Interfaith Walk to Washington (Launch)
To be climate activists under this new administration, we must defend our right to be activists at all.
The Quaker/Interfaith Walk to Washington is trekking 300 miles to demand our rights in person:
- The rights to free speech, expression, and assembly which are endowed by the creator and constitutionally owed to every human being on U.S. soil -
- the God-given rights to due process and humane treatment being denied to activists, legal noncitizens, and undocumented immigrants alike -
- and the natural rights of religious communities to heed their moral conscience, aid their brothers & sisters in need, and peacefully resist unjust laws.
On the trek's opening day, we are walking 10 miles from Flushing Queens to Downtown Brooklyn. This walk is sponsored by NYC Quakers and inspired by the 1657 "Flushing Remonstrance", which defended early Quakers from Dutch colonial repression, and helped shape the U.S. Bill of Rights.
There will be an option to stay overnight in the Brooklyn Meeting House and continue on to Staten Island and New Jersey the next morning.