Category: Scotland (Central & Southern)

Scot­land (cen­tral & south­ern)

The Outdoor Skillshare a success

23rd June 2010
Over a hun­dred peo­ple came togeth­er last week­end for the Out­door Skill­share. Held at Talamh Hous­ing Coop in South Lanark­shire, the week­end aimed to bring peo­ple togeth­er to share the skills need­ed to occu­py land and defend it from evic­tion. Work­shops cov­ered var­ied top­ics includ­ing cook­ing for the mass­es, dig­ging tun­nels, radio com­mu­ni­ca­tion and climb­ing trees.

23rd June 2010
Over a hun­dred peo­ple came togeth­er last week­end for the Out­door Skill­share. Held at Talamh Hous­ing Coop in South Lanark­shire, the week­end aimed to bring peo­ple togeth­er to share the skills need­ed to occu­py land and defend it from evic­tion. Work­shops cov­ered var­ied top­ics includ­ing cook­ing for the mass­es, dig­ging tun­nels, radio com­mu­ni­ca­tion and climb­ing trees.

The week­end also had ses­sions on skill-shar­ing and run­ning work­shops to share the skills to facil­i­tate par­tic­i­pa­to­ry work­shops. It is hopped that more skill-shar­ing and events of this type will hap­pen across the UK in the future.

Lewis from Leeds who trav­elled up for the week­end said: “It was a real­ly amaz­ing event and I real­ly learned a lot. I’d nev­er put on a har­ness or cooked on a giant gas burn­er before so it was a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to prac­tise these things. I real­ly feel like all of us who came to this week­end will be able to go to a protest camp and actu­al­ly chip in.”

Lau­ra, part of the group that organ­ised the event said: “We were sur­prised at the num­ber of peo­ple who came and the atmos­phere and peo­ples atti­tude was amaz­ing. Peo­ple organ­ised spon­ta­neous ses­sions and those of us giv­ing work­shops learned new ways of doing things. It was such a great week­end and I hope we get a chance to do it again.”

The tem­po­rary camp over looked the for­mer site of the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp, now a func­tion­ing open cast mine, and was sur­round­ed by Bro­ken Cross and Poniel open cast coal mines. South Lanark­shire has been blight­ed by open cast coal mines for decades and has also been a hive of resis­tance by the com­mu­ni­ty and envi­ron­men­tal­ists. Over the week­end peo­ple from the local com­mu­ni­ties vis­it­ed the event, includ­ing some local young peo­ple who took part in the kids climb­ing work­shop.

out­doorskill­share [at] riseup.net
http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk

Camp for Climate Action 2010 — Break the Bank!

Sat­ur­day 21 August – Tues­day 24 August 2010
Edin­burgh, Scot­land

* Occu­py and set up the base­camp: 19–20 August
* Four days of train­ing and direct action: 21–24 August
* Day of action against RBS: 23 August
* Return base­camp to nature: 25 August

The Camp for Cli­mate Action is a grass­roots move­ment tak­ing direct

Sat­ur­day 21 August – Tues­day 24 August 2010
Edin­burgh, Scot­land

* Occu­py and set up the base­camp: 19–20 August
* Four days of train­ing and direct action: 21–24 August
* Day of action against RBS: 23 August
* Return base­camp to nature: 25 August

The Camp for Cli­mate Action is a grass­roots move­ment tak­ing direct
action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change. After mobil­is­ing and
help­ing stop the pro­posed third run­way at Heathrow and a new coal fired
pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth, we’re grow­ing into a mass move­ment to
reclaim our future from gov­ern­ment and prof­it-hun­gry cor­po­ra­tions.

This year we’re tar­get­ing the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land, and their glob­al
head­quar­ters in Edin­burgh.

Last year RBS were bailed out with £50 bil­lion of pub­lic mon­ey. This
bank is one of the world’s largest investors in oil, gas and coal. From
tar sands extrac­tion in Cana­da to coal infra­struc­ture here in the UK,
we’re pay­ing to trash our future. These projects are not just caus­ing
cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change, but destroy­ing the lives and liveli­hoods of
peo­ple across the globe. Mean­while, we’re told there is no mon­ey left
and we should be braced for decades of pub­lic sec­tors cuts.

Eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion is built into the mechan­ics of the finan­cial
sys­tem, with com­mu­ni­ties dis­en­fran­chised from their own futures. This is
why, in August, peo­ple from across the UK will be con­verg­ing to take
back the pow­er and Break the Bank!

Our sus­tain­able and col­lec­tive­ly-organ­ised base­camp will give you the
chance to learn, train up, and meet like mind­ed indi­vid­u­als. Excit­ing
action plans are cur­rent­ly in the plot­ting stages, so watch this space.

The Camp for Cli­mate Action is made up of peo­ple like you — check out
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk to find out how to get involved.

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SPREAD THE WORD
— Please for­ward this email!
— Invite your friends to the face­book event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134368843242381
— All-new fly­ers and stick­ers for the camp are here:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/rbs-flyers-and-stickers
— The just-out ‘Nev­er Mind the Bankers’ RBS news­pa­per is here:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/never-mind-the-bankers

COME TO THE NEXT UK GATHERING
— The next plan­ning gath­er­ing for this sum­mer’s camp will be in
Edin­burgh from 3–4 July. Gath­er­ings are a chance to make deci­sions about
the camp and get involved in the work­ing groups that make the camp
hap­pen. Every­one’s wel­come — full info here:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/national-gatherings/next

COME TO THE RBS TEACH-IN
— Tool up on RBS at our teach-in in Leeds on 17 July:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/rbs-teach-in-17-july

GET INVOLVED IN YOUR LOCAL GROUP
— We’ve got groups and neigh­bour­hoods around the coun­try. Details here:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/local-groups

GET IN TOUCH WITH WORKING GROUPS
— Work­ing groups are the way we organ­ise things, and they need you.
Details here: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/working-groups

QUESTIONS?
— Try info@climatecamp.org.uk or process@climatecamp.org.uk

The new Action Update — full of of action news and analysis

In the new sum­mer edi­tion of the EF! Action Update, read about coal trains block­ad­ed, peat bogs defend­ed, and gas ter­mi­nals shut down. Find out about the dan­gers of nan­otech, cur­rent state of nuclear GM tri­als in the UK, Tesco upris­ings, golf course trash­ing, tar sands action and much more.

Newcastle flotilla blockadeIn the new sum­mer edi­tion of the EF! Action Update, read about coal trains block­ad­ed, peat bogs defend­ed, and gas ter­mi­nals shut down. Find out about the dan­gers of nan­otech, cur­rent state of nuclear GM tri­als in the UK, Tesco upris­ings, golf course trash­ing, tar sands action and much more.

Be inspired by our protest camp fea­ture and the recent Tit­nore vic­to­ry. And from across the seas, read about our broth­ers and sis­ters strug­gling against whal­ing ship sab­o­tage, coal port pirates, riots in Zagreb, min­ing firm occu­pa­tions in Bolivia, dam resis­tance in Brazil and much more.

“We are going to inher­it the earth . There is not the slight­est doubt about that. We Are not afraid of ruins. We car­ry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is grow­ing this minute.” — Dur­ru­ti

To down­load the lat­est EF!AU for print­ing, go to http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_summer10print.pdf

To read the lat­est EF!AU online, go to http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_summer10.pdf

Coal Action Network website relaunched!

Check out http://coalaction.org.uk/ for the updat­ed and re-vamped Coal Action Net­work web­site and detailed coal maps of the UK. It is hoped that this web­site will be a use­ful resource to any­one tak­ing action – or think­ing of tak­ing action – to pro­tect com­mu­ni­ties, envi­ron­ments and the cli­mate sys­tem from coal projects.

Check out http://coalaction.org.uk/ for the updat­ed and re-vamped Coal Action Net­work web­site and detailed coal maps of the UK. It is hoped that this web­site will be a use­ful resource to any­one tak­ing action – or think­ing of tak­ing action – to pro­tect com­mu­ni­ties, envi­ron­ments and the cli­mate sys­tem from coal projects.

