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Actions at trident Ploughshares Camp

Sam | 07.09.2005 23:23 | Anti-militarism

This morning peace activists blockaded the nuclear weapon depot at Coulport on Loch Long, hampering day-shift worker traffic entering the base to a trickle and stopping it completely for almost an hour.

Activists used lock-on tubes to block the road
Activists used lock-on tubes to block the road

Police allowed traffic to pass close to activists until 3 moved to block road
Police allowed traffic to pass close to activists until 3 moved to block road

The wooden tripod was twice as high as a Transit van
The wooden tripod was twice as high as a Transit van

Police climbing crew used a tower to remove the tripod activist.
Police climbing crew used a tower to remove the tripod activist.

Supporters stayed and observed the removal to make sure their friends were safe
Supporters stayed and observed the removal to make sure their friends were safe

A Trident submarine seen the previous week
A Trident submarine seen the previous week

Slogans were painted all around the front of the base.
Slogans were painted all around the front of the base.

The Trident Submarine travels up Loch Goil towards the Maytime test range
The Trident Submarine travels up Loch Goil towards the Maytime test range

Protestors held banners while being escorted by MOD police with dogs and quads
Protestors held banners while being escorted by MOD police with dogs and quads


At 7 a.m. a group of 6 women lay down in the main entrance to the base and locked on to each other using plastic pipes. At the same time another group blocked the alternative entrance to the depot known as the Construction Gate using a tripod.

Police allowed traffic to pass close to activists until 3 moved to block the entire road making traffic movement impossible

After a complex cutting out operation the police arrested and took into custody the six women at the main gate. They are: Pippa Robertson from Aberdeen; Carol Livingstone from Paisley; Angie Zelter from Cromer in Norfolk; Jane Smith from Grantown on Spey; Jane Tallents from Helensburgh; Sue Hushing-Tree from London. A little later the police assembled scaffolding and removed Andrew Simpson from Glasgow who was also arrested.

All of the women were released later on in the day and Andrew is being held for court due to a previous matter.

The aim of the activists was to disrupt the work of a base whose operation they is illegal under international law, and to draw attention to the reality of the UK’s weapons of mass destruction.

Trident nuclear warheads are stored in Coulport’s bunkers and loaded there onto the missiles on the submarines.

The protestors were staying at a two week Trident Ploughshares disarmament camp near to the Coulport base. Earlier in the camp people had taken part in painting actions. Six were arrested for painting rocks at Faslane on two seperate occasions and another three were arrested for painting around the gate-way also at faslane.

Two were also arrested for cutting the fence at Coulport in an attempt to enter the base.

On the first of September a Trident Submarine was seen operating in the area. Activists took to the hills at the Coulport base to protest.

The Trident Submarine travels up Loch Goil towards the Maytime test range with two tug boats.

They were eventualy warned off the MOD land and escorted back to the camp.

As people from the TP camp returned from a visit and dinner at the nearby Faslane Peace Camp slogans were spotted at the Coulport Base. Two women had painted the bollards at the base with slogans such as "Jesus Hates Bombs" and peace symbols. They are currently at the Faslane Processing Centre and are expected to be released later on tonight.

For more information contact the Trident Ploughshares camp on 08454588361.

Sam
- Homepage: http://www.tridentploughshares.org

Comments

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Gesture

08.09.2005 20:48

So you decided to "blockade" the base n a day it was closed !!!!!

Excellent

Laughing


where did you hear that?

08.09.2005 22:39

The base was only clossed because we blockaded. The MOD wanted it to be very much open. Workers were stopped from going in, including several coaches.

s


WELL...

08.09.2005 22:43

And what, might I ask, were YOU doing today?

Were you out taking direct action for a good cause?

Were you out risking arrest, and a criminal record, for upholding your principles?

Or are you simply an armchair activist who doesn't attend demos and actions, instead offering the paltry excus that you are 'with us in spirit'?

If so, then you have no right whatsoever to criticise.





Plymouth TP'er


The T****er from Plymouth

10.09.2005 13:31

Oh, don't you believe it ! When a-holes like you are threatening the security of our country, the rest of us have every right to critisise.

Don't worry lad, you'll understand one day, if and when you ever grow up and leave behind the idle fantasies of youth.

Rare Damsel


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