Campaigners in Norwich roll out their section of the Wool Against Weapons pink scarf in front of City Hall, Norwich ahead of transporting it to the Wool Against Weapons event at AWE on Saturday 9th August, when knitters from all over the UK, Europe and the wider world will join their sections into a 7 mile long scarf joining the UK’s nuclear weapons factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
WOOL AGAINST WEAPONS AUGUST 9 HUMAN PEACE SCARF, AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield BRIEFING # 2 Information for MILESTONE COORDINATORS and PARTICIPANTS Dear Campaigners, We hope you are gearing up for August 9th, not long now! We have GOOD NEWS that we have nearly met our target for the 7 mile peace scarf – with wonderful pink knitting still coming in. Here below are some practical information and checklists for Nagasaki Day. 1. MILESTONE ORGANISERS -…
Three groups are working together to organise the Wool Agains Weapons event on 9th August 2014. Contact details for an organiser from each of the groups: Angie at Action AWE - [email protected] Jaine at Wool Against Weapons - [email protected] Sara at CND - [email protected] For phone enquiries - Angie on 0845-4588-362 Press enquiries Please address all press enquiries to [email protected] or phone 0845-4588-362
11:00am Tuesday 15th July 2014 in News CAMPAIGNERS knitted a 230-metre-long scarf to show solidarity against Britain’s nuclear weapons programme. Activists from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Oxford’s Lush store joined with Wool Against Weapons to knit the garment, which stretched along Cornmarket Street on Sunday. On August 9, it will be part of a seven-mile scarf which campaigners from across the UK will link between the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites in Aldermaston and…
Coaches or minibuses travelling to the Wool Against Weapons day at AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield on Saturday 9th August have been entered on the Google map below. If you click the marker nearest to where you want to travel from a window will open giving details of what the transport is and how to contact the organiser. If you are organising transport which isn’t included below please let us know so the map can be…
Shropshire Star report, PUBLISHED: July 8, 2014 A 120-metre-long pink scarf knitted by 80 opponents of nuclear weapons has been unveiled in a Mid Wales town. Shropshire Star photos Supporters of Wool Against Weapons, in Knighton, unfurled the massive scarf in the town centre, with it running the 100 metres from the clock tower to the cenotaph. It is designed to show people the group’s opposition to atomic weapons and will now go on to…
“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.
