There are women in Lancashire who every week on Wednesdays, take part in a 'Call for Calm' outside a fracking site near Blackpool. The action that started nearly 2 years ago, still takes place every week and we're in urgent need of you
Please come or share and invite or all of that... our invitation:...
"Dear You,
In the summer of 2017, after months of daily protest against the development of a fracking site on Preston New Road (nr. Blackpool), a group of women gathered together to hold a 15-minute silence. There had been so much anger, tension and anguish on this road that we simply wanted it to stop long enough, to 're-set' ourselves from an otherwise continuing escalation of tension.
It was intended as a one-off but was so impactful for those of us who took part... lined up silently against a row of police between us and the site - that we continue to do this weekly.
We held our silence and then... we danced and sang and shared food, good humour and kindness. In the context of all that happened and continues to happen daily (for nearly 1000 days!!) at the PNR site, the 'Call for Calm' is an oasis in the week and a 'welcome mat' for newcomers to protest.
A safer place to be and a chance to 'enjoy' what we're fighting to protect (community well-being and life itself) - instead of feeling our rage grow and grow at the daily witness of ever more aggressive destruction, pollution and toxins clouding our horizon.
If you're reading this post, it would mean everything to us if you could come and be here to share our 100th Call for Calm. We've been accompanied by amazing women over the weeks including Emma Thompson, Natalie Bennett, Amelia Womack, Vivienne Westwood and soo many more... but you'd be the one we'd want to see the most
Please help us to make this matter more - the world is currently full of tension and turmoil; our communities torn by division and fear and our planet in urgent need of healing... The 'Wednesday Women's Call for Calm' may not solve any of this but it is a huge show of intent... a way of making clear that resolution cannot come with conflict but with calm."
*Although the Women 'call' this event, ALL are welcome
With love & thaks,
Nanas Julie & Tina
EVENT PAGE HERE: Women's Call 100!
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