Press Releases & Updates 2002

The camp is scheduled from 4th to 19th August and will begin with a blockade of Faslane naval base on Monday 5th August (from 7 a.m.) followed by a "Die-in" at the same place the next day (Hiroshima Day, at 8 a.m.) to protest against US/UK plans for a war against Iraq which have involved the threat to use nuclear weapons. At the same camp last year activists caused considerable disruption to the work of the bases and on two occasions were able to swim into the Trident "high security" area at Faslane.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "Defence Minister Geoff Hoon has said that the UK is prepared to use its nuclear weapons. This is an overt admission that we as a nation are prepared to commit the most grievous war crime imaginable. It is time for us all to waken up to the horrors being prepared at Faslane and Coulport and do what we can to stop it."

Yesterday at Helensburgh District Court two more people accused of breaching the peace at Faslane blockades were found guilty and fined £100. John McKay, 51, a librarian at the Glasgow School of Art, was arrested at the blockade of Faslane this February and Gawain Little, 21, from Oxford, a member of the National Committee of Youth and Student CND took part in the blockade of the base in October last year. There was disappointment, but hardly surprise, that Justice of the Peace John MacPhail who last month acquitted Tommy Sheridan MSP on a similar charge and an almost identical case for the defence has again illustrated the chronic inconsistency of the court.

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