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News from the Keweenaw Peninsula Posted February 28, 2002 Text © 2002 Copper Country Peace Alliance Photo © 2002 Keweenaw Now

Peace Alliance invites dialogue during March 2 walk

HANCOCK -- "Inviting Dialogue" will be the theme for the Copper Country Peace Alliance's Walk for Peace, to begin at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, starting from the Hancock City Hall. The Alliance encourages members of the community to dialogue with the walkers about such issues as resolution of current international conflicts and bringing perpetrators of terrorism to justice.

This sign is one of several carried by Copper Country Peace Alliance members during their weekly Saturday morning walks for peace and nonviolence. (Feb. 16, 2002, photo by Michele Anderson)

Walkers should note the change of the route and starting-time for this week only. The walk will not start at the Motherlode Coffeehouse as on previous Saturdays. Walkers should gather in front of the Hancock City Hall by 11:30 a.m. The walk will then proceed to Houghton and return to Hancock. The time and route have been changed in order to accommodate participants attending a workshop on nonviolence being sponsored by the Peace Alliance.

On Friday, March 1, beginning at 7 p.m., Tom Shea, a peace activist from Traverse City, who will be facilitating the workshop on Saturday, will lead a discussion, along with Scott Rutherford of Hancock, on "Lessons from Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- the Power of Active Nonviolence for Social Change" at the First United Methodist Church in Hancock. A video entitled "A Force More Powerful" will be shown. The event is sponsored by the Copper Country Peace Alliance.

For more information, please call 483-3183.

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Editor's Note: On Saturday, Feb. 23, reporters from The Daily Mining Gazette and the Michigan Tech Lode interviewed participants in the walk as well as a group of protesters walking on the opposite side of the street. The opposing group included students and alumni from the College Republicans of Michigan Tech University. Keweenaw Now guest writer Merle Kindred, a member of the Peace Alliance, told reporters she was glad to engage in dialogue with members of the opposition group. The Peace Alliance welcomes peaceful dialogue with the community during their walk this Saturday, March 2. Read more about the Peace Alliance Walks.