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Peace Walk From Tennessee to the U-N

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Friday, February 12, 2010   

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - People from around the world will converge at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee tomorrow to begin a 700-mile walk for peace. The protest, called International Footprints for Peace, will span three months and trek through six states.

Marcus Atkinson, the walk's organizer, says it will bring attention to all aspects of the nuclear industry and will demand progress on negotiations to create a nuclear-weapons-free world.

"This facility is one of the first uranium enrichment facilities in the whole country. It enriched the uranium for the atomic bomb that was used on Hiroshima."

The peace walkers will carry a letter from the mayor of Hiroshima and the director of Mayors for Peace, endorsing the walk and encouraging mayors along the walk's route to become part of the event. Atkinson says the group's goal is to deliver their message to the United Nations where negotiations will be underway on a Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).

"There's about three and a half thousand mayors at the moment who are members of Mayors for Peace. They're on a push to have five thousand mayors be a part of Mayors for Peace before the NPT begins in May."

Walkers will travel through Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, arriving at the United Nations May 1, which is the day before the latest NPT review is scheduled to begin.


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