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anti-nuclear demonstration on Manchester Mayday weekend

smash dalton | 02.05.2006 12:32 | Mayday 2006 | Ecology

Approximately 70 people took part in a procession to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl on Saturday 30 April. A small group of student activists also protested against the Dalton Nuclear Research Institute at Manchester University.

No more Chernobyls
No more Chernobyls

Spelling it out
Spelling it out

Breaking off onto the streets
Breaking off onto the streets

Through the shopping arcade
Through the shopping arcade

banners
banners


Campaigners were dressed in black to commemorate the disaster, which could lead to up to 100,000 cancer-related deaths. They formed a single-filed procession on the pavements of the city centre to demonstrate against the likely decision by the government to built new nuclear power plants.

Once in the centre of town, student activists unfurled banners against the Dalton Nuclear Institute and one advertising the Camp for Climate Action. Not content with walking on the pavement, 25 people broke off from the main procession taking the short cut through a shopping arcade on to the road.

They managed to hand out lots of anti-nuclear material and to publicise the Climate Camp, undisturbed by police. Highlight of the day: fitting 25 people through the revolving doors of the shopping centre.

smash dalton
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  1. Stop radiotherapy! — Bob
  2. What's wrong with the Dalton Institute? — Julian