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From: webmaster@schnews.org.uk
Subject: SchNEWS 394, Friday 28th February, 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:59:34 -0000
It's a Fairford Cop, Guv
Last Sunday around 500 people met for a day of direct action at Fairford, a US military base in Gloucestershire. Fairford is the biggest bomber base in Europe and houses US stealth bombers that will drop depleted uranium bombs on Iraq. After gathering at the main entrance of the base, someone announced that they were weapons inspectors and wanted to inspect the base. A peace activist told SchNEWS, "We tied ropes to the top of the front gate and started pulling on them and shaking the gate. To everyone's surprise, including the cops, it collapsed on one side and swung open after a few minutes. There was a pause while everyone on the outside watched the horrified expressions on the faces of the police on the other side and then everyone rushed in." While being part of a huge crowd on the streets is an important show of dissent, "direct action allows us to slow down or stop the war machine" as one protestor told SchNEWS, "The best thing was that it was cool to see different types of people working together and not letting each other get beaten up by the police and fighting back."
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