Press Releases & Updates 2003

As US and British forces continue to search Iraq for traces of weapons of mass destruction, June’s TP camp will put the spotlight on the UK’s weapons of mass destruction. No problem here for potential inspectors, the site is clearly marked, and there are helpful road signs to lead even the most baffled inspector to the site. AWE Aldermaston is a key installation in Britain’s nuclear weapons industry. Aldermaston was recently involved in nuclear weapons tests in America and the UK Government wants to carry out more tests in Britain to refine and develop the UK’s next generation of nuclear weapons, costing in excess of £2 billion of taxpayers money over the next ten years.

CAMP DIARY

Thursday 5th - Set-up camp.

Friday 6th - Arrivals. Non-violence training. Set-up women’s camp at Falcon Gate. Accommodation available for non-campers at Coldash.

Saturday 7th - Local familiarisation. Disarmament training.

Sunday 8th, 11:30 - Interfaith service at main gate.

12:30

Monday 9th - Leafleting in Newbury with members of Reading Peace Group.

Tuesday 10th - Take down camp.

Individual affinity group actions will take place throughout the camp.

Aldermaston provides the warheads for Britains four Trident nuclear submarines normally berthed at Faslane, Scotland. Their deadly arsenal is over a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb which killed at least 200,000 people in 1945. We invite anyone who is happy to abide by our non-violence guidelines to join us as responsible global citizens in condemning this nuclear madness and celebrating life and hope.

On Sunday 8th from 12:30 we invite others to join us witnessing, watching, putting AWE on the map, pointing, encircling, inspecting, sketching; bringing picnics, binoculars, ladders, music, telescopes, sketch pads, paints and paper, cutters and carpets, stools and deck-chairs.

Trident Ploughshares was established in 1998, to challenge the UK’s illegal and immoral possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons. Trident Ploughshares activists pledge to dismantle the UK’s nuclear arsenal in a peaceful, non-violent, open and accountable manner. So far in the campaign there have been over 2,000 arrests, over 400 trials, over 1,800 days spent in prison and over £60,000 of fines and compensation orders.

Aldermaston info/press line 07904 450307.

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