Mar

06

2024

Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage

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Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage
A Via Dolorosa of solidarity walk in prayer.
3 walks, 3 days, March 15-17, 2024

Friday March 15 (9 miles, 6 hours)

  • REVISED 10am (30 mins) – GATHER at Hannaford, 579 Troy-Schenectady Rd (Route 7) Latham
  • 10:30am (6 miles, 2 hr 30 mins) – Hannaford to Spindle City Vineyard Church, 121 Remsen Street, Cohoes (Big, busy roads, no sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 1:00pm (30 mins) – Spindle City Vineyard Church, Rest stop, and prayer inside – plus BYO lunch
  • 1:30pm (0.5 miles, 15 mins.) – Spindle City Vineyard Church to St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, 198 Ontario Street, Cohoes (city sidewalk, traffic lights
  • 1:45pm (1.5 miles, 45 mins)  – St. Peter and St. Paul to St. Augustine Church, 25 115th Street, Troy (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 2:30pm (30 mins) – St. Augustine Church, Rest stop, and prayer inside
  • 3:00pm (2.7 miles, 1 hour) – St. Augustine Church to Oakwood Community Center, 313 10th Street, Troy (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 4:00pm (30 mins) – Oakwood Community Center, Rest stop, and TBD
  • 4:30pm – DISPERSE
  • 4:00-5:30 PM – OPTIONAL Solidarity Opportunity after Pilgrimage, PRC Event @ Townsend Park in Albany

Saturday March 16 (10 miles, 6 hours)

  • 10:30am (30 mins.) – GATHER at Oakwood Community Center, 313 10th Street, Troy
  • 11:00am (1 mile, 20 mins) – First United Presbyterian Church, 1917 5th Ave, Troy (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 11:20am (15 mins) – First United Presbyterian, Short pause, and prayer/greeting outside
  • 11:35am (0.2 miles, 10 mins)  – First United Presbyterian to Christ Church UMC, 35 State Street, Troy (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 11:45am (10 mins) – Christ Church UMC, Short pause, and prayer/greeting outside?
  • 11:55am (0.5 miles,15 mins) – Christ Church UMC to Congregation Berith Sholom, 167 3rd Street, Troy (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 12:10pm (30 mins) – Congregation Berith Sholom, Rest stop, and prayer outside – (plus BYO lunch)
  • 12:40pm (2 miles, 1 hour) – Congregation Berith Sholom to U.S. Army Watervliet Arsenal, 313 10th Street, Troy (city sidewalks alongside a highway, traffic lights)
  • 1:40pm (20 mins) – Watervliet Arsenal, Short pause, and prayer outside
  • 2:00pm (6 miles, 2 hrs 30 mins) – Watervliet Arsenal to Albany Capital Center, 55 Eagle Street, Albany (city sidewalk, traffic lights)
  • 4:30pm (30 mins) – Albany Capital Center, Rest stop, and TBD
  • 5:00pm – DISPERSE

Sunday March 17 (6 miles, hours TBD)

  • 10:30am (30 mins) – GATHER at Gabis Garden, 2 Wilbur Street, Albany
  • 11:00am (0.2 miles, 5 mins)- Gabis Garden to Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 125 Eagle Street, Albany
  • 11:05am (15 mins) – Immaculate Conception, Short pause, and prayer/greeting outside
  • 11:20am (0.6 miles, 20 mins) – Immaculate Conception to Israel AME Church, 381 Hamilton Street, Albany
  • 11:40am (15 mins) – Israel AME, Short pause, and prayer/greeting outside
  • 11:55am (1 mile, 30 mins) – Israel AME to Masjid As-Salam, 276 Central Ave, Albany
  • 12:25pm – Masjid As-Salam to TBD
  • TBD (4 miles,1 hour 30 mins) – Masjid As-Salam to Hindu Temple Society, 450 Albany Shaker Road, Albany
  • TBD – Hindu Temple Society to TBD

For more information contact the Grafton Peace Pagoda, Nipponzan Myohoji (Japanese Buddhist order) 518-658-9301 8:00am-5:00pm. You can also go to http://ceasefirepilgrimage.com

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Mar

06

2024

Fukushima Peace Walk

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Fukushima Peace Walk (2 days)

Saturday March 9, 2024, 12PM

Start at Plymouth Town Hall in Plymouth, MA and walk to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant.

