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The Great Peace March is com
ing. Starting on March Ist, 1986.
5.0(H) people will walk from Los
Angeles to Washington, D.C., to
carry the call for global nuclear
disarmament to the citizens of
this nation and the world.
The Great Peace March, what
CBS News has called "the
greatest civilian undertaking of
this century," is being organized
by PRO-Peace, the Los Angeles
based non-profit, non-partisan
group
Since PRO-Peace began, great
strides have been made in the
areas of recruitment, fundrais
ing, and national organization.
Regional and state offices have
opened across the country, a na
tionwide Peacewalk fundraiser
took place November 3rd, and
over 11,000 applications have
already been distributed to pro
spective marchers.
BEGINNINGS
The idea for PRO-Peace began
late in 1984, when Executive
Director David Mixner's 9-year
old neice told him she thought she
would die, before growing up, in a
nuclear war. This prompted Mix
ner to search for a new way to
fight nuclear proliferation. The
problem, as he saw it, was the
lack of hope that anything could
be done. His answer was to create
a groundswell for nuclear disar
mament, both here and abroad,
so powerful that the leaders of the
world will have to listen.
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Great Peace March Set
The marchers, 5,000 strong,
will leave their homes, schools,
jobs and families, and walk 15
miles a day lor 255 days across
the Mojave Desert, the Great
Basin, and two major continental
mountain ranges and the Great
Plains. Their sacrifice will cap
ture the imagination of the world.
The logistical challenges faced
in planning the Great Peace
March are massive. Over the
course of their nine-month cross
country journey, the marchers
will wear out 20,000 pairs of
shoes, eat 3,825,000 meals, take
1,275,000 showers and set up and
take down 2,500 tents each night.
PRO-Peace plans to meet these
challenges through impressive
recruitment and fundraising
campaigns. PRO-Peace's
organization is already in place.
Its Los Angeles office houses over
70 full-time employees on three
floors. Regional and state offices
have opened along the March
route, in Denver, Cleveland,
Omaha, Des Moines, Pittsburgh,
Chicago, Boston, New York and
Washington, D.C. Two Advance
Teams have just finished survey
ing the March route, cataloging
campsites and charting every
mile the marchers will walk.
The toll-free number for ap
plications and donations is
1-800-453-1234. The Great Peace
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ment has been seen on local T V.
stations since October 23rd.
The logistics of the Great
Peace March are massive, and
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marchers will be inspiring. But in
the words of David Mixner, "If
we can accomplish this seeming
ly impossible task, if we can
move 5,000 people, in peace coast
to coast and we will then the
citizens of this country will
understand once and for all that
they can undertake another
seemingly impossible task: the
task of abolishing nuclear
weapons for good."