On Monday 11th March, 2 years after the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster, a group of non- violent activists from the Muriel Lesters Trident Ploughshares affinity group, Kick Nuclear, Japanese…
Right Livelihood Award Laureates Solidarity Mission to Landless Workers in Brazil
Trident Ploughshares expresses sorrow and concern over the increasing number of people in the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST who are being violently murdered. MST was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1991. “The Right Livelihood Award honours and supports those offering…
Lockheed Martin, Japanese Embassy & Parliament to get more of The Muriel Lesters attention
Lockheed Martin are partners with Serco and The Jacobs Engineering Group at the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment known as AWE. Work at AWE covers the entire life cycle of nuclear warheads; from initial concept, assessment and design, through to…
Peace Activists target UK’s Nuclear Hypocrisy
In the early hours of this morning (Monday 3rd February) two peace activists, Sylvia Boyes and Mary Millington were arrested attempting to enter Faslane, home to the UK’s nuclear submarines. Their actions come a week after David Cameron pledged to increase…
AWE Burghfield Summer Disarmament Camp 2013
Trident Ploughshares Summer 2013 International Disarmament Camp at AWE Burghfield, Information leaflet Trident Ploughshares Summer 2013 International Disarmament Camp at AWE Burghfield Full Briefing – 6 page .Pdf If you can make it to camp for a short visit, a…
The Great Trident Job Threat
“If we invest the money saved by cancelling Trident,we could make the UK a world leader in wave and tidal power technology and create thousands of jobs in Britain, vastly overcompensating for jobs lost by scrapping Trident.” Read the CND…
Scotland Without Nuclear Weapons Working Group Meeting with Bruce Crawford at the Scottish Parliament
A group of four peace activists met with Bruce Crawford at Scottish Parliament yesterday to hand in submissions from TP, Nukewatch and other groups in response to the Scottish governments response to the report of the Working Group on a…
More ways to support prisoners
Cornton Vale Prison Support, Stirling CND and others near to Cornton Vale are supporting all women prisoners at this, the only all-female prison in Scotland. Helene (tel: 01786 834096) co-ordinates this support by helping to arrange newspapers, visits and generally…
Tips for writing to prisoners
(also useful if you’re sending an Email) The following advice is taken from the War Resisters International Prisoners for Peace list, 2001 Always send your card in an envelope; Include a return name and address on the envelope; Be chatty…