Stay the night at the Leverett Peace Pagoda.

Contact: Daian (508) 776-3132

Sunday March 10, 2024, 1PM (be cautious of the daylight savings time change)

Start at the Peekskill Train Station (Riverside entrance near the park) and walk to the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

Contact: Judy (914) 382-1193

 

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New Year’s Day Interfaith Peace Walk
For No More Killing, No More War
Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, 11AM

“We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters…” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“As humanity faces the urgent global problem of climate change on Earth, Peace is not only the end of War, but also where humans live together with the Earth beyond hatred by supporting one another with love. – Message from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

Meet at Oakwood Community Center, 313 10th St., Troy, NY 12180

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Jul

05

2023

78th Hiroshima Nagasaki Day

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78th Commemoration Ceremony Remembering those lost to nuclear war          

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Hiroshima Nagasaki Day
Saturday, August 5, 2023 

6:30pm walk from Grafton Town Square to Peace Pagoda (4.3 Miles)

8:00pm Program of Peace in front of the Peace Pagoda

  • Lantern Ceremony
  • Interfaith Prayer
  • Musical Offerings                     

80,000 people killed instantly within one hour of nuclear bombings in Japan.  Many thousands more lost in the days and years to come.

NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS EVER AGAIN, ANYWHERE, FOR ANY REASON

Continued prayers for peace in Ukraine and all areas of conflict in the world.

The choice today is nonviolence or nonexistence.  The alternative to disarmament may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation- Martin Luther King, Jr

Let each of our steps bring us closer to peace

Walk for a nuclear free future August 2-5, 2023

Wednesday, August 2 Lake George- Healing walk for Land and Water/Remembering French and Indian War  Battle of 1757 at Fort William Henry

  • Thursday, August 3 Saratoga Springs to West Milton Kesselring Training Facility
  • Friday, August 4 Knolls Atomic Laboratory in Niskayuna
  • Saturday, August 5 Grafton Town Square to Peace Pagoda 6:30-8:00pm
  • Sunday, August 6 Peace Vigil in Pittsfield MA, 8AM in remembrance of Nagasaki bombing

Before Peace Walk contact Grafton Peace Pagoda, Nipponzan Myohoji (Japanese Buddhist order). For more information call 518-658-9301 8:00am-5:00pm.  During Peace Walk contact Rose (201) 956-5702

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Jul

24

2022

Prayer Walk for Peace: Nagasaki Day

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Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
Prayer Walk for Peace: Nagasaki Day
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 7-9:30 PM

Please join us!

Praying for Peace in Ukraine, Yemen and the World
Praying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki
remain the last nuclear attacks

Let each of our steps bring us closer to peace
Peace walk route:
7:00-7:45pm:
St Augustine Church
25 115th St Troy, NY 12180
Rev Liam Doherty (8-year resident of Nagasaki) 978-204-6529
8:30pm:
St Peter and St Paul Ukrainian Church
198 Ontario St Cohoes, NY 12047
Prayers for peace in Ukraine
8:45pm:
Ukrainian-American Citizen’s Club
1 Pulaski St Cohoes, NY 12047
Offering lantern ceremony at the river for all those
affected by war
Organized by Grafton Peace Pagoda, Nipponzan Myohoji
(Japanese Buddhist order). For more information call 518-658-9301 8:00am-5:00pm
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Larry Bringing Good, left, and Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist nun, use fan drums outside the Grafton Peace Pagoda on Thursday, July 30, 2015.    (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day
76th Commemoration Ceremony
Grafton Peace Pagoda
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Forever Renounce War. Create a Nuclear-Free World.

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There are around 30,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, 95% of which are held by the US
and Russia. Nuclear weapons pose the single biggest threat to the Earth’s environment,
scientists have warned.

