Madison initiates Dec8 Lakota Route of American Peace March
with local Beloved Community Walking for Global Harmony

6Dec03 For Immediate Release, Madison (State Capitol) Wisconsin

Local Contact per direction Felipe Chavez, Sundancer 608-624-5738

At 11am on Monday, the December 8th traditional anniversary of
"Buddha's Enlightenment" (Dec7 in Pearl Harbor HI is Dec8 in Japan)
the spiritually symbolic date misused as set by Imperial Japan for its
pre-emptive strike against Pearl Harbor in 1941, 62 years ago, at the
Madison, Wisconsin, City Hall steps, a small group of responsible US
citizens will conduct a Beloved Community Walk for Global Harmony
to initiate the Lakota "Peace Relay Walk" Route of the 2003-2004
American Peace March schedule begun UN Day October 24th with a
Sacred Pipe Ceremony in Washington DC to recognize and rededicate
The Washington Monument Symbol of The Spirit of America.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/October24.doc
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/APM-Lakota.html
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/StartLakotaRouteFlyer.doc

A one-hour event, City Hall to the State Capitol, will offer invitations
to the City Mayor and State Governor to seek their beloved community
global harmony messages in their Global Peace Zone Proclamations
as per precedents and examples of such messages offered to the
Global Peace Walks of 1995 and 2000 between the United Nations
in New York City and San Francisco for the UN 50th and 55th Charter
ratification anniversaries and inaugurating the UN's International
1995-2004 International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples
and 2000-2009 Decade of Creating a 21st Century Culture of Peace.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/listproc.html

This event is to empower and inspire public support for this Lakota
Route "Peace Relay Walk" to 22Dec at the George McGovern Library
at Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota, to offer him this
same opportunity for the walk to carry and publicize his peace message,
29Dec at the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial for 113th Anniversary,
31Dec New Year's Eve observance at the Little Bighorn Battlefield
National Monument in Wyoming, a vigil "In The Spirit of Crazy Horse"
coincident with the West Route's coordinated vigil outside Leavenworth
Prison in Kansas honoring American Indian Movement member and
Amnesty International recognized US Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier.

The American Peace March Project is inspired by many predecessor
spiritual walks across America, that now responsible American
Citizens will stand up proudly and "Walk in Spirit" to give rise
to the True Spirit of America in all hearts, the spirit of truth,
responsibility, accountability, peace, love, and harmony among
all of humanity as one family of life on Earth living all together as
friends, All Our Relations, for a spiritually united nation of humanity on
Earth.

The American Indian Movement's Longest Walk from Alcatraz Island to
Washington DC successfully overturned fifteen different anti-Indian bills
in Congress and resulted in the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom
Act which ended the outlawing of some of their most sacred ceremonies,
such as the Sundance Ceremony of the peoples of the Sacred Pipe of
Peace Teachings of the Holy White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman whose
ancient prophecy of hope apparently began coming true with the birth
of the first of a series of white buffalo calves starting August 24, 1994.

The Opening Ceremony for The American Peace March was conducted
October 24, 2003, at the Washington Monument Symbol of The Spirit
of America, by Madison area resident and Sundancer, Felipe Chavez
of Soldiers Grove who conducted the Global Peace Walk 1995 from
the United Nations in NYC to San Francisco as the primary indigenous
spiritual and ceremonial leader, kitchen bus in-charge, supported by the
walk initiator, zen monk Reverend Yusen Yamato, and with participation
of walker-coordinators such as Santa Barbara indigenous Chumash
spiritual practitioner Wonono Rubio who later went on to become the
chairman of his Chumash Coastal Band. Felipe grew up as a Chicano
in East Los Angeles as part of the American culture of violence. He is
a US Marine Corps Veteran who was into drinking and partying and
fist-fighting until his first "spiritual reawakening experience" upon his
attendance at the 1978 Rainbow Family Gathering in Oregon where
he was amazed and his heart opened by the experience of being in
such a "Global Peace Zone" where everyone treats one another with
the loving kindness of a true global family of humanity. He felt that he
had "come home" to a long-lost wonderful quality of human beings to
relate to one another with loving kindness and respect. He heard the
call there for volunteers to go and support the Native Peoples in their
ending days of The Longest Walk to Washington DC. On his own he
drove there and showed up at the camp of the Japanese Buddhist
Monks following Gandhi's Fujii Guruji, where he was welcomed and
where he began his intercultural liaison work between the various
races of people working to overcome prejudices and get along under
the leadership of Walk Leader Ernie Peters (Long Walker). Since
then Felipe has reconnected with his Yaqui heritage, offered himself
in service at the Rainbow Gatherings annually, managing one of the
kitchens and conducting ceremonies such as the Inipi after taking up
the intertribal culture of peace practices of the peoples of the Sacred
Pipe of Peace including the Sundance (his Chief Leonard Crow Dog)
which had been outlawed by the US Government for 90 years before
The Longest Walk helped overturn prohibition of indigenous religion.
http://www.welcomehome.org -- http://www.wolakota.org

