Press Release. 30-03-2006.
The answer is quite simple, ‘change or die!’ (letter sent to the Independent newspaper)
We are heading like lemmings towards the cliff and like an oil tanker at sea, climate change due to CO2 levels needs an awfully long time to slow down and stop. Some believe it may even be too late, but we always have a chance if we act instinctively. The instinct for survival, that can override Party politics, is hindered by the relatively invisible nature of the problem. Only now are the public and our leaders beginning to notice the danger signs of CO2 build-up.
We need to unite EVERYONE! That is not a pipedream; it is an irrefutable fact and an essential necessity. We need something that is highly visible, that tells the general public that the moment for action is NOW!

Something universal.
Something not associated with political factions or religious faiths.
We need a trigger to wake us up to the fact of the need to change direction.
‘Traffic lights for peace’ is such an attempt.
It is non-politically aligned.
It is totally non-financial.
It promotes no one particular faith.
The concept is very simple.

Humanity is at a metaphorical crossroads. In order to survive we need to halt and change direction.
This Movement, ‘Traffic lights for peace’, calls for the universal signal, that we all disobey at our peril, to become synonymous with the message:
STOP WAR (red)
CHANGE TO (amber)
GREEN PLANET (green).

The majority of us see the traffic lights at least once daily and especially those of us whom are responsible for the bulk of the CO2 produced in the first place.
By making this traffic light symbol become synonymous with the message above, we then have a constant reminder, in an almost subliminal fashion that crosses all language barriers and international borders, to act responsibly and responsively in a focused manner.

Our modern lives are very busy. We need the gentle constant reminder, not to panic us, but to carefully direct us away from ‘Lemming Cliff Road’!
For further information please go to: www.trafficlights4peace.com

Press Release. 13-02-2006.

1.00 p.m. on 10th Feb. 2006 marks the moment when the mass of humanity claimed back its God given inheritance, when a Beacon of Peace was ‘lit’ by the tying of 100 ribbons.

The names of 100 British Service personnel and 100 Iraqis were read out and the one hundredth and first British soldier and the estimated 100,000 (Lancet) innocent Iraqi citizens were remembered, who lost their lives due to the failure of politicians. The British people held no malice towards the Iraqi people and the Iraqi people held no malice towards the British people, yet many have died because of the calculated lies of two politicians either side of the Atlantic, all for the sake of ‘black gold’ (oil).

Humanity has reached a stage in its development when war is unnecessary. Communication and globalisation means there is no excuse for powerful nations to bully weaker ones by systematic killing (war). Our planet has the resource of oil that is finite and is being squandered to provide riches for a limited few and at the same time destroying the future for us all by adversely affecting the planet’s ability to regulate its temperature. Oil cannot be provided again. It was produced by specific circumstances and conditions whereby fossilised cellulose was transformed by incredible pressure and heat within the earth’s crust, thereby storing historical heat energy from the sun. Releasing all that energy and its by-products in a maniacally short earth time is understandably destabilising a finely balanced system. The longer we live in our comfort zone the more assured is our destruction.

Now is the time for the majority of humanity to make a stand for our future. This majority is made up of people who wish to live their lives in peace and in harmony with the planet that supports us. Only by realising that we have to act NOW, both individually AND collectively, by Governments’ legislation, do we have a chance. Complacency will ensure a future for an elite few only. On our present path only a selfish remnant will prevail, the rest of us and our future generations will die. We need to change direction. This is a struggle for survival and we are being conned. It is time for the quietly complacent majority to snap out of a comfort malaise and take action; Democratic action.

A Beacon of Peace, that can start a chain reaction for change, has been ‘lit’. The rest is up to every one of us, for our children and their generations to come.
Don’t leave action on the environment to someone else. We are in this together.

Press Release. 06-02-2006.

As violence erupts in the Muslim world, will Bush and Blair cynically use it as an excuse to further their evil intentions. Most of us realise Iraqi oil will forevermore be US oil. With the 100th British serviceman losing his life in the conflict, we reflect with heartfelt sympathy, the intolerable loses these two leaders have perpertrated. A new protest against what these two have done and 'Beacon for Peace' is conceived and initiated this week. See our protest, press and event pages.

Beacons of Peace.

This week the BBC is to air the episode of ‘The Virgin Queen’ when beacons are lit in the reign of Elizabeth I, to warn of the Armada’s approach and also to inform of its passing and defeat.
In our decimalised world, on Friday 10th February, in the reign of Elizabeth II, in the old Roman town Corinium (modern Cirencester), where Centurions once stood, which is the nearest major market town to the home of recently enrolled officers Princes William and Harry, a beacon for peace and against what Messrs. Bush and Blair have perpetrated, will be revealed.
The beacon taking the form of a traffic light festooned with 100 coloured fluttering ribbons. These represent the colourful vibrant lives lost who will no longer feel the breeze on their faces, both of the 100 British Servicemen and the estimated 100,000 Iraqi citizens slayed in the name of two leaders, whose actions the majority of the world’s population see as wrong.

Why a traffic light?
It is a noticeable, strategically situated, universal symbol, whose light shines out, constantly changing as a flame and with a message: (red) STOP WAR (amber) CHANGE TO (green) A GREEN PLANET.
This is a beacon of defiance to warmongers Bush and Blair. This is a symbol of peace and hope, to change from their ways to one where the waste of war is ended and action urgently undertaken to repair our planet’s environment.

This beacon, non-damaging, non-violent, is reproducable throughout the land, throughout the world even, since they are globally distributed. Simple to do (ribbons are readily available at card and party shops everywhere), so visible as a beacon should be, always shining its message, repeatable wherever people of peace reside. Our chance for the people of the world to speak out against the Bush and Blair era of violence. A beacon of hope.

