Press Releases & Updates 2002

In Helensburgh District Court Karen Fallon, from Faslane Peace Camp, was found guilty of malicious damage and fined £150 for cutting the perimeter fence at the Trident warhead store at Coulport during the Trident Ploughshares camp in August this year. Karen said that her action had not been malicious. That word better used to describe Trident. Reminding Justice of the Peace Nicolson that we were on the very brink of war she said would go on taking action against Trident.

During the year the cases of Trident Ploughshares activists have come up in no less than 23 separate courts across the UK. As expected, the courts nearest to the Clyde Trident bases at Faslane and Coulport, namely Helensburgh District and Dumbarton Sheriff, had the greatest traffic, with Trident Ploughshares cases on the agenda on 114 separate court days. Fines totaling £18000 have been imposed.

Jane Tallents commented:

"What Karen said yesterday about carrying on the struggle against Trident is absolutely typical of the response I see week after week as people are punished for taking considered and peaceful action to prevent the atrocity of nuclear war. The court experience, daunting though it can be, makes the commitment and determination even stronger.

These court statistics show the willingness of so many people to swim right against the Trident tide. With a terrible war about to happen a war that could easily go nuclear we need more and more people ready to step out of line and make it abundantly clear that the aggression is not in their name."

On April 22nd next year anti-Trident activists from all over Europe and beyond will gather at Faslane for the Really Big Blockade, aiming to close the base down completely for a day.

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