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Menwith Hill Update, 3.15pm

Bring Down the Bases! | 22.03.2003 15:25

Protesters Foil Menwith Hill Spy Base in Yorkshire

At least 1000 protesters are at Menwith Hill US Spy Base in North Yorkshire to demonstrate against its role in intelligence gathering for the war on Iraq (not to mention monitoring all our phone calls!). The demonstrators are using foil to disrupt the base's satellite systems and are approaching the fence despite a heavy police presence. There apparently have been no arrests so far.

Bring Down the Bases!
- Homepage: www.now-peace.org.uk

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arrests

22.03.2003 18:30

Latest news 6pmish - about 2 bus loads of people have been arrested and are being taken to Harrogate Police Station. Its not clear yet what they have been charged with.

harry roberts


ideas

22.03.2003 20:11

I just got back. Apparently the police blocked/turned away coaches from London coming to join us at Menwith. It was still **brilliant*** with less people. Foil, kites, balloons, a sea of colour, imagination and music. Gave us lots of ideas for stuff - can the spacecadets email me (oranyone with ideas of how to do this)? we want to try to get No War into the air over a big space
in central Manchester with parachute silk or something.

heather
mail e-mail: roserat@btinternet.com


Photos from Menwith

23.03.2003 15:25

Some photos from Menwith Hill are available at

 http://caw.webspace.fish.co.uk/menwith/gallery/

pza


what reports?

24.03.2003 11:22

surprise, surprise, as thatflabbering tory scumtwat would shriek. after the manc demo, which was uber peacfull. well apparently after i fucked off to buy some soap the polis started gettin all testosterone on some folk. but hmm menwith hill, not a fuckin peep all day aboot it on radio news. ok i was listening to radio 4 so perhaps a demo of this scale ouside a base doesnt warrant metion. y'know, loads of people taking the protest to the operational side of the war machine, yeah lets just talk about people in london ,glasgow and edinbrough(?)having a nice wee stroll in the sun, lovely spring day, don't spoil it by mentioning that the public servants were harrassing and assaulting the public. that would spoil the effect.
why was ther a police car parked in my street this morning for no apparent reason?

veg