Today Trident Ploughshares and XR Peace campaigners are visiting arms dealers’ and military locations in Glasgow to underline the massive carbon boot-print of the war machine and to demand that their harmful emissions be included in any carbon assessment. The…
Peace Walk and Wreath laying in Dock at DSEI Arms Fair
On 14 September over 50 people turned up on a very wet day to join The Mad Hatters, Trident Ploughshares Affinity Group,to walk from Stratford Station to the ExCel Exhibition Centre in Docklands for the opening day of the 2021…
SOCPA comes to Holyrood!
From 1 October 2021 The Scottish Parliament building and surrounding land at Holyrood will be added to the sites covered by an amendment to the The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 in Scotland. This is at the request…
Join the Arms Fair Protest Walk 14th September
Tuesday 14 September 2021 11:00 – 13:00 Stratford Station (Underground, Overground, DLR, National Rail) Station Street, Stratford London E15 1AZ Walk with Mad Hatters and Trident Ploughshares to alert East Londoners to the DSEI arms fair taking place in their area, and…
Fast & Days of Action from Hiroshima Day to Nagasaki Day, August 6th-9th 2021
FAST AND DAYS OF ACTION FROM HIROSHIMA DAY TO NAGASAKI DAY, August 6th-9th This international fast and days of action to remember the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 has been held in many countries…
Protest at Scotland Office in Edinburgh
29 June 2021: Peaton Peace Pirates, a Trident Ploughshares affinity group, gathered outside the UK’s Scotland Office in New Street, Edinburgh in a protest against the Westminster decision to increase the number of nuclear weapons which it deploys from Faslane and…
TP tells UK Gov they are taking “stance we would expect from a totalitarian government”
This correspondence is made up of the Trident Ploughshares letter to the UK PM about the outcome of the Integrated Defence Review, the reply from the Ministry of Defence, and our response to that reply, which we sent on 13th…
Faslane Blockaded by Extinction Rebellion Scotland
On Friday 30th April a group of XR Scotland rebels blocked Faslane’s North Gate to demand a ‘Safe, Green Future’. Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion Scotland, collaborating with Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp, blocked the North gate of the…
UK Nuke Number Hike “Calamitous” Say Campaigners
Press Release: 29th March 2021 – for immediate use. UK Nuke Number Hike “Calamitous” Say Campaigners The anti-nuclear campaign Trident Ploughshares has reacted strongly to the decision of the UK government to increase its nuclear weapon stockpile by 40%,…