Press Releases & Updates 1998

The five Trident Ploughshares 2000 women on remand in Scottish women’s prison Cornton Vale are on hunger strike today to signal their determined resistance to the British government’s fourth launch of a Trident submarine, scheduled for this afternoon at Barrow-in-Furness.

They will refuse to cooperate within the prison for the entire day. According to Helen John, of the Menwith Women’s Affinity Group, "we will remain in our rooms; we will not speak and we will not eat. We will also be sending a message to those who will be a Barrow-in-Furness via CND. We hope to hang banners from our windows saying ’THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM TRIDENT,’ - even though these will only be seen from the internal exercise area our intent is clear."

The women will inform the prison staff that the protest is not directed against the prison, but is a protest against the launch of yet another genocidal weapon of mass destruction by the British Government.

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