The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors | 10-12-02
[see also GWI update published 21-01-03]

The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors are coming!!!
To the US Airforce base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain.

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Weapons inspectors are demanding entry to the US Airforce base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain, where stealth bombers have been stationed in preparation for the carpet bombing of Iraq. The Fairford base has in the past be used by the USAF for U2 spy planes, and for the long-range heavy bombing of Serbia. The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors anticipate that they will be denied entry to the base, which they plan to encircle on 14 December. www.gwi.org.uk

See below for more details or Click here for the GWI update published 21/1/03.

MASS WEAPONS INSPECTION OF USAF FAIRFORD
DATE & TIME: Saturday 14th December. 12:00 - 4:00pm
The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors are coming:

http://www.gwi.org.uk

Bristol-Stop-The-War have called a REGION WIDE DEMONSTRATION of USAF Fairford (Gloucestershire) in response to it's use by US Stealth Bombers which will be used to carpet bomb Iraqi cities. This is the basic agenda. For a map of Fairford Village click below: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi? X=415000&Y=201000&scale=10000

1) AGENDA
2) DIRECTIONS
3) BRISTOL COACHES

1) AGENDA
a) Coaches arrive at Fairford Village at 12:00noon. Drop off & Pick up at PARK ST. It should be possible for Coaches to wait in Park St.

b) Congregate along the HIGH ST. (at the bottom of Park St.) for the march to the Main Gate on HORCOTT RD. (20 minute march)

c) 12:30-1:00pm. The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors will request entry to the base. http://www.gwi.org.uk

d) After the expected refusal, there will be open mic speakers (using megaphones) for as long as people wish to speak.

e) During this time people will be encouraged to line the road, & explore the public pathways, so as to symbolically 'circle' the Base.

f) 3:30. Demonstration ends. People are requested to return to the Village before dark, & by 4:00.

2) DIRECTIONS
Fairford is 10 miles north of Swindon & 20 miles west of Oxford. Fairford is on the A417 going east to west. Or along the A361 going north to south, turning onto the A417 at Lechlade village. USAF Fairford is 15 minutes walk from Fairford Village, along Horcott Rd.

DIRECTIONS: CLICK BELOW
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=410000&Y=200000&scale=200000

FOR A MAP OF FAIRFORD VILLAGE:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=415000&Y=201000&scale=10000

3) BRISTOL COACH TICKETS:
£10 waged / £4 unwaged
AVAILABLE FROM: Greenleaf Books. 82 Colston St. BS1 5BB
(Top Of Christmas Steps. City Centre)

COACHES LEAVE: Anchor Road @ 10.00am
(Behind The Watershed Complex. City Centre)

DIRECTIONS : CLICK BELOW
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=358590&gridn=172858&title

Click here for the GWI update published 21/1/03.

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James Venables & David Ransom
for the New Internationalist.
email: davidr@newint.org

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