Trident Ploughshares & Voices In The Wilderness Shut Faslane Main Gate

The Faslane North Gate was shut for about an hour from 8.30am while activists staged a peaceful die-in. August 6th was the day Hiroshima was bombed and the UN imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iraq.

Around 70 demonstrators solemnly processed from Faslane Peace Camp to the North Gate entrance, accompanied by a lone drum beat. Of those who participated in the die-in 22 were arrested. Activists chalked around the “dead” to symbolise the shadows left by the victims of the Hiroshima bomb. Flowers were placed on the “dead”, remaining with the chalkings after the activists had gone. The demonstration was called to highlight links between the current situation in Iraq and Trident.

Gabe Huck, a member of Voices in the Wilderness USA, spoke to those assembled of the horrific implications of the 12 year sanctions on Iraq after David Mackenzie, of Trident Ploughshares, had given a personal account of his trip to Hiroshima. Tigger MacGregor, a student at Cambridge University, spoke of the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons and the ongoing struggle to get rid of them “Our courage and conviction means we will stay until there is no more human suffering from war, there can be no more Hiroshimas, and there can be no more Nagasakis.”

This action was part of the ongoing demonstrations taking place during the two-week Trident Ploughshares Disarmament Camp. So far during the disarmament camp there have been a total of 32 arrests for non-violent action taken against Trident.

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