A vision in pink

31 Jul 2014 | by Eye

...a vision in pink will be blossoming

Pieces of pink scarf purled by Friends. | Photo: Left: Photo courtesy of Hartshill Meeting. Right: Photo by Elizabeth Coleman, Eccles Meeting.

On 9 August Yearly Meeting Gathering will be drawing to a close but a vision in pink will be blossoming.

The day marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. The Wool Against Weapons campaign, in a direct action protest against nuclear weapons, will be unfurling a seven-mile-long pink peace scarf between the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites of Aldermaston and Burghfield.

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