Local children made one thousand paper cranes to hang from the tree. Photo: Sue Bennet

From Hiroshima Day to Brighton Pride

Eye - 19 August 2011

From Hiroshima Day to Brighton Pride

by Eye 19th August 2011

Scottish peace tree

Quakers all over Britain were involved in commemorating Hiroshima Day on 6 August. Among the events that Friends in Scotland got involved in, Sue Bennett tells Eye, was the ‘Peace Tree’ displayed at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. It was made by the Gareloch Horticulturalists, a group of women who, for twenty-seven years, have been campaigning for nuclear disarmament through nonviolent direct action.