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RIVER THAMES TO HOST PROTEST AGAINST TRIDENT RENEWAL The campaign against the government’s proposed Trident nuclear renewal will take to the Thames tomorrow, Thursday 8th March, when the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise docked at Tower Bridge plays host to a 50 strong choir. The choir will perform '5 Minutes to Midnight', a piece composed by Damon Albarn. The performance will represent a peaceful demonstration against renewing Trident and against Britain possessing nuclear weapons. '5 Minutes to Midnight' is directed by Hannah Eidinow with visuals designed by Robert del Naja of Massive Attack, and contributions from Brian Eno. The event will kick off at 6.30pm at Shad Thames, South Bank, SE1 and will broadcast live on the internet (www.greenpeace.org.uk) from 7pm, where it can be accessed for 24 hours. 2007. Our Government wants to spend £76 billion of our money on renewing the UK’s nuclear defence system, Trident. Parliament will be voting on renewal in the third week in March after a debate of just three months, an obscenely short amount of time to make such a monumental moral, political and economic decision. In 1968, the UK signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in order to achieve global disarmament. Replacing Trident breaches international law. £46 billion would be enough to fund the UN’s Millenium Development Goals, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger around the world, achieving universal primary education and ensuring environmental sustainability. We have 150 nuclear warheards, each 8 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and killed 140,000 people. Each Trident warhead could eliminate a city the size of Birmingham or Prague or Ougadougou or Brussels or Tbilisi. If we used them all together we could wipe out Brazil. We don’t want to go quietly into the darkness of a new nuclear age. We don’t think we should be spending billions on weapons of mass destruction and we don’t believe we’ll be any safer with a new generation of Trident. If you want to register your objection to Trident you could join CND or Greenpeace. You could march in London on Saturday 24th February. You could contact your MP. You could be writing, reading, talking, protesting. Make a noise. Or you could whitewash your windowpanes, put a paper bag over your head, sit under the stairs and wait for the bomb to drop. NO BOMB |
