Feel like walking or writing for peace in Australia?

international | environment | news report Sunday December 21, 2003 17:10 by Irrelevant

An eight-month-long peace walk has begun across much of Australia by Aboriginal and white Australians and a prominent Japanese activist to protest against the nuclear industry. It will finish in Hiroshima. They want your legs or your letter!

The route.

Have a look at the route map at http://www.peacepilgrimage.net/map2.htm and schedule. Perhaps you’ll be in those areas at those times while you’re Down Under. How about being more than an “Australia consumer” and showing you care, too? The walkers are asking for people to join them and for letters of support. Their walk began at Roxby Downs, the largest uranium mine in the southern hemisphere. It follows the South Australian state government losing a court bid to prevent the establishment of the national government's low-level nuclear waste dump near Woomera in the state's north. It’s in the area where the British government, aided by Australia, exploded 12 atom bombs 50 years ago without telling the Aborigines living there about them. Aborigines living there now are fighting the dump plans ( http://www.iratiwanti.org/home.php3) but are worried about not getting enough support from the densely populated east coast because people there take an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude. See also
http://de.indymedia.org/2003/11/65922.shtml), http://www.iratiwanti.org/iratiwanti.php3?page=news&id=214 and
http://www.peacepilgrimage.net/.

12 British atom bombs near Woomera 50 years ago.

Starting the eight-month walk.