Still protesting after all these years...........

To Tavistock this morning to help out at an information stall in the middle of the town organised by the small, but determined, Tavistock Peace Action Group. We meet monthly to promote the causes of peace, nuclear disarmament and human rights. Every now and again we erect our stall on Market Day and try to engage the passing locals in a relevant topic. Today our twin themes were the current situation in Palestine and the anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. And we were also trying to raise some money to send off to the Palestinian Relief Fund.

No-one pretends the situation is anything but incredibly complex and controversial or that there is an obvious solution. Our discussions with passer-by's reflected this, with all shades of opinion being voiced - with varying degrees of heat. From what I saw and heard, I'd say the score was 'Palestine 100: Israel 1'.  Lots of signatures were collected for our petition and a reasonable amount of money collected for the charities.

Will our activities change anything? In the wider context, no. Locally, yes, because it brings the issues into the spotlight for a while and gets people thinking about them. A small, infinitesimally small, step along the way......

Getting signatures for our petition was much easier than we expected.

No-one wanted to speak to Marlene!

Lots of literature available for people to take away and we did have a reasonable level of interest

 

Not a good shot of our banner which is a shame because it's rather well designed around a dove and olive branch motif.