ACTIVISTS will be demonstrating outside the region's "Star Wars base" as part of a national protest from 1pm today.
Members of the Yorkshire region of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) will demonstrate outside RAF Fylingdales as part of Keep Space for Peace Week.
The radar was upgraded last year to form part of the US Missile Defence system and is loca
ted in a 120ft tall truncated pyramid which dominates the North York Moors near Robin Hood’s Bay.
Demonstrators will be joined by Ivona Novomestská, a campaigner who represents the No to Bases movement, from the Czech Republic, CND’s chairwoman Kate Hudson, Green MEP candidate Martin Hemmingway and Lindis Percy from the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB).
Dave Webb, the vice chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and convener of Yorkshire CND, said: “We are extremely concerned that the US military is intent on expanding their missile defence system into Europe and developing systems that are the first step towards placing weapons in space.
“Today we will be joining the global protest against these moves. We will be one of nearly one hundred protests and demonstrations at bases and corporations and within communities to highlight the dangers of the increasing threats to peace that these developments bring.”
The demonstration will be at RAF Fylingdales, on the A169, and people who would like further information about the campaign are advised to contact Yorkshire CND on (01274) 730795 or info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk
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