Scrap Trident Blockade Shuts Down Faslane

The Scrap Trident blockade of the UK’s nuclear weapons base at Faslane in Scotland was a huge success with the gates blocked from 7 am until 1.30 pm and many workers, who had been queued up in buses in nearby Helensburgh, sent home after refusing…

ScrapTrident Demo Fills George Square

On Saturday 4 April about four thousand people gathered for what Nicola Sturgeon called “the biggest anti-Trident demo in George Square ever.” “Trident Ploughshares was one of the organising groups. Next stop is the Big Blockade of Faslane Naval Base…

Fast 2015, Whitehall Gardens, London

Fast in Central London for the 70th commemoration of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.   A national urgency; an international fast This year the annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Fast is coming to London! The fast is an international initiative which has been followed in…

Peace Pirates Charged with Vandalism at Faslane

A Trident Ploughshares activist was arrested and charged with vandalism at Faslane naval base today while two others were detained after pinning a set of “Peace Pirate Articles”, to the fence. [1] The three have all been released from custody.…

Faslane Fence Painting Action Video

In this sweet little meditative video five Trident Ploughshares activists, most of them 60 or over, calmly and decidedly paint an unambiguous demand for disarmament on the fence of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons base in Scotland.

 

 

TP Activists Paint Faslane Fence: Scrap Trident Ban Nukes

Five protesters Trident Ploughshares activists were arrested today after painting “Scrap Tident Ban Nukes” on the Faslane fence. The five had just enough time to finish painting the last letters of the anti-nuclear message before MOD police arrived and arrested…