Academics and Scholars

It makes a change from windmills…..
About 40 academics from several countries gathered outside the north gate of Faslane Base on the Clyde to hold a conference on Trident and to blockade the base. Surrounded by the magnificent scenery of lochs and mountains, our makeshift conference hall was a barricaded corner of pavement with a few rocks to sit on and a small ‘audience’ of police guarding the gate.

Guardian 6th January

These are some of the papers which were given at the North Gate of the base. Please send any updated or additional abstracts or papers to j.kenrick@lbss.gla.ac.uk - Thank you from the FAB 2 organising

Here you will find papers presented at the first International Faslane Academic Blockade and Seminar, 7 January 2007.

Here are some press releases from the Blockade and Seminar on 7 January 2007

BBC 7th January

Press Release: Faslane, January 7, 2007

More than 70 eminent academics and scholars held a seminar blockade on the insanity and illegality of nuclear weapons at the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland. After four hours, seminar participants, which included students from the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and Edinburgh, as well as professors, lawyers and lecturers, decided to conduct the rest of the seminar in front of the North (main) gate of the base, where it continued for a further 6 hours in pouring rain. Altogether 34 professors, lecturers and students were arrested, charged with “breach of the peace” and detained at several police stations in and around Glasgow.