Academics and Scholars

Here you will find papers presented at the first International Faslane Academic Blockade and Seminar, 7 January 2007.

Here are some press releases from the Blockade and Seminar on 7 January 2007

BBC 7th January

Press Release: Faslane, January 7, 2007

More than 70 eminent academics and scholars held a seminar blockade on the insanity and illegality of nuclear weapons at the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland. After four hours, seminar participants, which included students from the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and Edinburgh, as well as professors, lawyers and lecturers, decided to conduct the rest of the seminar in front of the North (main) gate of the base, where it continued for a further 6 hours in pouring rain. Altogether 34 professors, lecturers and students were arrested, charged with “breach of the peace” and detained at several police stations in and around Glasgow.

2nd FAB Blockade & Conference
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Universities Vs. Weapons of Mass Destruction - Part 2

NOT JUST AN ACADEMIC EXERCISE:
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The 2nd Faslane International Academic Blockade & Conference (FAB Conference) will provide a forum for presenting and discussing papers focused on the impacts of, and alternatives to, the nuclear state. In particular it will focus on the academic arguments against Blair’s proposed ‘son of Trident’ which it is estimated will cost the UK £76 billion by 2030, equivalent to the cost of bringing our CO2 emissions down by 60% over the same period.

Here you can read the information sent out by Stellan Vinthagen on the first academic blockade,this information was sent out in November 2006 and the blockade took place on 7 January 2007.