The CAN web­site will be kept up-to-date with recent news from cam­paigns and the indus­try. Have a look at The Coal Maps – map­ping coal across the UK, con­tacts page for cam­paigns and groups active on coal, use­ful resources for cam­paign groups, argu­ments against new coal, upcom­ing events and links to infor­ma­tion and oth­er issues. You can get in touch to con­tribute updates and infor­ma­tion and sign up to the CAN email list.

Through this web­site we aim to help link com­mu­ni­ty strug­gles and arm our­selves with the infor­ma­tion we need to resist new open cast coal mines and coal-fired pow­er sta­tions.

Upcoming action dates & activist gatherings, 2010 — updated

scroll down for lat­est dates…

8–10 Octo­ber 2010
Earth First! tree plant­i­ng week­end — Treespon­si­bil­i­ty

10 Octo­ber 2010
Glas­gow air­port shut-down action

12 Octo­ber 2010

scroll down for lat­est dates…

8–10 Octo­ber 2010
Earth First! tree plant­i­ng week­end — Treespon­si­bil­i­ty

10 Octo­ber 2010
Glas­gow air­port shut-down action

12 Octo­ber 2010
Glob­al Min­ga for Moth­er Earth

12–16 Octo­ber 2010
Direct Action for Cli­mate Jus­tice, CJA call-out

13 Octo­ber 2010
It’s Ham­mer­time! — Smash EDO

16 Octo­ber 2010
Crude Awak­en­ing — big oil day of action in Lon­don City

23–24 Octo­ber 2010
Stop Nuclear Pow­er Net­work UK Gath­er­ing, Bris­tol

10–12 Decem­ber 2010
Earth First! tree plant­i­ng week­end — Treespon­si­bil­i­ty

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Old dates from this cal­en­dar:

2010

15–17 Jan­u­ary 2010
Peace News Win­ter Gath­er­ing, Not­ting­ham

23–26 Jan­u­ary 2010
Main­shill Pre-Evic­tion Gath­er­ing

5–7 Feb­ru­ary 2010
EF! Win­ter Moot, North East Eng­land

12–14 Feb­ru­ary 2010
UK Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Gath­er­ing, Not­ting­ham

19–21 Feb­ru­ary 2010
Camp for Cli­mate Action nation­al ‘where next?’ gath­er­ing, Bris­tol — region­al ones hap­pen­ing over Jan­u­ary & Feb­ru­ary (details here)

26–28 Feb­ru­ary 2010
No Bor­ders Win­ter Gath­er­ing, Not­ting­ham

14 March 2010
UK Tar Sands Cam­paign Gath­er­ing, York

11am till 6pm (Veg­an lunch by dona­tion)
With BP’s AGM just 1 month away, and 2 weeks of actions planned for 1st to 15th April, come and con­nect with oth­er UK-based Tar Sands cam­paign­ers, share ideas and cre­ate actions. We’ll be look­ing at strate­gies and actions for tar­get­ing Shell, BP and the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land — Britain’s Dirty Three­some on Tar Sands invest­ment.

We’re meet­ing in Der­went Col­lege, York Uni­ver­si­ty, room D/056 — from the sta­tion or city cen­tre, take bus num­ber 4 to the very last stop, walk back about 50 meters, and the road entrance to the col­lege is signed on the left. D/056 is accessed from the out­side, beyond the din­ing hall and ponds.

1 April 2010
Fos­sil Fools Day

1–4 April 2010
The Hunt­ing­ton Lane Fos­sil Fools week­end con­ver­gence

1–15 April 2010
BP Fort­night of Shame
includ­ing Lon­don Mass Action

17–18 April 2010
Social Cen­tres in a Time of Cri­sis, Leeds
A week­end of work­shops, dis­cus­sions and social­is­ing for every­one with an inter­est in rad­i­cal autonomous social cen­tres

22–23 April 2010
anti-avi­a­tion 48 hours of stick­er-whack­ing, sub­ver­tis­ing, adbust­ing pan­de­mo­ni­um

