Sunday May 15, 1pm
Join us for a ~3 mile march starting at Mission St/16th St BART [map] and ending at Gadar Memorial Hall in Japantown [map].
March Details
Start: Mission St at 16th
St
End: 5 Wood St (Near Wood St at Geary Blvd)
We will start congregating around 1pm, and start walking at 1.30pm. You can join the march anywhere along the route. At 3pm, at the end of the march, we will have a short rally outside Gadar Memorial Hall.
Route:
Head West on 16th St - towards Valencia St - go 0.9 mi
Turn Right at Castro St - go 0.5 mi
Bear Right at Divisadero St - (Castro St becomes Divisadero St) - go 0.9 mi
Turn Left at Geary Blvd - go 0.5 mi
Turn Right at Wood St - go 0.2 mi
End: 5 Wood St (Near Wood St at Geary Blvd)
We will start congregating around 1pm, and start walking at 1.30pm. You can join the march anywhere along the route. At 3pm, at the end of the march, we will have a short rally outside Gadar Memorial Hall.
Route:
Head West on 16th St - towards Valencia St - go 0.9 mi
Turn Right at Castro St - go 0.5 mi
Bear Right at Divisadero St - (Castro St becomes Divisadero St) - go 0.9 mi
Turn Left at Geary Blvd - go 0.5 mi
Turn Right at Wood St - go 0.2 mi
Together we will:
- Show solidarity with the participants of the India-Pakistan Peace March [New Delhi to Multan, Mar 23 thru May 11], who are marching across the subcontinent with the goals of establishing people-to-people contact, negating the tendencies of distrust, hatred and enmity, and spreading the message of peace and harmony
- Express our indignation at the denial
of visas by the Indian and Pakistani governments - to Pakistanis who
wanted to join the march in India, and to Indians wanting to join
the march in Pakistan
- Protest the imperialist tendencies of
the US, as currently exemplified in the efforts to manipulate South
Asian
regional politics by pushing for arms purchases by India and Pakistan
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
Friends of South Asia
EKTA
Association for India's Development(AID), Bay Area
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action(ASATA)
American Muslim Voice
Pakistanis at Stanford
Progressive Muslim Union of North America
Friends of South Asia
EKTA
Association for India's Development(AID), Bay Area
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action(ASATA)
American Muslim Voice
Pakistanis at Stanford
Progressive Muslim Union of North America
For more information visit http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/events/indpakpeace/
About FOSA
Founded in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, Friends of South Asia (FOSA) brings together people with roots in various parts of South Asia, as well as other well-wishers of the region. FOSA's mission is to achieve a peaceful, prosperous and hate-free South Asia -- most immediately working towards a demilitarized, nuclear-free South Asia, and promoting respect for, and celebrating the diversity and plurality of South Asia. More information at http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/, or email us at mail [at] friendsofsouthasia.org