[HPN] 21Feb00 Global Peace Walk 2000 update

[David Crockett Williams]

Global Peace Walk 2000 from San Francisco to the United Nations has finished
its California and Nevada routes and is now in Arizona on its way to
Flagstaff, Big Mountain, and the Hopi areas.  The walk is expected to be
camped tomorrow night, February 22nd at the Kaibab Lake Campground located
4miles north of Williams, AZ, on Hwy 64.   The walk is scheduled to arrive
to the outskirts of Flagstaff on Thursday afternoon, Feb24, and on Friday
walk from the NAU sign at Hwy 40 junction to the Flagstaff City Hall to
receive a proclamation of support from Mayor Bavasi and for afternoon
presentations by and to the walkers about local issues related to the Big
Mountain relocation issue including the new energy technologies under
development to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power and to eliminate the
need for the Black Mesa coal mining which fuels electric power plants that
reportedly emit more acid rain pollutions than the top five US cities
combined.

The walk will leave Wheeler Park at Flagstaff City Hall on Saturday,
February 26th to walk with local supporters to Big Mountain.  Daily updates
on the walk's location are recorded on the walk's voicemail at 415-267-1877.

Along the way Global Peace Walk 2000 has received letters and proclamations
of support from religious, community, and political leaders including the
mayors of San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Morro Bay, San Luis
Obispo (County Board of Supervisors), Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, and
Tehachapi, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Global Peace Walk 2000 took its first step from the War Memorial
Building in San Francisco on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday on
January 15, 2000 bringing out the prayer of “Global Peace Now!” as a
universal human resolve to spread across the United States after a
morning ceremony, conducted by Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney
<http://www.shundahai.org> and the walk initator Reverend Yusen Yamato,
attended by about 100 people.

    Global Peace Walk 2000 also took part in the Martin Luther King Jr.s
Holiday March and "Freedom Train Ride" from San Jose on Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s Holiday on Monday, January 17, 2000.

    Along the way, the Global Peace Walkers are carrying petitions,
messages & information to educate & network with people & groups on the
following issues:  Abolition 2000 - A Call to Ban Nuclear Weapons Worldwide;
Protecting our Land & Life & other Environmental & Social issues; Native
American issues (e.g., Leonard Peltier clemency; Big Mountain Dineh
relocation, AZ; Ward Valley nuclear waste dump, CA; Nevada Nuclear Test Site
and Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump - Shoshone treaty violations);
Sustainable Global Economy (e.g., Permaculture, Industrial Hemp);
Alternative Healing/Medicine; Medical Marijuana; Global Conflict Resolution
by Creating a Culture of Peace and a Spiritual United Nations; the World
Thirteen Moon
Calendar Change Peace Movement; Peace Pagoda Project; Global Peace Zone
Project; and Proper Funding for New-Energy Technology Research and
Development; as well as other issues that people bring to us along the way.

    On October 9, 2000 (Columbus Day), the Global Peace Walk will arrive in
Washington DC and bring the petitions and "The Message of Peace” to our
governmental leaders.  A "Millennium of Peace Ceremony" will be conducted
then with perhaps over one million people in Washington DC to rededicate the
Washington Monument as a Symbol of The Message of Peace.

    The walk will arrive in New York City at the United Nations on October
24th, 2000 (United Nations Day) to deliver the petitions and "The Message of
Peace” to our world government leaders, to reaffirm the original principles
of the United Nations Charter to “save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war...reaffirm faith in the dignity of human rights” to “live
together in peace”, and to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of
Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century.

    Since the Global Peace Walk project was initiated in 1995, walking from
New York City to San Francisco for the United Nations 50th anniversary, the
Global Peace Walk has received many letters and proclamations of support
from religious, political (e.g., mayors and governors), community and
cultural
leaders towards the creation of a worldwide Global Peace Zone 2000 and these
compiled messages will be included in "The Message of Peace" documentation.

Living On the Globe with All Our Friends
Global Peace NOW!

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For the most recent reports on the walk, copies of letters and proclamations
of support, etc., and to subscribe to the Global Peace Walk 2000 local
coordinators email group list, see
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk

For printable typeset efax version of main walk flyer see
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/208.html

Master GPW2000 schedule with links to printable local flyers, maps
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html

Selected list of letters and proclamations of support linked to texts
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/listproc.html

For more information, contact:

David Crockett Williams  gear2000@lightspeed.net
20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi, CA 93561
661-822-3309

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html
Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts

GLOBAL  EMERGENCY  ALERT  RESPONSE
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

The Vision of Paradise on Earth
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Urge your Congressperson to support H.R. 2545
Global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act
Details & Sample Email:  http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm

Easy indexed site to email Congresspeople & Media
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd
(copy & paste email letters to media and Congress)

An Agenda for Peace
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html