Wide Resistance to War Threats: PROJECT ELF

Police joined hands with protesters in a February 22 demonstration against military intervention in Iraq and then went on to arrest four individuals for obstructing the driveway leading into Project ELF, a Navy base that signals nuclear submarines.  More than 50 demonstrators, mostly students, made a barricade out of dead trees on which they hung baby clothes to symbolize the children who will be killed should the United States bomb Iraq.  Base security personnel singled out those arrested, even though everyone present assembled the arboreal blockade.  A date of March 17 was set for Ashland County Court.

Project ELF is used by the Navy to send one-way coded messages to deeply submerged submarines, all of which are equipped with ELF receivers.  The Navy admits to at least two fast attack submarines being present in the Persian Gulf. T hese submarines can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.

For more information,contact Laurentian Shield Resources for Nonviolence, 12833 E Hwy 13, Maple WI 54854; (715)364-8533. e-mail: llaurentiannv@igc.org

(Thanks to LaurentianShield Resources for Nonviolence for this report.)

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