The Wool Against Weapons project was founded by Jaine Rose as part of a programme of actions with Action AWE. The project is supported by and co-organised with CND. The concept of knitting a 7 mile long scarf to connect the UK’s two nuclear weapons factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield is described in the quote from Jaine, below. “Well hello world….and hello stitchers! Here is my long awaited plan! I am Jaine Rose, and I would like…
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…
TAKING THE PEACE SCARF TO PARLIAMENT, LONDON. Following from the Wool Against Weapons link-up between AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield on Nagasaki Day, many people wanted to re-use the peace scarf at Parliament before it was turned into blankets. In response, Action AWE and CND, with Wool Against Weapons’ support, are organising a mass demo in London on Saturday 24 January 2015, from 12.00 to 3.00 pm. The demo will link the peace scarf from the…
Reading Post Aug 11, 2014 13:25 By Linda Fort The pink scarf stretched from AWE Aldermaston to Burghfield A seven-mile pink scarf knitted by more than 5,000 people from around Britain and beyond was unfurled between the two Berkshire atomic bomb factories on Saturday. The peace-knitters were calling on Parliament not to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system when the decision arises again in 2016. The event was the latest demonstration against Trident at the Atomic…
Show as slideshow 123► Set of Wool Against Weapons pics on flickr, click image below to view collection.
Pink Scarf Route: Milestones Briefing #1 for August 9th Map:Wool Against Weapons Scarf Route & Milestone markers with info. Briefing # 2 - Information for MILESTONE COORDINATORS and PARTICIPANTS Details of transport available to ‘Wool Against Weapons’ event on 9th August Contact Wool Against Weapons Organisers Wool Against Weapons Leaflet for Locals
Reported on getreading.co.uk Aug 09, 2014 09:49 By Jennie Slevin Action Atomic Weapons Eradication (AAWE) is expected to hold demonstrations outside the AWE sites in Burghfield and Aldermaston today Campaigners are expected to demonstrate outside the AWE site in Burghfield today. Thames Valley Police officers have been made aware of the protest by Action Atomic Weapons Eradication (AAWE) which is part of a proposed three-year-long campaign launched in February last year. Officers and other partner agencies,…
REBECCA JOHNSON AND JAINE ROSE 8 August 2014 Rolling out a seven mile knitted pink peace scarf between the Atomic Weapons Establishment complexes at Aldermaston and Burghfield on Nagasaki Day may sound crazy. It isn’t as insane as letting the UK government spend another £100 billion on building a new nuclear weapons system to replace Trident. On 9th August – the 69th anniversary of the incineration of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb code-named “Fat Man”…
“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.
