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Press Releases & Updates 2004
2nd August 2004
Fourteen days of disruption at Clyde WMD bases from 18th August
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On 18th August Trident Ploughshares activists will set up camp at Coulport on Loch Long, Scotland, for 14 days of direct action against the Trident warhead store close by and against Faslane, the base for Britain’s WMD submarines.
Activists will seek to disrupt what they see as the illegal activities of the bases by blockades of the entrances, by cutting through perimeter fences, by swimming into the docks where the Trident submarines are berthed, and by other creative actions.
A highlight of the fortnight will be Monday 23rd August when hundreds, including church ministers, members of the Scottish Parliament, and activists from as far afield as Finland, are expected at the Big Blockade of Faslane, beginning at 7 a.m.
David Mackenzie said:
"The Trident business that goes on at Faslane and Coulport is not normal or legitimate. Each Trident warhead is 8 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima 59 years ago and this government repeatedly threatened to use these WMDs during the Iraq war. Trident is about planning to commit mass murder. It is nothing less than an outrage. We have to break through the tolerance and complacency with which this monstrosity in our midst is treated."
Journalists are welcome to drop in at the photogenic woodland campsite just south of Coulport and may even negotiate an extended visit.
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