(390.3808) WISE Amsterdam - Also Vienna, where the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency are located, will be visited. Civil and military nuclear programs are fruits of the same tree and equally dangerous. The planned visit to Chernobyl wants to help humanity to remember the largest human made catastrophe.
The walk will start in Brussels, the "capital of Europe" in January 1995, and end in Moscow on October 12th 1995, the International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People. With this walk we want to call attention to the social, environmental and economical consequences of the Atomic Age.
FOR MOTHER EARTH organizes this walk to support a Comprehensive Test Ban, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, further nuclear arms reductions and to oppose civilian nuclear power. It wants to be a tool to strengthen an international network, especially between Eastern and Western Europeans. Alternative energy and defense policies are essential for the sake of the unborn children from who we borrow our Mother, the Earth.
The proposed route of the march is to start in Belgium, through France, UK, Belgium,
Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia and to end in
Russia. The more detailed route could look like this:
Belgium: Brussels, Mons; France : St-Quentin, Compeigne, Senlis, Taverny, Paris, Evreux, Lisieux,
Caen, Baeux, La Hague, Cherbourg; Britain: Portsmouth, Reading, Aldermarston, London, Canterbury,
Dover; Belgium: Zeebrugge, Brugge, Gent, Antwerpen, Turnhout; Netherlands : Maastricht; Germany:
Aachen, Bonn, Koblenz, Frankfurt; Czech Republic: Praha, Brno; Austria: Vienna; Slovakia:
Bratislava, Nitra, Ban Bystrica, Presov; Poland: Przemysl; Ukraine: L'vov, Sepetovka, Zitomir,
Kiev, Chernobyl, Cermicov; Belorussia: Gomel, Minsk, Borisov, Orsa; Russia : Smolensk, Moscow.
Please give us your input about this proposed route, but always remember that we are walking! We can't go hundreds of miles out of our way. We also look for solid contacts along the way, regional and national contacts, people to translate our outreach material, places to stay, things to learn, food to eat, time to share ... and lots of active participation. We hope you will get in touch with us soon. We can put you on our international mailing list and/or visit you on our reconnaissance trips which will start soon.
A first international meeting for this walk will take place on August 10th, 1993 in Brussels, following five days of events to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We'll also continue to update you through the Greennet "gn.nuclear" conference about the progress of this project. We hope you'll get involved!
FOR MOTHER EARTH was founded in 1990, and organized a 5.500km walk across the USA where an average of 100 people walked from New York City to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in an effort to halt nuclear testing on the land of the Western Shoshone Natives.
Contact: FOR MOTHER EARTH
Attn. Rosanne Mitchell & Pol D'Huyvetter
Zilverhof 19, 9000 Gent Belgium
Phone : +32-91-33.32.68. Fax.: +32-91-33.49.24
* replace -91- by -92- after June 26, 1993
E-mail: motherearth@gn.apc.org
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