Cross-country peace marchers pass through county
Peace march rolls through county
The Sentinel
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Friday, January 27, 1995
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by Bill Smith/The Sentinel
Cross-country peace marchers pass through county
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Marchers give peace signs to employees leaving the Ships Parts
Center on Trindle Road Thursday in Hampden Township.
Peace march rolls through county
By Jim Hazen
Sentinel Reporter
Their faces show the diversity of the world's peoples,
yet their cause is one of unity.
A group of 20 "citizens of the world" brought their global
peace walk to eastern Cumberland County Thursday.
The walkers stopped for the night at First Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Carlisle.
They planned to march down Ritner Highway today until
they reach Shippensburg, where they will stay at
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
The passage is part of a 3,6000-mile journey that began
January 15, Martin Luther King's birthday, at the United
Nations building in New York.
The journey is expected to end in June in San Francisco
during celebrations of the United Nations 50th anniversary.
Participating are Africans, Asians, Europeans, and peoples
of the Americas, including American Indians. Many are
supporters of a Buddhist monk known as the Rev. Yusen Yamato.
The group stayed Wednesday night in Harrisburg. Their
stay in the area included a stop at Three Mile Island, site
of one of the worst nuclear power accidents in America.
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by Bill Smith/The Sentinel
Hikers display banner in front of their support bus during
a pause in Thursday's hike down Trindle Road.
"This is a sacred ceremony," says Wonono Rubio, a member
of the Chumash tribe of coastal California, of the walk across
America. "We are offering our bodies on this march for all
the good in the world and as a prayer for global peace."
He says the daily walking is "grueling, but it's worth the
price to heighten the awareness of the world's citizens
for the need for peace."
Another walker, who identifies herself as Karin from
Germany, says they expected to be walking in snow
at this time of year.
"We're just th
ankful it's been dry and we've been dry."
Rubio says he expects more people to join the march
when the weather starts to get warmer this spring.
"We're marching for global peace and people will join
us as we continue to get closer to our goal."
By the time they get to San Francisco, they hope to
have 100,000 walkers with them.
"The nations of the world are made up of individual people,"
he says. "Each one of us has a voice, and if we speak together
we can get our leaders to stop exploiting the world for profit,
to stop polluting and stop the wars."