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'
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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.