"The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a cmarch, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action"
#DoloresHuerta, ¡Presente!
Reminder! Join our interactive session this Saturday on the 1976 Continental Walk.
* Photo slideshow
* Stories from walkers & organizers
* Connecting history to today’s politics
* Breakout rooms
Read blogs/digitized literature & Register at: https://t.co/GeqpdDDQoy
Friends of WRL, the Guardian and @WBAI may want to know of the death of writer, commentator & editor Judith Mahoney Pasternak. Judith had lived for many years in Paris and died in a care home near family members in Poole, UK.
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Join us October 24, 2026 for…
A Retrospective Virtual Event 50 Years After the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice
https://t.co/9buvLf0Gba
Sign @nodutdol's US Out of Korea petition! You’ll be joining the struggle to demand the US return Korean land and sovereignty to the Korean people. Take action: https://t.co/2z1rzqmNpg
The documentary credits Jim and the War Resisters League for encouraging the translation and helping to promote the comic in the U.S., which was carried on WRL’s literature list for years.
“Barefoot Gen: Bridging the Divide” from Japan's NHK is about how a group of volunteers in Japan translated the well-known antinuclear manga comic “Barefoot Gen” into English.
https://t.co/cloiB1haFU
It turns out this massive effort was initiated by a chance encounter between Jim Peck and a young Japanese pacifist Masahiro Oshima who were both part of the southern route of the Continental Walk in 1976.
Whatever war had been before the nuclear age, whatever logic human beings and nations had used to justify the slaughter of their neighbors, on that day war became, indisputably, a crime against humanity."
Fifty years ago the Continental Walk for Disarmament and SocialJustice renewed the grassroots movement for disarmament after the end of the Vietnam War.
#NoMoreHiroshimas