FASLANE 30 DAYS OF ACTION: UPDATE AND FINAL CALL OUT

As of June 12th this year, the Peace Camp will have been in exis­tence for 30  years. Whilst it is great that there has been such ded­i­ca­tion from thou­sands over the years, the radioac­tive beast still has­n’t been chased from it’s lair! A 30 Day cam­paign of anti-nuclear insub­or­di­na­tion, from June 9th to July 9th, has thus been planned.

You can find details of some of the pub­lic events list­ed chrono­log­i­cal­ly below, but for the most part, there will be art­ful insur­gency through­out of a nature we would pre­fer not to dis­close to “the pow­ers that be”… Ener­gies and cus­to­di­al time will­ing, we hope to take non-vio­lent direct action at least once a day! And not just at Faslane, oh no!

So do come along when­ev­er you can and you will find actions wait­ing to hap­pen via autonomous, inclu­sive, con­sen­sus based plan­ning and par­tic­i­pa­tion. Every­one is wel­come (except for under­cov­er police offi­cers… We have trained a dog to sniff you out. You have been warned.) Fun, frol­ics, veg­an feasts and brush­es with the law are all guar­an­teed!

With a vote on Scot­tish Inde­pen­dence and Tri­dent replace­ment in wait­ing this is the time for a renewed cam­paign of resis­tance!

There are scenic camp­ing spots and veg­an food will be pro­vid­ed for all meals (dona­tions for which will be grate­ful­ly received from those who can afford it). Car­a­vans will be allo­cat­ed on a needs basis first so do let us know in advance. We can answer ques­tions and queries by email or phone us on 01436 820901 or 07511793227.

Please pro­lif­er­ate this in any way that you can.
We love you and need your help to be very naughty through­out our 30 Day cam­paign,
Faslane Peace Camp

P.S. THIS IS NOT A PARTY. The sole inten­tion of this cam­paign is to res­ur­rect an anti nuclear cam­paign at Faslane that has long been wan­ing at a time when it is most essen­tial in con­nec­tion to the Scot­tish Inde­pen­dence debate, Tri­dent replace­ment and a poten­tial for actu­al nuclear decom­mis­sion­ing in the UK. Repeat, THIS IS NOT A PARTY. Do come if you wish to be part of a big team of love­li­ness, direct action and action sup­port. Do not come if you just want a par­ty.

EVENTS THAT WE CAN ANNOUNCE:

PEACE PICNIC JUNE 17TH: Helens­burgh CND would like to invite all local groups to a peace pic­nic at Faslane North Gate on Sun­day June 17th from noon to 4pm. Jeely Peace cafe from Stir­ling CND will pro­vide cater­ing. Please bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments and your friends. The Peace Camp will be pleased to wel­come you before or after the pic­nic, or any time, ever.

PEACE MARCH FROM GLASGOW TO FASLANE 21ST-23RD JUNE: A group of enthu­si­as­tic walk­ers and con­cerned cit­i­zens will meet at George Square, Glas­gow at mid­day on Thurs 21 June to walk to Faslane in the name of peace and no nukes! They will be stop­ping to camp en route overnight. The pace will be relaxed. Every­one is wel­come, bring ban­ners and prac­ti­cal shoes!

RISE UP SINGING 1ST AND 2ND JULY: *Come and sing Tri­dent out of Faslane and out of Scot­land! *To re-invig­o­rate the diverse cre­ativ­i­ty of Faslane 365 and to keep the issue of nuclear weapons firm­ly in the pub­lic eye and on the polit­i­cal agen­da, Rise Up Singing (a Tri­dent Ploughshares affin­i­ty group) has organ­ised a two-day gath­er­ing to cel­e­brate the 30th birth­day of Faslane Peace Camp. Every­one wel­come! No singing expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary. Bring a song to share, a ban­ner and some cake, and we’ll pro­vide the tea.

