TP Legal Wiki

(As of: 2007-02-14 – Archive.org)

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The TP Legal Wiki, or Trident Ploughshares legal wiki is dedicated to discussions of legal topics by and for  campaigners.

Trident Ploughshares (TP) is a group of people who are aiming to rid the  of its Trident  missiles by , open and accountable direct disarmament.

As global citizens, we will endeavour to openly, accountably, safely, and peacefully disarm the British nuclear weapons system, which is deployed on Trident submarines. Our acts of disarmament are intended to stop ongoing  activity under well-recognised principles of international . We will do this as our part of an international citizens' initiative to encourage a nuclear weapon free, and an international culture of  and .

The campaign was three (3) years old in May 2001. Before our disarmament action began, we tried to start a dialogue with the British government. We do not take part in direct disarmament actions lightly, and will stop our ploughshares actions if the <government ></government> shows by practical measures that it is committed to actually fulfil its international and humanitarian obligations by disarming Trident itself.

Up to May 2001, there have been 1211 arrests, 1148 days spent in jail (not including time spent in police cells), and fines totalling £15,580 (GB pounds) have been imposed. As of February 2018, those figures have risen to 2,746 arrests, 654 trials, with many more in the pipeline, and 2380 days have been spent in prison (not counting time in police cells). Fines and compensation orders totalling over £88,157 have been imposed.

Sadly, like many wikis, it became <spammed ></spammed>; the wiki was taken  in 2007.

As for the Trident Ploughshares movement, it was awarded The Right Livelihood Award in 2001 "for outstanding vision and work on behalf of our planet and its people", informally known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.


 * External links
 * TridentPloughshares.org — Trident Ploughshares official website