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According to the [[BBC]], Percy has been detained over 150 times. A temporary injunction sought by [[Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater]], the [[Secretary of State for Defence]] in [[1991]] for action at Menwith Hill, became permanent in [[1996]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.civilresistance.info/challenge/preface|chapter=preface|title=challenge to nonviolence|author=Michael Randle}}</ref>
According to the [[BBC]], Percy has been detained over 150 times. A temporary injunction sought by [[Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater]], the [[Secretary of State for Defence]] in [[1991]] for action at Menwith Hill, became permanent in [[1996]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.civilresistance.info/challenge/preface|chapter=preface|title=challenge to nonviolence|author=Michael Randle}}</ref>


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She is pressing civil [[assault]] charges, against Senior Airman Frank McDonald, in connection with her arrest in 2006.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,164610,00.html| title=Activist Presses Charges Against Airman| work=Stars and Stripes | author=Geoff Ziezulewicz | date=March 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2009/03/29/asshat-british-activist-jumps-raf-croughton-fence-files-civil-charges-against-airman-for-detaining-her/</ref> A criminal case was dropped in April 2008, when a certificate of Military Duty was produced, under the UK Visiting Forces act of 1952.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=78c614bd-4e60-4da6-b0df-f15d01ca7f3b| title=British Activist Files Suit against Us Airman| |work=Aero-News Network| date=30 March 2009}} </ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=http://redpepper.org.uk/Basically| title=Basically| author=Jaimie Grant | work=red pepper}}</ref>
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She is pressing civil [[assault]] charges, against Senior Airman Frank McDonald, in connection with her arrest in 2006.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,164610,00.html| title=Activist Presses Charges Against Airman| work=Stars and Stripes | author=Geoff Ziezulewicz | date=March 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2009/03/29/asshat-british-activist-jumps-raf-croughton-fence-files-civil-charges-against-airman-for-detaining-her/</ref> A criminal case was dropped in April 2008, when a certificate of Military Duty was produced, under the UK Visiting Forces act of 1952.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=78c614bd-4e60-4da6-b0df-f15d01ca7f3b| title=British Activist Files Suit against Us Airman| |work=Aero-News Network| date=30 March 2009}} </ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==

Revision as of 17:45, 20 June 2009

Lindis Percy (born 1944, Leeds) is a British peace campaigner, Quaker and founding member and joint coordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases. She is a trained nurse, midwife and health visitor and has worked for the National Health Service her entire working life.

As an activist, she uses non violent direct action and civil disobedience and has been active protesting since 1979, when cruise missiles were to be deployed at Greenham Common. She attended the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford in the late 1980's.[1]

Direct Action and Dententions

According to the BBC, Percy has been detained over 150 times. A temporary injunction sought by Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, the Secretary of State for Defence in 1991 for action at Menwith Hill, became permanent in 1996.[2]

She is pressing civil assault charges, against Senior Airman Frank McDonald, in connection with her arrest in 2006.[3][4] A criminal case was dropped in April 2008, when a certificate of Military Duty was produced, under the UK Visiting Forces act of 1952.[5][6]

Awards

She was awarded a 1998 Winston award by Privacy International.[7]

Correspondance

Jeffery A Hosken Col.USAF Air Attache (dated 4 December 2006)

From the Embassy of the United States of America

Dear Ms Percy, Thank you for your letter of 24 November in which you expressed your concern about the U.S. flag you have been keeping. The Ambassador has asked me to respond on his behalf.

As Americans, we keenly value freedom of speech and the right to petition our government of the redress of grievances - indeed, they are among the rights enumerated in the very first Amendment to the U.S Constitution.

You certainly share our veneration of those rights. By your safekeeping of our flag, you appear to understnd [sic] that it is a symbol of those rights, shared by 300 million Americans and guaranteed by the sacrifices, past, present, and future, of U.S. serviceman and women around the globe.

In the light of the above, we would like you to acept the flag you have in your possession as a gift from the United States Government. Please continue to care for it with the respect it so richly deserves.

Sincerely JEFFERY A.HOSKEN, Col,

USAF Air Attache [8]

Works

  • Michael Randle. "7. revelations of lawlessness". challenge to nonviolence.
  • Ramin Etesami (23 Jul 2008). "US imposing its values through its global military presence". Press TV, Tehran.

Policy Influence

In 2001, she submitted a memorandum to the House about the an expansion of jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP). [9]

In 2002, she submitted, for information held about her by the government, under the Data Protection Act 1998, at the request of The Guardian.

Far more astonishing than the papers she did get to see, were the large volumes of files on her that government departments admitted holding but refused to let her see.[10]

In 2002, she spoke at Levellers Day.[11] She was a speaker at the Global Network 2008 conference,[12] and the European Humanist Conference[13]

In 2008, she gave evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry into police tactics.[14] It is becoming increasingly difficult to get satisfaction through the formal processes of our democracy.[15]

She met Jan Tamas, in Omaha, Nebraska, who along with Jan Bednar were protesting the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense facility at Brdy.[16]

She is a cast member of the film, The Mythologist.[17]

She is a supporter of the World March for Peace and Non-violence, 2 October 2009. [18] Lindis Percy is married, with three grown children and six grandchildren. She lives in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

References

  1. ^ Michael Randle. "preface". challenge to nonviolence.
  2. ^ Michael Randle. "preface". challenge to nonviolence.
  3. ^ Geoff Ziezulewicz (March 24, 2008). "Activist Presses Charges Against Airman". Stars and Stripes.
  4. ^ http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2009/03/29/asshat-british-activist-jumps-raf-croughton-fence-files-civil-charges-against-airman-for-detaining-her/
  5. ^ "British Activist Files Suit against Us Airman". Aero-News Network. 30 March 2009. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  6. ^ Jaimie Grant. "Basically". red pepper.
  7. ^ Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases
  8. ^ History of protests
  9. ^ Appendix 19 Memorandum submitted by Lindis Percy, Select Committee on Armed Forces, House of Parliament
  10. ^ "Base invader". The Guardian. 7 September 2002.
  11. ^ Space: For Peace or War?, levelers.org.uk
  12. ^ Conference Speakers, GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS & NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE
  13. ^ the strength of non-violence, European Humanist Forum, Milan
  14. ^ Carl Gavaghan (28 October 2008). "MPs' pleas over RAF protests". The Whitby Gazette.
  15. ^ http://ukliberty.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/evidence-given-to-jhcr-on-policing-and-protest/
  16. ^ Lindis Percy and Laila Packer - CAAB, Europe for Peace
  17. ^ The Mythologist, John Lundberg
  18. ^ http://pgs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wmbulletin-04-lo.pdf

See also

External links

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