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Press Releases & Updates 1998
14th November 1998
TP2000 activists lock up MoD building in Glasgow
Iona Community members blockade nuclear base with prayer and chains
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Today, Saturday 14th November, at 10 a.m., six Trident Ploughshares disarmers, members of the "Gareloch Horticulturalists" affinity group, padlocked the main doors of the Ministry of Defence building in Argyle Street, Glasgow.
They displayed a banner reading "Closed Down! Department of War Crimes.", and " Crime Watch". There was a modest police presence and no arrests.
Iona Community members blockade nuclear base with prayer and chains
Today, Saturday 14th November, at 12 noon, members of the ecumenical organisation, the Iona Community, held a short service of worship at the North Gate of Faslane Naval Base. While the service was ongoing one half of the gate was closed. Following the service five of the activists, who are also members of the TP2000 Adomnan affinity group, chained themselves together, blockaded the open section of the gate and continued to sing. The five were Morag Balfour (in her wheelchair), Jean Oliver, Maire-Colette Wilkie, Alan Wilkie and Dirk Grutzmacher. At 1.21 p.m., when a lorry arrived at the gate seeking entry, the MOD police arrested the disarmers, took them inside the base and charged them with Breach of the Peace.
Dirk Grutzmacher said:
"More than a millennium ago the Celtic monk Adomnan formulated a law to protect innocent civilians in time of war. When will our leaders realise that plans to murder millions with weapons of mass destruction like Trident are utterly abhorrent?"
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