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Aldermaston Big Blockade 2010

Jules Mattsson | 17.02.2010 14:22 | Anti-militarism

Blockaders 'Locked-On' at the Main Gate (In)

Blockaders helping eachother eat during Lock-On

'Zombies for the Nuclear Apocalypse'

Police attempting to move locked-on blockaders, causing much arm twisting

'Super Tom Defeats the Bomb' said this kid's placard

Anti-nuclear and peace activists from CND, Trident Ploughshares and other groups descended upon the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, on Monday to protest against the replacement of the UK Trident nuclear system and increasing nuclear weapons manufacturing. Approximately 800 protesters blockaded the base, with a large police and FIT/EG surveillance presence. 26 arrests were reported, mainly for obstruction of a public highway. The blockade caused a huge backlog of traffic, many of which were workers trying to get to work at AWE, and failing due to blocked gates.

Full set of images up at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesmattsson/sets/72157623256851825/

http://www.demotix.com/news/252413/aldermaston-anti-nuclear-blockade

Jules.

Jules Mattsson
e-mail: julesmattsson[at]googlemail.com
Homepage: http://www.flickr.com/people/julesmattsson/,

Additions

Correct photographer link

17.02.2010 14:30

Link in article to my images/flickr page didn't quite work properly, if you want to take a look at my other stuff my flickr is

http://www.flickr.com/people/julesmattsson/

I am also on Demotix at

http://www.demotix.com/users/julesmattsson/profile

Jules.

Jules Mattsson
mail e-mail: julesmattsson[at]googlemail.com
home Homepage: http://www.flickr.com/people/julesmattsson/

More photos, media coverage of Aldermaston Big Blockade

17.02.2010 14:42

Great pics Jules!

Some useful links below:

Trident Ploughshares Press Release - 15 February 2010

http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1597

Aldermaston Big Blockade blog - includes lots of useful links, updates, etc and will soon be updated further:

http://blockawe.blogspot.com

Trident Ploughshares website:

http://www.tridentploughshares.org

Links to extensive online media coverage of Monday's blockade:

http://blockawe.blogspot.com/p/media-coverage.html

Tweets from @TridentPlough:

http://twitter.com/TridentPlough

Photos by D. Viesnik:

http://tinyurl.com/Aldermaston15Feb10dv

Photos by Jules Mattsson:

http://www.demotix.com/news/252413/aldermaston-anti-nuclear-blockade

http://www.flickr.com/photos/julesmattsson/sets/72157623256851825/

Photos contributed so far to CND photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnduk

Photos by London Catholic Worker:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=146707&id=172946644505&ref=mf

Photos by Mell Harrison:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704957916#!/album.php?aid=146759&id=704957916&ref=mf

More pics:

http://tinyurl.com/y89bdut

Zombies:

http://www.zna.org.uk

Women's Gate appraisal: