If you think making “a good cup of tea and a pretty good scone” doesn’ t fit with seriously campaigning and roughing it for world peace — think again!
In Competition Documentary Edge 2010
Kit and Maynie. Tea, Scones and Nuclear Disarmament
World Premiere
New Zealand 2009 / 47min.
Director/Producer Claudia Pond-Eyley, Susi Newborn.
At first glance, Kit and Maynie look like your neighbourhood grannies but history reveals two feisty 89 year old peace activists. They met selling tea and scones at the Waiheke Saturday market and found in each other a kindred soul committed to peace.
In 1984, Maynie participated in a 2 month Walk for Life on Earth to Wellington to urge the government to go nuclear free. Together, they travelled to Britain, Geneva and Germany to participate in other peace demonstrations. After a 9 month march from Los Angeles, Maynie spoke for disarmament in Washington, DC. In 1996, both women travelled to Tahiti with the Women’s Peace Flight to appeal to the French government to stop nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
Interviews and archive footage are included in this tribute to two
inspiring women who continue to promote a safer world.
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