23–26 April 2010
Anti-nuclear Camp, Suf­folk — see lat­est EF!AU for details

6–10 May 2010
Activist Tat train­ing week: putting up mar­quees, erect­ing and mend­ing flat pack toi­lets, as well as tech­ni­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal (pow­er, plumb­ing etc) skill­shar­ing

15 May 2010
Par­ty at the Pumps 2

21 May‑5 June 2010
Merthyr to Ross­port sol­i­dar­i­ty bike ride — Cli­mate Chains

5–8 June 2010
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp Gath­er­ing, Ire­land

11–19 June 2010
World Naked Bike Ride — 11 June: Man­ches­ter, Southamp­ton; 12 June, Cardiff, Edin­burgh, Lon­don; 13 June: Brighton, Bris­tol; 19 June, Sheffield, York

18–21 June 2010
Out­door Skill­share, Scot­land

19 June 2010
Nation­al Gath­er­ing of the Stop Nuclear Pow­er Net­work, Lon­don

25 June-31 August 2010
Eco­topia Bike­tour, from Crit­i­cal Mass, Towards Car Free Cities Con­fer­ence, to the French & Ger­man cli­mate camps and much in between.

6–12 July 2010
Anti-Indus­tri­al Land Defence Action Camp, Cat­alo­nia
Go only if you can speak Cata­lan or Span­ish — http://acampadaderesistencies.blogspot.com

14–22 July 2010
Nordic cli­mate action camp, South­ern Swe­den

22 July‑1 August 2010
French Camp Action Cli­mat, near Le Havre

22 July‑2 August 2010
Swiss cli­mate camp Fr / De

23–27 July 2010
Peace News Sum­mer Camp, Oxford­shire

29 July‑4 August 2010
Bel­gian Cli­mate Camp, near Liege

4–9 August 2010
EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, Der­byshire

12–16 August 2010
Irish Cli­mate Camp, Coun­ty Tyrone

13–17 August 2010
Cli­mate Camp Cym­ru

21–24 August 2010
Cli­mate Camp tar­gets RBS in Edin­burgh: Action Days

21–29 August 2010
Ger­man Kli­macamp, near Erke­lenz

27–30 August 2010
Nation­al Ani­mal Rights Gath­er­ing, near Northamp­ton

27–29 August 2010
Dutch Earth First! Gath­er­ing and CJA meet­ing — Groen Front!

Mainshill Coal Site sabotaged!

12.04.2010
In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing machin­ery at Main­shill open cast site was sab­o­taged. Two Cater­pil­lar D9T’s and a 170 tonne face scrap­ping earth mover, an O&K RH90, were tar­get­ed, both will be inop­er­a­ble today, and will cost Scot­tish Coal great­ly.

12.04.2010
In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing machin­ery at Main­shill open cast site was sab­o­taged. Two Cater­pil­lar D9T’s and a 170 tonne face scrap­ping earth mover, an O&K RH90, were tar­get­ed, both will be inop­er­a­ble today, and will cost Scot­tish Coal great­ly.

A sus­tained cam­paign of sab­o­tage has been waged at Main­shill and it was vowed to con­tin­ue even when work on the mine start­ed. The only thing that has changed since the evic­tion of the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp is that the machines on the site are big­ger and more expen­sive. The machin­ery at the Main­shill site, and any oth­er coal site in Scot­land, are extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble. Sab­o­tage against the coal indus­try will con­tin­ue until its expan­sion is halt­ed.

This action was done by autonomous envi­ron­men­tal­ists in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of South Lanark­shire who are fight­ing to save their com­mu­ni­ty and their health from the coal indus­try. This is also in sol­i­dar­i­ty with peo­ple around the world, includ­ing Colum­bia and India, who are fight­ing for their lives against the coal indus­try.

Main­shill vive — la lucha sigue!

Activist Tat training week

There will be a free AT Co-op train­ing week in Not­ting­ham, from Thurs­day 6th of May to Mon­day 10th of May 2010.

