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Press Releases & Updates 2000
19th May 2000
Activists Want To Meet MP Martin Salter
Monica Huggett in Concert at AWE Aldermaston this Saturday
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Trident Ploughshares activists, who have just set up a week-long
disarmament camp at AWE Aldermaston, have invited Reading West MP Martin
Salter to meet them, after critical comment on the campaign was attributed
to him in the press.
In yesterday’s Reading Chronicle Salter is quoted as saying:
"I am very sceptical about the motives of some of the people who are likely
to be involved in this demonstration."
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"Obviously Martin is not yet aware of our open, peaceful and accountable
methods. We would be delighted if he could come over to the camp and meet
us. We want his future comments on our activities to be based on real
knowledge of what we are about."
Tomorrow (Saturday 20th May) the baroque music ensemble "Sonnerie" will
give a concert at the Main gate of AWE Aldermaston at 4 p.m. One of the
violinists is world famous Monica Huggett, who will join Monday’s blockade
of the base with fellow musician and Trident Ploughshares pledger Emilia
Benjamin. Monica said: "Music is humanity’s common language - it gives
expression to our deepest feelings of universal compassion. Maybe doing a
concert outside the base at Aldermaston will present a stark enough
contrast to nudge unthinking peoples’ minds - compassion versus
demonisation, soft and melodious versus hard and metallic, life versus death."
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