Support for the peace vigil is growing

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 08:34

The momentum is really picking up for our Peace Vigil on Friday as more and more Bradfordians offer their support. As I noted in the post earlier this morning there is real fear in this city about possible trouble on Saturday but there’s also a determination to not only oppose the EDL but celebrate ‘our’ Bradford. Our Peace Vigil on Friday afternoon provides them with a perfect opportunity to do just that in a relaxed and non-confrontational manner.

There is going to be community singing, messages of support from the city’s civic leaders and a ‘Peace Wall’ to allow people who attend to explain why they love Bradford. We are only holding the vigil for an hour but if the weather holds off I think it will be a really great event.

Here are some of the people and organisations supporting the vigil. All have a Bradford connection:

David Ison, Dean of Bradford; the Bradford Diocese; the Bradford Council of Mosques; Ian Greenwood, Leader of Bradford City Council; Imran Hussein, Deputy Leader of Bradford City Council; Marsha Singh MP; Gerry Sutcliffe MP; Terry Rooney; Yorkshire & Humber TUC; Keighley TUC; Bill Adams (Yorkshire & Humber TUC Regional Secretary); 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; North East, Yorkshire & The Humber Unite; Pat McCourt (Chair, Regional Unite Committee); Incommunities; Pat Howley, Bradford Irish Club; Liz Firth, Changemakers Bradford; GMB Yorkshire Region; Linda McAvan MEP; Just West Yorks; Omar Khan (Omar’s restaurant); Sultan Satti Solicitors; Altaf Solicitors (Bradford); Narinder Kumar (Printplus); Bradford Resource Centre; Saba Gabrielle Moussa (Unison Bradford); Ann Morgan (Vice Chair Unite LGBT Committee); Girlington Community Centre; Nirmal singh MBE (Bradford Sikh Association); Dayal Sharma (Bradford Hindu Society); Sekhon Firth solicitors; Kabir Ahmed solicitors, Smartstep Property Group (Bradford); Thompsons solicitors.