Press Release……Anti-nuclear Protesters arrive in Knighton…… Press Release
with a huge CND symbol.
10.30am Tuesday 7th June
at the Knighton Community Centre
The UK nuclear weapons based in Scotland at Faslane are an existential threat to the whole world. A large rainbow coloured CND symbol towed on a trailer will arrive from Bristol en route to Faslane and Coulport where it will remind people that the UK is a major part of the nuclear problem.
Local campaigner Angie Zelter, from Knucklas, will join the CND symbol at an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Knighton Community Centre at noon on the 7th June and will then travel to Scotland for 10 days of protest. She will be joining activists from Trident Ploughshares and XR Peace and will be camping at Peaton Wood just outside Coulport where the nuclear warheads are stored on Loch Long.
Angie stated, ‘The Ukraine war has made it more obvious than ever that nuclear weapons do not prevent war. They just make it more dangerous. The bottom line with so-called “deterrence” is the willingness to commit mass murder, an atrocity on a vast scale, a major war crime. It is not some common-sense insurance policy. Instead, it leads to the whole global civilian population being held hostage’.
After leaving Knighton, Angie and the other campaigners will go to Todmorden, Penrith and then Glasgow. They will be giving talks en route about the close connections between wars, environmental destruction, biodiversity loss and climate change. They will be urging as many people as possible to protest in the streets to force the government to make the necessary changes to protect the public.
Local people in and around Knighton are really concerned that the current crisis, with nuclear weapons part of the mix, is draining attention, focus and action away from tackling the most immediate existential crisis facing us – the climate and biodiversity emergency. They understand that the military carbon bootprint is immense and is part of the climate emergency. They will be expressing their concern and solidarity by joining the demonstration at Knighton Community Centre, greeting the arrival of the CND symbol and waving off the activists on their way to protest at the expansion of the UK nuclear forces in Scotland.
For more information phone Angie on 07454-573135 or see
https://xrpeace.org/ or https://tridentploughshares.org/
Notes
Angie was one of 3 women who disarmed part of the Trident nuclear weapon system in 1999. The Loch Goil Three were found not guilty by the Sheriff after spending 5 months in prison in Scotland – see http://tridentploughsharesarchive.org/loch-goil-action-and-greenock-1999-trial/
Angie is a Trustee of the Peaton Wood Peace Trust set up to preserve woodland right beside the Nuclear Arms Depot at Coulport