Elected Representatives

The Herald 13th January

Here are a few details about how we see things going at the Elected Representatives block of Faslane on 8th January.

We intend to gather at 10. a.m. at the North Gate of the base. If travelling by car you can park in the cemetery car park. To reach it go past the North gate towards Garelochhead for about 200 yards, turn first right, and first right again. There are regular trains from Glasgow to Helensburgh and if this would be helpful we can arrange a lift for you from Helensburgh station. See also

Scotsman 9th January

UK Indymedia

Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran) 9th January

Following on from yesterdays protest by academics from across the world and students from Oxford, Cambridge, Sussex and Edinburgh Universities, today has seen elected representatives from across the political spectrum converge on Faslane in protest against nuclear weapons. Yesterdays protest saw academics hold seminars on papers they had researched on the subject of nuclear weapons, which started on the pavement but eventually moved onto the road. Overwhelmed by sheer numbers, with over thirty students and roughly fifty academics, the police had no option but to leave protestors blocking the main entrance to the nuclear base. When it was clear that police were in no position to clear the road any time soon, and due to the cold temperatures and heavy rain, protestors erected tents, set up a tea table with a gas powered urn and eventually brought a brazier and lit a fire in the main road. After five hours Strathclyde police managed to mobilise enough officers and along with roughly twenty MoD police officers spent a further hour clearing the road of people. Protestors managed to keep the gate blocked for just over six hours and five minutes, which works out as three-hundred and sixty five minutes, an obviously significant record for the Faslane 365 project. There was a total of seventeen academics and eighteen students arrested.