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CND Action at AWE Aldermaston - April 1st 2013

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This year on April Fools’ Day (April 1st),we will highlight the on-going development of the government’s Trident nuclear weapons programme at AWE Aldermaston. We will gather around the base in our thousands with music, colour, and speeches. Why protest at Aldermaston? The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston is the bomb factory that designs and manufactures nuclear warheads. The warheads for the current Trident system were built at Aldermaston. Since 2002, the government has invested in building new facilities at…

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Action AWE Launches in Reading!

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Banners made their appearances at venues all round Reading followed by a public meeting attended by over 60 people.

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Action AWE’s 1st Press Release: 19th Feb 2013

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ACTION AWE: NEW DIRECT ACTION CAMPAIGN will be LAUNCHED on FEBRUARY 27TH for ‘ATOMIC WEAPONS ERADICATION’ The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston and Burghfield will again become the focus of nonviolent protest as a new campaign of civil resistance is launched in Reading, Berkshire on Wednesday 27February 2013, with the aim of halting the continued production of nuclear warheads at the AWE bomb-making facilities in Berkshire. Action AWE is a new grassroots peace campaign to oppose Trident…

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Help the workers dump the weapons

Early Morning Aldermaston Project “taking our message to the workers” If you would like to join a group presenting a clear and polite message to Aldermaston staff as they arrive for work, please contact [email protected] Next outing Tuesday 5th March 2013 Photos from our last visit to AWE Aldermaston……

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Action AWE Campaign Launch

Action AWE Campaign Launch

Action AWE is excited to announce its public launch will be held in: The Kennet Room, Reading Civic Centre, Reading, RG1 7AE on Wednesday 27th February 2013 at 7.30 pm We invite all to come along and discuss the issues and arguments with Dr Rebecca Johnson, Co Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speak on: ‘Avoiding nuclear catastrophe: from local action to a global nuclear ban’ & Kate Hudson, CND General Secretary speak on: ‘Time to Scrap Trident - how we can make it happen’. Learn how you…

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Two sample press releases

  Press release: 12th August 2013 Trident Ploughshares activists plan to hold a TWO WEEK DISARMAMENT CAMP at AWE Burghfield from 26th August 2013 Today it was announced that peaceful disarmers will be camping outside the UK’s nuclear weapons factory at Burghfield. They are determined to disrupt the ‘business as usual’ work and aim to stop the uk’S war crimes plans from being implemented. They are part of the 3 year Action AWE Campaign. They will…

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Media contacts

Media UK : 817 radio stations, 513 television channels, 1,594 newspapers, and 1,967 magazines - from 287 media owners - are all here. The directory is continually updated. To search for specific publications select the media type from the menu at the top of the Media UK website and follow directions, below: “Newspapers are filed under their initial letter, excluding words like ‘The’ and ‘Daily’. So, find The Independent under I, and The Sunday Times under ‘T’ - 0r search for a place.” Reuters website: http://thomsonreuters.com/news_ideas/media_contacts/…

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Getting Your Story Out

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  Many people joining Action AWE will already be skilled and experienced in getting their message out via the mass media but others may welcome some pointers. Some actions will be planned and publicised in advance, others will be unannounced and won’t require any media work until after the event. In addition to the mainsream media, compile a list of Social Media sites, blogs and forums which comment on your issues and prepare news and…

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Define your own message

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It is a key feature of Action AWE that no one person or group owns the campaign and each group should take the opportunity to make the links between their own mandate and the Trident issue - on the understanding that the deployment and threat to use nuclear weapons undermines their vision of a better society. Past protests at AWE have had a great diversity in the concerns and issues that people highlight as they…

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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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