Walk Across Europe Update - September 1994 On Thursday morning January 12th, 1995 at 8a.m. at the HQ of the European Union in Brussels the first steps will be set for the 5.500km Walk across Europe for a Nuclear-Free World. The walk, organized by For Mother Earth, will cross France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus and will end in Russia. The walk already receives active support from Greenpeace, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmement (UK), Hnuti Duha (CZ), Unicorn (Ukraine), the Children of Chernobyl (Belarus), and many other peace and environmental groups along the way. For Mother Earth designs this walk with three demands dealing with critical nuclear issues in 1995, namely the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Charter Review of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The walkers will call attention to the dramatic medical, social, environmental and economical consequences of the Atomic Age. They ask complete nuclear disarmament and closure of all nuclear power plants. The walkers will give concrete examples of alternatives as a mobile exhibition organised by the Support Network on Renewable Energies (SNORE) will travel along with the walkers. This 50m2 exhibition mounted on a semi-truck will be set up in towns and villages visited by the walkers. The walkers community will be provided electricity and hot water by use of solar power and a wind generator. The walkers will visit five European military nuclear weapon states, the Vienna headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, numerous civilian & military nuclear-facilities and sites... and Chernobyl, the worst human-made accident ever. The walkers will end their journey on October 12th 1995 in Moscow, the International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People. Indigenous people are very often the first victims of nuclear developments. For Mother Earth organised the Walk across America in 1992 where an average of 100 people walked 5.500km from New York City to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. This in a succesful effort to halt nuclear testing on the land of the Western Shoshone Indians. Please Register!! On September 17 1994 participants from Belarus, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Rumania, Russia, Sri Lanka and the USA filled in registration forms to join the Walk Across Europe. For Mother Earth urges any future walkers to register as soon as possible, for logistical (food, campsites), legal (visa's) and financial reasons. Contact: For Mother Earth International office, Zilverhof 19, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Phone +32 9 233 3268, Fax +32 9 233 4924, Email: motherearth@gn.apc.org. Pol D'Huyvetter