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Daughters of Rebecca at Faslane

Genny | 17.11.2006 12:59 | Faslane | Anti-militarism | Culture

Welsh activists took part in the Faslane 365 blockade between Monday and Wednesday this week.

Red Dragon
Red Dragon

Merched Beca
Merched Beca


Approximately 100 people from across Wales took part in the rolling 1-year Faslane 365 campaign over three days this week (Mon 13th - Wed 15th November). 19 protesters including eight teenagers, some of whom were as young as 14, were arrested for blockading the nuclear base. Those under 16 were almost immediately de-arrested by the police, but those aged 16 and over are treated as adults in Scottish law and were detained overnight in police cells along with everyone else. Warning letters from the procurator fiscal were issued to arrestees on their release. Since the campaign began on October 1st, only one Faslane 365 case has been referred to court.

The South Wales group brought with them a contingent of the Rebel Clown Army, a giant red dragon and assorted politicians, while the North Wales group included a sizeable group of "Merched Beca" (Daughters of Rebecca) with voluminous skirts, bonnets and blackened faces. The actions of Merched Beca in 1839-44, where protesters dressed up in women’s clothes and destroyed much-hated toll gates in Wales, led directly to a Royal Commission to examine the issue, and by 1844 most of the remaining toll gates had been legally removed, allowing ordinary people to move freely along the roads. The 21st Century Daughters of Rebecca hope that their nonviolent direct action as part of Faslane 365 will bring about the decommissioning and dismantling of Britain’s nuclear weapons, allowing taxes to be diverted to more useful purposes.

Genny
- e-mail: wrexhamsaw@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.wpjf.org.uk


Comments

Display the following 22 comments

  1. an insult to the real Merched Beca — drylliwch y cyffion
  2. llongyfarchiadau gyfeillion — Phil Steele
  3. silly? — genny
  4. On you go! — Big Wuss
  5. blah reply to big wuss — blah
  6. ... — Big Wuss
  7. An issue of context — Jake
  8. Jake — Big Wuss
  9. Rota — Big Wuss
  10. wuss — hubris
  11. Rumbled — Inspector Wuss of the MoD Police
  12. Inspector — hubris
  13. hubris — Wuss
  14. thought so — hubris
  15. Typical self-important twaddle — Wuss
  16. to the lost boy — hubris
  17. Hubris: Pants on fire! — Wuss
  18. The opposite of counterproductive — hubris
  19. blah blah blah — w
  20. mm.. — Hubris
  21. Death by a million cuts. — John
  22. Well said John! — Wuss

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