Action AWE press releases

Action AWE begins four day fast at AWE Burghfield

Members and supporters of campaign group Action AWE from all over the country today began a four day fast in front of the main gate of Britain’s nuclear warhead assembly plant at Burghfield, Berkshire, to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by a nuclear bomb. They were joined by local residents from Burghfield and by Serge Levillayer from France, a founder of the French Maison de Vigilance which organises a parallel fast…

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Four day fast at AWE Burghfield in memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 6-9 August 2013

Action AWE press release Members and supporters of Action AWE will fast for four days - from 6 - 9 August 2013 - in front of AWE Burghfield. The fast is one of a series of upcoming actions by Action AWE in the coming months, aimed at raising awareness about the UK’s nuclear weapons programme, and especially the planned like-for-like replacement of Trident. Angie Zelter, one of the organisers of Action AWE, who has visited…

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Trident Alternatives Review – An Irrelevant Waste of Resources

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Trident Alternatives Review – An Irrelevant Waste of Resources The government’s so-called Trident Alternatives Review (TAR), an edited version of which was made public today, failed to address the key question that the Lib Dems and many others have raised since the end of the Cold War: what alternatives to nuclear weapons could fulfil the UK security and deterrence missions that are assigned to (and claimed for) Trident. Once the Lib…

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Knighton Knit-in Around the Clock Tower

Knighton Knit-in Around the Clock Tower

PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) THE SEVEN MILE SCARF Knighton knitters will be purling and plaining in the town’s Narrows on Easter Saturday. A grand knit-in, open to all comers, will be producing a small section of what will eventually become a seven mile-long Peace Scarf but first the Clock Tower will be draped in a pink muffler. The event is an initiative of “Wool against Weapons” and is just one small part of a…

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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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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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