“The only guarantee against the use of nuclear weapons is their
total elimination-but our world continues to live in the shadow of nuclear catastrophe. We
must urgently reverse course and return to a common path to nuclear
disarmament.” – António Guterres, UN Secretary General

6:30pm walk from Grafton Town Square to Peace Pagoda (4.3 miles)

8:00pm Program of Peace

Speakers, Musical Offerings, Ceremonial Lighting of Lanterns

Rain or shine. Please wear weather-appropriate clothes and bring a flashlight, and insect repellant for comfort. Please wear a mask and bring a blanket, cushion or chair to choose a socially distant spot.

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Capital District Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Walk

August 4-6, 2021

Everyone is welcome. We will walk approximately 9 miles daily. You are welcome to join the walk for a minute, an hour, a day, every day. Please contact the Peace Pagoda to participate.

Weds Aug 4: Saratoga to West Milton, then Vigil in Schenectady at 5:00pm

Thurs Aug 5: Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Niskayuna Peace Vigil 7:00am and then walk to Troy

Friday Aug 6: Pittsfield MA, Peace Vigil 8:00am and walk around town

For Information about the Ceremony or the Peace Walk please call the Grafton Peace Pagoda Phone 518-658-9301 between 8am & 5pm

87 Crandall Rd Petersburg, NY 12138

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POSTPONED

Walk for Life… Walk for Water… Walk for Mother Earth
Nuclear Free Future – 2020 United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference (NPT)
Walking from Buffalo to New York City April 3, – April 26, 2020

250 mile walk

Suffering: The walk will visit areas where nuclear waste dumps exist on Indigenous People territories like the Six Nations Territories in New York State. Historically and currently, native communities have been targeted with nuclear weapons waste dumps and nuclear power plants, which were labeled “National Sacrifice Zones.” These communities bear a disproportionate burden of risk from the nuclear fuel cycle. These nuclear waste areas permanently impair our environment, create damage, and continue to burden our climate. They sacrifice our future and endangers many generations to come. The Tuscarora Nation is affected by the Niagra Falls Storage Sites, and the Seneca Nation is affected by the West Valley Site. West Valley is a complex radioactive waste site located 30 miles south of Buffalo. The site has high levels, so-called low level, transuranic and mixed (radioactive and hazardous) waste buried, stored, and leaking. Geologically the site is in a bedrock valley that is expected to erode into the Great Lakes in centuries to come. Still, the nuclear waste buried at the site will remain dangerously radioactive much longer than the projected erosion rate. Also, the Oswego reactor, the oldest reactor in the United States (similar to the Fukushima plant in Japan) located in the Onondaga Territory, affect the quality of drinking water and the fish in Lake Ontario, New York State and Canada.

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)’s objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament. The unfinished task before the 2020 NPT Review Conference, which is scheduled to begin April 27, 2020, is to help pave the way to a world without the threat of nuclear weapons. Today, we have a more effective tool to achieve a Nuclear Weapon Free World with the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted on July 7, 2017. The Treaty will enter into legal force once fifty nations have signed and ratified it. As of today, the number of nations who have ratified the Treaty is 34. As we witness the escalation of tension between the US and Iran, we urge the world to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Pope Francis – Message at Nagasaki, Japan 11/24/2019

“The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit the integral development of peoples and to protect the natural environment. In a world where millions of children and families live in inhumane conditions, the money that is squandered in the fortunes made through the manufacture, upgrading, maintenance, and sale of ever more destructive weapons, are an affront crying out to heaven. A world of peace, free from nuclear weapons, is the aspiration of millions of men and women
everywhere. To make this ideal a reality calls for involvement on the part of all: individuals, religious communities, civil society,
countries that possess nuclear weapons and those that do not, the military and private sectors, and international organizations. Our response to the threat of nuclear weapons must be joint and concerted, inspired by the arduous yet constant effort to build mutual trust and thus surmount the current climate of distrust.”

