Despite the virtual news blackout by the mainstream media the blockade at AWE Burghfield is still in place and construction work is still being prevented. Messages of support, thanks and solidarity continue to arrive. Thank you to all the people…
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Day 5 of the blockade at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield, Near Reading
Trident Ploughshares Press Release 10th June 2016 Construction traffic has been turned away from AWE Burghfield since Monday and vehicles continue to be turned away if they try to approach the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s facilities upgrade, which is one of…
Very urgent plea from AWE Burghfield blockaders
The June 2016 month of protest at the UK’s nuclear weapons factory, AWE Burghfield took an unplanned turn on Monday 6th evening when people who’d been protesting and blockading during the day decided to stay overnight to keep Construction get…
Press release:Entrance to UK nuke factory blocked by protests for 4th day
Blockaders at AWE Burghfield, the UK’s nuclear weapons factory, are still in place on the 4th day of a planned month of protest. No traffic can access the Construction Gate entrance. The blockade has been joined by protesters frrom Yorkshire…
Four charged after AWE protests
Thames Valley Police charge four with willful obstruction of a highway Newbury today report william.walker@newburynews.co.uk Contact:01635 886641 Thames Valley Police has charged four people in connection with ongoing protests at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield. Pipsa Toivonen, aged 18, Helena…
Activists blockade UK nuclear bomb factory for third day
Report from The Guardian Ben Quinn Thursday 9 June 201601.10 BST Construction at Trident warhead factory in Berkshire disrupted by international blockade of anti-war protesters Anti-nuclear activists mounting a human blockade of roads around a weapons factory in Berkshire said on…