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Action AWE is supporting PICAT - The citizen challenge to UK’s nuclear weapons.

PICAT– A Public Interest Case Against Trident Press release: 1st October 2015 For Immediate Release NEW CITIZEN CHALLENGE TO UK’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS Campaigners aim to prosecute British state On 1st October campaigners will begin a new and ambitious project to institute a citizen’s prosecution of the Government and specifically the Secretary of State for Defence for breaching international law by its active deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system. PICAT is co-ordinated by Trident Ploughshares and…

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You can take the Secretary of State for Defence to Court

Trident Ploughshares has today, 1st October 2015, launched a project to encourage groups around England and Wales to go to their local magistrates court to try and initiate a citizen’s prosecution against the Secretary of State for Defence for conspiring to commit a war crime. If this is done in many places lots of local people will hear the arguments for and against Trident and the legal system will have to deal with the multiple…

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Love, hope and beauty against nuclear weapons

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…

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Tables turned on UK weapons of mass destruction

Seven Christians have this morning disrupted production of Britain’s nuclear arsenal with a blockade of Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment. This followed an ecumenical vigil for peace held yesterday, Palm Sunday, at the nearby Aldermaston facility. Arriving at 6:30am, they chained their hands together and lay in the gateway preventing vehicles entering the base. Having travelled from across the country, they were also among those who processed and prayed around the perimeter of AWE Aldermaston yesterday…

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Video:Day 1 of ‘Wheel Stop Trident’, London to AWE Burghfield cycling event

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  Press release: Cyclists take anti-cuts message to Berkshire nuclear weapons factory On Twitter: ‘Wheel Stop Trident’, Interviews, pics, more videos, journey progress Wheel Stop Trident - 1st film

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Pics: Oratorio House of Commons Lobby

Pics: Oratorio House of Commons Lobby

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‘Trident Flash Mob’ in Parliament - Paula Boulton radio interview.

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.  …

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7 MILES OF PINKNESS: THE SCARF THAT WON A STROUD FILM FESTIVAL AWARD

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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…

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Audio:Commons Lobby filled with singers objecting to Trident, 16.22mins.

Oratorio – Trident: A British War Crime – music, lyrics, samples, here!

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Demo at AWE Burghfield on 12.3.2015

Demo at AWE Burghfield on 12.3.2015

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.

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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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