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Press Releases & Updates 1999
8th November 1999
First Ploughshares "Post-Gimblett" Camp this Weekend
MoD to Surrender Maytime Boat
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Trident Ploughshares activists are returning in numbers this weekend (11th
to 14th November) to continue their direct action campaign against the
United Kingdom nuclear weapons bases at Faslane and Coulport, following the
landmark ruling by Sheriff Gimblett.
The activists will camp at Peaton Wood on Loch Long side, half a mile from
the warhead store at Coulport. A weekend of diverse activity is promised,
followed by a concerted action against one of the bases early on Monday
morning. There will be fresh effort to inform military and civilian
personnel involved with the operation of Trident that international law
will support them if they follow their conscience and abandon their "duties".
The MoD must now hand back confiscated items to Angie Zelter, Ellen Moxley
and Ulla Roder. In an event richly symbolic of Sheriff Gimblett’s
judgement, the boat which they used to reach Maytime will be surrendered to
them at the South Gate of Faslane this Thursday (11th November at 11 a.m.).
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"In one sense the Gimblett judgement has changed nothing. We have been
convinced from the start of our right to disarm Trident. On the other hand
it will have given pause to the political and military directors of
Trident, to Trident sailors and base workers, as well as to Strathclyde
Police who in the past have wrongly arrested us for upholding international
law. We will press that advantage home."
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