Grannies Blockade Fairford Pics

GWI | 17.03.2003 20:18

For over 2 hours today - 17 March - around 100 women, many of them grandmothers, blockaded the main entrance to Fairford airbase causing disruption to the normal operation as the USAF prepares for war. (article 1)

Grannies Blockade Fairford Pics

The protest was peaceful yet determined and powerful. There were warnings from the police followed by two arrests and then as the traffic backed up gate 7 was opened and all traffic in and out of the base had to be rerouted. There were too few grannies to blockade the second gate so after a picnic lunch, when it became clear the police were just going to play a waiting game and no more arrests were likely the group quietly dispersed to plan their next action.

Later a second smaller blockade occurred at gate 7 when it was thought bombs were about to be moved from the munitions store to the B-52s waiting inside the base.

Please make every effort to get to Fairford on 22nd for the biggest ever demo in Gloucestershire.

Protest at Fairford is much more fun - forget london that's been done!

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Grannies Blockade Fairford Pics