Anti-nuclear campaigners from as far as Switzerland have been arriving in Plymouth this weekend for the peaceful blockade of Devonport Dockyard planned for 6am on Monday, November 1, called by the Plymouth-based Trident Ploughshares group, The Tamarians.
Including Trident Ploughshares, those expected to be participating are CND, the Green Party and other environmentalists, religious groups, secularists, and trade unionists. One person has walked from London to Plymouth in order to attend. These are the people once described by the late Kurt Vonnegut as ‘shock troops of the sane in the war against insanity’.
Tamarians member John Robb described them as: “Working and educated citizens united against a useless and dumb waste of money.”
The campaigners would like to stress that they are ‘anti-Trident, not anti-dockyard’.
The Tamarians argue that the only way to ‘Save Our Dockyard’ is to cut out Trident. They point to a recent report that shows that Trident costs more jobs than it creates. The world-class skills of the work-force in the dockyard could multiply, and inspire the World if they were put to green and sustainable ends, they say.
‘Plymouth Deserves Better’ say the campaigners, who claim the Trident work in Devonport is turning the City into the ‘Sellafield of the South West’.
(from a press release)
(image: the CND call to join the protest)
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