Click the markers on the map to see photos of each Milestone site together with explanations of the views and information about how the scarf will be taken through each point. To view this map in a larger size visit the map on Google by clicking here!
A growing group of knitters from Tyneside and Northumberland has joined the Wool Against Weapons project, to knit a section of a 7 mile pink scarf. The scarf will be stretched between the two Atomic Weapons Establishment sites in Berkshire on 9th August 2014, in an anti-nuclear protest being described as the world’s biggest ever yarn bomb. Tyneside’s contribution is already well advanced, with 20-30 metres of scarf knitted or on the needles. The Tyneside…
Groups from across Scotland will meet in Edinburgh to unfurl their Wool Against Weapons scarf along the Royal Mile on 28th June. Some great pics of the project in progress here - Wool against Weapons - a set on Flickr For more info on Scottish Wool against Weapons activities visit their Facebook page, here!
Raise Your Knitting High Words & Music: John Tams New words : Jane Lewis 1. Bound together through the land Needles clicking in our hands Peaceful knitters make a stand Craftiness will win the day(Chorus) Raise your knitting high, Stitch by stitch and row by row Plain and purl shall never die, Raise your knitting high2. Those who knit in face of strife Those who purl for liberty Crochet for a better life Pink to keep the future free(Chorus)…
Do you know about the knitting of the 7 mile long pink anti militarist scarf? See Wool Against Weapons. It is a project to draw people’s attention and get them active against the replacement of Trident. It would be great if readers could get local people in their area to knit lengths (100 x 60cm in any shade of pink) and join in the laying out at Burghfield and Aldermaston on 9th August (Nagasaki day). After…
“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”
– Ken Loach
WORLD IN CHAIINS
TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
