Aldermaston Women Invade Faslane Peace Camp

18/10/2011
This week­end saw the delec­table women from Alder­mas­ton Women’s Peace Camp descend on Faslane. The theme of the inva­sion was ‘Domes­tic Extrem­ists ‘ at large and they did her Majesty’s Roy­al Navy a ser­vice by clos­ing off the North Gate for a few hours on Sat­ur­day and giv­ing the Min­istry of Defence a much need­ed les­son in domes­tic­i­ty! A few of us from Peace Camp joined our sis­ters and, armed with rub­ber gloves, head scarves and thought pro­vok­ing ban­ners, like good domes­ti­cat­ed women, we gave the gate a right scrub. Of course, we had to stop the influx of NATO army trucks by block­ing the road… that’s why the gate was so dirty in the first place! With the gate (and the MoD police car!) sparkling we decid­ed to cause a bit of mis­chief with some wool but this made the MoD police rather cross… Nev­er­the­less, the whole clean­ing oper­a­tion end­ed ami­ca­bly with no arrests and some of us went on to the South Gate to make our feel­ings on the ille­gal­i­ty and immoral­i­ty of the British Nuclear Weapons Pro­gramme known to the base traf­fic we’d suc­cess­ful­ly divert­ed.

Our vis­it to Coul­port ear­li­er that morn­ing also caused a bit of a kafuf­fle for the gate staff. On behalf of the nation foot­ing the bill for these abhor­rent bombs, we formed a team of Weapons Inspec­tors. We mere­ly want­ed to take a look at the war­heads that are engulf­ing so many of the nation’s tax­es at the expense of our NHS and com­mu­ni­ty projects, but were denied entry. We love our account­able, demo­c­ra­t­ic state.

Con­clu­sion: Those of us at Faslane Peace Camp great­ly appre­ci­at­ed the won­der­ful atmos­phere and engag­ing con­ver­sa­tion that came with our week­end inva­sion. Our for­mi­da­ble sis­ters of Alder­mas­ton Peace Camp are wel­come to come and make domes­tic extrem­ist mis­chief with us any time!