Faslane blockaded twice in three days during Euro Days of Action to Ban Nukes

6 APRIL 2010

Fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day’s pan-Euro­pean actions at nuclear weapons bases (see http://www.vredesactie.be/campaign.php?id=12 for details), more than a dozen Tri­dent Ploughshares activists today revis­it­ed Faslane, home of the UK’s nuclear weapons. The pro­test­ers intend to ensure that high on the agen­da of the elec­tion called by Gor­don Brown today is the UK’s nuclear weapons and their threat to glob­al secu­ri­ty.

The pro­tes­tors peace­ful­ly block­ad­ed the base and ensured that activ­i­ty at the base was dis­rupt­ed.

A spokesper­son said, ‘we enjoyed tak­ing part in Sat­ur­day’s sym­bol­ic block­ade at the North Gate, but we recog­nise the need to send a more seri­ous mes­sage, and have returned today to exer­cise our civic respon­si­bil­i­ty under Inter­na­tion­al Law, to do what we can to stop the work of prepar­ing and main­tain­ing these hor­rif­ic weapons of mass destruc­tion. At this time of year we reassert our mes­sage of East­er, that love is more pow­er­ful than hate, and life is more pow­er­ful than death’.

Up-date:

Janet Fen­ton was arrest­ed for cut­ting down the sign ‘Faslane Nuclear depot’ as a sym­bol of the day that the base will close. Mor­ag Bal­four was help­ing with that but was only arrest­ed after a spray­ing paint­ing a mes­sage. Bri­an Larkin, Eurig Scan­drett, Bar­bara Dowl­ing and Jean Oliv­er were arrest­ed for block­ing the gate­way locked togeth­er.

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