Contact information: National Organizer (for walk) Jun Yasuda
Nipponzan Myohoji – Grafton Peace Pagoda
Call: only available before Peace Walk April 2, 2020
Call between 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM only (518) 658 – 9301
During walk call cell phone (518) 466 – 8819 no Text Messages!
(April 3 – 26, 2020)

Walk Schedule – April 3, – April 26, 2020

03 Apr 2020 Friday AmtrakTrain from NYC to Buffalo (N.Y.C. 7:15 AM arrive Buffalo 3:14 PM)
04 Apr 2020 Saturday Welcome ceremony at Tonawanda-Seneca Nation. Car to Allegany IndianNation walk

around Salamanca area.

05 Apr 2020 Sunday Sunrise ceremony at West Valley. Then walk from West Valley to Mortons Corners.
06 Apr 2020 Monday Morton’s Corners – Mikey’s Gas Smoke shop (Cattaraugus Indian Nation)
07 Apr 2020 Tuesday Walk from Mikey’s Gas Smoke Shop to Seneca Beach
08 Apr 2020 Wednesday Niagara Falls – Tuscarora Nation Afternoon walk to Nuclear dumpsite near Youngston

local training area (NY army National Guard)

09 Apr 2020 Thursday Sunrise Ceremony @ Niagara Falls. Then take Train to Syracuse (12:17 – 3:18 PM)
10 Apr 2020 Friday Good Friday walk around Syracuse areas and to Onondaga Nation
11 Apr 2020 Saturday Onondaga Nation – Onondaga Lake
12 Apr 2020 Sunday Tully – Cortland
13 Apr 2020 Monday Cortland – Dryden
14 Apr 2020 Tuesday Dryden – Ithaca
15 Apr 2020 Wednesday Take train from Syracuse to Albany. (11:23 AM – 2:31 PM) Then Walk from Albany to

Colonie, N.Y. Deplete Uranium dump site.

16 Apr 2020 Thursday Albany – Knoll’s Atomic Lab
17 Apr 2020 Friday Niskayuna – Troy
18 Apr 2020 Saturday Rest Day (Grafton Peace Pagoda)
19 Apr 2020 Sunday Grafton Peace Pagoda – Stony Point by car
20 Apr 2020 Monday Stony Point – Ramapough Lenape Nation Campsite
21 Apr 2020 Tuesday Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Closing date. Walking and Gathering
22 Apr 2020 Wednesday Ridgewood – Port Lee (will be update)
23 Apr 2020 Thursday GW bridge from NY side to UN
24 Apr 2020 Friday Peace Vigil in front of UN
25 Apr 2020 Saturday Peace Vigil in front of UN
26 Apr 2020 Sunday N.G.O. Peace Walk

Local Organizer Contacts:

Buffalo Area: Agnes Williams (716) 949 – 2619 nyawehskanoh@gmail.com
Maria MayBee (716) 200 – 8320 mariamaybee96@gmail.com

Syracuse to Ithaca Area: Hil Coppola (315) 200 – 2634 hilcoppola@gmail.com

Tom Joyce (607) 277 – 7426\ tomjoyce51@aim.com

Albany to Grafton Area: Jun Yasuda (518) 658 – 9301 Grafton Peace Pagoda (no internet)
Stony Point to NYC: George-cho (646) 784 – 7616 gchojr@mac.com
No drugs, no alcohol. We plan to walk 10 – 15 miles per day.
During the walk we will have a cell phone contact.

Please join us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety. You can support us by organizing a community potluck, a sharing circle, a visit to your mayor, a place for our work is to sleep, or coverage by the local media. Also please keep this walk in your thoughts and prayer.

