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Angie Zelter (b. 5 June 1951) 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.^[1] She was acquitted for this action in a victory which forced the issue of arms control onto the mainstream agenda.

[edit] Trident Ploughshares

Main article: Trident Ploughshares

[edit] References

1. ^ SchNEWS 62 - 23 Feb 1996 - Hawk Jet get smashed by Trident Ploughshares women

[edit] External links

• Trident Ploughshares

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