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	Trident Ploughshares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trident Ploughshares is an internationally recognised anti-nuclear-weapons group, with the aim of "beating swords into ploughshares", specifically by actively trying to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.
		Trident Ploughshares founder Angie Zelter was a recipient in 2001 of the Right Livelihood award, often called the "Alternative Nobel Prize".
		In May 2005 the group occupied Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound declaring it a 'nuclear free state' in protest against the refitting of British nuclear submarines and the servicing of Trident missiles in Devonport Dockyard, thereby attracting considerable media attention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trident_Ploughshares (169 words)

	For Mother Earth: Anti-nuclear working group
		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.
		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.
	www.motherearth.org /nuke/trident.php (345 words)

	For Mother Earth's Information
		Ploughshares actions are made by people committed to peace and disarmament and who nonviolently, safely, openly and accountably disable a war machine or system so that it can no longer harm people.
		Ploughshares is an enactment of the Biblical prophecies to 'beat swords into ploughshares' but is now no longer a Christian movement but one which embraces people from many different faiths or from none at all.
		Trident missiles are to be returned to the United States and the warheads to be returned to AWE Aldermaston/Burghfield by an agreed date.
	www.motherearth.org /nuke/tp/tp2000.htm (924 words)

	Swedish Plowshares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Many Ploughshares defendants have attempted to show that their actions were morally and legally justified, and that their intent was to protect life, not commit a crime.
		Ploughshares and Pax-Christi Spirit of Life Ploughshares, issued gag orders and found defendants in contempt of court for speaking about the truth of their action.
		Thus, Ploughshares participants believe that the physical dismantling of the weapon and the personal disarmament of the heart is a reciprocal process.
	www.plowshares.se /english/plowshares.htm (1249 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - Opinion & Analysis
		Trident Ploughshares have sent out a clear message that in their opinion the use of even one of these warheads would be criminal, self-evidently incompatible with international humanitarian law.
		Trident Ploughshares' dedication to peaceful acts of practical disarmament is based on this corpus of international law and the basic human right to life.
		The district court at Helensburgh, the court where the vast majority of Trident Ploughshares cases are heard, is the scene of an inspiring historical people's confrontation with the evil of a nuclear-weapon state as 'global citizens' attempt to reclaim their power and transform it into processes capable of enhancing fundamental human morality.
	www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd58/58zelt.htm (2819 words)

	MANY TO MANY 64 - Trident Ploughshares 2000
		These Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists are acting as fully responsible global citizens and we support their intentions to disarm the UK nuclear system peacefully, safely, openly and accountably by the year 2000.
		We applaud the attempts of the Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists to urge the U.K. Government, NATO, and others in positions of political and military power, to guarantee to completely disarm the British Trident system before the year 2000.
		The Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists do not wish to have to do the disarmament themselves, however they are willing and ready to do it themselves if necessary and we support them in their intention."
	isleofavalon.co.uk /GlastonburyArchive/manymany/issue-64/mm-64l.html (538 words)

	Trident Ploughshares -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Much of the action (involving all types of (A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)) civil disobedience and many convictions for "Breach of the Peace") takes place at (additional info and facts about Faslane Naval Base) Faslane Naval Base.
		Trident Ploughshares founder Angie Zelter was a recipient in 2001 of the (additional info and facts about Right Livelihood) Right Livelihood award, often called the "Alternative Nobel Prize".
		In May 2005 the group occupied (additional info and facts about Drake's Island) Drake's Island in (additional info and facts about Plymouth Sound) Plymouth Sound declaring it a 'nuclear free state' in protest against the refitting of British nuclear submarines and the servicing of Trident missiles in Devonport Dockyard, thereby attracting considerable media attention.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trident_ploughshares.htm (197 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Trident Ploughshares Peace activists remanded for £50,000 criminal damage to bomber support vehicles ...
		Two members of the Non-Violent Direct Action group Trident Ploughshares, Dr. Margaret Jones, a freelance writer from Bristol and Paul Milling, a Quaker activist from Birmingham, appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates court this afternoon.
		The spectacular disarmament action comes just three days after Trident Ploughshares activist Ulla Roder inflicted severe damage, estimated in millions of pounds, to a Tornado jet at RAF Leuchars in Fife.
		The defendants, both members of the non-violent direct action group Trident Ploughshares are concerned with the illegality, immorality and the dangers of nuclear weapons to health and the environment of the present day and of the future.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/fairford-14-3-03.htm (680 words)

