The Record
Bergen County, New Jersey
Thursday, January 19, 1995
Peace March
[two photos not shown here, one showing over a dozen
peace walkers behind the Global Peace Now banner
with the eagle feather staff carrier in front of the
banner, and one a photo of Reverend Yusen Yamato
holding the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo prayer drum]
Peace March
Marchers, above, entering Ridgefield along Routes
1 and 9 Wednesday during the open leg of their
cross-country journey to San Francisco as participants
in the United Nations' 50th Anniversary Global Peace
Walk '95. At right, the Rev. Yusen Yamato, who is
participating in the march. The walk is celebrating
the unity of mankind. The marchers began their
3,000 mile trek Sunday, the birthday of slain civil-rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr., with an opening ceremony
and spiritual rally in New York City. Featured speakers
included Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Coretta Scott King, artist Peter Max, and native American
activist Leonard Peltier. The walkers plan to be in San
Francisco at the end of June, in time for the United Nations'
50th anniversary celebration in the city in which the peace
organization was founded.
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(note, the reporter mistakenly mentioned names of
folks who offered letters of support as speakers at
the start of the walk)