It was business as usual for protesters – keeping the entrance to a nuclear weapons manufacturing site blockaded – at Construction Gate, AWE Burghfield until around 4.00pm yesterday afternoon when Ministry of Defence police stormed the blockade and seized all…
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Press Release: Welsh Action Day at AWE Burghfield
Activists from Blackwood, Caerphilly, Newport, Swansea, West Wales and Powys will join the Big Blockade of Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment on Wednesday 15th June, to say no to the renewal of Trident, the UK nuclear weapons system (What is Trident?…
Paper cranes too scary for Trident police
The Guardian Monday 13 June 2016 I have just returned from a peace camp at AWE Burghfield, near Reading, where actions are taking place throughout June in protest at the government’s intention to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system…
Protests Bar Builders From Nukes Site
Morning Star in Britain CONSTRUCTION trayic is being turned away from the government’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire as a month-long protest against Trident warhead replacement enters its second week. Campaigners have mounted a blockade of the base since…
PROTEST BLOCKADE AT UK NUKE BASE MORPHS INTO PEACE CAMP
Longest ever blockade of a British nuclear weapon base Trident Ploughshares Press release: 12th June 2016 Anti-Trident protesters, who have already blocked the construction entrance to the UK?s nuclear weapon assembly plant at Burghfield in Berkshire for seven uninterrupted days,…
Oxford CND press release.
13th June 2016 Local peace campaigners will be demonstrating at the UK Nuclear Weapon Assembly Plant on Tuesday 14th June. They are from Oxford, Faringdon. Abingdon, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Reading and Salisbury. This is part of a month of peaceful disruption of…