NATO has recently been staging its largest-yet exercises, Trident Juncture, across Spain, Portugal, and Italy. A number of Trident Ploughshares members from Scotland, England, and Wales travelled to Spain to offer practical solidarity to the resistance. Local campaigners had elected…
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Spanish Juncture-Angie Zelter,Trident Ploughshares, November 2015
Trident Ploughshares received the call-out to to oppose the Trident Juncture military exercise and decided to take part. After all, it was the biggest NATO exercise for 10 years, was about intervening in Africa and included a large contingent of…
Press Release:PEACEFUL PROTESTERS, INCLUDING UK ACTIVISTS, TEAR-GASSED AT NATO PROTEST IN SPAIN
Press release: 2nd November 2015 at Today a group of peaceful anti-NATO campaigners were roughly handled and tear-gassed by Spanish police during a protest against the activities of the alliance and the appropriation of local lands for military purposes. The…
UK PEACE ACTIVISTS PART OF GROUP ENTERING PROHIBITED NATO ZONE IN SPAIN
Press release: 2nd November 2015 UK PEACE ACTIVISTS PART OF GROUP ENTERING PROHIBITED NATO ZONE IN SPAIN Peace activists from the UK are part of a group of campaigners who this morning (11 am Spanish time) entered a prohibited military…
Press release:Trident Ploughshares members join Spanish locals’ anti Nato protest in Sierra del Retín
Six people from Trident Ploughshares have joined thousands of local people in (Sierra del Retín) in a demonstration against the increasing militarisation of this beautiful part of Southern Spain. NATO is spoiling this lovely fishing and tourist area with its increasing military…
Cost of replacing Trident ‘could hit £167bn’ says senior Tory MP
STV 26 October 2015 08:49 GMT A senior Tory MP has raised fresh questions about the renewal of the UK’s nuclear deterrent and says overall cost could reach £167bn. Crispin Blunt, who chairs the Commons foreign affairs committee, said the…