Press Releases & Updates 2003

Faith Kendrick, an artist from London, was arrested after she wrote "Try Paix" and "Don’t Trident" in red paint on concrete blocks near the entrance to the base, which is home to Britain’s nuclear weapons system, Trident.

Other disarmament actions will be going on throughout the two week camp, with direct action at the Faslane Base North Gate from 10am on Wednesday, August 6 to remember the atrocity at Hiroshima in 1945. Monday August 11 will see a noise demonstration at Cornton Vale Prison in solidarity with Ulla Roder, the prisoner for peace who is on remand there for trashing a Tornado jet bound for the Gulf.

Joss Garman, a spokesperson for Trident Ploughshares, explained, "Whilst Iraq is attacked on the grounds that it might possess weapons of mass destruction, with very weak evidence to back up that claim, Britain deploys illegal and immoral nuclear WMD, and repeatedly threatens to use them. This is blatant hypocrisy. Trident should be disarmed immediately."

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