	The UK Trident System
		Trident Ploughshares is attracting strong support from the Scottish public.
		In addition, on 23 May 2001, the Church of Scotland debated Trident and re-affirmed "the sustained op-position of the Church to the possession, deployment and threatened use of nuclear weapons".
		The Church called "once more on HM Government to abandon the Trident Programme now", and encouraged "all those who, on conscientious grounds, seek to express their personal opposition to Trident through peaceful and non-violent means".
	www.basicint.org /pubs/Research/2001UKtrident2.htm (8356 words)

	Trident Ploughshares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The British government may be "shoulder to shoulder" with American generals in the "war against terrorism", but the Trident Ploughshares campaign against Britain's own terrorizing weapons of mass destruction keeps gaining support at the grassroots for their strategy of nonviolent direct action.
		Four Trident Ploughshares who cut through the fence of Aldermaston nuclear weapons establishment in 2000 to conduct a citizen's weapons inspection were convicted October 19 in Newbury Magistrates court of criminal damage.
		She told the court that she found the Scottish court system was "arrogant and petty minded" with its handling of the Trident protests, and the court sent her to jail for three months.
	www.serve.com /nukeresister/nr125/125tp.html (2282 words)

	Trident Ploughshares 2000 - Peace Activists Welcome Referral to The High Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Trident Ploughshares campaign has welcomed today's decision by the Lord Advocate of Scotland to refer to the High Court for legal clarification the judgement of Sheriff Margaret Gimblett last week in Greenock Sheriff Court, when she acquitted three disarmers on the grounds that their action was justifiable under international law.
		A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "We are delighted that the Lord Advocate has not run away from this one.
		We have been looking forward to the day when the legality of Trident would be properly debated at this level.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/atrident.htm (143 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Judges rule Trident not illegal
		The judges were asked to consider a challenge to a sheriff's decision in October 1999 that three women who damaged a Trident nuclear installation were not acting illegally.
		At the High Court in Edinburgh the ruling of Lords Prosser, Kirkwood and Penrose, was given to a courtroom packed with anti-nuclear protesters, some of whom took part in a vigil outside the court before hearing.
		The protesters have consistently argued that since Trident was incapable of discriminating between civilian and military targets it was unacceptable.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1251000/1251071.stm (623 words)

	Indymedia UK - Interview and updates about Trident Ploughshares peace prisoners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The fines were imposed a result of her protesting about Trident nuclear submarines at Faslane in Scotland.
		Lyn is a member of the campaigning group Trident Ploughshares which 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.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/07/274766.html (627 words)

	Archive Detail
		In Britain a successful ‘Seeds of Hope’ Ploughshares action was carried out by four women who did £1.5m worth of damage to a British Aerospace Hawk jet.
		The women were acquitted in July 1996 after they argued that their act was justified in law as they were preventing British complicity in genocide.
		Justification of Trident Ploughshares 2000 Trident Ploughshares 2000 was publicly launched in Hiroshima, Gothenburg, Ghent, Edinburgh and London on May 2 1998.
	www.theecologist.org /archive_detail.asp?content_id=353 (365 words)

