Press Releases & Updates 2010

Trident Ploughshares (TP) organised several high profile actions this year at Trident bases in England and Scotland.

In February, hundreds of people, including Nobel Peace Prize winners, bishops and internationals from all over Europe, blockaded all eight entrances to the Aldermaston nuclear warhead factory in Berkshire. They held their ground in freezing cold temperatures for seven hours, with 26 arrests.

In June, we organised a (very damp) "walk on the moors" at Fylingdales with Yorkshire CND to raise awareness of the key role of the US Early Warning Station in any future nuclear war.

In September, we hosted a four-day gathering in Reading focused on ongoing warhead developments at Aldermaston and Burghfield. Participants joined other anti-nuclear groups to collect 250 objections to the Project Hydrus application. On the final day, twenty people blockaded one of Aldermaston’s gates for two and a half hours.

In November, over a hundred people from around Britain, Switzerland and the US blockaded the main gates to Plymouth’s Devonport naval dockyard - "the Sellafield of the south-west" - where submarines are maintained, refitted and dumped, for four and a half hours. There were 14 arrests, including ’skeletons’ and ’zombies’ who locked onto their car to block the main gate, and Theo Simon from the band Seize the Day who tried to lock himself to a police car!

We organised two blockades within three days at Faslane as part of a Europe-wide day of action at Easter, a T-shirt protest inside the lobby of Parliament in June and Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65th anniversary commemorations in August. Our members spray-painted the Dumbarton court building in October, joined an anti-NATO women’s T-shirt action in London in November and helped maintain a weekly vigil at Faslane with Helensburgh CND and a monthly vigil at Aldermaston.

For more details of these actions, see: http://www.tridentploughshares.org

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