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Jun

17

2019

Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future

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Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future
July 27-August 3, 2019

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Saturday July 27: Lexington, MA–Hanscom Air Force Base
*Handscom Air Force Base is home to Nuclear Command, Control, and Communication (NC3) Integration Directorate and Program Executive Officer (PEO). The NC3 PEO will oversee the acquisition and integration of a complex system of land, air and space technology programs that assure connectivity and communications between senior forces. It does not house actual weapons.
Contact Jennifer: 410-952-6145

Sunday, July 28: Brattleboro, VT to Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
*The VT Nuclear Power Plant was an electricity generating plant, located in the town of Vernon. It is closed but still in the process of being decommissioned. Nuclear waste still remains on-site.
Contact Lorie: 802-275-8749

Also Sunday, July 28: Manchester, VT to Earth Sky Time Community Farm
Contact Oliver: 802-384-1400

Monday, July 29: Manchester, VT to West Arlington, VT
Contact Jennifer (410) 952-6145

Tuesday, July 30: Cambridge, NY to Saratoga Springs, NY
Contact Linda (518) 330-7683

Wednesday, July 31:
Saratoga Springs, NY to West Milton, NY–Kenneth A. Kesselring Site
*The Kenneth A. Kesselring Site is a Naval training facility, teaching nuclear officers and enlisted personnel how to operate the US Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.
Contact Linda (518) 330-7683

Thursday, August 1 7am Vigil at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Walk starts at 8am to National Lead Industries Depleted Uranium Site
*Knolls atomic Laboratory is a nuclear facility that engineers and designs naval submarine propulsion and weapons systems *Site of closed factory that produced military equipment for over 20 years using depleted uranium for raw materials.
Contact Rose (201) 956-5702

Friday, August 2 Grafton Peace Pagoda Preparation for Ceremony

For Information prior to the Peace Walk please call the Grafton Peace Pagoda Phone 518-658-9301 between 8am & 5pm

For information during the Peace Walk contact Rose (201) 956-5702 or
Jennifer (410) 952-6145

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Jan

29

2019

Indigenous Peoples March

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On, January 18, 2018, Jun San Yusada, along with others of the Nipponzan Myohoji order and friends, attended the Indigenous Peoples March. The march was organized by the Indigenous Peoples Movement, a grassroots coalition to eliminate the borders around their injustices. The march and rally warranted the attention of 10,000 people in Washington, D.C. With over 10 solidarity marches globally, people from around the world, including Brazil, Canada, Australia and Haiti.

For more information about the Indigenous Peoples Movement go to indigenouspeoplesmovement.com

Below is a video from AJ+ and photos from the day Miki Fukui.

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Nuclear Holocaust
Peace Pilgrims
August 4 – August 11, 2018

Saturday, August 4: Lexington, MA (Leave at 1 PM) – Hanscom Airforce Base

*Hanscom Airforce is a home to Nuclear Command Control, and Communications (NC3) Integration Directorate and Program Executive Officer (PEO). The NC3 PEO will oversee the acquisition and integration of a complex system of land, air, and space Technology Programs that assures connectivity and communications between senior forces. It will not house actual weapons.

Sunday, August 5: North Amherst, MA – Leverette, MA Peace Pagoda

*Hiroshima Ceremony

Monday, August 6: Brattleboro, VT – Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, VT

*The VT Nuclear power plant was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont. It is closed, but is still in the process of being decommissioned. Nuclear waste still remains at the site

Tuesday, August 7: Woodford, VT – Bennington, VT – Hoosick, NY

Wednesday, August 8: Ballston Spa, NY – West Milton, NY (Kenneth A. Kesselring Site) – Saratoga Springs, NY

*The Kenneth A. Kesselring Site is a Naval training facility teaching nuclear Officers and Enlisted personnel how to operate the United States Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines

Thursday, August 9; Nagasaki Day Action: 7 AM Peace Vigil @ Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), Niskayuna, NY – walk to Troy, NY

*Knolls Atomic Laboratory is a nuclear facility that engineers and designs Naval submarine nuclear propulsion weapons/systems

Friday, August 10: Grafton Peace Pagoda preparation for Ceremony; walk (TBD)

Saturday, August 11: Grafton Town Square (6:30 PM) – Grafton Peace Pagoda
8PM Hiroshima Nagasaki Day – 73rd Commemoration Ceremony

Before Peace Walk Contact Grafton Peace Pagoda: (518) 658-9301
For information during the walk, please call Rose: (201) 956-5702 or Alex: (518) 605-3929
You may also email: NeighborsWalkingForPeace@gmail.com

 

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