On Saturday 19 January Trident Ploughshares activists once again carried the message Trident NO Scotland YES to another busy city centre urging Scots to support independence as the best way to get rid of Trident nuclear weapons. This time about ten activists converged at the pedestrian precints in Glasgow outside the Royal Concert Hall where each of us held a card which together read Trident NO and on the flip side revealed the way to get there: Scotland YES. We were joined by Richard, Matt and Stephen from Glasgow CND in handing out hundreds of leaflets.
Later in the evening we continued, handing leaflets to Celtic Connections concert goers on their way into hear Capercaille. Earlier in the week the festival’s director and Capercaillie founder Donald Shaw had said that discussion of the referendum was being encouraged by the organisation.
Mary Millington from Glasgow said: We planned this a good while ago and we were always sure that our message fitted in well with a celebration of Celtic music and tradition. Trident Ploughshares sees the vote in September as the very best chance there is for ridding Scotland of weapons of mass destruction. Such a move would also most likely mean that the UK as a whole would have to abandon nuclear weapons and this would be a huge spur to worldwide disarmament.
The demonstration was the second in a series. TP will be popping up at visible public places where Scottish folk are gathered throughout the coming year. Our first outing was to Edinburgh Castle on St Andrews Day when thousands of visitors were milling around Mons Meg and the One O’clock Gun as we dropped our banner over the parapet and displayed the legend Trident NO Scotland YES.