campaigns

As well as holding a monthly peace camp and associated one-off events, AWPC also tries to effect change in British nuclear weapons policy through a wide range of methods. Below is a list of methods we are currently using, and ideas about how you can help.

From 2005 onwards, our primary focus is on campaigning against Trident replacement. Please visit the "tng" pages for more details.
Our secondary focus is on Serco...

shareholding

Three companies are responsible for managing Aldermaston: the US arms giant Lockheed Martin, the wholly British government-owned BNFL, and the  British-based company SERCO - in which we have shares. This enables us to attend their AGMs, ask awkward questions, lobby other shareholders, and generally open up another front on which to challenge the complacency of the nuclear industry.

...more about the shareholder campaign

block the builders

On 7 August 2004, AWPC and friends launched Block the Builders!, an explicitly nonviolent, direct action strand of the "next generation" campaign. For further information, visit the BtB website.

public information

AWPC produces leaflets, an occasional newsletter - Aldermaston Update! - and this website as materials in the propaganda “war” against nuclear weapons. We also hold information stalls in the local community, speak at events, and write articles and letters for other publications.

Check out the articles section

nonviolent direct action

Many individual women involved with AWPC have a strong belief in the power of nonviolent direct action - both symbolic and practical-based - as a way of showing opposition. Direct action is an important facet of our identity - it provides visible resistance to militarism, nuclear weapons and male violence.

dialogue

Over the years we have met with senior management from AWE in an attempt to raise concerns, get answers to pertinent questions, and to engage in coherent dialogue with the people who make money from producing nuclear warheads for the British government. However, after several attempts, we have consistently been refused a meeting with the new management - who took over in April 2000. We continue to ask nicely.

work with related groups

AWPC is committed to creating and maintaining strong links with both women-only and mixed groups, both in Britain and internationally, working on related issues. We will try and seize opportunities for joint actions or solidarity campaigns.

media-friendly open actions

On occasion we carry out media-friendly public actions. These are usually an attempt to build on a topical event and present an alternative viewpoint with maximum exposure.