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Posted by Louise Edge — 25 April 2008 at 6:20pm
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Four
years ago Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from jail
having served 18 years inside. Yet this month the Israeli government
renewed, for the fifth time, an order confining him to Jerusalem, where he is under constant
surveillance, banned from talking to foreigners and shunned by Israeli society.
He lives with no work, income, home or support. A virtual prisoner.
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Reacting to Gordon Brown's
speech today launching the government's new national security strategy,
Greenpeace campaigner Louise Edge
said:
"It's obviously good news that Brown seems
to be adopting a joined up approach to the real security issues facing the
UK
public.
"But he simply can't square his commitment
to freeing the world from nuclear weapons with last year's decision to renew
Trident.
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Greenpeace volunteers have scaled a crane next to Big Ben and hung a huge banner from it declaring 'TONY [heart] WMD'.
The protest comes as MPs prepare to vote tomorrow on whether to renew Britain's nuclear weapons system and commit Britain to nuclear arms for the next 50 years. The four volunteers aim to occupy the crane until the vote takes place. They hope to telephone as many MPs as possible urging them not to support new weapons of mass destruction.
One of the volunteers on the crane, Cat Dorey, said: "Trident is a cold war relic designed to destroy Russian cities. If MPs buckle under pressure from Tony Blair and vote to renew it, the repercussions will be felt around the world. We can't oppose proliferation of WMD if we're building them at home."
Posted by bex — 16 March 2007 at 12:27pm
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Part of the Trident: we don't buy it tour blog
Sunrise over The Sunrise
© Greenpeace/Sumner
Blimey. I’m not sure how time has slipped past so fast but, after a five week frenzy of Faslane blockading, crane climbing, arrests, solitary confinement, losing the ship, getting it back again, bearing witness, gigs, press conferences, political events, rallies and general sleep deprivation, the Trident: we don’t buy it tour has just come to an end.
The Arctic Sunrise set sail for Scandinavia a couple of hours ago, cheered on from the quayside by a smattering of exhausted Greenpeace folk and watched by the police boat that inevitably appears every time the ship moves.
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