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RENOWNED PEACE ACTIVIST JAILED

Trident Ploughshares | 03.08.2002 11:32

Renowned Danish Peace Activist, Ulla Roder who has been involved in acts of peaceful protest and people's disarmament with Trident Ploughshares was jailed yesterday at Argyll and Bute district court in Helensburgh.

Ulla Roder who famously was aquitted at Greenock after the disarmament of a Trident related floating laboratory and who swam out to a Trident Submarine last april and painted, "USELESS" on the side of it, was remanded to Cornton Vale Prison in Stirling after she was involved in Trident Ploughshares actions includng fence cuts and swimming actions.

This occurred as Trident Ploughshares prepare for their two week long International Disarmament Camp at the nuclear weapons bases on the Clyde near Glasgow.

Already this week, Joss Garman from Mid Wales joined Karen Fallon and Stan Robinson from Faslane Peace Camp in cutting two sections of the fence at RNAD Coulport where the UK government stores it's nuclear warheads.

A spokesman for Trident Ploughshares explained, "It is particularly upsetting that as thousands upon thousands starve to death in Southern Africa at this time, our government spends £1.5 billion per year on an illegal and immoral nuclear weapons system."

Strong Resistance and frequent non-violent direct actions are expected at the bases n the next fortnight.

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