Trident Ploughshares is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
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Aldermaston Big Blockade: 27th October 2008 Thank you to the hundreds who came along and supported the biggest blockade of Aldermaston for many years. Thirty-three arrests were made, mostly for Obstruction of the Highway. Read more on the blog.
On Wednesday 6th August, the anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by a US nuclear bomb in 1945, Sylvia Boyes and Erica Wilson, long-standing peace activists and members of the nonviolent direct action group Trident Ploughshares, were arrested attempting to hinder activities at the Fylingdales Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station in North Yorkshire. They were cutting the fence and using red paint to symbolise the bloodshed threatened by the US military policy.
The pair were (...)