[LAF] FW: LCW NEWS UP DATE

[Joy Wood]

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:46:59 +0000
From: londoncatholicworker at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: LCW NEWS UP DATE













Dear All,

NEWS UP DATES: 

1) NORTHWOOD DIE IN ON -  MAY 27TH
2) ALDERMASTON BLOCKADE - YESTERDAY, JUNE 15TH

1) NORTHWOOD DIE IN ON -  MAY 27TH
eleven Catholic Workers, nine from London and four from Oxford, were among about 47 people who went to Northwood Military HQ for a Die-In on May 27th. Six people were arrested for trying to block access to the base. For photos and a report, click on this link to the Indymedia website: 

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/431182.html . 

For more photos, see:  http://tinyurl.com/NorthwoodPics

Since the die  in took place on the anniversary of a wedding party being bombed in Afghanistan where 47 people were killed, participants were dressed as for a wedding party and poured fake blood on themselves to symbolise the blood of the victims. Imagine if it happened here - a wedding party, 47 killed - would be a major national news story. 

Northwood HQ houses a NATO HQ and a communications centre for UK and NATO forces occupying Afghanistan. Catholic Workers from the CW Farmhouse and elsewhere have been vigilling, praying and witnessing at Northwood for most of this decade.

2) ALDERMASTON BLOCKADE - YESTERDAY, JUNE 15TH

Martin Newell of Dorothy Day House, and Zelda Jeffers and Angela Broome, all members of the London CW, were among 6 members of the Muriel Lester's Affinity group of Trident Ploughshares that took part in a blockade of AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) Aldermaston yesterday, by a number of groups in a co-ordinated blockade who blocked most of the gates, disrupting activity at the base. Eleven people from the other groups were arrested. The Muriel Lester group were cut out of their 'lock-ons' and escorted away from the gate by police.

For more reports and photos: 

- click on the link - to Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp - http://aldermaston.net/media

- copy and paste, the link to 'Newbury Today', a local newspaper -  

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=10297

 AWE is the UK's nuclear bomb factory. A massive building project is underway to build the next generation of nuclear weapons, in breach of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).

- also see Indymedia: 

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=10297




London Catholic Worker website: http://www.londoncatholicworker.org/
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