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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 15. september 2003 / Timeline September 15, 2003

14. September 2003, 16. September 2003

09/15/2003
UK Nuclear Weapon Depot Blockaded
Anti Trident activists have blockaded the main entrance to the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport in Scotland, where nuclear warheads are stored and loaded onto Britain's nuclear weapon submarines.
At 7.15 this morning three activists, Sue Brackenbury, from Ayrshire, Roz Bullen from Edinburgh and Marilyn Croser from Glasgow, locked themselves to each other using steel tubes and lay down in the gateway of the Loch Long base, preventing any traffic getting in or out. The action was timed to coincide with the arrival of hundreds of workers for the morning shift. Currently, traffic is being diverted to a subsidiary gate. The blockaders are still in position.
This the first action in Trident Ploughshares' Nonstop Nukestop campaign in which the Trident bases on the Clyde, Faslane and Coulport, will be disrupted by direct action all year round.
A spokesperson explained: "The recent announcement that it has cost the MOD around £500k to defend these bases from peaceful protest suggests that they are feeling the pressure. The obvious response is to increase it. The all too real weapons of mass destruction which our government deploys round the clock are there. We cannot ignore them and share in the pretence that this is a normal, lawful enterprise", writes, Trident Ploughshares.

09/15/2003

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