

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…

New Internationalist blog By Symon Hill Work at Britain’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire was disrupted this morning as the police spent three hours struggling to remove Christian protesters who werechained across a gateway. Last week, cyclists rode from London to Berkshire, visiting communities affected by cuts on their way to AWE and calling on politicians to save £100bn ($148bn) by not renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system. Earlier this month, a…

Paula singing in the House of Commons Lobby, 11th March, 2015

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. …

Trident Campaigners Hit Commons With Sing-Song

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…

Rochdale Observer – Burghfield Lockdown report

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…

Anti-nuclear protesters form human barricades outside AWE Burghfield

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…

Rochdale peace campaigners help close nuclear bomb factory

Date published: 03 March 2015 Three members of Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group travelled the 200 miles to Berkshire yesterday (2 March 2015) to support the blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield, near Aldermaston. Mai Chatham, Pat Sanchez and Philip Gilligan, from Littleborough, joined hundreds of other anti-nuclear protesters from around the country who blockaded all three entrances to facility which develops warheads for the Trident nuclear weapons system. Campaigners locked themselves to…

Berkshire: Anti-nuclear campaigners protest at AWE Burghfield

NEWZULU In partnership with AFP, AAP ONE, The Canadian Press & Press Association. Berkshire: Anti-nuclear campaigners protest at AWE Burghfield News Vetted story LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN - 02 MARCH 2015 Anti-nuclear campaigners descended on AWE Burghfield, Berkshire on March 2, 2015 to protest against Government proposals to spend £100bn on the new Trident missile programme. AWE Berkshire is a former munitions factory, responsible for making warheads used in the nuclear weapons system carried by Royal…

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