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.

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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*

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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]

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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

Training, transport and accommodation for the blockade

Practical information to help you prepare for the blockade.

Neuter the Nukes! - Aldermaston Blockade 2010

Daniel Viesnik (written for Peace News)

As dawn begins to break on a Monday morning in February, hundreds of dedicated individuals from all around Britain and beyond will descend upon the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, determined to block the base and halt work on facilities for a new generation of nuclear warheads.

Object to new enriched uranium facility at AWE Aldermaston by *15 JAN*

The Ministry of Defence has submitted a planning application to West Berkshire Council for an enriched uranium handling and storage facility (codenamed "Project Pegasus") at Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston. This facility would be used to develop a new generation of nuclear warheads.

Aldermaston Big Blockade - Monday 15 February, 2010

Called by Trident Ploughshares and supported by CND and Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp(aign)

The Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire is in the process of spending billions of pounds of UK taxpayers' money building the facilities for a new generation of nuclear warheads. Britain's submarine-launched Trident nuclear missile system already endangers us all, encourages global proliferation and undermines international law and disarmament negotiations. Instead of building new nukes, we call for global leadership by disarming now.

Aldermaston blockaders acquitted!

Four people who took part in the Aldermaston Big Blockade on 27 October 2008 were found not guilty on Thursday (12 November, 2009) of obstructing the highway by a District Judge at Reading Magistrates' Court, Berkshire, south-east England.

Aldermaston five sought to halt “nuclear war crimes preparations”

Five peace activists who were among 33 people arrested for blocking access to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston during last October's Aldermaston Big Blockade claimed during their trial at Reading Magistrates’ Court this week (21-22 October) that they acted to stop preparations for war crimes involving nuclear weapons that they suspected were taking place at the Berkshire site in southern England.

Five in court for stopping nuclear proliferation at Aldermaston while Obama gets Nobel peace prize for calling for disarmament

Trial at Reading Magistrates’ Court, Berkshire on Wednesday, 21st October and Thursday 22nd October 2009

While Barack Obama is being congratulated for receiving the Nobel peace prize, partly for his commitment to ‘a world without nuclear weapons’ (1), five people who protested at the gates of Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston, where the renewal of Britain’s nuclear weapons is being planned, will be on trial for exactly the same commitment.

Secret blockade at Aldermaston disrupts nuclear bomb-making

Report by Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares

Monday 15 June, 2009 - It was a glorious morning as five separate groups made their way towards Aldermaston. At 6.30a.m., Trident Ploughshares (TP) affinity group the Muriel Lesters arrived at North Gate to find it had not been opened yet for the park and ride coaches so they further locked it with their own chains and some super-glue and arranged themselves as comfortably as possible in their lock-ons and hung their peace banners.

Five women fined for blockading nuclear weapons factory

Trident Ploughshares Press Release

Defendants disappointed at failure of judge to uphold international law



(Photo: Campaigners outside Reading Magistrates' Court - Copyright D. Viesnik 2009)


The founder of Trident Ploughshares, Angie Zelter, from London, was one of five experienced female members of the group on trial at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 9 March 2009 for obstructing the highway during last October’s Big Blockade of the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire, England.