Hundreds march for peace downtown to kick off Nonviolence Week

Hundreds march for peace downtown to kick off Nonviolence Week

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

If the energy, determination and sincerity of participants in Sunday’s parade and rally for nonviolence downtown could magically eliminate destructive forces of all kinds, there would be peace in the Valley.

Just as the song with that line in it, peace promoters know the process begins with each individual. The youth to adults who made up the audience, whose goal is nonviolence, demonstrated strength in numbers.

Though hard to gauge a number for the mobile crowd who applauded and walked with the parade on city streets, more than 400 people crowded into 20 Federal Place, for a program. Sponsors for the third annual parade and rally were Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, Youngstown State University Department of Diversity, Youngstown schools and the Martin Luther King Planning Committee.

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