	LCNP.org - World Court Project - An Open Letter on Trident and Nuremburg
		This letter will argue that the way to comply with international law is for the Government to announce that Trident patrols will be stood down, and warheads removed from the missiles and placed in verifiable storage pending their elimination.
		This means the threatened use of a single Trident missile carrying one lower yield warhead "in a limited way to warn an aggressor that he must cease his aggression or face the prospect of a strategic strike" [FCO letter 31 March 1997].
		For the Prime Minister and First Sea Lord, the solution is clear: Trident patrols should be stood down, and warheads removed from the missiles and placed in verifiable storage as soon a spossible, pending their negotiated elimination.
	www.lcnp.org /wcourt/tridentnuremburgltr.htm (1583 words)

	Trident Ploughshares Women Acquitted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After considering profound and unchallenged evidence on the illegality of Britain's Trident fleet and the necessity for three Trident Ploughshares 2000 (TP2000) campaigners to act against it, a Scottish jurist, Sheriff Margaret Gimblett, ordered a jury to acquit Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder, and Angie Zelter.
		Although their action had probably only caused a delay in testing the new Trident submarine, she explained that the women were only a part of the Trident Ploughshares campaign and many others were committed to nonviolent direct action.
		Sheriff Gimblett's understanding was that indeed, possession of Trident was not the question, but whether it is used in a threatening manner, and in particular at the time of the action, thereby creating the immediate danger required for a defense of necessity.
	www.serve.com /nukeresister/nr118/nr118tp2000.html (1069 words)

	Renegade Article 2697 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For a 100 Kt Trident warhead the lethal area of its blast effect alone is 71 square kilometres - this means a city the size of Glasgow would suffer several hundred thousand fatalities.
		TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES In response to the current presence of Trident in the loch Faslane peacecamp, now threatened with eviction by Argyll and Bute council has become the happy host to a group called Trident Ploughshares 2000.
		The most successful recent Ploughshares action was one carried out by 4 women who did =A31.5 million worth of damage to a British Aerospace Hawk jet which prevented that plane from being exported to Indonesia where it may have been used to continue the genocide being committed in East Timor.
	fornits.com /renegade/peaars.cgi?fetch=2697 (1680 words)

	Indymedia UK - Plymouth ploughshares action
		Around 50 members of the Trident Ploughshares campaign group took part in the demonstration as workers arrived at the yard this morning.
		The demonstration was the culmination of a five-day Trident Ploughshares international disarmament camp in the city.
		During a similar camp last November, two Trident Ploughshares activists boarded HMS Vanguard and the base was subjected to a mass blockade.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/10/278684.html (331 words)

	CND - Press Release- Mordechai Vanunu: ESF
		Trident is an illegal and immoral nuclear weapon of mass destruction and must be scrapped.
		Instead, it is refitting the Trident nuclear weapons submarines and planning to replace the system when its service life comes to an end.
		The Trident Ploughshares Devonport Disarmament Camp 2005 is from the 19 – 22 May 2005 in Plymouth http://www.tridentploughshares.org/devonport/
	www.cnduk.org /pages/press/190505.html (443 words)

	NucNews - June 28, 2000
		Trident Ploughshares is one of the latest in a long and honourable line of citizen's initiatives to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
		Trident Ploughshares has based its whole campaign on international law and has used it to de-legitimise nuclear weapons and legitimise our own actions and we have done it in a highly public and confrontational manner so it cannot be ignored.
		Trident Ploughshares uses the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 1996 as a strong legal foundation and can be seen as a way to implement this Opinion and to pressurise our Governments to uphold international law.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0006nn/000628nn.htm (20232 words)

	TRIDENT THREE DISARMAMENT ACTION: On the evening of June 8, 1999, three Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists, Ellen ...
		TRIDENT THREE DISARMAMENT ACTION: On the evening of June 8, 1999, three Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists, Ellen Moxley, a r
		The Floating Lab Complex is run by the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), a prime supplier of technical advise to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.
		Of her acquittal Ellen stated: “For me what we did… was the culmination of a whole life-time of campaigning.
	www.plowsharesactions.org /webpages/TRIDENTTHREEDISARMAMENTACTION.htm (313 words)

