Report in The Reading Chronicle by Matthew Leung OVERNIGHT camping ended yesterday at AWE Burghfield, bringing to a close 11 days of continuous blockading in protest at the renewal of Trident, Britain’s nuclear defences. Campaigners will still occupy the site…
Category: Media reports for June 2016
Rolling blockade at Burghfield nuclear weapons factory
From:Red Pepper Theo Simon writes from one of the longest continuous blockades of a nuclear weapons base 16 June 2016 When I joined the anti-nuclear blockaders lying with arms in lock-on tubes across a Berkshire lane, none of us imagined how…
Anti-Trident activists establish month-long peace camp at Burghfield warhead plant
Historic blockade comes before crunch Commons vote on nuclear weapons renewal A SERIES OF protests at the Burghfield Atomic Weapon’s Establishment (AWE) which constructs warheads for Trident nuclear weapons have morphed into a month-long peace camp, organisers say. The plant near Aldermaston,…
Press Release: Welsh Action Day at AWE Burghfield
Activists from Blackwood, Caerphilly, Newport, Swansea, West Wales and Powys will join the Big Blockade of Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment on Wednesday 15th June, to say no to the renewal of Trident, the UK nuclear weapons system (What is Trident?…
Paper cranes too scary for Trident police
The Guardian Monday 13 June 2016 I have just returned from a peace camp at AWE Burghfield, near Reading, where actions are taking place throughout June in protest at the government’s intention to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system…
Protests Bar Builders From Nukes Site
Morning Star in Britain CONSTRUCTION trayic is being turned away from the government’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire as a month-long protest against Trident warhead replacement enters its second week. Campaigners have mounted a blockade of the base since…