Theme of the march is reflected in the following statement on which signature campaign is being carried out:
"We dream of a completely arms free world. For a peaceful world order it is necessary that all nuclear weapons should be immediately destroyed and all nations of the world should reduce their defence budgets and start putting their resources in developmental activities. Simultaneously we are also committed for reduction of violent tendencies at the micro level. We express faith in the principle of non-violence, and assert that security can be derived only from human relationships based on trust and not from any weapons. Only on the basis of this can we conceive of people governed just socio-economic human order."
Various individuals and organizations in India and other countries are supporting this march. Among those in India who have offered their support so far include Medha Patkar, Admiral L. Ramdas, Arundhati Roy, Janak Lal Thakur, Swami Agnivesh, Narayan Bhai Desai, Kishan Patnaik, Siddharaj Dhadda, Asghar Ali Engineer, Prof. Rimpoche, Thomas Kochhery, Acharya Ramamurti, Manmohan Choudhary, Ganga Prasad Agarwal, Prof. Banwari Lal Sharma, Anand Patwardhan, S.N. Subbarao, Natwar Thakkar and G.R. Khairnar. Greenpeace International, Friends of The Earth, Global Initiative, and Nuclear Awareness Project are among international organizations who have expressed support.
* A big meeting will be held at Sarnath (Dist. Varanasi) on August 6 (Hiroshima day), 1999 at the end of the march. All supporters and social activists from India and other countries are invited in this meeting.
* Meetings, discussions and exhibitions will be held at different places on route of the march.
* A signature campaign is being organized in India and other countries as part of this event. A target has been set to collect about 2 lakh signatures which will be given at the end of the march on 9th August, Nagasaki Day, in New Delhi to the Prime Minister of India and Heads of States of the remaining 6 nuclear weapon nations and to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Main Organizers:
Lok Abhiyan, Upkaram Karoti, Dayanand Sewa Sansthan, Moti Nagar, Lucknow-226004; Phones: (0522) 347365/382333 (Sandeep/Arundhati), 230819 (Vishwambhar Vidyarthi), 387509 (Sanjay Rai)
Co-ordinators of Rajasthan route:
Rajasthan Samagra Sewa Sangha, Gokul Vati, Durgapura, Jaipur, Phone: (0141) 552878 (Sawai Singh)
Co-ordination Office during the march:
National Alliance of Peoples Movement, 14 Supreme Enclave, Mayur Vihar Phase-I, New Delhi-110091, Phone: (011) 2256394, Fax: (011) 2492940 (Vimal)
Email contacts:
asha@lw1.vsnl.net.in
rahul@cc.iitb.ernet.in
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Click here to view the first letter issued from Lucknow when the march was conceptualised