Video of our visit to Faslane Peace Camp... and demo...
Showing posts with label Nuclear Free Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear Free Scotland. Show all posts
Monday, 16 April 2012
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Our Visit to Faslane
Sandra Webster, SSP Spokesperson, inspired by our visit to Faslane Peace Camp, wrote this blog...
I live in Renfrewshire the other side of Faslane right across the Erskine Bridge. I knew about the Peace camp having honked my car horn whenever I passed it but despite living so nearby I am ashamed to admit, I had never visited it. Iwas delighted when one of my comrades Neil from the Campsie Branch of the SSP organised a visit. Along with my daughter Linz we visited the camp yesterday and met one of the activists Leonna.
Passing the camp on the road toy can see a patchwork quilt of colourful caravans. Inside the campers have created a beautiful and spiritual face right in the shadows of trident submarines and their nuclear cargo. Enough to wipe the whole of Scotland off the map. Leonna arranged a worshop for us with the history of trident and an introduction to the politics of non aggressive direct action.
Read on HERE
Video and article to follow...
Our signed letter SSP Campsie Organiser, Neil Scott passed on to workers on the base...
Friday, 13 April 2012
Visit to Faslane
We are visiting Faslane base tomorrow. This is the letter we intend to deliver. If anyone else would like their name associated with it, let me know here or email me at plottracer@googlemail.com
To the workers in Faslane Base.
Dear Worker
We have come to the base today to protest at the presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland.
We won’t patronise you with information on the dangers of these weapons, and we are sure you know that the money spent on these weapons of mass destruction would be better spent on ensuring our children are educated and our sick and old people are taken care of.
We understand, though, that the worry for any worker is that they will be made unemployed. We want to assure you that in an Independent Scotland, we as socialists will fight to ensure that you are redeployed and retrained in jobs that are socially valuable with no loss of pay. We will also fight to ensure that communities such as the local economies around Gare Loch are earmarked for special funding that results from the savings the country will make when these weapons and military establishments are dismantled.
Most of us on this protest are from East Dunbartonshire, a Scottish Local Authority that prides itself with the term, “Nuclear Free.” Of course if there was an accident at Faslane that meant a leakage, or worse, this claim would mean nothing. We have a special interest in ensuring these weapons are removed ie, the future of our children (and anyone else’s child who potentially could be on the receiving end of one of these weapons).
For a Nuclear Free Scotland
Campsie Socialists
www.campsiesocialists.com
We'll be publishing an article about our visit and also an article by one of the women on the camp in the coming days...
To the workers in Faslane Base.
Dear Worker
We have come to the base today to protest at the presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland.
We won’t patronise you with information on the dangers of these weapons, and we are sure you know that the money spent on these weapons of mass destruction would be better spent on ensuring our children are educated and our sick and old people are taken care of.
We understand, though, that the worry for any worker is that they will be made unemployed. We want to assure you that in an Independent Scotland, we as socialists will fight to ensure that you are redeployed and retrained in jobs that are socially valuable with no loss of pay. We will also fight to ensure that communities such as the local economies around Gare Loch are earmarked for special funding that results from the savings the country will make when these weapons and military establishments are dismantled.
Most of us on this protest are from East Dunbartonshire, a Scottish Local Authority that prides itself with the term, “Nuclear Free.” Of course if there was an accident at Faslane that meant a leakage, or worse, this claim would mean nothing. We have a special interest in ensuring these weapons are removed ie, the future of our children (and anyone else’s child who potentially could be on the receiving end of one of these weapons).
For a Nuclear Free Scotland
Campsie Socialists
www.campsiesocialists.com
We'll be publishing an article about our visit and also an article by one of the women on the camp in the coming days...
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