Who are Aldermaston Women Trash Trident?
Aldermaston Women Trash Trident (AWTT) is one of 26 affinity groups which form Trident Ploughshares. The group has 11 participants, of which six women are presently identifying themselves as active disarmers and five as active supporters. The group has been in existence since April 1998, and was formally registered as a Trident Ploughshares affinity group in July 1998. The group is positively women-only and involves women aged from their 20’s to their 70’s. The group came together through their involvement with Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, a regular monthly, women-only peace camp, established by Greenham women in 1986. Like all Trident Ploughshares affinity groups, AWTT has received formal nonviolence training. However, as seasoned activists the group also developed and used custom designed training programmes. From its inception the group has met regularly at the monthly Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camps, where strategy, action planning, budgets and equipment procurement has been dis