Trident Ploughshares

Warhead Lab Plans Prompt Blockade of Nuclear Weapons Factory

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-09-06T20:05:07Z

Around twenty members and supporters of Trident Ploughshares joined a blockade and protest at one of the gates to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire during this morning's rush hour in protest at plans to build a new multi-million pound warhead testing facility at the site. Four of the activists chained themselves together with arm tubes and lay down in front of the gate for two hours, but released themselves without any being arrested shortly after 9am. Others (...)

Fylingdales Action - Sunday 6th June 2010.

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-06-12T10:00:01Z

A day to build awareness of the role of the U.S Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station in the North York Moors National Park both among the activists and the public visiting the park.
We were all lulled into thinking the dry, sunny weather would continue and so had prepared much paper material and had imagined spending a sunny afternoon talking to people, exchanging ideas and walking on the moor Around 30 people made the journey to Fylingdales.
Unfortunately it was wet and so plans were (...)

Trident protest held inside Parliament

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-06-04T08:22:04Z

SIX members of campaign group Trident Ploughshares protested silently inside the lobby of Parliament for two hours on Thursday (3 June), calling upon the incoming government to honour its disarmament commitments by scrapping the Trident nuclear missile system and its planned replacement and signing up to a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
At precisely 2pm, the five women and one man revealed white T-shirts with the slogans “Disarm Nuclear Weapons Now” and “Scrap Trident (...)

Faslane blockaded twice in three days for European Days of Action

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-04-06T16:08:57Z

Following Saturday's pan-European actions at nuclear weapons bases (see footnote), more than a dozen Trident Ploughshares activists today revisited Faslane naval base in Scotland, home of the UK's nuclear weapons. They peacefully blockaded the base and ensured that activity at the base was disrupted.
The protesters intend to ensure that high on the agenda of the election called by Gordon Brown today is the UK's nuclear weapons and their threat to global security. A spokesperson said,
"We (...)

European Day of Action at Faslane on Easter Saturday, April 3rd

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-03-19T05:00:00Z

April 3rd will be the European Day of Action to ban nuclear weapons. Nonviolent actions will take place at every NATO nuclear weapons base in Europe: in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Members and supporters of Trident Ploughshares will join Faslane Peace Camp and other activists, and faith groups, for a procession starting from the Peace Camp and ending with a symbolic blockade of the north gate of Faslane naval base in Scotland, the home of (...)

Faslane rock painting duo fined

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-03-18T05:00:00Z

Trident Ploughshares (TP) members Sylvia Boyes, a peace campaigner from Keighley, Yorkshire and Mary Millington, a retired Welsh language tutor from Glasgow, faced trial on Thursday (18 March) for painting a rock outside HMNB Clyde (Faslane) naval base in Scotland, the home of Britain's nuclear-armed Trident submarines.
The incident dated back to last August, during the TP Coulport Disarmament Camp, when the words “Scots! Say no to Trident” were painted on a rock outside the (...)

Aldermaston Update

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-02-23T04:59:03Z

There has been lots of coverage in the media about the blockade on 15th February. There is a link to photos from some of the gates in the gallery on our home page.
There is also an excellent blog dedicated to the blockade with lots of links to press coverage and lots more pictures. Click here to go to the blog
A total of 26 activists were arrested during the blockade, which lasted for over seven hours.
Five people were arrested for gaining entry to a secure site and the remaining 21 arrests (...)

Hundreds blockade nuclear bomb factory

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-02-15T10:04:54Z

Up to eight hundred anti-nuclear campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a number of other countries joined a blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston in Berkshire from just before 7am this morning. Every gate was closed by blockaders in the course of the morning. [1] Twenty-six arrests were reported, on suspicion of criminal trespass (for entering the site) and highway obstruction.
Individuals present at the blockade, which is aimed at (...)

E-mail in your Aldermaston Blockade photos!

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-02-13T06:00:00Z

Send your blockade photos for instant publication to:
awe [at] cnduk.org
Blockade blog: blockawe.blogspot.com
Blockade updates live via Twitter: follow @TridentPlough
Photos
Any mobile phone that can send photo attachments by email can submit images, or you can email them in afterwards from a computer.
Your pictures will be published automatically here, on the blockade blog, CND website and possibly elsewhere.
The subject line of your email will be used as the image title and any text in (...)

Nuclear bomb opponents gear up for direct action as new warhead facility gets green light

web@tridentploughshares.org — 2010-02-12T10:55:49Z

Campaigners from Trident Ploughshares [1] have slammed the approval of a new enriched uranium facility, saying it gives added justification to their blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire next week. [2]
Among the hundreds of campaigners who will be present at the blockade on Monday, 15 February, are Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jody Williams, from Vermont, USA and M�iread Corrigan-Maguire, from Belfast, Northern Ireland. [3] Also attending the blockade (...)