Press Releases & Updates 2000

After a successful swim across the Loch, Ulla Roder (one of the Trident Three from Denmark) and Marcus Armstrong (who has now been arrested 5 times this camp for continual crime prevention activities) were arrested after swimming into the main security area of the base, getting through the boom and right up to the shiplift, and were only discovered by chance a few metres from the Trident. The bandit alarm was then set off. After the day of mourning and grief for Hiroshima in the ceremonies yesterday, the two said, ’We feel personally responsible to do everything we can to prevent the Trident system from being able to operate.’ They were released a few hours ago.

This morning at 7.45 a.m. another blockade of the morning shift of workers began at Faslane North Gate. ’These workers, lovely as they are as individual human beings, are nevertheless aiding and abetting the preparations for mass murder and they must not be allowed to do this. We will continue to lawfully obstruct them and encourage them to shift to peace work’ said one of the eight Trident Ploughshares disarmers who have been arrested so far this morning.

Yesterday the Trident Ploughshares activists had gathered at Coulport and Faslane for various ceremonies to commemorate the terrible suffering of Hiroshima after the first atomic bomb was dropped. Prayers, songs, peace cranes and vigils continued throughout the day ending with a beautiful ceremony of floating candles on the Loch at Coulport.

The open and accountable acts of people’s disarmament continue. Words without action are meaningless. The total number arrested this week is already 120.

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