Press Releases & Updates 2009

They have issued the following statement:

"We consider the existing UK Trident nuclear weapon system to be illegal, immoral and a criminal waste of resources. We believe that the many billions of pounds wasted on Trident and its planned replacement should instead be invested in tackling climate change, education and other socially useful things, not weapons of mass murder and destruction for which there can never be any legal or moral justification, regardless of the state of the economy. The UK can, as a first step, show leadership on nuclear disarmament by immediately taking its submarines off patrol.

"We further believe that part of the resistance to this illegal and immoral weapon system should include nonviolent direct action, which is why we are calling for all right-minded people opposed to Trident to come and join us in blockading the construction of new nuclear warhead-manufacturing facilities at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire on 15 February 2010, sending a loud and clear message to the Government: Disarm Now!"

ENDS

Notes:

1. Trident Ploughshares is a campaign to disarm Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system in a peaceful, nonviolent, open and accountable manner. http://www.tridentploughshares.org

2. The Aldermaston Blockade will take place on 15 February 2010, called by Trident Ploughshares and supported by CND and Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp(aign) http://blockawe.blogspot.com

3. More details regarding Rethink Trident:

http://www.cnduk.org/index.php/20091204816/press-releases/trident/cut-trident-in-pre-budget-report-urges-100-strong-coalition-of-the-new-common-sense.html

http://action.compassonline.org.uk/page/s/stoptrident

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