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Press Releases & Updates 1999
15th November 1999
Ploughshares "Crimestoppers" Hold up Nuke Base
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This morning (Monday 15th November) a group of Trident Ploughshares
activists managed for over an hour to prevent workers entering the Royal
Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, Loch Long, where Britain’s Trident
nuclear warheads are stored. There were 13 arrests, mostly for Breach of
the Peace.
Among those arrested were Morag Balfour and Roz Bullen, both Scottish
wheel-chair users and long-time peace activists. They formed part of a
linked obstruction across the road.
Sylvia Boyes from Birmingham, Marjan Willemsen from the Netherlands and
Jenny Gaiwyn from Faslane Peace Camp locked-on to three separate buses to
blockade a second gate before being removed and arrested. This was
Sylvia’s second arrest this weekend and she was due in court this morning
for a previous peace-related charge, as was Jenny.
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"This morning with 30 activists we were able to disrupt the criminal
activities of the base for over an hour. The Gimblett ruling in Greenock is
helping more and more people to realise that Trident is deployed and is
actively threatening genocide and that they have a perfect right to take
peaceful and accountable direct action against it. We are looking forward
to February 14th, when we expect to have hundreds of people ready to act to
uphold the law."
Hi-8 video footage available of this morning’s action. Also of yesterday’s
actions: pre-sunrise vigil at Coulport; religious service outside Faslane
North gate; walk across the moors above Kilcreggen to put a placard on a
Trident-related communications mast.
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