Aldermaston Nuke Frocks and shots: on cocktail parties and builder blocking

Yet anoth­er fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to mix busi­ness with plea­sure! Alder­mas­ton Wom­en’s peace camp(aign) host anoth­er fab­u­lous wom­en’s cock­tail par­ty at the peace camp on Sat­ur­day 12 July, while Block the Builders meet in near­by Read­ing the fol­low­ing after­noon to plot the down­fall of the nuclear-indus­tri­al com­plex 😉

Aldermaston camp cocktail flierYet anoth­er fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to mix busi­ness with plea­sure! Alder­mas­ton Wom­en’s peace camp(aign) host anoth­er fab­u­lous wom­en’s cock­tail par­ty at the peace camp on Sat­ur­day 12 July, while Block the Builders meet in near­by Read­ing the fol­low­ing after­noon to plot the down­fall of the nuclear-indus­tri­al com­plex 😉

Since 2002, the Atom­ic Weapons Estab­lish­ment Alder­mas­ton has been the recip­i­ent of a sub­stan­tial invest­ment pro­gramme to upgrade and devel­op new nuclear weapons facil­i­ties. The project is on the same scale as Heathrow’s Ter­mi­nal Five. Alder­mas­ton is where Britain research­es, designs and man­u­fac­tures it’s nuclear weapons. Lat­est news and back­ground info on devel­op­ments at the site can be found at http://www.aldermaston.net/news.

In March 2007 a par­lia­men­tary vote paved the way for a new fleet of nuclear-armed sub­marines to replace the exist­ing four Tri­dent subs, with deci­sions and announce­ments on new war­heads and mis­siles expect­ed to be made over the com­ing years (…in pub­lic … though who would buy £15bn sub­marines with­out already hav­ing com­mit­ted to arm­ing it?)

Between 2006 and 2007 new leg­is­la­tion was intro­duced aimed at lim­it­ing the right to and scope of protest at Britain’s nuclear weapons facil­i­ties (SOCPA and mil­i­tary lands byelaws).
Despite this, in March 2008 an esti­mat­ed 5,000 peo­ple came to Alder­mas­ton to make their voic­es heard in oppo­si­tion to the exten­sion of Britian’s nuclear weapons pro­gramme, and the wom­en’s peace camp con­tin­ues its 23-year tra­di­tion as a vis­i­ble pres­ence at the wire.

The camp is invit­ing women to come to Alder­mas­ton on Sat­ur­day 12 July to join a cel­e­bra­tion of the right to protest (frocks and shots option­al but encour­aged) and of wom­en’s strength in the strug­gle against patri­ar­chal mil­i­tary mad­ness. Music, snacks, veg­an cake (pos­si­bly…), ice and a twist.

Non­vi­o­lent direct action net­work Block the Builders are meet­ing the fol­low­ing day in Read­ing to dis­cuss the ongo­ing builder-block­ing efforts at Alder­mas­ton, aimed at slow­ing and cost­ing the con­struc­tion of new weapons-relat­ed facil­i­ties. See http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk for details.

Come and meet us, dis­cuss the issues and have a fab­u­lous time!

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