Easter Protest at Aldermaston AWE

from Newbury Today -

“THOUSANDS of protestors are expected to turn up in support of an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston on Easter Monday.
Chairwoman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,  Kate Hudson, said that people would be travelling from all over England, Scotland and Wales in support of the peaceful demonstration, intended to mark the 50th anniversary of the first protest in 1958, when 10,000 people marched from London to AWE.
Demonstrators are expected to link arms around the site at noon to mark each of the five decades since the initial protest.
“It will be quite visual,” she said, adding that the demonstration was also intended to point out that production of nuclear bombs still continues at AWE Aldermaston, despite almost half a century of protests.
“We want to see disarmament,” she said.
The UK’s submarine launched nuclear defence system, Trident, is being upgraded at the AWE Aldermaston site.
A march of Japanese Hiroshima survivors is likely to form part of the demonstration, while original campaigners will include 84-year-old Londoner, Walter Wolfgang,  famously ejected from a Labour party conference two years ago.
He was subsequently arrested after he condemned a speech by the then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as “nonsense” in an outburst from the public gallery.
Lifelong activist, Pat Arrowsmith is also set to join the demonstrators, after being imprisoned “over a dozen times” for her campaigning.“

SEE YOU THERE!