I will be part of a group of Cambridge peace activists from the Stop the War coalition will this week and will join with 100 others from the region to campaign against the replacement of Trident Nuclear weapons.
On Thursday and Friday the 26th and 27th of October the group will take part in a peaceful blockade by chaining ourselves together at the Scottish naval base which is home to Britain’s Nuclear submarine fleet. The action is part of a co-ordinated year long protest called Faslane 365. They will be joined by a group of Quakers from the south of England on the Friday. A group entirely from Cambridge will also be going in January and we will be looking for others to join us.
Each group will highlight its own reasons as to why the £76 billion replacement of Britain’s nuclear submarine capability is wrong. The members of Cambridge Stop the War are taking the message that the replacement is morally wrong, fraught with hypocrisies and is illegal under international law.
We are going to Faslane because Nuclear Weapons an indesciminate means of warfare and because there are so many other humanitarian causes that tax payers money should be spent on. Gordon Brown is overseeing the worst cuts to the NHS that we have ever seen. He claims there is no money for maintaining our public services or solving the problems of poverty and the environment. Yet the £76 billion he is pledging to Trident could pay for 30 new Hospitals and 160,000 nurses as well as 50,000 new FIREFIGHTERS, save 7 million acres of rainforest, hire 60,000 more teachers for the next five years, save the lives of 1.5 million children in the Third World and scrap student top-up fees for five years.
The GOVERNMENT'S commitment to Trident replacement is far from a deterrent. It is the beginning of a new and unnecessary arms race. Trident will further tie us to US foreign policy as we USE their satellite guidance systems. Britain will also be breaking the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the Nuremburg principles. Britain is flouting
international laws whilst at the same time using international law to construct a case for war against Iraq and more recently to build a case against Iran and North Korea. I am going to Faslane because I want to see the end to nuclear weapons in my lifetime and because we should be using scientific expertise to solve the world’s problems not to perpetuate weapons which can destroy it.
On Thursday and Friday the 26th and 27th of October the group will take part in a peaceful blockade by chaining ourselves together at the Scottish naval base which is home to Britain’s Nuclear submarine fleet. The action is part of a co-ordinated year long protest called Faslane 365. They will be joined by a group of Quakers from the south of England on the Friday. A group entirely from Cambridge will also be going in January and we will be looking for others to join us.
Each group will highlight its own reasons as to why the £76 billion replacement of Britain’s nuclear submarine capability is wrong. The members of Cambridge Stop the War are taking the message that the replacement is morally wrong, fraught with hypocrisies and is illegal under international law.
We are going to Faslane because Nuclear Weapons an indesciminate means of warfare and because there are so many other humanitarian causes that tax payers money should be spent on. Gordon Brown is overseeing the worst cuts to the NHS that we have ever seen. He claims there is no money for maintaining our public services or solving the problems of poverty and the environment. Yet the £76 billion he is pledging to Trident could pay for 30 new Hospitals and 160,000 nurses as well as 50,000 new FIREFIGHTERS, save 7 million acres of rainforest, hire 60,000 more teachers for the next five years, save the lives of 1.5 million children in the Third World and scrap student top-up fees for five years.
The GOVERNMENT'S commitment to Trident replacement is far from a deterrent. It is the beginning of a new and unnecessary arms race. Trident will further tie us to US foreign policy as we USE their satellite guidance systems. Britain will also be breaking the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the Nuremburg principles. Britain is flouting
international laws whilst at the same time using international law to construct a case for war against Iraq and more recently to build a case against Iran and North Korea. I am going to Faslane because I want to see the end to nuclear weapons in my lifetime and because we should be using scientific expertise to solve the world’s problems not to perpetuate weapons which can destroy it.
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Hey Tom, just so you know, you should have an apostrophe in "Woodcock's." It'll help command more "Respect." ;-)
Funny but part of the reason for invading Iraq was meant to be to remove a cruel dictator, and we replaced it with a crueller form of repression
Kill insurgents (even if kurds?)
Kill opposition (even if Shia?)
But isn't that what the previous evil dictator did. Ohh I get it he just wasn't ruthless or efficient enough at killing Iraqies
The US can do it much better.