Walking
Through
New Jersey
Route Under Construction
June 4 through 13
Wednesday, June 5
Noon: Meet at Fort Lee Senior Center, 319 Main Street, Fort Lee, NJ (no parking at the Ft. Lee Senior Center)
Transportation to the Senior Center
By car: Free parking is available at the Puffin Cultural Forum. 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck. Arrive by 11:15 to get a ride from the Puffin Cultural Forum to the Fort Lee Senior Center.
By bus: From George Washington Bridge Station, New York City, NJ Transit #182 bus to Ft. Lee Senior Center leaves at 11:25 am
12:30 pm: Stepping off. Walk 1.4 miles to Overpeck Park Driveway (1 hour)
1 pm: Short stop on at the site of the Leonia Ceasefire Vigil for Peace and Justice (every Sunday since 2001). Broad Avenue and Ft. Lee Road in Leonia. Speaker: Lela Charney
1:30 pm: Drive from Overpeck Park Driveway (north) to Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way. Teaneck, NJ (Transportation in the PeaceWalk van)
1:40 pm: Gather at Puffin Cultural Forum, Peace Pole and at statue of Pete Seeger
Puffin Cultural Forum will provide lunch, water, chairs, and bathrooms. They have hosted many Veterans Art and Poetry events over the years. We are so thankful to the Puffin Cultural Forum for supporting this important effort.
Program:
Welcome from Puffin Cultural Forum.
Jules Orkin, Veterans For Peace, Chapter 21 NJ, will speak about the Peace Pole
Michael Kramer, Chairperson of Veterans For Peace, Chapter 21, NJ.
Jan Barry, co-founder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, member of Veterans for Peace, leader of Warrior Writers/NJ. Poetry reading
Sing next to Pete Seeger statue
2:30 pm: Stepping off from the Puffin Cultural Forum to National Guard Armory, 1799 Teaneck Road, corner of Liberty Road. 2.9 miles.
For anyone who would like to walk only part of the route on Wednesday, we encourage you to do this part of the walk because it is mostly on flat land and is very visible to the public.
3:45 pm: Arrive at National Guard Armory, 1799 Teaneck Road, corner of Liberty Road. Teaneck
4-5:15 pm: Teaneck Peace and Justice Vigil. (981st consecutive vigil at that location)
National Guard Armory, 1799 Teaneck Road, corner of Liberty Road, Teaneck, NJ
Transportation: NJ Transit buses stop at the National Guard Armory. Plenty of street parking and parking at Foster Village Plaza across the street)
Theme: Walking and Vigiling for Peace and Planet, Justice and Democracy.
Welcoming PeaceWalk2024.
Program:
Solidarity Singers (New Jersey State Industrial Workers Union)
Paula Rogovin.Teaneck Peace and Justice Vigil. Welcoming the PeaceWalkers
Lela Charney – Leonia Ceasefire Vigil
Michael Kramer, Chairperson, Veterans For Peace Chapter 21 NJ
Speakers from PeaceWalk2024
Jan Barry, Poetry Reading
The PeaceWalk/Teaneck Peace and Justice Vigil and rally will be dedicated to the Palestinian poet and educator, Refaat Alareer, his daughter, son-in-law, and two month old granddaughter and the more than 36,000 other people killed in Gaza. We will read Refaat Alareer’s final poem, If I Should Die
Potluck dinner afterwards at Paula Rogovin and Jan Barry’s house in Teaneck. RSVP to Elyse Gilbert, (516) 521-3684, imtbeau8@gmail.com and let us know what you will bring for the potluck.
Fort Lee Senior Center to Overpeck Park Driveway:
Puffin Cultural Forum to National Guard Armory:
Thursday, June 6
Newark Tour visiting sites relevant to environmental, prison and peace activism.
10 am: Meet at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge St, Newark (Note: It’s worth coming a little early just to see the cathedral–PeaceWalker Anthony Donovan says it’s magnificent!)
11 am: Rutgers Newark Solidarity Encampment at Rutgers Law School calling for divestment from Israel and reinvestment in Newark
12:00 pm: Vigil with Pax Cristi New Jersey at Cory Booker’s office, 1 Gateway Center
1:30 pm: Riverfront Park, which the community fought to be revitalized
2:00 pm: Visit to Down Bottom Farms – Ironbound Community Corp urban farm
4:00 pm: Passaic Valley Sewerage Plant, site where the Ironbound neighborhood may soon get its fourth fossil-fuel power plant
4:30 pm: Delaney Hall (a private prison that will soon start detaining people for ICE – again)
Friday, June 7
Clifton and Paterson tour, with special emphasis on Palestinian community.
12:30 pm: Meet at 70 River Road, Clifton, site of L3Harris, the 6th largest weapons manufacturer
Walk through “Little Palestine” in Clifton and Paterson
4:30 pm: Vigil at the office of Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., Federal Plaza in Paterson
6 pm: Join the Palestinian American Community Center in marking the end of Palestine Week with the raising of the Palestinian flag over the Paterson City Hall, 155 Market St #101, Paterson
Saturday, June 8
Join the PeaceWalkers and tens of thousands of activists in Washington, DC, to say “Biden, We Are Your Red Line.” See https://www.codepink.org/redline for more information and to purchase bus tickets.
Sunday, June 9
Attend Coalition for Peace Action annual membership gathering in Princeton, NJ
Dinner at Princeton Quaker Meeting House
Monday, June 10
Walk to Trenton along the Delaware-Raritan Canal.
Dinner at Trenton Quaker meeting.
Tuesday, June 11
Walk to Fort Dix
Noon: Meet at Columbus Farmers Market, 2919 US-206, Columbus, NJ
Walk to Fort Dix and hold short vigil.
Wednesday, June 12
Burlington to Lockheed Martin in Moorestown
11 am-5 pm: Walking to Abundant Life Church on Route 130, 5.5 miles, then shuttle over to Chick Fil-A, 1301 Fairview Blvd, Delran, NJ, and walk to Moorestown 3.9 miles
Brief vigil at Lockheed Martin in front of the Navy Combat Systems Development building at Hartford Road and Centerton Road.
Thursday, June 13
Lockheed Martin in Mt. Laurel to Camden
9 am: Meet at Lockheed Martin Corporation, 750 Centerton Rd, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054
Walk to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1739 Ferry Ave, Camden, NJ
Noon: Lunch and meet and greet at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
1 pm: Walk to Holtec International, 1 Holtec Blvd, Camden, NJ, to hear speakers describe how the company tried to arrange for the release of a million gallons of radioactive water into the Hudson River, among other things.
Friday, June 14
Camden to Philadelphia
Noon: Meet at L3 Harris Technologies, 1 Federal Street, Camden. Walk to Newton Friends Meeting, 808 Cooper St., Camden
12:30 pm: Lunch and meet and greet hosted by Newton Friends Meeting, 808 Cooper St, Camden, NJ 08102
1:30 pm: Walk across Ben Franklin Bridge into Pennsylvania
4 pm: Welcome and Press Conference, Independence Mall, 5th and Market
6:30 pm: Potluck with remarks by author, activist and nonviolent resister George Lakey, music by the Justice Seekers. Please bring a main dish or dessert to share. Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 1501 Cherry Street (at 15th), Philadelphia