Anti-nuclear campaigners will return to the Rosneath Peninsula this summer, aiming to ‘cause as much peaceful disruption as possible’.
A ‘disarmament camp’ is planned for a site near the Coulport armaments depot from July 8 to 16 by Trident Ploughshares.
The group invites everyone opposing the UK’s nuclear deterrent to join ‘ten days of camping, plotting and taking direct action to disrupt this monstrosity whether it be vigilling, blockading, breaking-in, graffittiing, weapons inspecting, dancing in the road, planting seeds or what have you’.
Originally called Trident Ploughshares 2000 because of its aim of getting rid of the nuclear missile system by the end of the last century, the group has previously held camps at the Peaton Glen Wood site beside the B833, but this will be the first camp there for several years.
The group’s David Mackenzie said it was being planned to follow a United Nations’ conference on a nuclear weapons treaty in July.
“Indications are that numbers will be good but it is early days yet,” he said.
“Another reason is that in spite of the overwhelming opposition in Scotland to the UK’s WMD (as expressed in the recent votes for both Westminster and Holyrood) these weapons are still actively deployed from their Scottish bases.
“We feel it is wrong that we leave these sites alone as if they were part of the normal fabric of life instead of a horrifying exception.
“Thus our aim during the camp is to cause as much peaceful disruption as possible.”
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