In the 1980s Zelter founded the
Snowball Campaign,
Caroline Lucas, future
Green party leader and
MP was involved in the campaign, and poet
Oliver Bernard was sent to prison. In 1996 she was part of the group
Seeds of Hope that disarmed a
BAE 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. Along with American
Ellen Moxley and
Ulla Røder from Denmark, she became known as one of the Trident Three of the
Trident Ploughshares, after the women succeeded in entering Maytime, a floating trident sonar testing station in
Loch Goil, and damaged 20 computers and other electronic equipment and circuit boxes, cut an antenna, jammed machinery with superglue, sand, and syrup and tipped logbooks, files, computer hardware, and papers overboard. In December 2001 the Trident Three were awarded the
Right Livelihood Award. In March 2012, the South Korean police arrested Angie Zelter for obstructing the construction of the controversial
Jeju-do Naval Base. In September 2014, Zelter received in Istanbul the
Hrant Dink Award for her fight against nuclear weapons.
Extinction Rebellion During the April 2019
Extinction Rebellion London occupations Zelter was arrested on Waterloo Bridge and in Parliament Square, becoming the first activist to be prosecuted. She was given a
conditional discharge in June 2019, after arguing in court that humans faced mass extinction unless governments implemented wide-ranging changes. Zelter was one of more than 1,400 protesters arrested during the October 2019 'Extinction Rebellion Autumn Uprising' two-week campaign in London. She was charged under Section 14 of the
Public Order Act 1986, pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay a £460 fine, £85 costs and £46 surcharge. In 2021 she published a book detailing her work between 1982 and 2021 with the title "Activism for Life" (Luath Press Limited ). ==See also==