REPORT FROM THE FIRST PEACE PROCESSION

 

* Update: Currently the Westminster Peace Procession is not meeting at the moment. We hope to re-start at sometime in the near future. For any group or person interested then please contact mail@peacestrike.org.uk with the heading ‘ Peace Procession ‘

Westminster Peace Procession

The first peace procession took place on Sunday 5 October 2008 in London. The peace procession starts at Westminster Cathedral, stopping at Parliament Square and Downing Street, finishing at St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square or the Edith Cavell Statue on St Martin’s Lane. Everyone is welcome to come and take part in the procession – it is for all faiths and none, for everyone who cares about humanity and peace and wishes to demand an end to the destruction and suffering caused by our own country’s actions.

Over 30 people gathered on a rainy Sunday to walk for peace from Westminster Cathedral (top picture) to the Edith Cavell Statue, just north of Trafalgar Square (bottom picture). Edith Cavell was a nurse and humanitarian, who was executed by firing squad in Germany on 12th October 1915 for helping soldiers of both sides to escape the squalor of World War One.

The campaigners, from all faiths and none, were joined by Brian Haw and David Gould, whose step-daughter Helen Katherine Jones was killed on a Piccadilly line train at Kings Cross during the bombing of the London underground in 2005. They stopped on the way at Downing Street where a petition demanding a peace plan was handed into Gordon Brown and at St Martin’s in the Fields in Trafalgar Square (middle picture). See the Indymedia report for some great photos of the event by Terry Bunch.

 

 

Media 1st October 2008

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/10/409792.html

Report 5th October 2008

 http://www.terencebunch.co.uk/protest-photographer/maria-gallastegui-peace-procession-multi-faith-peace-plan-london-05-10-2008/

Report 2nd November 2008

http://www.terencebunch.co.uk/protest-photographer/second-peace-procession-and-the-peace-plan-london-02-11-2008/

Report 1st February 2009

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420955.html