Anti-war action

Immediately after being fined £500 for blockading Faslane two women painted their judgement on the walls of the Dumbarton court building. ...

We now have the prison address of Swedish peace activist Anna Alvine Andersson, from the resistance group Ofog. ...

On 30 June and 2 July, the seven remaining defendants in the EDO Decommissioners’ case were found not guilty of conspiracy to cause criminal damage despite their admission that they had damaged £180,000 worth of property on 16 January 2009 in a plant producing weapons for Israel. On 30 June, a unanimous jury acquitted five of the activists, and on 2 July the judge cleared the remaining two defendants of wrongdoing. The court found that the activists broke in with “lawful excuse,” as the destruction was aimed to prevent the factory from producing weapons used by Israel in Gaza.

On the evening of 30 July, two dozen peace activists from around the world gathered in Gretna to begin Scotland’s month-long “Footprints for Peace” walk. ...