Vanunu Freedom Riders Reaches Sheffield

14th April 2007

Cllr Creasy and Cllr Little will be joining other cyclists from Sheffield to meet the Vanunu Freedom Riders on Saturday 14th April. They will join the riders at Meadowhall at 4pm and accompany them to the official welcome in the Peace Gardens at 4.30 - 5pm. The ride is being organised by the campaign for freedom for Mordechai Vanunu, who blew the whistle on Israel's secret nuclear weapons 21 years ago. It is supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Campaign for Nuclear disarmament who have organised events as it passes through Sheffield on the way from Faslane to London.

Cllr Creasy said: "We'll be wearing our Bikes not Bombs vests, which we wore on the cycle ride to Manchester to protest at the Labour party Conference last autumn. The Green Party has consistently opposed the war in Iraq, supports the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and is wholly against renewing Trident nuclear missiles.

She went on: "We want to show our solidarity with people who are concerned about nuclear weapons in the Middle East and to highlight our government's hypocrisy on this issue. The UK and USA governments complain about Iran developing nuclear weapons but don't apply the same rules to themselves. Mordechai Vanunu stood up to war-mongering in his own country and has paid a very high price. We support him and all those campaigning against nuclear weapons wherever they are."

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