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Trident Ploughshares activists arrested by armed police

tp | 02.02.2003 17:48

Three peace activists were arrested last night after attempting to break into RAF Menwith Hill, a US Spy Base, and an essential part of Bush’s plan for war on Iraq as well as being one of the bases that the US government wishes to use for their controversial plans for “Star Wars.”

Joss Garman, Sylvia Boyes and Olivia Agate were arrested. Joss said, “Bush speaks of respect for the UN, but he has none. He has abandoned the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) to push ahead with his plans for war in space, and now he wants to ignore the UN, the majority of the world’s people and Nelson Mandela, in threatening war against a people that have been savaged by sanctions for over ten years. Bush is a terrorist, and a greater threat to world peace than Saddam will ever be.”

This protest follows on from tens of previous arrests resulting from his peaceful actions with non-violent direct action group, Trident Ploughshares. This is a group aiming to rid the UK of it’s nuclear weapons of mass destruction through open and accountable, peaceful acts of people’s disarmament.

The protesters are to appear in Harrogate Magistrates Court on Thursday 6th charged with Criminal Damage after painting peace slogans on and cutting a hole in the perimeter fence of the base.

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- e-mail: info@tridentploughshares.org
- Homepage: www.tridentploughshares.org

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  1. great! — x
  2. something happened in Ireland this morning. — iosaf = o as if
  3. something happened in BCN too — iosaf = o as if
  4. You do your cause no good — Blond Bimbo
  5. Get your chance to protest at Menwith Hill — NOW