Press Releases & Updates 2004

In spite of intense police surveillance protesters have been able to blockade, break into and swim into Faslane and paint peace slogans on walls and buildings in order to expose the ugly nature of the business being conducted behind the security fences. Trident Ploughshares has also decided to continue its ’Non-Stop Nuke-Stop’ campaign which aims to cause disruption to Faslane and Coulport all year round through secret and unannounced blockades and intrusions.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "It would be all wrong if these illegal bases only had to tolerate disruption for a couple of weeks in the summer or at mass actions like the Big Blockades. Those involved in this ongoing crime need to have regular reminders of how appalled ordinary people are by Trident. There is a growing understanding that these massive nuclear weapon systems are a key and integral part of the process by which powerful nations gang up together to dominate and exploit the rest of the world. If a government is amoral enough to threaten others with nuclear weapons, we should not be surprised when it deceives and defies its own people in order to pursue an illegal war in which thousands are killed or when it uses the threat of ’terrorism’ to erode civil rights."

There have been 95 arrests so far during the Trident Ploughshares camp, which ends tomorrow.

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