San Miguel Peace walk

 

Founded the month after 9/11, a number of local peace activists joined Michael Safter of Telluride and Art Goodtimes of Norwood to walk in the name of peace at noon on the 11th of every month in Telluride -- the county seat of San Miguel County, Colorado. This is the same county that gave the Green Party’s Ralph Nader the highest percentage vote in the nation in the 2000 elections <www.sanmiguelcounty.org>

Over the last couple years, the San Miguel Peacewalkers have been joined each month by Telluride’s Chris Myers and the citizen's group This Republic CAN. Folks assemble on Telluride’s Colorado Avenue in front of the historic county courthouse, and march down main street towards the town park, before holding a short peace rally in the street at the east end of the community’s business blocks.

The San Miguel Peacewalkers march in memory of those slain in New York, and for all those killed, maimed or grieving in the many wars and insurrections all over the globe. Sometimes only a handful of walkers show up, and other times we have had hundreds, including Medea Benjamin of Code Pink and the folksinger Judy Collins. For those of us who walk, it’s not so much a matter of how many come, as that we who do have made a practice, in our community, of giving witness -- of objecting to our nation’s current war, and to the exercise of war as an acceptable method of settling international disputes .

For more information, call Art Goodtimes at 970.369.5430, cloudacre@norwoodcolorado.us

http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Anti-WarMovement.shtml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/843687/posts
http://wholelifenet.org/newsletters/jun2003.htm
http://www.telluridewatch.com/archive_news/031904/comm1.htm
http://www.ThisRepublicCAN.us