Press Releases & Updates 2004
22nd March 2004
Moving Through Fear
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Defending herself against a breach of the peace charge at Helensburgh District Court today Sheffield midwife Rosie Heller told the magistrate that she was glad she had conquered her fear and taken part in the Really Big Blockade of Faslane on 22nd April last year.
Rosie was one of 160 people arrested that day when she lay, chained to others, in the gateway of the nuclear weapon base. She quoted the following from the Seize The Day song "With my hammer":*
No prison can contain
The freedom that we gain
When we move through fear
These words had inspired her to move through her own fear and take part in the blockade. Anita Aggarwal, an environmental worker from Edinburgh, faced the same charge. At the time of the blockade Britain was fighting a war in Iraq, supposedly about weapons of mass destruction, and she wanted to be at Faslane to draw attention to the fact that we had our own WMD.
Both women were fined £150.
*The song celebrates the true story of four women who were acquitted by a Liverpool jury in 1996 after disarming a Hawk jet due to be sold to Indonesia for use in the repression in East Timor. See www.seizetheday.org.
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