There will be a free AT Co-op train­ing week in Not­ting­ham, from Thurs­day 6th of May to Mon­day 10th of May 2010.

This will include putting up mar­quees, erect­ing and mend­ing the flat pack toi­lets and paint­ing them for beau­ty and dura­bil­i­ty, as well as all the tech­ni­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal (pow­er, plumb­ing etc) skill­shar­ing that launched the site crews of the No Bor­ders Camp in Calais, and the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Black­heath in 2009.

We would like to see 50 new peo­ple there. We can cope with 70 if they are
con­sid­er­ate and co-oper­a­tive.

You can come for the whole week or just a cou­ple of days. We’ll share the cost of excel­lent veg­an food, and bring sleep­ing bags for the friend­liest floors in For­est Fields, Not­ting­ham. E‑mail jed2f4[at]yahoo.co.uk if you’re com­ing.

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Do you have equip­ment? Spaces activist groups can use? Skills you would like to share with oth­ers? ATC are cur­rent­ly doing an audit of grass­roots move­ments to see what mate­ri­als we have and what we have to offer each oth­er. Please take part in our ques­tion­naire, and help us cre­ate a strong net­work where we share skills and mate­ri­als.

The AT Coop­er­a­tive (com­mon­ly known as ‘activist tat col­lec­tive’) is a group of peo­ple who have come togeth­er to pro­vide equip­ment, trans­port and train­ing for grass­roots move­ments. The aims of the group are as fol­lows:

1. To source and pro­vide equip­ment for events to grass­roots cam­paigns at below com­mer­cial rates, by using exist­ing resources and pur­chas­ing new mate­ri­als.

2. To train peo­ple up in essen­tial skills for putting on out­door events.

3. To be a point of con­tact for indi­vid­u­als and groups seek­ing who are hap­py for oth­ers to use their equip­ment or who want to pass on their skills.

In all this, ATC aims to be as pro­fes­sion­al as pos­si­ble, main­tain­ing and stor­ing equip­ment respon­si­bly and ensur­ing that it is returned or replaced. This will reduce waste and free up valu­able time for actu­al cam­paign­ing!

There is a lot more infor­ma­tion on our web­site, so please read on.

http://www.atcoop.org.uk

Faslane Free Cafe ‑Zombies at the base!!

Zom­bies at the base!!
Still liv­ing die in, nam­ing the dead.
Work­shops “What you real­ly should know about deplet­ed ura­ni­um ”
Paint a stone…make a cairn

Meet at peace camp Sat­ur­day, 01 May 2010 at 17:00

On the Sun­day fol­low­ing the free cafe will be film show­ings.
Those wish­ing to stay overnight are more than wel­come. Car­a­van spaces are avail­able.

Zom­bies at the base!!
Still liv­ing die in, nam­ing the dead.
Work­shops “What you real­ly should know about deplet­ed ura­ni­um ”
Paint a stone…make a cairn

Meet at peace camp Sat­ur­day, 01 May 2010 at 17:00

On the Sun­day fol­low­ing the free cafe will be film show­ings.
Those wish­ing to stay overnight are more than wel­come. Car­a­van spaces are avail­able.
For more info or to book yer bed call us..

Direc­tions -

The camp is sit­u­at­ed 6 miles North of Helens­burgh. Helens­burgh can be reached from Glas­gow by train, for £5 return, trains leave every half hour from Glas­gow Queens Street (Low lev­el station).Or the 216 from Jamaica St — Helens­burgh.
You can catch the 316 bus from Helens­burgh Cen­tral train sta­tion (for Coul­port or Gare­loc­head, stops out­side the camp) it only costs £1:50, and you can ask to be dropped off at the peace camp.

-F.P.C. is on the east verge of the A814 road, which leads to HMNB Clyde and beyond. The Camp is there­fore vis­i­ble to all traf­fic com­ing towards the base from the direc­tion of Helens­burgh.

