SCOTLAND: Nuclear weapons base blockaded

May 7, 2003
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FASLANE NAVY BASE — More than 600 people attended "The Really Big Blockade" anti-nuclear protest at the British navy's Faslane base, 30 kilometres from Glasgow, on April 22. Many protesters locked themselves to the gates. As people were slowly disengaged by police and arrested, new waves of protesters took their places. There were 170 arrests, including Bruce Kent, former chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a Green Party MP. The police refused to arrest Tommy Sheridan from the Scottish Socialist Party.

From Green Left Weekly, May 7, 2003.
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