Bradford Together Peace Vigil

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 10:04

How much difference does a day make. Yesterday morning Bradford was sunny and hot. Today, as I went to a 7.30am meeting with the council’s Event’s Manager, it was bucketing it down. Undeterred, the meeting went well, Bradford Together co-ordinator Paul Meszaros and I looked around the site of Friday’s vigil and we promptly went off for a large breakfast.

Support is coming in for the peace vigil from all quarters of the city. In addition to the names below we have had a big plug for the Vigil in yesterday’s Telegraph & Argus. Paul was quoted in the article as saying that the vigil will “be an opportunity for Bradfordians to come together and show the world that this is a peaceful and cohesive city.” (Today he even has a picture in the newspaper. He’s becoming such a celebrity that two people have stopped him on the streets to say hello to him!)

Those already signed up to supporting the vigil include: the Bradford Diocese, the Bradford Council of Mosques, Yorkshire & Humber TUC, Keighley TUC, Unite Bradford 2 0130 branch, PCS HMRC Shipley branch, Grange Interlink, Yorkshire & Humber Unison, Bradford Unison, Bradford Women for Peace , Bradford Women’s Forum, Muslim Women’s Council, Touchstone, Incommunities, Linda McAvan MEP and Just West Yorks.