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PEACE UP

Basically sir, it was national week of peace and Hammersmith & Fulham was celebrating it on the 14th of September at the Lyric Square. The celebration was public, people could just join in off the street. There were African musicians, steel band players, Phillipino dancers and perhaps a couple of other things as entertainment, while people signed the peace pledge (a book symbolising the hope for peace that could be signed by anyone who wanted to or had a message). People could also place their messages of peace on a "peace tree" (one tree was handed to a representative from every area of the borough) and on balloons which were all realeased at once. Amnesty International was also there. There were 6 main speakers who had to give a speech to the crowd on the peace and maybe a little something about the borough and they wanted a young person to be one of those speakers and that young person ended up being me.

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#22 September 2005 | Comments (0)