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Bomspotters start small

by Ippy D | News | December 2004 - February 2005

Those pesky Euro bombspotters have been up to their naughty tricks again recently. ...

Remembering Hiroshima

by Kate Jones | News | September - November 2004

Every year, in the city of Hiroshima, Japan, people come from far and wide to float lanterns decorated with prayers, thoughts, and messages of peace down the rivers in commemoration of the ...

Anti-NATO summit in Istanbul

News | September - November 2004

An “anti-NATO” summit took place in Istanbul between 19 and 27 June as a response to the NATO summit being held in the city. ...

Anti-nuclear pilgrims reach Japan

by Alice Hunt | News | June - August 2004

The International Peace Pilgrimage has arrived in Japan, signalling the final leg of the eight-month journey across Australia and Japan in protest at nuclear weaponry and uranium mining. ...

Marching on...

by Sophie Reynolds | News | June - August 2004

This Easter, biologically and culturally time of new life and hope in western Europe, saw a new and very large step taken by hundreds of anti-nuclear activists in Britain. ...

Non-stop nukestopping

by Sophie Reynolds | News | March - May 2004

Trident Ploughshares (TP) activists seem fuelled by something as long lasting as radioactivity, never ceasing in taking bites, sometimes mosquito size, at the bases and companies in Englan ...

SOA activists sentenced

by Alice Hunt | News | March - May 2004

In late January, 28 peace activists were sentenced to a cumulative five years and ten and a half months in prison, five years probation, and US$8,500 in fines as a result of a nonviolent p ...

Italian peace march has notable impact

by Franco Perna | News | December 2003 - February 2004

It is estimated that nearly half million people walked from Perugio to Assisi on 12 October on the traditional peace march which first took place in 1961. ...

500+ arrests at NATO HQ

by FME/Whitney Lanphear | News | December 2003 - February 2004

On 25 October hundreds of citizens from Belgium, Britain, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy carried out an inspection of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe), ...

40+ arrests at disarmament camp

by James Tullett | News | September - November 2003

Between 2 and 15 August, citizens from Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Britain joined together in taking action against nuclear weapons at Faslane and Cou ...