Action AWE in the media

Blockade to be staged from 7am at AWE Burghfield tomorrow (Mon)

Sunday, 01st Mar 2015 Reporter: Ellis Barker Newbury News Reporter CAMPAIGNERS will be staging a blockade protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Burghfield tomorrow. The protest will begin at 7am and will attempt to blockade the two entrances to the site. It is being staged by Action AWE, a grass roots anti-nuclear campaign group opposed to the UK’s nuclear deterrent Trident. The protest forms part of its campaign ‘Act, Speak, Vote, Disarm’. The…

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Action AWE to hold protest at AWE Burghfield site on Monday

  Basingstoke Gazette by Helen Morton, Senior Reporter   ANTI-NUCLEAR activists from across Europe are set to stage a blockade at AWE Burghfield on Monday. Hundreds of protestors are set to block all entrances to the Atomic Weapons Establishment from 7am, which will bring work on Trident warheads to a halt. Campaigners from Finland, Sweden, Spain, France and Belgium will be among those travelling to join the blockade, which is one of an escalating number…

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Pax Christi to join blockade and prayer vigils at nuclear warhead factory

ICN independent catholic news February 27, 2015 Members of Pax Christi will be among hundreds of others taking part in a nonviolent blockade of Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield in Reading, from 7am on Monday 2 March. AWE Burghfield is one of two factories involved in the loading of nuclear warheads. AWE Aldermaston produce the ingredients and AWE Burghfield assembles them. Nuclear warheads move up and down between AWE Burghfield and Faslane submarine base in Scotland. The whole event is the initiative…

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BURGHFIELD… BRACE YOURSELVES…2nd March!

BURGHFIELD… BRACE YOURSELVES…2nd March!

  Report from Village Eye Magazine on-line. BY HELLEN · FEBRUARY 23, 2015 NEWS A major blockade of AWE Burghfield – Burghfield Lockdown! – will start on Monday 2nd March 2015 at 7.00am. The event will be open ended as it launches a month of sustained daily action at the AWE’s Burghfield site in the lead up to the UK 2015 General Election. Please circulate this announcement and please come! Full details with briefing, maps,…

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Burghfield atomic bomb factory blockade planned

Burghfield atomic bomb factory blockade planned

www.getreading.co.uk By Linda Fort Action AWE planning ‘lock-down’ demonstration at AWE Burghfield Anti-nuke protesters are planning a lock-down protest at Burghfield bomb factory next week. The demonstrators are hoping to stop the work at the atomic weapons establishment - AWE plc - from 7am on Monday, March 2. They are planning to block all routes in and out of the bomb factory in order to bring work on Trident warheads to a halt. Hundreds of…

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Scrap Trident nuclear programme, protesters demand

The Hindu - International - World Published: January 25, 2015 19:59 IST | Updated: January 25, 2015 19:59 IST Parvathi Menon Shouting “Wrap up Trident” and holding up placards reading “Books Not Bombs” and “Climate not Trident” thousands of campaigners took to the streets of central London on January 24 in a novel protest. ‘Peace scarf’ Organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Action AWE, the marchers wrapped the Ministry of Defence in a…

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Mission possible?

Peace News Feature by Milan Rai and Emily Johns Can we stop the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapon system? Different groups are using different strategies to try to make an election issue out of Trident replacement. The British decision on whether/how to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system is scheduled to be made in 2016, which means the 7 May 2015 election will elect the government that takes this £100bn decision. This has been…

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Media Reports of Wrap Up Trident event, London, 24/01/15

Media Reports of Wrap Up Trident event, London, 24/01/15

BBC   Anti-Trident ‘peace scarf’ protest by CND   Anti-Trident demonstrators have circled the Ministry of Defence with a ‘peace scarf’ to protest against the replacement of the UK’s nuclear weapons system. Luke Massey from CND spoke to the BBC’s Ben Moore about the aims of the protest. Source: BBC —————————————————————————————— Morning Star   Peace-Knits Rally To End Trident Folly FRIDAY 23RD JAN 2015 March against nuclear subs kicks off key election battle   THOUSANDS of…

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Live:Wrap up Trident protest, London

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RT report: Wrap up Trident protest

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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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