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.…
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Trident Ploughshares Congratulates Recipients of the Right Livelihood Award
Trident Ploughshares today congratulated this year’s recipients of the Right Livelihood Award for outstanding work. This year’s recipients are Paul Walker one of the most effective advocates for the abolition of chemical weapons, Raji Sourani who has defended and promoted…
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…
The Trident Ploughshares Disarmament Camp at AWE Burghfield – 25th August to 7th September 2013 in support of Action AWE
On Saturday 24th August 20 activists met as a group for the first time with the kind support of a Buddhist Peace Pagoda. We sorted through plans, maps, contingencies, equipment and transport. We even had time to be filmed by…
Photos from TP / Action AWE Big Blockade of Burghfield
On Monday 3 September affinity groups from 5 European countries, Finns, Scots & frineds, French, Belgians, and Spanish, succeeded in shutting down the AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) Burghfield, the UK’s nuclear bomb factory, for 3 hours. The Scots affinity group…
Report from Reading Magistrates Court, 3 September 2013
Krista van Velzen, a Dutch former MP and member of Trident Ploughshares was the only one of 21 people arrested yesterday in the Action AWE Blockade of Burghfield who was held over night to appear in Court today. ‘What are…