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Direct Action
Seeds of hope was a plowshares group which consisted of four women (also called the Warton Four) based in England who intentionally damaged a  BAE Hawk fighter jet owned by the British Aerospace which was in the Warton Aerodrome. The women responsible Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid and Andrea Needham were arrested and charged with causing 1.7 million pounds worth of damage. While Angie Zelter was shortly after charged with conspiracy. The four women were in jail for six months pending their trials that ended up lasting seven days at Liverpool crown court in July 1996. These women claimed they did this because the planes were going to be sent to Indonesia where they were going to be used on innocent people so the women claimed they had to do it to promote peace in the region.

Women Involved
The four women involved were:
 * 1) Angie Zelter age 45
 * 2) Joanna Wilson age 33
 * 3) Lotta Kronlid age 28
 * 4) Andrea Needham age 30

Motives
The motives of the women to do the damage that they did were simply a motive of counter-terrorism. The women claimed that they could not be punished for their actions as they were stopping an act of terrorism from taking place. There exists a law in the United Kingdom where which citizens can stop crime for occurring within reasonable force, and that is what they had said to defend themselves. BAe claimed that the jets that were damaged were being used as trainers, however there was evidence of their military role. Many traditional plowshares protests took place; however, the government took no notice of this, and did not do anything differently, this is how the women justified their actions. They felt they needed to take direct action to prevent a terrorist attack, rather than protest traditionally and have nothing change.

Arrest and Trial
After the women were arrested they were imprisoned for six months in Risley prison without bail. During the trial the women claimed they were not guilty. The women claimed they were preventing a greater crime which was the use of the jet by the Indonesian military against people in East Timor, who had been engaged in a struggle against cruel occupation and for national independence since 1975. Joanna Wilson one of the women involved said "We are pleading not guilty on the basis that we had lawful excuse as we were acting to prevent British Aerospace and the British Government from aiding and abetting genocide” . At the end of the case the women were found not guilty as the jury decided that these ordinary people were simply trying their best to prevent the harmful use of the fighter jets and to save lives of people involved. This was the 56th  plowshares action in the world and the women involved in seeds of hope were the first ones to be found not guilty.

Post Movement
After the attacks went public, it sparked huge movements which brought forth rallies, parades and protests. Some of the women even went on to write books about the event driving the post movement. Andrea Needham wrote The Hammer Blow: How Ten Women Disarmed a Warplane. It is a personal narrative of why the women involved decided to do what they did. The book shows the work the women did in planning the event which took years before the historical event happened. This book is a prime example of how the Seeds of Hope plowhshares movement carried on even after the event had taken place.

The book was titled The Hammer Blow because the women had used household hammers to destroy the BAe Hawk fighter jet. The book consisted of the planning, the destruction, the trial and explanations to as why the women did what they did. Jose Ramon Horta, the future President of East Timor wrote a letter to the women while they were in prison. The President noted that “in twenty years of resistance we were never able to shoot down an aircraft. You did it without even firing a single shot and without hurting the pilot”.

Even after the trial was over and years had passed the post movement lived on, especially through Andrea Needhams account in The Hammer Blow: How Ten Women Disarmed a Warplane.