by Angie Zelter.What a wonderful Trident Ploughshares (TP) action this was. A fullblockade of all vehicle entrances into Burghfield for almost 5 hours! Itwas organised as part of the ActionAWE (AAWE) campaign (seehttp://actionawe.org/ ).3 autonomous groups set off from different parts…
Category: Atomic Weapons Establishment
Reporting Crime at Reading Police Station
Trident Ploughshares was one of the largest groups supporting Action AWE in their ‘Reporting of Crime’ event at Reading police station on Saturday 8th February. It was great to see the familiar faces amongst others. The event went really well…
Burghfield blockaders are spared a trial…….and get train fares paid
Leonna, Jamie and myself, Julia, arrived for trial in Reading on Friday 10th Jan. defending ourselves on a charge of Obstruction of the Highway. This was as a result of the blockades outside AWE Burghfield which closed it down on…
Charges of Obstructing Nuclear Disaster Dropped on Five Women Pensioners
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.…
£50 fine for nuclear weapons blockader
Helen Swanston, a 39 year old professional milliner from Cromer, appeared at Newbury Court on 19th October 2013 to answer charges of ‘Obstruction of the Highway’. Helen was part of the ‘Big Blockade’ at Atomic Weapons Establishment,Burghfield during the two week Trident Ploughshares…
Trident Ploughshares and Action AWE 14 Hour Blockade of AWE Burghfield 21 Activists from 6 European Countries Arrested
September 2, 2013: Activists from all over Europe today blockaded the two gates of AWE Burghfield, starting at 5:15am. For almost an hour, all vehicle access to AWE Burghfield was blocked, until police cleared a lock-on blockade of six Finnish…