Aldermaston - BLOCKADE IS ON !!!!
Block the Builders | 10.03.2005 15:28
A post has been made claiming there is no blockade of Aldermaston on the 14th of March. see below
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306427.html
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This is NOT true. A small element have decided THEY do not want to go ahead with the blokade for reasons of their own that don't need debating here however a number of us WILL be blockading the base and we welcome support from anyone that can join us.
We intend to meet at 8am by the Shell petrol station and then move on from there. All are welcome for what promises to be a great day of direct action.
Aldermaston is developing the next generation of Nuclear Weapons but they can't do it without new building work, we can stop them.
We intend to meet at 8am by the Shell petrol station and then move on from there. All are welcome for what promises to be a great day of direct action.
Aldermaston is developing the next generation of Nuclear Weapons but they can't do it without new building work, we can stop them.
Block the Builders
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Look it's pretty simple!
10.03.2005 23:44
See
So posting on indymedia as was done previously saying "THE" blockade is on (ie implying that the block the builders main blockade that they are working towards is on), is misleading.
That is why someone from block the builders replied saying this is misinformation. They did of course also say that anyone is free to blockade any time they like!
Posting saying well some people are going to do it anyway is not misleading (assuming you do it :-) so good luck to you.
please be clear about what you are saying!
And to be even clearer....
10.03.2005 23:47
ditto
No BtB-organised blockade on 14 March
11.03.2005 08:36
Of course other groups may be (though perhaps they would identify themselves - or at least provide minimal contact details - so that people knew whether it was true or not, suggest whether there was any legal support, training, transport, how to get there, etc).
Personally I would be really happy to see other groups taking explicitly nonviolent direct action to help prevent building work at Aldermaston (after all, for those of us involved in the women's peace camp, that - and opposing the Trident warhead programme - is what we have being working on for the past 20 years!).
However, construction work has not begun on the facilities (2 x IT buildings, an accomodation building, and the Orion laser facility) for which the MoD have planning consent (these sites are visible from the public highway).
So it is rather unclear what/why anyone would be blockading on Monday.
Again, perhaps the repeated postings which suggest that a blockade *will* be on would provide a bit more info if they were actually true.
No-one has even written to the organise group saying "oh we think you are wrong not to call the blockade for this Monday", never mind evolved (regressed?) into "factions".
Therefore we can only assume this is deliberate misinformation and attempt to drag a few people down there to waste energy and resources.
However, if anyone is seriously organsing a blockade for Monday it would be nice to hear from them (and not just via random and hostile postings on IMC UK, but in a kind of grown-up way - like calling us or writing an email, or sthg).
All we can say is that BtB is definitely not organising one for 14 March. The current system of posting details on Thursday about the following Monday will continue.
Ippy
e-mail:
btb@aldermaston.net
Homepage:
http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk/action
IIT IS ON
11.03.2005 12:17
We, the majority had hoped to avoid having this debate in public but as an attempt is being made to claim "ownership" of the group we feel it is only fair to present the wider picture to supporters.
Just because some building work has not started does not mean there is no building activity at Aldermaston, indeed when some of us where there yesterday we counted 11 building related trucks going into the complex, these we intend to stop.
The Blockade is on, I repeat the blockade is on.
We will be posting pictures here after the event and an alternative website is currently being organised. For those seeking further information please call me on 07770 522398 or email me
Jim
e-mail:
James-Tolthan@yahoo.com
A suggestion Jim / James
12.03.2005 13:35
observer
more protests = a good thing! simple.
12.03.2005 14:11
The Blockade the Builders event (which btw has come out of Aldermarston Womens Peace Campaign) is about a MASS ACTION at a specific point in time. There are over SEVENTY people who have pledged to risk arrest for this, which will happen when the campaign calls it, and is intended to block all entrances /exists for an entire day. This is very clear.
Repeat this is about a MASS ACTION that people have signed up to support. I'm not sure what you are on about to be honest. "IT" in reference to this specific BTB officially advertised mass action is NOT on this coming monday.
Sure if you want to go ahead and protest before then, then that is your right, so do so. Go take action together with your group. Just be clear in what you are doing and what you are saying.
The latest Block the Builders campaign comments here on Indymedia have been very clear...
- The planned BTB mass action blockade is not on this coming monday
- If others want to protest anyway then please do
It doesn't get any clearer than that! They even said get in touch!
Currently at the moment all you are appearing to do is make a fool of yourself. Now if you go and set up a website and so on and organise protests and actions then fair play to you, really.
And good luck!
observer
There're back
12.03.2005 17:24
Topper
SWP? That's a good one
13.03.2005 18:40
BTB'ler
James gave faked phone/email
13.03.2005 19:17
Email:
[The following recipients failed (Error message)]:
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SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host mx1.mail.yahoo.com [67.28.113.11]: 554 delivery error:
dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (
Phone: Doesn't even ring. Just makes "click" when you dial the number
Is there some misinformation going on here?
BTB'ler
top comedy!
14.03.2005 15:27
Wry smile though when some poor soul popped up blaming the paper-sellers. 'My porridge is cold, it's an SWP plot!' Sadly in this case I think we may need to address some of the complexities ourselves, rather than blame the Trots, fun though it is.
Mr Spoon
Phone Number
14.03.2005 17:37
Sally
Sally, how was it for you?
14.03.2005 19:12
You said you'd got travel details from Jim/James but omitted the really exciting and important stuff about how the blockade actually went. How was it....? We're all dying to know......?
Buzz
Buzz