Three members of Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group travelled
the 200 miles to Berkshire yesterday (2 March 2015) to support the
blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield, near
Aldermaston. Mai Chatham, Pat Sanchez and Philip Gilligan from
Littleborough joined hundreds of other anti-nuclear protesters from
around the country who blockaded all three entrances to facility which
develops warheads for the Trident nuclear weapons system.
The blockade started at 07:00 GMT and also included protesters from France and Finland. Action AWE, which organised the "Burghfield Lockdown", said the protest aimed to bring "work on Trident warheads to a halt". Campaigners
locked themselves to each other and to concrete blocks and were
successful in stopping all traffc in and out of the area where new
buildings are being constructed.
Pat
Sanchez said " We were delighted to do something to slow down
production of these dangerous and evil weapons of mass destruction. They
threaten all of us and our planet on a daily basis. If used they will
destroy us all. We need to scrap them now. We need to stop squandering
£billions on ways to destroy our world and to use these wasted resources
for the services we urgently need. We need these £billions for our NHS,
to bulid homes, for schools and social care services. We should not be
wasting them on nuclear weapons that threaten all our futures.
