DIRECT action could be launched over the government’s “dangerous” decision to increase its cap on nuclear warheads by almost half, campaigners warned today.
The integrated review raises the limit on the number of Trident missiles that can be stored from 180 to 260. It signals an end to 30 years of gradual nuclear disarmament in Britain.
The 44 per cent increase is also the biggest by any nation since the cold war, according to Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Pacifist group Peace Pledge Union warned that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cap increase will be met by “widespread resistance, including non-violent direct action.”
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 8:14 am
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents is a
podcast and video series where immigrant whānau have
conversations they normally wouldn’t, crossing barriers of
language, generation, and expectation. Co-hosts and
producers
Saraid de Silva and
Julie
Zhu travelled Aotearoa meeting families from
different countries, sitting in as they spoke to each other
about love, disappointment, what home means to them - and
where home really is. The second series of this
project was such an exciting undertaking, and after two
seasons I still feel like we ve only skimmed the surface of
the migrant stories that are present in Aotearoa, says de