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Little Peace Boat Sails Into London, Climate Camp To City Hall, meet 4pm

Coastguard | 05.08.2008 20:31 | Climate Camp 2008 | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | Terror War | London

Invitation to meet at Tavistock Square midday for the Hiroshima Memorial or outside City Hall at 4pm for the welcome of "Be Disarming" The Little Peace Boat. Give it a welcome and then a rousing send off returning to the Climate Camp.

Every Saturday in the middle of Penzance town for as long as most peoples memory, there has been a Saturday peace vigil, kept going by one real old character.
This man is Peter, a veteran peace campaigner, and a pensioner with passion, his mission, no less than to avert climate catastrophe by diverting the funds we spend on our nuclear "defence".
The vision he held, and has manifested is .......The Little Peace Boat.
He has, on a shoestring budget, limited, the same as any other pensioner's, sailed the 22ft little peace boat "Be Disarming" through both storms and doldrums, all the way from home in Penzance Cornwall to the Kent Climate Camp, and is now on his way up the Thames headed for Westminster.

His tiny boat flies CND as large as possible on its sail, 50 years after creation of the symbol. He aims to reach Westminster tomorrow on the anniversary of Hiroshima. We (UK) plan to spend 76 billion pounds on a new nuclear deterrent, the same money as its estimated we would need to reduce our climate impact to zero.

All major wars are fought for oil, for the ability to ruin the planet.
We are being duped by excuses and other stories but time has run out.
We are about to leave a legacy for our children, a toxic fireball of a planet, very different from the nurturing place we were born into.
Lets take responsibility now.

This is the news..
His message is clear, and its much much bigger than the obvious message that he wants to tell, its that we can triumph against seemingly impossible odds and make things happen.

You are invited to celebrate this...
Please do invite everyone else too!
Tomorrow morning (6th Aug) he will anchor at City Hall and go to Tavistock Square to the Ghandi Statue for the CND gathering, the memorial of Hiroshima.
The time of this is 12-1pm. Caroline Lucas and many other people will be there.
At 4pm Outside City Hall there will be a greeting for The Little Peace Boat, Kate Hudson, chair of CND, Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington are both coming, Boris Johnson is invited too
You are the very special guest this most important moment.

Peter is very emotional at having got this far..
I am really looking forward to being there at these special moments too!

This boat with its powerful message and popular following will return from Westminster to the Climate Camp.

He has been boarded by police twice to be served long lists of places and installations that he cannot go within 60 meters of, oil refineries etc!

Of course they are so sure that longstanding pacifists are the most dangerous secret terrorists...
Be amusing to see such a dangerous little pacifist boat, flying its huge CND sail, moored next to HMS Belfast, by the Tower of London

Will Boris come out of The Big Glass Egg?

 info@littlepeaceboat.net
www.littlepeaceboat.net

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- e-mail: info@littlepeaceboat.net
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