If it weren’t for local and regional organizers, the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice might just have been a single route from San Francisco to Washington DC. Local organizers throughout the country were The Walk’s unsung heroes, putting together events, generating publicity, contacting the media, setting up hosting, providing food, and coordinating with…
Even before its first step, The Walk was attacked in the Congressional Record by a U.S. Congressman as well as dismissed by the head of one of our sponsoring organizations who privately commented, “It’ll never make it out of the Mohave desert.” Despite doubters, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stayed…
Hiroshima, August 6, 1977. Suddenly, a commotion — punctuated by very loud short bursts of whistles — can be heard emanating from the main street. A long line of riot police wielding huge shields is trying to keep up with a rapidly moving column of young men and women waving antinuclear flags and signs filling…
WRL’S Continental Walk took place during the U.S. bicentennial year. WRL was also active with the anti-establishment July 4th Coalition, which highlighted the American Revolution’s unfinished business to create a just and equal society. More than 30 organizations made up the Coalition, and 40,000 joined the march and rally in Philadelphia, led by Native Americans…
By Craig Simpson Dorelen (Dorie) Feise Bunting passed away August 24, 2023, at 101 years old. From her teenage years until well into her 90s, Dorie was present and active in the peace and justice movement. She touched the lives of many people in New Mexico and around the world. She was my mentor and friend…
Military Occupation of New Mexico (map) courtesy of Swarthmore College Peace Collection WRL Southwest formed as a chapter and then as a regional office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Vietnam War. We wanted to be a voice for peace, pacifism and nonviolence in the area, which hosted the Kirtland Air Force Base and the…
“History is not a collection of dramatic dates of great leaps from oppression to liberation. It is more often seemingly endless night broken by dawn. History is made by people as ordinary as ourselves, but extraordinary in that they have been seized by a dream for which they are willing to struggle and to…
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