Angie Zelter
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Angie Zelter is an activist known most notably as the founder of a number of international campaign groups including Trident Ploughshares
and the International Woman's Peace
Service. Zelter is known for non-violent direct action
campaigns and has been arrested over 100 times in Belgium, Canada, England, Malaysia, Norway, Poland and Scotland, serving 16 prison sentences.
Zelter claims to be a self professed 'global citizen'
In the 1980s she founded the Snowball Campaign which encouraged several thousand people to cut the fences around US military bases in the UK. In 1996 she was part of a group that disarmed a Hawk Jet, ZH955, causing £1.5million damage and preventing it from being exported to Indonesia
where it would have been used to attack East Timor
. She was acquitted for this action in a victory which forced the issue of arms control onto the mainstream agenda.
Trident Ploughshares
Trident Ploughshares is an activist anti-nuclear weapons group, founded in 1998 with the aim of "beating swords into ploughshares" . This is specifically by attempting to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, in a non-violent manner...
and the International Woman's Peace
Peace
Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...
Service. Zelter is known for non-violent direct action
Direct action
Direct action is activity undertaken by individuals, groups, or governments to achieve political, economic, or social goals outside of normal social/political channels. This can include nonviolent and violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action...
campaigns and has been arrested over 100 times in Belgium, Canada, England, Malaysia, Norway, Poland and Scotland, serving 16 prison sentences.
Zelter claims to be a self professed 'global citizen'
In the 1980s she founded the Snowball Campaign which encouraged several thousand people to cut the fences around US military bases in the UK. In 1996 she was part of a group that disarmed a Hawk Jet, ZH955, causing £1.5million damage and preventing it from being exported to Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
where it would have been used to attack East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
. She was acquitted for this action in a victory which forced the issue of arms control onto the mainstream agenda.