	The Danish Peace Academy: Encyclopedia on peace and security R 732 : Røder, Bodil Ulla ; Bodil Ulla Roder
		The Trident Three were found not guilty in all charges later same year.
		Trident Ploughshares' non-violent direct actions are not alone civil disobedience actions.
		Ulla Røder is remanded in HMA Cornton Vale Prison in Stirling, Scotland August 2001, being found guilty of 4 of 6 cases with charges of among others breach of the peace and malicious damage to fences at Faslane and Coulport bases; for her swimming to the Trident Submarine 'Vanguard' writing 'useless' on the hull.
	www.fredsakademiet.dk /ordbog/rord/r732.htm (1980 words)

	Vanguard - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		Trident has now taken over the main burden of providing UK strategic nuclear deterrent, and also provides a continuously-available sub-strategic nuclear capability, a role the Trident force took over fully when Vigilant entered service and the WE177 bomb was withdrawn in 1998.
		Since January 1995 Trident submarines have taken on a secondary "sub-strategic" role, with a number of Trident missiles carrying one nuclear warhead.
		It is too early in the life of the Trident program accurately to assess operating costs but the Government estimates them to be in the order of £200 million per annum over a 30 year in-service life.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/uk/slbm/vanguard.htm (683 words)

	BREAD NOT BOMBS PLOUGHSHARES: On September 13, 1998, three Swedish peace activists, Annika Splade, a nurse and student ...
		BREAD NOT BOMBS PLOUGHSHARES: On September 13, 1998, three Swedish peace activists, Annika Splade, a nurse and student of International Relations; StellanVinthagen, a Peace Researcher, and Ann-Britt Sternfeldt, an ex-town councilor, writer and administrator, were arrested within the perimeter fence of VSEL Barrow in England on suspicion of going equipped to commit criminal damage.
		One of the three had already begun to dismantle equipment outside of the “Devonshire Hall,” the shed in which the HMS Vengeance, the fourth and final British Trident submarine is being constructed.
		They each acted in support of the Trident Ploughshares 2000 Campaign, a nonviolent direct action campaign to stop the Trident program.
	www.plowsharesactions.org /webpages/BREADNOTBOMBSPLOUGHSHARES.htm (419 words)

	Trident Ploughshares actions Spring 99
		Prominent politicians and a leading churchman came to the Faslane Naval Base on Monday 15th February to support the blockade of the base by Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists which led to 41 arrests and considerable disruption to the operations there.
		On Sunday 16th May, 16 Trident Ploughshares activists were arrested variously for blockading the gates of the Faslane naval base, cutting the perimeter fence and padlocking themselves to it.
		Seven Scottish Trident Ploughshares activists were arrested on 22 April after blockading the north gate of Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde, where the UK's Trident nuclear weapons submarines are based.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/pipexdsl/d/adhb32/magazine/nfs997g.htm (580 words)

	Scottish Court acquits Trident Ploughshares women
		In considering this I have really not a great deal to go on other than what the ICJ said in 1996 and their opinion, which although advisory, acknowledges in words what is authoritative and agreed by all.
		The threat or use of Trident could be construed as a threat, has indeed been construed by others as a threat and as such is an infringement of international and customary law.
		The three took the view that if Trident is illegal, given the horrendous nature of nuclear weapons, they had the obligation in terms of international law to do whatever little they could to stop the deployment and use of nuclear weapons in situations which could be construed as a threat.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/atrid.htm (1664 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Devon \| Trident protesters start blockade
		The action is being taken by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Trident Ploughshares.
		CND chairwoman Kate Hudson will be in Plymouth urging the ending of the refit programme and for the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system to be scrapped and not replaced.
		The protest is taking place exactly a week after Trident Ploughshares supporters occupied privately-owned Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/4564915.stm (258 words)

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