More blockade photos and videos

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Blockade at Main Gate (Credit: D. Viesnik)

VIDEO

*NEW* Great 5 min video of the blockade by Bombspotting
Aldermaston Video Sound Bites from Nuclear Information Service (on Facebook)

PHOTOS

- Women's Gate pics by Cynthia Cockburn (Picasa)
- By D. Viesnik (over 200 images) (Picasa)
- CND photostream (Flickr - contributed)
- By Jules Mattsson:
...   Demotix -- Flickr -- Indymedia UK
- By Roy St Pierre
- By London Catholic Worker (Facebook)
- By Mell Harrison (Facebook)
- By A. Zelter (Picasa)
- By Julian Eastwood (Flickr)
- By Nick Jewitt (Facebook)
- By "CIA&Friends"
- By Chris Walls (Flickr)
- By Denni Schnapp (Flickr)

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Arrests Update from Thames Valley Police

From Thames Valley Police website:

Protest – AWE Aldermaston – arrests update

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 12:07pm

Thames Valley Police can confirm that 26 arrests were made at yesterday’s protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston.

Five people were arrested for gaining entry to a secure site and the remaining 21 were for obstruction of the highway.

Eleven people have been released on bail to return to Newbury police station in May and the rest have been given cautions.

Here is the full break down of arrests:

Article in The Friend

From The Friend: 

Friends turn out in peaceful Aldermaston blockade

17 02 2010 | by Symon Hill

Symon Hill reports on the campaign against renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system

Protestors blockade entrances and exits to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston on Monday. | Photo: CND CC:BY.

Hundreds of campaigners brought the gates of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston to a virtual standstill on Monday in the biggest protest to be seen at the site for some years. The blockade comes at a time of major political controversy over the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system and shortly ahead of a global summit on nuclear non-proliferation in May.

CND Cymru (Wales) appraisal of the blockade

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Source: http://www.cndcymru.org/february-15th-2010-aldermaston-wales

Aldermaston AWE Blockade February 15th 2010

On February 15th about 30 Welsh protestors including CND Cymru Chair Jill Evans MEP joined the hundreds blockading the nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston, England. We had been allocated the Aldermaston AWE Construction Gate along with ‘bomspotting’ and other internationals.

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Women's Gate Press Release

15 FEBRUARY 2010

Women’s Successful Blockade at Nuclear Weapons Factory

Today forty women successfully blockaded one of the main gates of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. Vehicles of base employees and police were prevented from entering or leaving the gate from 7 am till 10 am. Our non-violent act of peaceful protest was part of a blockade of all seven gates of this nuclear weapons ‘factory’ to protest against the Government’s plan to renew and modernize the submarines, missiles and warheads of the Trident nuclear weapons system, at an estimated cost of £97 billion.

Press release

Hundreds blockade nuclear bomb factory

Campaigners call for disarmament of Trident and abolition of nuclear weapons

Image credit: D. Viesnik (CopyLeft)

More images from the blockade: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnduk

An estimated eight hundred campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a number of other countries have joined a blockade of every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. [1] The blockade started at 7am. 

Email in your blockade photos!

Send your photos for instant publication during the blockade to:

awe [at] cnduk.org

Any mobile phone that can send photo attachments by email can submit images, or you can email them in afterwards from a computer.

Your pictures will be published automatically here, on the CND website and other places.

The subject line of your email will be used as the image title and any text in your email will also be published, so please do not include anything you would not wish to be made public.

You retain ownership of your photos, but by submitting them agree that they can be freely used by others.

*Follow @TridentPlough on Twitter for live updates from the blockade*

Press Release

Trident Ploughshares Press Release

12 February, 2010
For immediate release

Nuclear bomb opponents gear up for direct action as new warhead facility gets green light

Campaigners from Trident Ploughshares [1] have slammed the approval of a new enriched uranium facility, saying it gives added justification to their blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire next week. [2]

Press Release

Trident Ploughshares Press Release - Monday 8 February, 2010                            

 

Aldermaston Big Blockade – 15 February, 2010

 

Campaigners to shut down nuclear bomb factory as they call for disarmament of Trident and abolition of nuclear weapons

 

On Monday 15 February, from 7am, hundreds of campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and other countries will block access to every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England.^[1] The blockade, initiated by Trident Ploughshares (TP) and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp(aign) (AWPC)^[2] and other groups, aims to halt construction of multi-billion pound facilities for research and development of a new generation of nuclear warheads. ^{[3, 4]}

 

Demo against planned new enriched uranium facility on Wednesday

From Stop Pegasus: Big demo at West Berkshire planning committee meeting on Wednesday (10th) February: 6pm, Calcot Centre, Highview (off Royal Avenue), Calcot RG31 4XD - join us!

Calcot is just to the west of Reading, just off the M4.
The nearest train station seems to be Theale.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/CalcotMap