Power of the Word

Writers and performers arrested in Second
‘Power of the Word’ Blockade Against Trident

Five writers and singers were arrested at the Faslane nuclear base after a five hour “Power of the Word” blockade against Trident on June 5 involving around 30 writers and performers from all over Britain.

...Roger Lloyd Pack, who starred in Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar Of Dibley, spoke out at an organised protest at the nuclear submarine base in Argyll. - The Scotsman, 7 June

Guardian 9th December

News Advisory: May 30, 2007

A.L. Kennedy, Roger Lloyd Pack, Rebecca Thorn and Leon Rosselson will be among a host of authors, poets, singer-songwriters and actors taking part in the second Power of the Word “speak-out” at the North Gate of the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland on Tuesday June 5, starting at 10.00 a.m.

Writers from around the UK will converge on the Faslane naval base to protest against the presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland and to promote nonviolent alternatives to war. Poets, authors, journalists and publishers will carry out a ‘Power of the Word Blockade’ at the military base at 10am on Wednesday 6 December 2006 as part of the Faslane 365 protest in which dozens of individual peace and citizens groups are protesting against the replacement of Trident nuclear submarines and calling for disarmament.

On the side of this most beautiful Scottish loch, Garlochhead, whose surrounding mountains dwarf every man-made pretension, lies the Faslane Naval Base. 11,000 people’s work and livelihood are dependent upon it. If you look at it from just a little way up the northern slopes, as here, it appears benign, innocuous, even insignificant until you spot the submarine moored to the pier on the right. Even right outside the North Gate, which you can glimpse in the first photo, there is the ‘normal’ mix of armed guards, unscaleable fences and precision security on each and every vehicle and individual entering or leaving. ‘Normal’ in that we have all become used to seeing this combination outside army barracks, nuclear generating stations, government research labs, etc. etc. What makes Faslane different is the unimaginable horror it contains.

A CHARITY worker from Stoke Newington was arrested after protesting against the £20 billion plans to renew the UK's nuclear missile system. John Rowley, 63, of Carysfort Road ... - Hackney Gazette,