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Jump To Comment: 1It is always a great gift when an act of nonviolent disarmament goes down, especially in a time of escalating war and massive profiteering form those who deal in death. It reassures us that the simple human work of claiming a future can go on. It is also challenging when one knows the people who have risked their liberty in a spirit of anti-war reistance. Both Per and Ulla have visited Ireland. Per attended the trials of the Pitstop Ploughshares ww.peaceontrial.com in Dublin. Ulla lived in Scotland for a number of years.
Ulla Røder
Ulla Røder, 53 years old from Denmark disarmed a test laboratory for the nuclear submarine Trident system at Loch Goil, Scotland in 1999 together with the Trident Three Ploughshares group. http://www.plowsharesactions.org/webpages/TRIDENTTHREED...N.htm They won the trial. In the week before the war on Iraq in 2003 Ulla disarmed a Tornado jet going to be used for the attack on civilians in Iraq. Ulla has spent more than a year on remand in prison for these actions and other non-violent direct actions.
Per Herngren
Per Herngren has served 15 months of a prison sentence of eight years in the USA; together with 7 others they disarmed Pershing II nuclear missile 1984. http://www.plowsharesactions.org/webpages/PERSHINGTOPLO...S.htm
During the first war on Iraq 1991 he disarmed two Carl Gustaf grenades riffle at FFV, Eskilstuna. . He is 46 years old and lives in Hammarkullen in Sweden and works as a writer. His books have been published into the language of Swedish, Polish, and English.