Abingdon Peace Group took part in Wool Against Weapons yesterday , linking Aldermaston and Burghfield nuclear weapons facilities with 7 miles of pink knitting.
Over 10,000 pieces of knitting were brought, from as far afield as Skipton in Yorkshire, Bristol, and the Potteries,
and even some came from Bonn in Germany.
I can smell the patchouli oil and wacky baccy from here… peace, man
Also France – some Christian CND people collected it when they went to an event there – Africa,, Norway had knitting groups
The pieces will now be made into blankets, to be distributed in areas of emergency
If you would like to help with the cost of transporting the blankets, there’s a website and a facebook page for Wooll Against Weapons, which records its growth from Stroud (in Gloucestershire) when a small group began to decorate things and places with knitting
There were preliminary events in North and South Wales, Oxford ans Edinburgh
A woman in North Wales learned to knit with the express purpose of making one of the 100 x 60 cms pieces that were suggested, and she eventually knitted 7 – but i took her six months, causing much amusement in her own community
A serious purpose behind the pinkness – to highlight the production of nuclear weapons at both Aldermaston and Burghfield. The £100 billion that it will cost to replace the present Trident system could – particularly in this era of cuts all round – be better spent on so many better things – health and education . . . .
There would be no “health and education . . . .” without the nukes that kept the Bolshevik scum at bay for decades. Pointless hippies.