Our NASA Space Grant intern, Dan Sullivan, chimes in with this item:
Protesters are residing on the roof of a Raytheon Co. facility in England, in the latest of a series of United Kingdom protests against the defense contractor.
In the latest demonstration, three protesters have made the roof of Raytheon’s Bristol facility their home and are vowing to stay there until New Year’s Day. Here’s one Web site following (and supporting) the protests.
This is the third such protest to hit the Bristol office and protesters are a common sight at the roundabout outside the office, according to some reports.
The three taking up residence on Raytheon’s roof in Bristol have to be feeling the cold. Temperatures in Bristol hit a high Monday of 35 degrees Fahrenheit and the low this morning was expected to drop to 28 degrees.
Here’s a quick YouTube video from what we assume was a previous protest, since the narrator refers to the protesters “basking in the sun.”
Somehow such a protest seems like it would be a little more difficult at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, with its tight security. Here are local protesters posing as inspectors searching for weapons of mass destruction in 2003:
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Are these protesters still in Arizona jails since this protest. You have to be on crack to act out on a “government” facility like this.
— Ray 12/31/2008 01:44 PM #