Press Releases & Updates 2001

Please send messages of support to:

HMP Low Newton

Durham

DH1 5SD

Peace Activists need to be supported not deported!!

Ulla Roder is a Trident Ploughshares activist and she is from Denmark. She is one of the Trident Three who were acquitted at Greenock Sheriff court in 1999 after being on trial for throwing £80,000 of Trident related equipment into Loch Goil. Sheriff Gimblett accepted that they were justified in their action because they had argued that Trident was illegal under international law.

Ulla has been active ever since and has been released on bail many times after actions at the Trident bases at Faslane and Coulport as well as stopping a warhead convoy near Stirling and disrupting the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. In April after 5 hours in the water she swam up to HMS Vengeance and painted ’Useless’ on the side of it. She has been on remand in Cornton Vale prison since August 10th and has recently been on trial at Dumbarton Sheriff court. On Oct 5th Sheriff Fitzsimons sentenced her to 3 months for her actions and recommended that she be deported at the end of it. Because they back dated the sentence she could be deported as early as October 29th (unless appeals are lodged).

Please write to the Secretary of State for the Home Office to ask that he ignore the courts recommendation. Some of the points you could make are:-

  Ulla is not a threat to national security. She may cause embarrassment to the security system at the Trident bases but she does not threaten them. Trident Ploughshares is a nonviolent campaign.
  We are only engaged in direct peoples disarmament because the Government refuses to carry out it’s own commitments to disarm. If they obeyed international law there would be no need for us to come before the courts.
  Trident is an international issue. If it were used, the consequences will affect people far beyond the UK. Trident is illegal under international law and international citizens are entitled to protest about it.

Write to:

David Blunkett MP, The Home Office, 50 Queen Annes Gate, LONDON SW1H 9AT Fax 0207 273 3965

Send copies to: Lynda Clarke, Advocate General,70 Dover House, Whitehall, LONDON SW1A 2AU

Or write to your own MP and ask them to take it up with David Blunkett.

Send letters of support to:

Ulla Roder, HMP Cornton Vale, Cornton Road, Stirling FK9 5NY

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