‘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…
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Angie 0745 658 8943 Hannah 0772 979 7637 Rebecca 0773 336 0955 or [email protected] BURGHFIELD LOCKDOWN - 7.00am, Monday 2nd March 2015 - AWE Burghfield, Nr.Reading, Berks Work at key UK nuclear weapons factory - AWE Burghfield – to be halted on 2nd March 2015 On Monday 2nd March all routes in and out of Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield will be closed, bringing work on Trident warheads to a halt. This peaceful…
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.…
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…
REBECCA JOHNSON’S OPENING SPEECH AT THE WRAP UP TRIDENT RALLY January 24, 2015 [CND Vice President, Action AWE core group and Wrap up Trident demo coordinator] It’s brilliant seeing so many of you here, thank you for coming and demonstrating our strong opposition to Trident replacement – and nuclear-armed violence of all kinds. I’m speaking on behalf of ActionAWE as well as CND, which jointly organised this demo, as we had coordinated the amazing…
“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
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TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
