‘Wheel Stop Trident’ ride leaves London this morning The cyclists say cut Trident, not public services Ten cyclists will set off from London this morning, heading for the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) based at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire. On their two-day trip, they will meet communities affected by government cuts and visit the offices of arms companies profiting from government subsidies. The cyclists will begin at 8.30am at the offices of arms giant Lockheed…
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…
Email Angie Zelter at: [email protected] or phone: 074-565-88943 UK: Protesters join international Fast against Trident with 24 hour a day action in Whitehall Gardens, London SW1 From 6th to 9th August 2015 70 years after Hiroshima, we demand nuclear disarmament! An international (Note 1) 4-day fast (water only) will begin on Thursday 6th August and will take place in the UK (London and Edinburgh), in France (Paris, Dijon-Valduc, Bordeaux-Mégajoule), Germany (Büchel) and in the USA…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
A 120-metre long pink scarf knitted by opponents of nuclear weapons was today unfurled through the centre of the Welsh border town of Knighton (Tref-y-clawdd). It dominated the town centre, with the unfurling procession led by a town crier, who was joined by the Teme Valley Ceilidh Band, hand-bell ringers, the Pales Peace Choir and a huge Welsh Red Dragon. The scarf, knitted by around 80 people form the local area, will now go on…
PRESS RELEASE Around 15 local people queued outside Llandrindod Police Station today, Monday 30th June, to report on crimes being committed by the Government and Ministry of Defence. It took over 3 hours for the complaints to be heard and logged. One by one they entered the police station and reported that the UK nuclear weapons on Trident were too big and powerful to be contained in space or time, would kill millions of people,…
Hundreds of knitters say ‘blankets not bombs’ Knitters from across Scotland have stitched through the winter to create a pink scarf for peace. Hundreds of meters of knitting will be rolled out on the Royal Mile on Saturday 28 June to support a nuclear free Scotland. The network – or knitwork – Wool Against Weapons Scotland is part of an alliance of knitters and crocheters across the UK protesting against the renewal of Trident…
“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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Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.