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Action AWE: You can take the Secretary of State for Defence to Court

Action AWE is supporting Picat - the new citizens challenge to UK’s nuclear weapons. Please read the details and press release below and join us if you can! A letter from Angie Zelter, co-organiser of The Picat Project: You can take the Secretary of State for Defence to Court 1 October, 2015 Trident Ploughshares has today, 1st October 2015, launched a project to encourage groups around England and Wales to go to their local magistrates…

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Burghfield Lockdown - Report, thanks & more….

Burghfield Lockdown – Report, thanks & more….

  Congratulations and really huge thanks to everyone who blockaded at and supported Burghfield Lockdown and thanks for all the encouraging messages of support throughout the event. We learned early in the day that the MoD, anticipating a successful blockade had made an advance decision to close the Burghfield site for the day of the blockade. Consequently the day was a bigger success than we had hoped for. Work throughout the site was prevented and enormous traffic queues…

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Burghfield Lockdown - Last call, Video & Press Release!

Burghfield Lockdown – Last call, Video & Press Release!

    Preparations for Burghfield Lockdown are gathering pace. With just a few days to go before the big day launches a month of action through March in the lead up to the General Election. Trident and nuclear weapons are already an election issue. We intend to do our best to keep them high on the list and work towards a result which would see the end of hundreds of billions of tax-payers money being…

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Burghfield Lockdown:Following on from the success of ‘Wrap Up Trident’ event in London……..

Burghfield Lockdown:Following on from the success of ‘Wrap Up Trident’ event in London……..

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…

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5 ways Action AWE opposed Trident replacement in 2014

5 ways Action AWE opposed Trident replacement in 2014

2014 has seen a lot of activism against Trident replacement; here’s a quick reminder of how Action AWE has been taking direct action against replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system. 1. On August 9th - Hiroshima Day - we connected Burghfield and Aldermaston with our huge ‘Wool Against Weapons’ peace scarf. 2. In May, ‘Put Down the Sword’ affinity group and Yorkshire CND blockaded Burghfield AWE’s construction gate… 3. … and then Trident Ploughshares used…

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Action AWE Newsletter, November 2014

Action AWE Newsletter, November 2014

Our last newsletter of 2014 is packed full of plans and dates for your diary – get ready to Wrap Up Parliament; Lockdown Burghfield; and Act Speak Vote and Disarm the UK. We’re also supporting book launches, and we have good news from the Marshal Islands… A World in Chains In November we’re launching the book World In Chains - you still have time to put the Oxford launch on 19 November in your diaries.…

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Action AWE newsletter – August 2014

Action AWE newsletter – August 2014

In this Action AWE newsletter: Wool Against Weapons Act, Speak, Vote > Disarm! World in Chains book launch We’ve had a busy time of it over the last few months, with several blockades of Burghfield AWE and of course the huge success of Wool Against Weapons – over the summer of 2014, thousands of people have demonstrated their commitment to opposing Trident replacement. But we’re not stopping here – there’s still a lot of work…

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Action AWE & Wool Against Weapons newsletter

Action AWE & Wool Against Weapons newsletter

Let’s Roll It Out on 9 August 2014 We’ve got less than 2 weeks to go and we’ve nearly reached the target of 7 miles of pink scarf! Knitters around the country are sewing pieces together and rolling up giant pinwheels of pink knitting, and we’re finalising plans for Nagasaki Day at Burghfield and Aldermaston AWE. The scarf rollout will follow a fast at Burghfield which all are invited to join, either at Burghfield or…

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Action AWE newsletter: June 2014

Action AWE newsletter: June 2014

Welcome to the summer – at last, to plans for action with Action AWE and our latest reports of exciting blockading, knitting and anti-arms campaigning action in Spring… Upcoming actions 1. Report the crime of nuclear weapons! Action overview, details & info here. When: 1-7 July 2014 Where: your local police station Resources, here. The next big action will be Reporting the Crime of Nuclear Weapons – at your local police station. In the first…

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Action AWE Newsletter: April 2014

Action AWE Newsletter: April 2014

“We have a window to act now. If we push on scrapping Trident now, we’ll win. With the confluence of the international movement to ban nuclear weapons, and UK popular opposition to spending money on illegal weapons during a time of austerity, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rid of Britain’s nuclear-weapons of mass destruction.” - Dr. Rebecca Johnson, international anti-nuclear campaigner, Acronym Institute http://www.acronym.org.uk/ & ActionAWE actionawe.org Latest actions Action…

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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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