Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future
Dublin to London, April-June - 2007
Day 56 - July 7th, 2007: Leeds to Wakefield
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We said our sad goodbyes to Jamie yesterday over a great meal that a few of the walkers had prepared, with lots of sweety treats. Jamie has to return to the USA having walked from Dublin with us. He turned 17 years old on the walk and we have been so happy to have him walk with us. To me, Jamie gives us great hope for a peaceful future and a world without nukes. Thank you so much.
As part of Yorkshire CND’s annual fundraising sponsored walk this year CND’s amazing energetic crew joined us to walk for the day. We had a wonderful time of delicious fruit picking along the way, with the sun out made for a perfect day. The cherries at the moment are perfect, sweet and juicy. Thank you to all of you who walked with us!!
As we entered the town of Wakefield we walked through the town centre where many young people were sitting around in groups. Some of them asked what we were doing so we stopped and chatted to them, a few of them joined us to walk the last few yards to the beautiful Quaker Meeting House. I walked with a couple of young men who told me that “they were against the Trident Replacement as their school could not afford to supply the library with sufficient books for students to read”. They told me that “the town of Wakefield needed to have things to do for the youth who were bored”. This short moment walking highlighted to me again the devastating impact that the government is having on their continued outrageous spending on the military and weapons, rather than improving the lives of young people. 
Out on the road we are able to bear witness to how the communities are affected by the government taking money away from education, schools, programs for young people and health care. We see the direct link between the increased military spending and corporate welfare and the destabilization of the communities we walking through. Also in almost all of the poorer communities we have walked through we see the ARMY CAREERS office primed position on the main street luring in young people bored on the streets to get ‘proper jobs’.
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