Eastbourne New Year
Eastbourne Gazette, 1 January 2010
PEACE VIGIL STAGED AT TOWN HALL
MEMBERS of Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty continued
a long tradition of peace vigils
on the Town Hall steps on New Year's Day.
This year's gathering, attended by Eastbourne’s Mayor, Greg Szanto launched Eastbourne's part in the global Flame of Hope initiative.
Runners, walkers and cyclists will bear the flame in a relay from along the South Coast to Portsmouth. On 6 April the East-bourne contingent will pick up the Flame as it arrives from Hastings and carry it on to Seaford where the next relay will carry it on to Brighton.
The Flame of Hope will support the worldwide call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons through multilateral negotiation.
In May it will go to New York where the leaders of 186 countries will gather for talks about nuclear weapons
The relay will highlight the legal obligation on all states to start negotiations
aimed at a precise result - no nuclear weapons anywhere. Anyone can support Eastbourne's
part of the relay. You can sign up online, at on
www peacebourne.serifweb. com/FlameEastbourne
or write to George Fare-brother, 67 Sum-merheath Rd, Hailsham, Sussex BN27 3DR.
CND Anniversary
2008 saw the CND’s 50th anniversary. Eastbourne was one of the towns in Sussex which showed the history of the anti-nuclear movement in Britain to the public.