http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/HomeFront/minnesotaindianuprising.html
United States' largest public mass execution held December 26, 1862
Minnesota Indian Uprising "Let Them Eat Grass"
August 17 - December 26, 1862
"We have no food, but here are these stores filled with food"
-- Abraham Lincoln reviewed the list and trimmed it to 38.
The United States' largest public mass execution was held
December 26, 1862, when the 38 Indians were hanged.

http://www.leonardpeltier.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/peltier.html
Leonard Peltier's Global Peace Walk Message, excerpts:
"I send you my love and support from behind these prison walls!
You are in my heart for the sacrifice you endure in helping to make
our Earth Mother a place of peace and harmony. You represent the
importance of reconciliation and unity. Global Peace Now is critical
to the survival of the human race. Collectively, we have been apathetic
to the state of our neighbors and the deteriorating condition of our
Earth Mother for too long. Global Peace Now is not just an invitation,
it is a great cry for us to open our eyes and ears, to use our heads
and hands and create the kinds of change that will save the planet
and all who live and breathe upon Her. Know that although I am still
in prison, my heart is there within reach of every one of you.
--- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Leonard Peltier

http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/phillip_deere.html
Phillip Deere's Longest Walk Speech
"No more are we going to stand around...This is not the end of
The Longest Walk!"

http://www.dharmawalk.org/sanfran.htm
2002 Ceremony marking the 24th Anniversary of the Longest Walk.
In 1978, the Longest Walk travelled from Alcatraz to Washington D.C
in response to Congressional proposals to abrogate Native treaty rights.

http://members.aol.com/Nowacumig/biograph.html < Biography of the
American Indian Movement's Longest Walk initiator Dennis Banks
http://www.aics.org/LP/dennis.html < Dennis Banks on Leonard Peltier

http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/Guruji16July78.html
Longest Walk Speech of Mahatma Gandhi's Fujii Guruji, Buddhist Monk
Excerpt -- "We are about to bury the era of warfare, the era of violence,
the era of murder and destruction...Spiritual transformation is nothing to
be ashamed of. Buddhism teaches that when we free ourselves from
delusions we become enlightened...The civilization of the new era, the
era of perpetual peace, will be the spiritual civilization...The religious
faith that the Native Americans have carried down to this day will be
the fountainhead (source) for creating lasting peace in the future."

http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/harmony.html
Beloved Community Walks for Global Harmony
Local Walks to Empower The American Peace March

American Peace March 2003-2004 Washington DC to San Francisco
Schedule of Four Routes to the Four Directions, "Peace Relay Walks"
Lakota, North, West, East, South, Dallas, Red Road to Peace
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/APM-DC-SF.html

American Peace March 2004 retracing same routes in network from
San Francisco 20Mar04 Earth Day to Washington Monument 24Oct04
http://www.earthsite.org 22Dec 40th annual "Global Minute for Peace"

For more information see url's herein, and recent posts/updates at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/American-Peace-March

David Crockett Williams, initiator of the American Peace March
661-822-3309 - One human being living in Tehachapi, California
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