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Students gather in Scotland to demand an end to nuclear weapons

STUDENTS will kick off a "learn-in" in Scotland on Thursday to demand a nuclear-free future.

Young people aged between 15 and 28 from all over Europe will attend an "action academy" in Glasgow and at a venue outside the nuclear weapons base at Faslane until July 30.

The Scottish Parliament ...voted to reject the £25 billion replacement for..Trident ....the first time that the Scottish Parliament has voted against the nuclear deterrent.
- Telegraph, 15 June

Despite delusions to the contrary, Gordon Brown's new New Labour will be even more Atlantacist than his predecessors. Maybe not the slavish supine humiliation of Blair Foreign Policy but one still based on the mythology of Camelot and the West Wing.

Activists today expressed anger that the UK Ministry of Defence had chosen to transport six, fully armed nuclear warheads along the Edinburgh Bypass just one day after the new Parliament was sworn in.

Scottish church leaders have called on the UK Government to abandon plans to renew Trident ahead of a key meeting on Monday between signatory countries of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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For a moment yesterday, Tony Blair looked like he had seen Banquo's ghost. He was asked by John Baron MP on what basis he had told Parliament that Iraq could develop a nuclear weapon in one to two years.

An open statement from Cardinal Keith O’Brien and Right Reverend Alan McDonald to the States Parties convening in Vienna for the first Preparatory Meeting of the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), April 30, 2007

The intrepid Vanunu Freedom Riders complete the last leg of their gruelling 600-mile bicycle journey from Faslane in Scotland to Downing Street and the Israeli Embassy in London. - Indymedia UK, 22 Ap

THREE people have been charged after protests at Aldermaston’s Atomic Weapons Establishment on Monday morning.
Irene Willis, aged 62, Anna Rundberg, aged 26, and Timothy Eastwood, aged 26, were all charged with obstructing a highway.

MILITARY chiefs are drawing up plans to move the UK's nuclear missiles south of the Border as concern mounts that Scotland is heading towards independence.

Scotland on Sunday 15 APril 2007

Scotland on Sunday 15 April 2007

The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, has become home to the largest single stockpile of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal. In November 2006, the Natural Resources Defense Council declared that the 2,364 nuclear warheads at Bangor are about 24 percent of the ...U.S.

HE HOUSE of Commons last week approved the government's plans to begin the process of replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system. ... what was really decided? 1: What exactly did the government agree to last week?

The Livingston MP Jim Devine is to step down from his government post in protest over plans to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system.

On February 23, Greenpeace made waves when it joined Faslane 365 and blockaded the entrance to the Trident submarine base at Faslane, Scotland, with seven boats, including its climate-change research ship, Arctic Sunrise.

Indymedia reports on London demo and related stop trident activity and gives links to many groups working on the issue.

The Church of England's General Synod ('parliament') voted in favour of a stronger amendment to a motion which already raised "serious questions" about the possible renewal. - Ekklesia, 27 Feb

In a day called by the Trident Ploughshares Muriel Lesters affinity group, two groups of "inspectors" spent the day visiting the offices of Serco, Rolls Royce, BNFL, Lockheed Martin, and Rio Tinto.

Speculation has been growing that the US is drawing up contingency plans for an air strike against Iran's nuclear programme ... the BBC reported that a list of targets had been compiled and that air strikes would be triggered if US intelligence assessed that Tehran posed a "perceived nuclear threat" to the US or Iran was linked to a major attack on American forces in Iraq.

For anti-Trident protesters, this is the front line. Resistance is focused at Faslane Peace Camp, a ramshackle collection of brightly painted caravans and disused buses wedged at the side of the road that leads to the base.