Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.Oratorio – Trident: A British War Crime – music, lyrics, samples, here!
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Oratorio – Trident: A British War Crime – music, lyrics, samples, here!
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.
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…
25 international peace activists from Finland, Sweden, and Belgium travelling on a coach from Finland to Burghfield in Berkshire to take part in the Burghfield Lockdown blockade planned for Monday 2 March were stopped and searched under Schedule 7 Terrorism Act by British anti-terror police in Calais on 28 February 2015. The pacifists from groups including the Union of Conscientious Objectors Finland (AKL), ofog in Sweden and Agir pour la Paix in Belgium are part…
‘In 1968 the UK signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and in 2010 the British government confirmed its commitment to “make special efforts to establish the necessary framework to achieve and maintain a world without nuclear weapons.” And yet we still have Trident and 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…
Support for people’s nuclear disarmament is growing, 4-5,000 on 24th January at Parliament. Burghfield Lockdown is the next large public action on 2nd March 2015 at and around AWE Burghfield near Reading. Please read on for info & put the date in your diaries. On Monday 2nd March 2015 roads in and out of the UK’s nuclear bomb factory, AWE Burghfield will be closed - blockaded by people. The length of the closure is…
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, timetables etc. here!
The Burghfield Lockdown Bust Card Pdf has been designed for printing 4 seperate Bust Cards on one sheet of A4 paper which is printed on both sides. It folds down into a small but easily recognisable/findable document. If you don’t have a printer, and can’t collect a Bust Card from a Convergence Centre please make a note of the phone numbers, write them down and make sure you have them with you at the blockade.…
“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
