4 anti-military activists from Spain poured gallons of red paint over themselves at Faslane

A group of 15 Span­ish activists from five dif­fer­ent areas of Spain, all belong­ing to the Span­ish Con­scien­cious Objec­tion Move­ment, arrived at Faslane for the week-end. With ban­ners, song and dance they protest­ed at the UK’s pos­ses­sion and deploy­ment of nuclear weapons.

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A group of 15 Span­ish activists from five dif­fer­ent areas of Spain, all belong­ing to the Span­ish Con­scien­cious Objec­tion Move­ment, arrived at Faslane for the week-end. With ban­ners, song and dance they protest­ed at the UK’s pos­ses­sion and deploy­ment of nuclear weapons.

Last Thurs­day march 18th the British passed the updat­ing of their nuclear arse­nal, includ­ing the nuclear sub­marines nuclear­es with Tri­dent mis­siles with more destruc­tive pow­er (12 nuclear heads) than the bombs
thrown over Hirosi­ma and Nagasa­ki. The cost of this pro­grame goes up to 30.000 mil­lions of euros. These are real mass destruc­tion weapons

In view of this, anti­mil­i­tarist activists of difer­ent parts of the Span­ish State have trav­elled to the mil­i­tary base where this sub­marines are locat­ed in Faslane (Scot­land), to car­ry out an action of block­ade.
This anti­mil­i­tarist action is with­in the frame­work of a cam­paign that is tak­ing place since last octo­ber. Up to now there have been 579 peo­ple from all ovr the world arreested in sev­er­al actions of block­ade. Also,
in front of the mil­i­tary base, there is a peace camp (Faslane Peace Camp) to demand the dis­ar­ma­ment of the base and the non-pro­lif­er­a­tion of nuclear weapons. This Peace Camp has been oper­at­ing for 25 years.

AA-MOC has been work­ing for years to build a world with­out wars where Armies and weapons ‑par­tic­u­lary if they are nuclear- have no place, a world where the huge mil­i­tary expens­es (almost 18.000 mil­lions of euros
in the Span­ish State this year) are devot­ed to cov­er social neces­si­ties.

Today AA-MOC has bock­ad­ed the North gate of the Mil­i­tary Base of Faslane in Scot­land. To do so, two women and two men from Sala­man­ca, Madrid, Zaragoza and Ali­cante ‑sup­port­ed by oth­er activists of the State- have
poured red paint over them­selves. The red colour sym­bol­izes the suf­fer­ing and the blood­shed that these weapons of mass destruc­tion can cause. The paint has imped­ed the imme­di­ate deten­tion of the activists.
Final­ly they have been arrest­ed and moved to difer­ent police sta­tions. They were released ten hours lat­er with­out charges.

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