Press Releases & Updates 2004

The City Council served the camp notice to quit Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. The Council said they will be pleased if the site could be left as it was last year - "we could not tell you had been here".

A number of protesters attended the public meeting at Swarthmore where they were pleased to hear the great majority of politicians acknowledge that the work on nuclear submarines at Devonport Dockyard is more of a liability than an asset. There was a very well-informed audience who demanded more for the people of Plymouth in redevelopment and consultation. A majority of the audience was for scrapping Trident altogether.

More people who will be involved in the boat action have been at camp this morning and the German television crew will be arriving tomorrow.

Representatives from CND have dropped in to the camp today. Also thirteen women from all corners of Devon who were dressed in white performed a simple ritual at the camp. They invoked many qualities including compassion, protection, strength, remembrance and wisdom. All thirteen flowed while singing down to the Camel’s Head gate, and inside the main gate they danced and sang of the times of change they were bringing. Police reinforcements soon arrived but the women were able to dance and block the entrance to the base for ten minutes. At that point they chose to move away into a well placed concrete traffic circle where they were able to complete their songs and release dove feathers to the breeze into the dockyard. One feather was presented to one of the group of security and police.

Benefit gig with Seize the Day at the Cooperage is set for this evening and Theo from the band previously worked in Devonport and is happy to give interviews.

Press were not invited to the women’s ritual event but photos are available on the Trident Ploughshares website here

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