The beacon starts in Cirencester, this Friday, 12.30 to 1.30 p.m., in the Market Place. Let it spread its message throughout the land and beyond.

Press Release. 28-4-2005.

Knock Blair's slick press and media manipulating train off-track.
Release our free press from the constraints of Campbell.
Blair and the hidden Campbell's worst nightmare could be about to happen -
reminders of Iraq on almost every street corner.
The only time Blair has shown cracks in his confident handling of the press and media is on Iraq.

This is THE chance in the election campaign for the press to set the agenda. Along with Lord Goldsmith's 7th March revelations comes a new and different form of protest. One that Labour, Campbell and Blair haven't planned for.

On Saturday 30th April events at Cirencester (Market Place 11.00am) and at Gloucester (Eastgate St., traffic lights by Boots, 12.00 noon) kick-off 5 days of pre-election traffic light protests, where ribbons, individually representing the many thousands of lives lives lost in the war on Iraq, are tied to traffic light posts.
Ribbons will then start appearing on traffic light posts countrywide, reminding voters of Blair's illegal war on Iraq.

Why traffic lights?
They signify (red) STOP WAR (amber) CHANGE TO (green) GREEN PLANET.
Subjects that Blair fails with spectacularly on both counts.
No banners, no words are necessary. The ribbons reveal the lives lost, reminding voters of Iraq. Simple, peaceful, non-damaging; equivalent to a poster on every corner and most importantly outside Blair's control.

Release our free press from the cynical constraints of Campbell. Reveal the significance of the traffic light ribbons. Free us all and our press and media from the cynical purveyors of Blairite control.

For more information and background please go to: www.trafficlights4peace.com

Press Statement.28-4-2005.

Give us a future!
The Tsunami response showed that the majority of people in this country are kind hearted and are not interested in the greed, bigotry and self interest espoused by the two main political parties who promote fear.
Everyone of a kind heart please join us in a very simple act and message that we do need to care for each other and this planet, in order for our children and grandchildren to have a future.
There is so much negative campaigning and all the emphasis on self by the main Political Parties. Here is a simple message to those political leaders that in fact the way forward is others, not self, for this is the true path to a future the majority of us seek.

If you care and hope for that future, where generations to come share in the benefits and beauty of this world without destroying it through greed, do come and join us.
A number of like-minded people will be tying ribbons of peace around the traffic lights at the Market Place in Cirencester at 11.00 a.m. on Sat. 30th April and at the traffic lights beside Boots the Chemists in Eastgate St., Gloucester at 12.00 noon on the same day.

Why traffic lights?
They symbolise the message:
(red) STOP WAR,
(amber) CHANGE TO,
(green) a GREEN PLANET.

The ribbon tying is a simple act of remembrance for all the lives lost in the war on Iraq and for all the future lives that will be lost if we do not act with environmental responsibility and act now at this eleventh hour before our chance to preserve our planet is lost.
If you would like to send a message to our political leaders to look positively and not negatively to our future, please join with us on Sat. 30th April.

Further information can be found at www.trafficlights4peace.com

If you would like to send a message to our political leaders to look positively and not negatively to our future, please join with us on Sat. 30th April at the listed sites (see the protest page), or simply go to your nearest lights and festoon them with ribbons of peace!

Are you unhappy with Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair over Iraq?
Are you disturbed by what is happening now in Iraq?
Is there anything you can do about it?

Our leaders are so tunnel visioned that they cannot see what they are doing. They have their eyes set upon their goal, their ideal, the shining example of western democracy standing out as a beacon to all the surrounding nations.
What they are forgetting though is the people; the people that are needed to make their ideal into reality.

To make an analogy.
It is like a successful farmer with free range chickens running about his yard and the open hay barns. He looks to his house and decides the best for his chickens is to build a wooden hutch to protect them. He's sure they'll like that; they'll be warm, comfortable and safe.
He begins to build that hutch but, his mind is so focused on building it that he fails to see he is crushing all the eggs and the chicks, stomping around the yard as he builds it. Whilst he is tucked up safe at night and the hutch half built, the foxes come and feast on the disturbed birds.
Will there be any birds left when he finishes the hutch?
Will any birds left be so disturbed that they fail to lay, or will the hutch eventually house a family of foxes instead?!
That farmer may have had an admirable goal but, not enough thought was put into the reason why he initially wanted to do it. The hutch became the focus of attention, not the birds.

So it is with Iraq.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair are so focused on their goal of a shining example state, to be admired and copied by its neighbours, that they have forgotten that the people are the most important priority, that it is in fact the people that matter most and it is those people and their running of that state that will be the beacon.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair's tunnel vision and intransigence is destroying any chance of the ideal they envisioned. They need to eat humble pie and let others help. Others that is whom have struggled themselves for freedom and peace around the world.
There could be reason for that intransigence though and that is what Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair seek is not a free Iraq but, a controlled Iraq, so that the offer of freedom is not really freedom at all and what they want is merely a mirage in the desert!

In answer to the original question, yes, you can do something about it. Traffic lights 4 peace is there to enable the silent majority to speak. Most people are unhappy with what is happening in Iraq and the mistakes that have been made and ignored. Protest, using the traffic lights as a focus, is easy for all to do and if eventually all that care do it, it will send a powerful message to the responsible Administrations. So many good people have simply had enough of Mr. Blair and he is still smiling about it because, he and we know that, our present electoral system gives him an unfair advantage over those seeking change. Thursday 23rd. Dec. 2004, 7.00 p.m. at designated traffic lights in town and city centres nationwide.

Traffic Light Protest, Gloucestershire

Light and extinguish a candle for innocent lives so easily snuffed out and uncounted in places like Fallujah, then if you wish, tie a ribbon to show you care. Check the website for listings: www.trafficlights4peace.com