circa 1996:
I met Rev. Yamato in San Francisco a while ago, and found him to be an extremely cool Zen Buddhist / Peace Activist / and general wildman! Then after quite a while, he popped into my mind, I search the web for a trace, and found only one reference. I include it here to help spread the word of his noble efforts!

\NEXTWALK\ 01-22-96 Spring Schedule for 1996 GLOBAL PEACE WALK

To bring out GLOBAL PEACE NOW by the voice of all humanity as One Mind, in support of the call by Mahatma Gandhi's revered teacher (Guruji) for an American Spiritual Revolution led by the American Indian religious and spiritual people, and in support of Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney, the 1996 Global Peace Walkers will be joining with other spiritual practitioners for a walk with the Lenten Desert Experience to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site from the Las Vegas office of the US Department of Energy (2753 South Highland), on March 31st (Palm Sunday) after a 9AM prayer ceremony, and arriving at the test site camp on April 6th (Good Friday) for the Spring Gathering of Healing Global Wounds, April 4-8, 1996, with a caravan en route to Taos, New Mexico for the April 22-27 Global Peace Zone Gathering and GLOBAL PEACE WALK to Santa Fe. Concurrent with the Nevada walk will be an international organizers' Nuclear Abolition Summit, April 1-4 in Las Vegas. Buddha's birthday, prayer offered April 8.

This project was initiated last year by the United Nations 50th Anniversary GLOBAL PEACE WALK '95 from New York (January 15th MLK birthday) to San Francisco (June 20th). A book containing the messages and many letters of support from this walk was hand delivered to the President of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York in October 1995, witnessed by Corbin Harney. The purpose of the Global Peace Walk is to bring out Global Peace Now as a prayer by all of humanity and to foster the development of a Spiritual United Nations to affect Global Peace Now by establishing, with The Peace Pole Ceremony, Global Peace Zones across the country and around the world. After the Earth Day 1996 Peace Pole Ceremony in Taos, on April 24th the Mayor declared Taos the first GLOBAL PEACE ZONE pursuant to this campaign, and upon the walk's arrival in Santa Fe, the Mayor there declared April 26th Global Peace Walk Day. In respect of this Rev. Yamato has resolved to begin an annual ceremony of commemoration and to further the development of a permanent land based spiritual community in the Taos area to pursue the goals of the Global Peace Walk. Just before our October delivery to the United Nations we got a commitment from Bethlehem's Peace Museum organizers involving the Mayor of Bethlehem and Yassar Arafat's brother, Dr. Arafat, offering a site at this Peace Museum Park (part of the Bethlehem 2000 program) for our construction of a permanent Peace Pole there to help unite the three faiths of Jerusalem in peace. While the above Nevada events are under way, a delegation will be in Israel to further these negotiations and we may possibly obtain an interactive internet video link from Jerusalem to Nevada for this occasion. The success of these events depends on everyone who gets this message to get involved immediately and help in any way they can. WELCOME HOME. Rev. Yamato is the one who first brought the interfaith peace pole ceremony to the annual Rainbow Family Gathering in 1978. He has worked with many native American spiritual leaders over the last 20 years and has developed special international relationships with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The coordinator of the Global Peace Walk, David Crockett Williams Jr., is a personal and financial agent, chemical physicist, spiritual practitioner of Nichidatsu Fujii and Sathya Sai Baba, and has registered as an independent 1996 candidate for United States President to stop nuclear weapons testing, free Leonard Peltier, replace fossil fuel and nuclear power with Free Energy Technologies, and implement the recommercialization of hemp for the overall majority of earth's paper, fiber, food, fuel, medicines, chemical feedstocks, construction materials, to save the ozone layer and stop global warming.

CALL Yamato 415-626-9757, Williams 805-822-3309, Corbin Harney and the Nuclear Abolition Summit & Nuclear Abolition Day of Action (April 8th) c/o Shundahai Network 202-588-0912, Healing Global Wounds 408-338-0147, Taos Gathering and Walk organizer Martha Bourke 505-758-2071.

Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo --- Unity in Diversity: ALL IS ONE --- Om Sai Ram