Trident missile decommissioned at Plymouth Festival for Peace and Hope.
Plymouth Trident Ploughshares | 10.08.2002 18:09
An inflatable Trident missile was decommissioned at the end of a festival for peace and hope in Plymouth today.
Plymouth Trident Ploughshares
Press Release
Saturday August 10th 18.00
01503 250215/ 250030 or 07810 623893
Trident missile decommissioned at Plymouth Festival for Peace and Hope.
An inflatable Trident missile was decommissioned at the end of a festival for peace and hope in Plymouth today. The festival, organised by Plymouth Trident Ploughshares (1), started in Plymouth Hoe Peace Garden where 80 peace lovers gathered to look forward to a future free of the death and destruction commemorated last week on Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day. They marched to Albert Gate, Devonport, with a 20 foot inflatable Trident (provided by CND), which they symbolically decommissioned by deflating it and jumping all over it.
Trident Ploughshares spokesperson Richard Byrne said, “We looked forward today to the decommissioning of Trident and we hope the Government will use the opportunity presented by the refit to do that. We are playing our part in decommissioning Trident by demonstrating against it and by taking direct action to disarm it. Some of that work has started already, but it’s going to move up a gear this autumn with the CND national march against Trident at Devonport in October and the Trident Ploughshares Devonport Peace Camp in November.” (2)
Speakers from Trident Ploughshares, CND and the Socialist Alliance urged the crowd to support the Devonport Seven, seven activists on trial in Plymouth Magistrates Court this Monday for blocking Drake Gate when the Trident sub arrived in February 2002. The trial starts at 10 a.m. and is expected to be the first of many court cases for disarmament actions at Devonport.
Next Wednesday 14th August Trident Ploughshares will hold a public consultation meeting at the Welcome Hall in Devonport from 7-9pm to explain what the camp is about and to hear concerns about the camp from Devonport residents. The next day there will be an open surgery at the Welcome Hall from 12-4pm for residents to discuss concerns on a one to one level
Call 01503 250215/ 250135 07810 623893
For photos of today’s festival call 07971 664847
(1) Trident Ploughshares activists have pledged to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable manner
(2) November 14th-19th Trident Ploughshares members from all over Europe will come to Devonport for a nuclear disarmament camp.
Press Release
Saturday August 10th 18.00
01503 250215/ 250030 or 07810 623893
Trident missile decommissioned at Plymouth Festival for Peace and Hope.
An inflatable Trident missile was decommissioned at the end of a festival for peace and hope in Plymouth today. The festival, organised by Plymouth Trident Ploughshares (1), started in Plymouth Hoe Peace Garden where 80 peace lovers gathered to look forward to a future free of the death and destruction commemorated last week on Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day. They marched to Albert Gate, Devonport, with a 20 foot inflatable Trident (provided by CND), which they symbolically decommissioned by deflating it and jumping all over it.
Trident Ploughshares spokesperson Richard Byrne said, “We looked forward today to the decommissioning of Trident and we hope the Government will use the opportunity presented by the refit to do that. We are playing our part in decommissioning Trident by demonstrating against it and by taking direct action to disarm it. Some of that work has started already, but it’s going to move up a gear this autumn with the CND national march against Trident at Devonport in October and the Trident Ploughshares Devonport Peace Camp in November.” (2)
Speakers from Trident Ploughshares, CND and the Socialist Alliance urged the crowd to support the Devonport Seven, seven activists on trial in Plymouth Magistrates Court this Monday for blocking Drake Gate when the Trident sub arrived in February 2002. The trial starts at 10 a.m. and is expected to be the first of many court cases for disarmament actions at Devonport.
Next Wednesday 14th August Trident Ploughshares will hold a public consultation meeting at the Welcome Hall in Devonport from 7-9pm to explain what the camp is about and to hear concerns about the camp from Devonport residents. The next day there will be an open surgery at the Welcome Hall from 12-4pm for residents to discuss concerns on a one to one level
Call 01503 250215/ 250135 07810 623893
For photos of today’s festival call 07971 664847
(1) Trident Ploughshares activists have pledged to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable manner
(2) November 14th-19th Trident Ploughshares members from all over Europe will come to Devonport for a nuclear disarmament camp.
Plymouth Trident Ploughshares
e-mail:
devonport@tridentplougshares.org