ACADEMIC SEMINAR ROADBLOCK 6TH JULY:
On Fri­day July 6th aca­d­e­mics and activists from all over the world will par­tic­i­pate in a sem­i­nar block­ade as part of Faslane 30. The trans-dis­ci­pli­nary sem­i­nar block­ade fol­lows sim­i­lar actions at Faslane in 2005 and at COP15 in Copen­hagen in 2009 and is part of an emerg­ing tra­di­tion of putting social the­o­ry into per­son­al prac­tice. The theme of  the sem­i­nar is ‘secu­ri­ty’ and par­tic­i­pants are invit­ed to reflect on the com­plex issue of nuclear weapons from a range of per­spec­tives ‑gov­er­nance, secu­ri­ti­sa­tion and dis­cours­es of ‘ter­ror’, ethics, as well envi­ron­men­tal and social jus­tice. Leav­ing moral­i­ty aside for just one moment, we ask how is spend­ing on nuclear weapons jus­ti­fied strate­gi­cal­ly, eco­nom­i­cal­ly and social­ly in an era when the nature of con­flict is so changed, when much of the world is in eco­nom­ic melt­down and so many peo­ple are suf­fer­ing from poli­cies of aus­ter­i­ty? The sem­i­nar block­ade will be peace­ful but will insist on claim­ing the pub­lic space for demo­c­ra­t­ic debate on what secu­ri­ty means both geopo­lit­i­cal­ly and in people’s every­day lives. Con­tri­bu­tions will engage with broad­er themes of pol­i­tics, democ­ra­cy, gov­ern­men­tal­i­ty, con­flict res­o­lu­tion, cit­i­zen­ship, glob­al
rela­tions and anti-war. The sem­i­nar will involve cre­ative pub­lic and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry schol­ar­ship, using a vari­ety of media and forms: paper pre­sen­ta­tions are envis­aged — though Pow­er­Point is logis­ti­cal­ly unfea­si­ble! — along­side work­shops for small group debate, expe­ri­ence shar­ing and oth­er kinds of learn­ing. In par­tic­u­lar, we hope that peace  cam­paign­ers at the camp will be cen­tral­ly involved in the sem­i­nar. The tim­ing and exact loca­tions of sem­i­nar events will nec­es­sar­i­ly be deter­mined on the day, but par­tic­i­pants are invit­ed to gath­er at the Peace Camp between 8 and 9.30 am.

CIRCA 7TH JULY:
The Clan­des­tine Insur­gent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) will NOT be march­ing on Faslane nuclear sub­ma­rine lair on Sat­ur­day 7th of July, oh no. Even though the Tri­dent mis­siles at Faslane Naval Base could kill all the Clowns on the plan­et –and all the clowns too! – we won’t be there. Even though the Tri­dent mis­siles at Faslane are going to be replaced at an astro­nom­ic cost when all Clowns are feel­ing the pinch, we will not be roused to action. Even though none of our Clown com­rades and friends in Scot­land want Tri­dent or its replace­ment, CIRCA aren’t for turn­ing (up). Most of all, even though Rebel Clowns would defend every­one for just the price of a rub­ber dingy and load of cus­tard pies, even though Tri­dent replace­ment will take our Army jobs away, we will NOT be part of Faslane 30. Aca­d­e­mics say that CIRCA has died a death in Britain, and they are right. They must be right because they are aca­d­e­mics and aca­d­e­mics know every­thing about elites, exploita­tion, mil­i­tari­sa­tion… (Fun­ny how noth­ing changes, then, eh?) How­ev­er. A new Army of Rebel Clowns from all over Britain is trained and ready to join our inter­na­tion­al com­rades and peace camp friends to PARTY on the 30th anniver­sary of resist­ing nuclear non­sense at Faslane. If Tri­dent makes us redun­dant and aca­d­e­mics pro­nounce us dead, we will come to the par­ty as the unem­ploy­able undead, as gum­my vam­pires, veg­an zom­bies and mangy were­wolves. CIRCA will NOT be march­ing on Faslane, but a ghost army of Rebels Clowns – sea­soned corpses and the fresh­ly (sic) deceased (dis­eased?) might, just might, be there! Come on, do the  Res­ur­rec­tion-Insur­rec­tion Shuf­fle!

… And the rest is top secret!