We are about 30 miles west of Glas­gow, by the Gare­loch, a riv­er Clyde estu­ary sea loch. Faslane Naval Base is on the Gare­loch.
CAMP PHONE 01436820901

faslaniapeacecamp@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=346471983449&ref=ts

Earth First! Summer Gathering, 4th — 9th Aug 2010, Derbyshire — location & programme announced/set-up plans & call-out

Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise

5 days of work­shops, skill shar­ing and plan­ning action, plus low-impact liv­ing with­out lead­ers.

Meet peo­ple, learn skills, take action.

For lat­est details, see http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/
Set-up plans & call-out
Loca­tion
Pro­gramme

EF! Summer Gathering poster 2010Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise

5 days of work­shops, skill shar­ing and plan­ning action, plus low-impact liv­ing with­out lead­ers.

Meet peo­ple, learn skills, take action.

For lat­est details, see http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/
Set-up plans & call-out
Loca­tion
Pro­gramme
Want to do some­thing to stop our plan­et from get­ting trashed?

EF! is about direct action to halt the destruc­tion of the Earth. It’s about doing it your­self rather than rely­ing on lead­ers, gov­ern­ments or indus­try. Direct action is at the heart of it, whether you’re stand­ing in front of a bull­doz­er, shut­ting down an open-cast mine or rip­ping up a field of GM crops.

We’re a loose net­work of peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns com­ing togeth­er for eco­log­i­cal direct action.

Join us for 5 days of work­shops, net­work­ing and plan­ning actions, run with­out lead­ers by every­one who comes along. The gath­er­ing is also a prac­ti­cal exam­ple of low-impact eco-liv­ing and non-hier­ar­chi­cal organ­is­ing.

What’s hap­pen­ing?
Over 80 work­shops, dis­cus­sions, plan­ning, strat­e­gy and ‘where next’ ses­sions:

*Share and learn skills for kick-ass actions on land and water.
Small boat han­dling and blockad­ing using kayaks / Blockad­ing — tripods, lock-ons/ Fences / Climb­ing skills / Action recon­nais­sance / Secu­ri­ty for Activists / Strat­e­gy and tac­tics / How to research cor­po­ra­tions /

*Net­work cur­rent cam­paigns against eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion
Open-cast min­ing / Genet­ic engi­neer­ing / Agro­fu­els / Sav­ing Ice­land / Cli­mate actions / Pipeline resis­tance in Ross­port / Anti-nuclear / Air­port expansion/ Tar Sands

*Think about eco-cen­tric ethics and alter­na­tive ways of organ­is­ing
Deep green ethics / Anar­chist eco­nom­ics / Anar­chist his­to­ry / Rad­i­cal Pol­i­tics / Work­ing with­out leaders/ Con­sen­sus deci­sion-mak­ing

*Prac­ti­cal skills for eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and sus­tain­able liv­ing.
Intro­duc­tion to Ecol­o­gy / Restora­tion ecol­o­gy / Flo­ra and Fau­na iden­ti­fi­ca­tion / Veg­an Cake mak­ing / Pow­er from solar and wind / wild food / Squat­ting / Bike main­te­nance

As well as inter­na­tion­al cam­paigns round-up, net­work­ing and plan­ning for future actions.

Cost and prac­ti­cal things
£20–30 accord­ing to what you can afford.
The gath­er­ing is in Der­byshire, the exact loca­tion will be announced the week before. More info on our web­site.

Find out more and join in!

Email us if you can offer a work­shop, want to help out with the gath­er­ing or if you would like posters and leaflets to dis­trib­ute.

We have now a stack of fresh­ly print­ed posters adver­tis­ing the gath­er­ing. If you’d like to send you some to stick up in your area or to take to events, fes­ti­vals and the like, please email us. Alter­na­tive­ly you can also down­load the files and print your own. They are fair­ly large files! EF! gath­er­ing poster (A4)

We are now look­ing for peo­ple to run work­shops and dis­cus­sions at the gath­er­ing. Please con­tact us if you can offer some­thing. Have a look at our pro­gramme page to see the kind of thing we’re look­ing for.

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk, sum­mer­gath­er­ing _ NOSPAM _ @ _ NOSPAM earthfirst.org.uk

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

6 APRIL 2010

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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