Menwith Hill: Independence from America 2024

On 4th July, the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign (MHAC) is organising a protest outside the Menwith Hill military spy base as a part of their Independence Day commemorations.

MHAC is exactly what its title says it is, a campaign to make the activities carried out at the Menwith Hill base accountable to the UK Government and to the local people. Surveillance information gathered and processed at Menwith Hill is used in many ways, most of which are kept in secret. Some of the gathered data is used to provide targeting information for military drones. People are being killed either because they are the target or more often because they were simply in the vicinity for a drone strike. Supporters of MHAC believe these extra judicial executions are wrong. MHAC holds weekly peaceful demonstrations, undertakes research to provide the evidence on which to campaign, publishes a newsletter and maintains a website.

In solidarity with our peace movement allies at MHAC and in response to the news, highlighted by Yorkshire CND’s Dave Webb, that Menwith Hill is one of the sites where information is passed onto US intelligence services and then used by the Israeli Defence Forces to target the Gazan population, campaigners from GMD CND will be driving down in cars on 4th July. If you are interested in attending, please get in touch with GMD CND office on gmdcnd@gn.apc.org and we will see if we can twin you with other drivers. If you are planning on driving down yourself, then let us know and I’m sure we’ll be able to fill some spaces in your vehicle.