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| Our peace walk van with Aegis destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works in the background (click on photo for better view) |
Yesterday we began doing our door-to-door flyer dropping
across the city of Bath. We’ve divided
the city into three parts – north, central and south and will do this over a
three day period. We finished up the
northern part of the city of 10,000 people on Saturday sooner than we had
expected.
We had six two-person teams that each had a pre-mapped
section of the city to cover.
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| One flyer team of Liz McAlister and me on the way to northwest side of Bath yesterday to post peace walk flyers. Liz was married to Phil Berrigan who did two plowshares actions at the shipyard in Bath |
This morning many of our folks went to a local church
together and since we had an early rain we are waiting until after lunch to
get out and start doing our door-to-door efforts again.
Last evening a dozen of us went to a local restaurant for
supper and shared stories from the day.
People were a bit surprised that the reactions they got from people as
they flyered the neighborhoods were more positive than they had
anticipated. Local citizens appear to be getting
it when we make the link between rapidly escalating climate change and the need
to convert our fossil fuel dependent economy, and our #1 polluting military
system, to alternative sustainable production.
All one has to do is feel the weather here in Maine this
week to notice the reality of global warming.
It’s in the mid-to-high 60 degrees.
In normal times in Maine it would be much colder with wool caps and gloves
needed. Currently many people are still
walking around with T-shirts on.
The lobsters are heading north as the Gulf of Maine heats up. Now is the time to make this
conversion transformation while it might still have some impact, even if it
would be small, on the coming ravages of global warming. If we wait much longer our children and
grandchildren face very rough times ahead.
Bruce
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