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Welcome to Trident Ploughshares!

16 December, 2012

Trident Ploughshares is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.Trident Ploughshares was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ in 2001

“for outstanding vision and work on behalf of our planet and its people”

TP Letter to Alex Salmond: Keep Scotland out of NATO; Reduce Military Spending

12 April, 2013

Alex Salmond First Minister of Scotland 12 April 2013 Dear Alex, I wanted to thank you for your letter in support of the Scrap Trident weekend of protest and action and for your support for the historic resolution of the Scottish Parliament opposing Trident. We…

Verdict in Marabá, 4th April 2013.

5 April, 2013

Arriving in the morning at the court I was finally able to get a decent photo. The judge with his white sash sitting just under the picture, the prosecutor (speaking) and you can just make out the blue uniforms of the 3 accused men on the right.…

Day 3 -The Trial, Marabá, Pará, Brazil

4 April, 2013

3rd April 2013. People had gathered outside the court well before we arrived at 8.30. Two very large canopies had been put up by MST to shade the people with lots of white plastic chairs. The fence surrounding the court was festooned with banners and…

Day 2, University of Parà, Marabà

4 April, 2013

The RLA delegation gathered at the University of Parà for a press conference. Around 70 people attended. Leaders of MST and CPT outlined the situation in Parà, the threats and killings that had taken place, and highlighted the case of the murders of José and…

Brazil delegation: Day 1

3 April, 2013

1st April 2013 – Marabá I am here in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on behalf of Trident Ploughshares as part of a 3 person Right Livelihood Award (RLA) delegation. We are here to express our solidarity with two other RLA laureates – the Landless Workers Movement (MST)…

Where are Lockheed Martin’s UK Offices?

14 March, 2013

On Monday 11th March, 2 years after the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster, a group of non- violent activists from the Muriel Lesters Trident Ploughshares affinity group, Kick Nuclear, Japanese Against Nuclear & CAAT, again demonstrated…