Monks, environmentalists take Peace Walk
Source: Asbury Park Press
Japanese Buddhists and area residents carried signs and banners Saturday morning for the first leg of a 200- mile trek that will conclude on March 21 at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt.
The No More Fukushimas Peace Walk was led by Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist nun from the Grafton Peace Pagoda in Grafton, N.Y.
Yasuda said that Buddhist monks in Japan have been walking in protest of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons development for 30 years.
Yasuda and two Buddhist monks from Seattle were among the 14 people who stayed Friday night at the Mantoloking home of Save Barnegat Bay leader William de Camp.
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WHAT’S NEXT?:
Walkers will reassemble at 8:30 a.m. this morning at 129 Hopper Ave. where a second walk will start and will end at the corner of Trenton and Bay avenues in Point Pleasant Beach.
A public potluck dinner and discussion will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at the Murray Grove Conference Center on Route 9 in Lacey Township. Speakers will include Willie de Camp, the chairman of Save Barnegat Bay, Greg Auriemma, chairman of the Ocean County Sierra Club, and environmentalist Peter Weeks. For information call Matt Reid at 609-312-6798.
For start times and locations for additional walk events call Edith Gbur of Jersey Shore Watch at 732-240-5107 or Cathy Sims of No More Fukushimas New Jersey at 732-280-2244.
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