Charges were dropped to against five women, members of the Muriel Lester’s Trident Ploughshares affinity group, who were appearing on on trial at Reading Magistrates Court for non-violently blocking the private road to the Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield on Monday 2ndSeptember 2013.…
TP & friends Invoke Mandela Call for Nuclear Disarmament in Christmas Message to Lockheed
Report a Crime at Reading Police Station
Saturday 8th February 2014. 12noon to 2pm Crimestoppers! You have a right to report a crime. It is a crime to threaten mass murder. It is a crime to prepare for mass murder. Trident is the crime. Reporting the Crime.…
YES to SCOTLAND, NO to TRIDENT at Edinburgh Castle on St Andrews Day
The disarmament campaign group Trident Ploughshares took their hopes for an independent Scotland free of nuclear weapons to a crowded Edinburgh Castle on St Andrews Day, dropping a banner with the message SCOTLAND YES, TRIDENT NO from the highest parapet.…
Two TP Activists Admonished for Entering Faslane and Graffitti
Sylvia Boyes and I have both been taking non-violent direct action against nuclear weapons since the early 1980s. After countless arrests, court appearances and prison sentences, we found ourselves in court yet again on the 24th of September this year. Dumbarton…
Welsh dragons blockade nuclear weapons factory
From 7am on Thursday 3rd October, 50 activists from Wales blockaded the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield. Trident Ploughshares congratulates the campaigners, who are calling for the Trident nuclear weapons system to be scrapped and plans to replace it cancelled.…
Trident Ploughshares Congratulates Recipients of the Right Livelihood Award
Trident Ploughshares Backs Yes Vote in Scottish Referendum
YES TO SCOTLAND, NO TO TRIDENT The nuclear disarmament campaign Trident Ploughshares (TP) is asking people in Scotland to vote Yes in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence as the the best and most immediate opportunity to dismantle Trident in Scotland…