Trident Ploughshares

Trident Ploughshares is a part of the international nuclear disarmament movement. Trident Ploughshares activists have pledged to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable manner. At this time over 200 Trident Ploughshares activists have signed a pledge to prevent nuclear crime.

Disarmament action is necessary since the UK government has to date shown no signs of any intention to dismantle the system. As citizens we have both a right and a duty to uphold international humanitarian law. The UK's Trident nuclear weapons system is based on 4 submarines which carry between 12 and 16 missiles, each of which can deliver a number of 100 kiloton warheads to individual targets - mass destruction on an unimaginable level. These subs are based at Faslane, thirty miles from Glasgow, and armed at Coulport on Loch Long, while the warheads are manufactured at Aldermaston and Burghfield in England. Faslane and Coulport are just two of at least 39 Trident related sites in Britain which are the legitimate targets of our disarmament action. At the moment one of the submarines is being refitted at Devonport in Plymouth.

Friends of the Earth regularly organises transport from Belgium to Trident Ploughshares mass actions and action camps in Britain.

The next Trident Ploughshares events are:
 Mar 25th - 28th 2005: Block the Builders at Aldermaston
 May 19th - 22nd 2005: Devonport Disarmament Camp. (Including: Friday 20th May Trident Ploughshares Regeneration Carnival from 6:30 onwards at gates of Devonport Dockyard.)
 July 4th 2005: Faslane Blockade (linked to G8 meeting at Gleneagles 6th - 8th June)
 Aug 27th - Sept 10th: Coulport Disarmament Camp

You can find more information about the campaign, and these events, on the Trident Ploughshares website