York Vikings go berserk over Trident

19.03.2007
A twelve strong group from York, dressed as Vikings, have suc­cess­ful­ly block­ad­ed both entrances to the Faslane nuclear sub­ma­rine base. The coor­di­nat­ed action com­plete­ly closed the base for half an hour this morn­ing. Four men and eight women were arrest­ed in the peace­ful protest.

Faslane Viking protest 1
Faslane Viking protest 2
Faslane Viking protest 3
19.03.2007
A twelve strong group from York, dressed as Vikings, have suc­cess­ful­ly block­ad­ed both entrances to the Faslane nuclear sub­ma­rine base. The coor­di­nat­ed action com­plete­ly closed the base for half an hour this morn­ing. Four men and eight women were arrest­ed in the peace­ful protest.

One of the pro­test­ers, Richard Lane, said “The Vikings slaugh­tered tens of thou­sands of peo­ple but they did so over half a mil­len­ni­um. Tri­dent could do the same in a minute.” Dave Tay­lor of York Green Par­ty said “What­ev­er hap­pened to the eth­i­cal for­eign pol­i­cy that New Labour once promised?” “There is noth­ing eth­i­cal about spend­ing bil­lions of pounds on weapons that the human race can­not afford to use,” he added.

The base is sub­ject to a year long cam­paign reject­ing nuclear weapons and, in par­tic­u­lar, the renew­al of Tri­dent. This has attract­ed a lot of inter­na­tion­al sup­port. So far, near­ly 600 peo­ple from all over the world have been arrest­ed in as many actions and block­ades.