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Aircraft Saboteur Bailed - Coulport Base Blockaded

TA | 09.08.2003 22:00 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles

Ulla Roder [1,2,audio] who last March disarmed a Tornado jet, has been released on unconditonal bail. She appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court near Edinburgh for a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday 12th August where a new date was set for her trial (22nd September), with another new pre-trial hearing on the 9th September (coincidently coinciding with the DSEi protests).

In related news charges have finally been dropped against four activists who on 20th February blocked the runway of RAF Brize Norton in an attempt to disrupt preparations for war.

Meanwhile, Coulport military base in Scotland has been blockaded several times, and an International Disarment Camp has been set up - actions continue with several swimmers breaching top-security areas: News Updates: 6/8/03, 9/8/03, 11/8/03, 12/8/03 (arrest total now at 34), 15/8/03 with videos and personal report. The camp is set to run until 15th August. Following on from this Reclaim The Bases will hold their summer camp at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston, from 22nd to 25th of August.

There has also been action taking place for Hiroshima day (August 6), with events in Sheffield and Faslane.
Links: Free Ulla Campaign | Trident Ploughshares | Faslane Peace Camp| Background to Hiroshima Day 2003 | Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarment

A die-in to blockade the front gate
A die-in to blockade the front gate


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fence cutting action at faslane with mpg link

19.08.2003 13:18

A Trident Ploughshares action at Faslane: An activist begins to cut a hole through the heavily-protected weld-mesh fence with a motorised saw. Unluckily we know that we’ve been spotted already on our way to the fence, and there will only be a few seconds before the police patrols reach us. Some protesters try to block the way of police (for their protection) and to give the cutting more time. Two are arrested for obstruction, and three for cutting the fence. A few seconds more and the hole would have been finished. Other activists waiting to run through the hole in the fence leave unarrested to plan their next action.

 http://fme.sincerethought.org/album/album75/faslane_14_8_03_001.mpg
(50 sec, 8mb)

This was one of the many direct actions at the Trident Ploughshares 2003 summer camp, set up next to Britain’s nuclear WMD’s at Faslane and Coulport in Scotland. All of the actions were designed to highlight the insanity of nuclear weapons and the people and structures that allow them to exist.

 http://www.tridentploughshares.org

judy