On Saturday 24th May 2003 - assemble 12 noon in Devonport Park - for an anti-Trident nuclear weapons Demonstration and a Citizen's Weapons Inspection at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, United Kingdom. Devonport Dockyard is home to the Trident submarine refitting programme with HMS Vanguard currently in dry dock here. Also it is home to nuclear storage and recycling as well as a fleet of T-class nuclear submarines with cruise missile capacity. The British Ministry Of Defence (MOD) has sub-contracted the programme to Devonport Management Ltd (DML), which is the firm Root & Brown - a subsiduary of one of George Bush's favourite companies Haliburton.

The Trident Complex, as well as the nuclear storage and recycling etc. is right in the heart of the densely populated City of Plymouth (around 250,000 ) and just as near to the smaller towns of Saltash and Torpoint with higher than average rates of cancer. One of the reasons Plymouth was chosen for this contract is because it is believed the citizens are passive. Therefore the MOD and DML have been complacent up until last year when protests began in earnest with demonstrations, non-violent direct action and a Trident Ploughshares Peace Camp in November. However, we must keep up the pressure so this Whitsun Weekend Demonstration is an important milestone hopefully to be well attended from the national and international communities also...
From Sandra Leslie of Trident Ploughshares Plymouth (UK).