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Press Releases & Updates 2001
5th August 2001
Activists hold impromptu carnival outside warhead base
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Last night, around thirty Trident Ploughshares activists held an impromptu midnight carnival outside the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, which stores Trident nuclear warheads.
The international group, from England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Finland, USA and Canada remained at the gate for about three hours, enjoying the full moon with fire jugglers, musicians and singers. The group, whose ages ranged from 10 to 70, also chalked slogans on the road and ran about playing childrens’ games.
The MOD police watched in a rather stony faced manner, occasionally threatening to arrest people for serious offences such as leaning on the fence, but joined in the games as ’seekers’ when people played ’hide and seek’!
Noora Jaakkola, 19, a student from Finland said:
"Peace activism must include enjoying ourselves; we want to set an example of how a nuclear free world could be, which must include having fun! It is a shame that the twenty police officers there were not prepared to enjoy themselves more."
The carnival took place during the Trident Ploughshares 14-day disarmament camp at Coulport, which goes on to the 11th August. There have been 32 arrests so far during the camp, and two sea actions against a Trident submarine. Further actions are planned for the coming week.
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