Seven-mile scarf unveiled at Berkshire Trident protest

_76843023_peacescarf2Protesters have unveiled a seven-mile “peace scarf” as part of a protest in Berkshire against replacing the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system.

The scarf, which took thousands of hours to knit, was stretched from the Atomic Weapons Establishments in Aldermaston to Burghfield.

It was created from hundreds of pieces of knitting made across the world and took about five hours to assemble.

Campaigners have spent the past eight months making the scarf.

_76842996_peacescarfPolice closed several roads for about five minutes at 13:00 BST, to enable all of the pieces of material to be connected for the whole seven-mile distance.

 

The sites in Aldermaston and Burghfield provide the warheads for the submarine-launched missile system.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-28722320

Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

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".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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