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On June 21st, 2007, people from across the country will be gathering at Millennium Park, Chicago to begin an 800-mile march to Washington, DC. They will demand an immediate withdrawal of US Troops from Iraq and the impeachment of those leaders who oppose it...
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A Checklist for Civil Disobedience
Mario Penalver shares a few tips for those considering to dip into the hoopla of civil disobedience…
By the time I had arrived at the nation’s Capital, I had walked nearly 980 miles, from  Chicago to Washington DC, a trip that took over three months to plan and two-and-a-half months to complete. But in the end, …
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Cross-Country Walkers Get Their Verdict, but Their Story is Far From Over
Oct. 4th, 2007, 10:39 AM
 I. The Verdict
Superior Court, District of Columbia- In a sigh of relief, the five cross-country walkers turned their backs on Court Room 115.
Ashley Casale, Michael Israel, Robert Diesu and Peter Cobb of March for Peace, and Mario Penalver of March of the People, left the Superior Court of DC with a charge that left behind nothing but sighs: only a minor traffic violation of “unlawful assembly,” a …
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Announcements
September 11th;
March of the People has completed its journey. At 2:13pm, the March stepped onto the Lafayette Park lawn ,with 20 marcher strong. Marchers were welcomed by a rally of 70 people. A formal statement will be posted on this website , ideally including a video of walkers Mario Penalver and Elliott Nesch.
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At 11 pm, Friday evening, students at the University of Maryland, College Park, discovered a noose hanging above the main entrance of the Nyumburu Cultural Center, the location of tonight’s anti-war rally and the hub for black cultural events on the university campus. The message of the peace movement is clear: WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. Peace and the reconciliation of difference are born from the same chain of injustice, origined out of the same struggle for human equality, …
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September 9, 2007 - Those of you early morning risers may have picked up your regular copy of the Washington Post expecting the routine: updates on Petraeus’ report, the newest names of US casualties, or maybe the unfavorable scoreboards from yesterday’s sports games.
On Sunday, you might have noticed something different: ”Trio Taking Steps to Stop the War in Iraq,” it read, catching your eye like nothing short of a fisherman’s net. So you read some more. …
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 The internet radio show “Words of Freedom” interviews cross-country walkers Brother Elliott and Mario Penalver.
Host George Flynn and co-host Michael Wolsey interview Penalver and Nesch about their respective marches and their adventures before and after they joined together on their way to D.C. Michael Wolsey has been reporting …
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| The Age of that Prophet has come. Its time is now. It was now seven years ago when the office of president was no longer the voice of the majority. It was now one year later, when wars were no longer the last resort but the first. It was now two years later, when presidents no longer deemed us worthy of the truth. It was now weeks ago, when our protests floated off into the wind, and our legislators remained complacent... We march to Washington, as in the words of Martin Luther King, "because injustice is there." |
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The March Has Begun,
We'll Arrive in D.C. in:
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The songs on this page are:
Walking to Washington
by Meridian Green and
Calling All Friends by
Low Stars
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