Support Census Resister in Court 11/11/11
Judith Sambrook refused to complete her census form in protest at the involvement of weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin in processing census data. She has been charged and will appear at Wrexham Magistrates Court on 11th November at 10.30am, which happens to be Remembrance Day. Judith, a single parent from Shrewsbury who is on dialysis three days a week, plans to continue her resistance by refusing to pay any fine imposed and is prepared to go to prison if necessary.
Read on for details of demo and vigil:
ASSEMBLE 10am OUTSIDE WREXHAM MAGISTRATES COURT on FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER.
Demonstrate
- against war, weapons manufacturers and the arms trade, and against Lockheed Martin in particular
- in solidarity with Judith and all census refusers
- to condemn the criminalisation of conscientious census objectors
As this is also Remembrance Day, we will hold a silent vigil at 11am at the war memorial, which is just 50 yards from the court.
Please join us for the morning if you possibly can. Contact us if you need accommodation the night before.
LOCATION AND TRAVEL
Address: Bodhyfryd, Wrexham LL12 7BP.
Transport: 5 minutes walk from bus station, 10 minutes walk from either train station. Car parking right outside, access from Chester Street (swimming pool car park). Direct train services from Chester, Deeside and the Wirral, North Wales coast, Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Wrexham is 12 miles from Chester, 30 miles from Liverpool and 40 miles from Shrewsbury.
MORE ABOUT LOCKHEED MARTIN
Lockheed Martin manufactures F-16 fighter jets, as used by Israel to murder civilians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
Amnesty on Lockheed Martin and Operation Cast Lead
Lockheed Martin developed and manufactured Britain’s Trident nuclear missiles and has a £5.3 billion contract with the UK government to design and build new and illegal weapons of mass destruction at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment.
Report of Trident Ploughshares action against Lockheed Martin (read the footnotes for a summary of Lockheed Martin’s Trident credentials)
Lockheed Martin has developed the ‘Aegis Combat System’. The US is pressurising South Korea to site Aegis-fitted destroyers at a planned naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea, a Unesco-designated ecological area, in a move which will fuel the arms race in the region and will be seen by China as extremely provocative. Local peace activists and others have been resisting this development for years, with many detained for occupying the proposed base.
Report | Save Jeju Island
Lockheed Martin also manufactures cluster bombs, sells arms to Bahrain and makes surveillance drones used by the UK in Afghanistan.
The Census connection: Report 1 | Report 2.
More on Lockheed Martin’s nefarious activities: Corporate Watch Report | Canadian take on the issues.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
or to arrange accommodation on the night of 10 November:
email: Wrexham Peace & Justice Forum.
Many thanks for letting me know about this. My network will want to know about Judith. I am waiting for the decision in the appeal of the “guilty” decision in my trial over Lockheed Martin’s involvement in the Canadian census. There are thousands of people in the world who stand in solidarity with Judith and in opposition to Lockheed Martin Corporation, war-mongers. Our Governments are using our money to enrich people who operate outside International and national law. Best wishes
Comment by Sandra Finley — October 31, 2011 @ 9:26 pm