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. …
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…
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.
Action AWE Contact Symon Hill (07920 037 719) or Angie Zelter (07456 588 943) News release - 11.03.15 Commons lobby filled with singers objecting to Trident MPs have been taken by surprise by about twenty people who entered the lobby of the House of Commons this morning and performed an oratorio called Trident is a War Crime. They are calling on MPs not to support “state terrorism” through nuclear weapons. They say they have turned to singing because…
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…
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Angie 0745 658 8943 Hannah 0772 979 7637 Rebecca 0773 336 0955 or [email protected] Burghfield Lockdown at AWE Burghfield, Near Reading, UK - Monday 2nd March 2015 Severe disruption underway at UK nuclear weapons factory with blockading to increase through the morning From 5.00 am this morning the deadly work of Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield has been severely disrupted with blockade activity expected to increase through the morning. People from England,…
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…
“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
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
