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Faslane Peace Camp is a permanent peace camp sited alongside Faslane Naval base in Argyll and Bute, Scotland (Google Maps link). It has been occupied continuously since 1982. Image File history File linksMetadata 319315. ...
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First peace camps Peace camps are known from the 1920s. ...
Location of Faslane and RNAD Coulport Faslane Naval Base, HMNB Clyde Her Majestys Naval Base Clyde is the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland and is best known as the home of the United Kingdoms strategic deterrent submarine force. ...
Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd in Gaelic) is both one of 32 unitary council areas; and a Lieutenancy Area in Scotland. ...
Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification - by Kenneth I...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Site
 Faslane Peace Camp as seen from the road The site and look of the camp has varied considerably over the years, depending on the number and attitude of the residents. At one point there were two sites (one at each main gate) with distinct political attitudes (roughly characterised as anarchist and socialist).[citation needed] Image File history File links Peace_camp. ...
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Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ...
Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...
Protests
 Another view of the peace camp from the road Camp residents have occasionally breached the security of the Naval Base by getting inside the fence or by disrupting the road transportation of the Trident missile warheads. They are also active, with Trident Ploughshares and CND in large public blockades of the base, attended by members of the public and a few politicians. Such annual events aim to keep the base closed for as long as possible by preventing its staff from arriving for work, and usually involve large numbers of protestors being arrested.[citation needed] Image File history File linksMetadata 319330. ...
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The Trident missile, named after the trident, is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from submarines (SSBNs), making it a SLBM. The Trident was built in two variants: the I (C4) UGM-96A and II (D5) UGM-133A. The C4 and D5...
Trident Ploughshares is an internationally recognised anti-nuclear-weapons group, with the aim of beating swords into ploughshares, specifically by actively trying to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner. ...
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ...
Faslane 365 Image:F365 finns.jpg F365 16th October
The image above is a candidate for speedy deletion. It will be deleted on 2006-12-24. The Faslane 365 campaign is an effort to establish a continuous protest at the base for a 365 day period using autonomous groups of 100 people.[1] 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ...
The Camps Side Entrance Faslane Peace Camp is a controversial permanent peace camp sited outside Faslane Naval base gates in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. ...
The campaign was launched in September 2006 with the first protest action commencing on 1 October 2006 carried out by a campaigning group of women associated with protests at Greenham Common. October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Greenham Common in 2005. ...
Arrests were made on 2 October of 12 women, and on 9 October of 7 unspecified people.[citation needed] On 16 October 23 Swedes and 19 Finns were arrested.[2] According to the Faslane365 website, faslane365.org, there have been 473 arrests up to 8th January 2007.[3] The most recent independent corroboration of the number of arrests appeared in The Guardian on 12 December 2006, in an article which reported that there had been 344 arrests up to that date.[4] Another notable day of protest took place on the 7th of January 2007 when a group of around 40 world renowned academics including Sir Richard Jolly and 25 students from Oxford, Cambridge, Sussex and Edinburgh held a seminar discussing the replacement of the trident missiles at the base. Protesters subsequently managed to stage the most successful blockade of the campaign (apart from a negociated three day blockage over christmas) so far closing the North Gate for six hours. All those who blockaded were arrested and held overnight. The majority of these arrests have been for breach of the peace, with only 4 prosecutions being made so far: the vast majority of arrested protestors are released, receiving a letter from the Procurator Fiscal's office explaining that although "evidence is sufficient to justify my bringing you before the Court on this criminal charge", the Procurator Fiscal has "decided not to take such proceedings". October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ...
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ...
The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
Breach of the peace is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries, and in a wider public order sense in Britain. ...
The procurator fiscal is the local public prosecutor in Scotland. ...
Politicians and Faslane The presence of Faslane is also an issue in Scottish politics. The Scottish National Party, the Scottish Socialist Party and the Scottish Green Party all oppose the deployment of nuclear weapons, although the Scottish National Party have made assurances that they would retain the base for the servicing of conventionally-armed and powered naval units. It is not unusual for members of these parties, and indeed some from the Labour Party, to attend rallies outside Faslane.[citation needed] The issue of Trident is however a reserved matter dealt with at Westminster. The Scottish National Party (SNP) (Scottish Gaelic: is a centre-left political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. ...
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a left-wing Scottish political party which campaigns for a socialist economic platform and Scottish independence. ...
The Scottish Green Party (PÃ rtaidh Uaine na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the Green party of Scotland, and a full member of the European Federation of Green Parties. ...
The Scottish National Party (SNP) (Scottish Gaelic: is a centre-left political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
Trident, Burmese, 18th century A massive sculpture of Lord Shiva holding a trident (Trishula). ...
In the United Kingdom reserved matters, also referred to as reserved powers, are those subjects over which power to legislate is retained by Westminster, as stated by the Scotland Act 1998, Northern Ireland Act 1998 or Government of Wales Act 1998. ...
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
References - ^ Faslane365 accessed 17 Oct 06
- ^ BBC accessed 17 Oct 06
- ^ http://www.faslane365.org
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1970125,00.html
See also Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases is a UK grassroots campaign which evolved out of a long protest campaign against the American spybase Menwith Hill near Harrogate, North Yorkshire in 1992. ...
Camp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the George W. Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas during his five-week summer vacation there in 2005, named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan. ...
Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp was a peace camp established to protest at nuclear weapon being sited at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. ...
External links
News Coverage - BBC news - Peace caravan becomes museum piece (Faslane)
- Anti-War Activists Arrested at Faslane Naval Base
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