Category: Scotland (Central & Southern)

Scot­land (cen­tral & south­ern)

Bilston Glen Sunday free cafe, November 26th

Come down to Bil­ston Glen anti-road protest camp on the 26th of Novem­ber for the Sun­day free cafe.

This month we will be open­ing the “Bil­ston cin­e­ma in the woods” with an evening of polit­i­cal films. There will be folk music and drum­ming througout the day, there will be Rei­ki and mas­sage and of course the famous free cafe. It is also a great chance to find out about our cam­paigns in defence of nature, meet loads of free minds and enjoy an evening in the woods around the camp­fire. Bring booze and what­ev­er else, wrap up warm and cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful lit­tle wood­land that is Bil­ston Glen.

Come down to Bil­ston Glen anti-road protest camp on the 26th of Novem­ber for the Sun­day free cafe.

This month we will be open­ing the “Bil­ston cin­e­ma in the woods” with an evening of polit­i­cal films. There will be folk music and drum­ming througout the day, there will be Rei­ki and mas­sage and of course the famous free cafe. It is also a great chance to find out about our cam­paigns in defence of nature, meet loads of free minds and enjoy an evening in the woods around the camp­fire. Bring booze and what­ev­er else, wrap up warm and cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful lit­tle wood­land that is Bil­ston Glen.

To get there sim­ply take the num­ber 37 or 47 bus from North Bridge or Nicol­son st in Edin­burgh and ask the dri­ver to let you off at Bil­ston Glen, go down the gate next to the bus stop and you’re there. If you have any prob­lems call the site phone on 07753280009. If you miss this months free cafe, dont wor­ry they hap­pen on the last sun­day of every month but you come down when­ev­er you like. We have plen­ty space in the the trees if you want to stay. Every­ones wel­come, so see you there.

http://www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk/

Daughters of Rebecca at Faslane

Approx­i­mate­ly 100 peo­ple from across Wales took part in the rolling 1‑year Faslane 365 cam­paign over three days this week (Mon 13th — Wed 15th Novem­ber). 19 pro­test­ers includ­ing eight teenagers, some of whom were as young as 14, were arrest­ed for blockad­ing the nuclear base. Those under 16 were almost imme­di­ate­ly de-arrest­ed by the police, but those aged 16 and over are treat­ed as adults in Scot­tish law and were detained overnight in police cells along with every­one else. Warn­ing let­ters from the procu­ra­tor fis­cal were issued to arrestees on their release. Since the cam­paign began on Octo­ber 1st, only one Faslane 365 case has been referred to court.

Faslane Wales 1
Faslane Wales 2Approx­i­mate­ly 100 peo­ple from across Wales took part in the rolling 1‑year Faslane 365 cam­paign over three days this week (Mon 13th — Wed 15th Novem­ber). 19 pro­test­ers includ­ing eight teenagers, some of whom were as young as 14, were arrest­ed for blockad­ing the nuclear base. Those under 16 were almost imme­di­ate­ly de-arrest­ed by the police, but those aged 16 and over are treat­ed as adults in Scot­tish law and were detained overnight in police cells along with every­one else. Warn­ing let­ters from the procu­ra­tor fis­cal were issued to arrestees on their release. Since the cam­paign began on Octo­ber 1st, only one Faslane 365 case has been referred to court.

The South Wales group brought with them a con­tin­gent of the Rebel Clown Army, a giant red drag­on and assort­ed politi­cians, while the North Wales group includ­ed a size­able group of “Merched Beca” (Daugh­ters of Rebec­ca) with volu­mi­nous skirts, bon­nets and black­ened faces. The actions of Merched Beca in 1839–44, where pro­test­ers dressed up in women’s clothes and destroyed much-hat­ed toll gates in Wales, led direct­ly to a Roy­al Com­mis­sion to exam­ine the issue, and by 1844 most of the remain­ing toll gates had been legal­ly removed, allow­ing ordi­nary peo­ple to move freely along the roads. The 21st Cen­tu­ry Daugh­ters of Rebec­ca hope that their non­vi­o­lent direct action as part of Faslane 365 will bring about the decom­mis­sion­ing and dis­man­tling of Britain’s nuclear weapons, allow­ing tax­es to be divert­ed to more use­ful pur­pos­es.

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http://www.wpjf.org.uk

Bradford Priest Arrested at Nuclear Blockade

16.11.2006

Over 50 Anti Nuclear pro­tes­tors from Leeds and Brad­ford took part in a mass block­ade of the Faslane Nuclear Naval Base in Scot­land this morn­ing. Twen­ty sev­en of the pro­tes­tors, includ­ing the Revd Chris How­son from Brad­ford were arrest­ed for their role in the block­ade, which includ­ed ‘lock­ing on’ to a giant CND sym­bol out­side the main gates of the base.

Faslane 365 Leeds & Bradford16.11.2006

Over 50 Anti Nuclear pro­tes­tors from Leeds and Brad­ford took part in a mass block­ade of the Faslane Nuclear Naval Base in Scot­land this morn­ing. Twen­ty sev­en of the pro­tes­tors, includ­ing the Revd Chris How­son from Brad­ford were arrest­ed for their role in the block­ade, which includ­ed ‘lock­ing on’ to a giant CND sym­bol out­side the main gates of the base.

A group of women were also arrest­ed after suc­ces­ful­ly block­ing the sec­ond gate of the base. They were dressed as lol­lipop ladies and car­ried ‘Stop Tri­dent’ signs.

Pro­tes­tors man­aged to cause dis­rup­tion to traf­fic try­ing to enter the base for almost an hour whilst police removed pro­tes­tors lying in the road and used cut­ting equip­ment to remove the ‘lock ons’.

The block­ade was part of ‘Faslane 365’, a year-long cam­paign set up to oppose the exis­tence of Tri­dent, the British nuclear sub­ma­rine pro­gramme and to oppose the intro­duc­tion of any replace­ment to Tri­dent.

The Rev Chris How­son said, “I came to Faslane to show sup­port to those who had planned to take part in the block­ade. I was arrest­ed by the police whilst stand­ing on the pave­ment out­side the base for rea­sons they would not explain to me, despite my repeat­ed requests. “It is clear to me that the Gov­ern­men­t’s inter­ests are not with the major­i­ty who are opposed to Tri­dent replace­ment and would rather see the bil­lions wast­ed on the nuclear weapons pro­gramme spent on health, edu­ca­tion or cli­mate change, but with George Bush and his col­leagues who want us to live in a world of threat, fear and nuclear hypocrisy.”

Pro­fes­sor Dave Webb from Leeds and Con­venor of York­shire CND said, “Today’s turnout has been fan­tas­tic. We have had a great mix of peo­ple blockad­ing today, young and old. It just goes to show that peo­ple are pre­pared to take action for the world we live in. The Gov­ern­ment must lis­ten to us all and allow a full pub­lic and Par­lia­men­tay debate on Tri­dent replace­ment, and dis­ar­ma­ment must be an option.”

http://www.faslane365.org/leeds_and_bradford