Press Release: 3rd August 2019 Activists Demand End to Nukes on Hiroshima Anniversary Between Tuesday 6th and Friday 9th August, Trident Ploughshares is organising a series of protests in London to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima…
Eight on Trial for Burghfield Blockade
Almost nine months after closing down Britain’s Nuclear Bomb factory at Burghfield, near Reading, the trial concluded this week of the eight accused. On 24 October last year, AWE Burghfield in Berkshire was closed for a working day when the…
FIVE PLAY TAG AT FASLANE
Campaigners Reclaim UK Nuke Base for Peace on Anniversary of Nuke Ban Treaty On the second anniversary of the day that the United Nations agreed to ban the bomb Trident Ploughshares, in order to challenge Faslane’s legitimacy and highlight the…
Ban Treaty Leafleting at Lockheed Martin
Following the ICO Day commemoration in Tavistock Sq.on 15th May about 15 people (Mad Hatters, JAN, Faith in Action, Bromley CND, Nagase -san-London Peace Pagoda & Muriel Lesters), visited Lockheed Martin UK’s Corporate HQ, 15 Regent St. St. James. They…
Case adjourned as CPS moves goalposts.
COURT PROCEEDINGS CONTINUE AGAINST THE EIGHT DEFENDANTS WHO STOPPED WORK AT THE ATOMIC WEAPONS FACTORY AT BURGHFIELD. Julia Mercer, Jan Jones, Brian Jones Jane Picksley, Chris Bluemell, Awel Irene, Catriona Macneill and Marie Walsh all members of Trident Ploughshares, an…
“When The Wind Blows” Street Theatre in London
On March 1st the Mad Hatters affinity group performed some street theatre outside Highbury and Islington station based on Raymond Briggs “When the Wind Blows” and the withdrawing of US and Russia from the INF treaty. They were supported by…
Getting the Message to the nuclear “P5” (including a chat with the Russians)
Two weeks ago the Peaton Peace Pirates, a Trident Ploughshares affinity group, sent letters sent to representatives in Edinburgh of the ‘P5’ nuclear armed states, requesting a meeting to share their alarm about the heightened threat of nuclear conflict. The…
Trials dates set for Burghfield defendants.
On 3rd January 2019 eight Trident Ploughshares defendants appeared or were represented in Reading District Court, to enter a plea for their successful all day blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Burghfield, back on 24th October. Representatives of the MOD…
Christmas vigil at Lockheed Martin
Muriel Lesters Affinity Group made their usual Christmas outing to Lockheed Martin in London to tell them to stop trading in death with tuneful singing, dripping banners and soggy leaflets. A slightly damp Christmas card was handed in.