March to the Pentagon The final day of walking — Monday October 18 — threatened to be cold and rainy. It was cold and sunny. The Park Police were unyielding in their insistence we walk on the sidewalk across the Memorial Bridge to Virginia. We were ready to walk in the streets up to the…
Though the heart and soul of The Walk were the walkers, the organizers were the infrastructure or exoskeleton, to continue the anatomical metaphor. While the actual walking took 9 months, the organizing stretched over 23 months. The Walk national office was tasked with fundraising; planning the San Francisco to Washington route; helping to locate community…
“[We were on] the Walk from San Francisco to Riverside and it changed our lives. We were all students from Friends World College, and were all looking for student projects when we came across an ad for The Walk. . . . All I can say at this point almost 40 years later is WOW!…
It’s one thing to decide to go ahead with an ambitious project like the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice and quite another to put it all together in a bit less than a year. Little did we imagine the crises that were lying in wait. It was February 1975 when WRL — quickly…
On October 16, 1976, hundreds of people — accompanied by signs, banners, puppets, flags, musical instruments — crossed the city from three directions to converge on the Lincoln Memorial. All went smoothly that Saturday morning as each of the three routes started off with 150 to 200 people at staggered times from borders surrounding the…
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…
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