Coulport News 11.08.2003
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chained to the wheelchair
another activist
the traffic is stopped for a short time
police is fencing off the blockade
another short stop for the traffic
Two activists have been chaining themselves to an wheelchair in front of the north gate of the Faslane Military Basis for 7 hours. But only for some time they were able to stop the whole traffic.
Another activist stopped the traffic by climbing onto the roof of a vehicle.
In the last days lots of workshops took place. For example canoing, swimming with special equipment, introduction to communication tools and dismantling military equipment.
Another main focus are workshops about information of the most important British military facilities and actions and camps in context with them.
The next camp will be at the "Reclaim the bases"-Camp from 22nd to 25th of august in Aldermaston. In Aldermaston british nuclear weapons are produced and inspected.
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[11th August 2003]
12.08.2003 20:52
Faslane Security Breached Yet Again
Early this morning two peace activists were picked up from the water by MOD marine patrol officers inside the high security area in Faslane naval base.
Marcus Armstrong (43), a peace and justice worker from Milton Keynes, and Peter Hammarstedt (18), a student from Sweden, swam across the Gare Loch, evading the constant patrols by security launches and inflatables and got inside the floating boom at the Trident submarine berths before being apprehended. They planned to reach a submarine and spray-paint the hull with peace slogans.
The successful intrusion is the latest in a series of security lapses at the WMD base which is home to the UK's Trident nuclear weapon submarines. Last August two activists boarded and spray-painted a Trident submarine berthed there and were even able to ring the ship's bell.
Marcus Armstrong said: "Last week at Faslane we recalled the horrors of Hiroshima, the total devastation, the living skin stripped from the bodies of young children, the long slow torture of radiation poisoning. It is such horrors that these submarines are for."
As we write activists have succeeded in blockading Faslane's north gate. Four disabled protesters (three of them in wheelchairs) are locked-on to each other.
The actions are part of the Trident Ploughshares two-week disarmament camp at Coulport. So far there have been 30 arrests.
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