Welcome to a transformational healing community solution for 2025, and our 5-MILE A DAY Healing Walk for 2026.

As 2025 has us to lean further into connections and self-care for our children, communities, ourselves and human rights, many organizations fear doing anything especially speaking out due to loss of funding and punitive policies. We offer a 2026 solution to walk and breathe in, then walk and release out through chants instead of words. The daily observation has been “I can’t breathe” we will continue to be bold and stand up by getting in formation through a walking prayer. Leaning on a sangha peace walk through offerings of flowers, libations, incense, a hug, a song, a mindfulness expression of the power of love.

To do this work, we need your financial support.

This message is our Fundraising Appeal for our IRHW community, monks, youth, pilgrimage walkers, clergy, healers and allies that will walk in 2026. Please give us what you can to enable the 2026 IRHW next year. We will in 2025 though be coming through 10 cities to support gather for meditation, healing modalities, cultural play, political education, mobilizing and organizing necessary to start for next year. This June 2025 we will be in Palm Springs, Friday, June 6, and show up strong as we prepare the organizers in the Fillmore District, San Francisco on Saturday, July 3 over the Golden Gate Bridge. We mustn’t turn back our clocks on human rights, dignity, peace and freedom that have been hard-won by our ancestors. We honor all that you have done in keeping your spirits and the spirits of your community strong and we will continue to encourage all those during these challenging times for our democracy for our communities, our elders, and for the children of seven generations yet to come.

Please give today.

*$50 helps fund the health supplies needed for the healing walk, products such as, water, feminine products, electrolytes, aspirin, fans, etc.

*$100 helps IRHW to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner food covered during this year's one-month travel.

$250 pays for gas for the elderly, disabled transport to bring disability justice.

$500 enables us to house and feed sojourners when we are in need of more over night housing spaces prior to, during and after this walk.

During the month of June we walk 5 miles a day from Long Beach to the San Francisco Fillmore District to offer prayers and support to reverse the harmful patterns of injustice.

This story of African People’s enslavement, racism, discrimination and oppression that is still relevant today due to atrocities that have been committed against us has escalated. These atrocities began in the period of African chattel slavery and continue today in the constant racial harms that exist within this state of California and throughout the United States in various forms.

Healing, Action and Theory Practice has been our impetus since the investigation through the 2023 AB 3121 California Reparations Legislation. We are the first state to have our governor approve reparations, but does that bring the reparations movement to the grassroots? What is needed in the local 59 counties to bring this need into reality?

This Healing Walk call invites all to walk five miles a day for one whole month. We will bring rituals, sing African spirituals and participate in interfaith religious practices. We will leave flowers, pour libations, burn incense, and confront traumatic systems of oppression through Public Forum theater, dance and chanting. We will invite 59 counties of California to bring the groundswell. We find this urgency important since the approval of the 2023 California Legislation AB3121 and since the vibrations of imperialism that has shifted this country.

Join us:

PREPARATIONS, PMA, and

EXPLAINATION of 2026 Healing Walk

June 6 - July 3, 2025

2026 will be a walking prayer.

Walking to 10 cities.

Walking 5 miles a day.

Having three meals a day.

A couple of years ago many assisted us as 300 people joined us for the 34th N'COBRA National Convention. While this was happening, history was made as California became the first state in the U.S. to have passed Reparations legislation (AB 3121).

Continuing in this spirit and energy for Reparations, M4BL had many back again for our 2024 JUNETEENTH REPARATIONS BUS TOUR where Participants visited important sites of Black history and resistance across the California Bay Area to become better advocates for Reparations and have a great time while doing it in Black Joy.

THIS IS OF URGENCY!

That is why we decided to 2025 come to prepare 10 cities for what we will do next year in collective consciousness. We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and bring Black joy to our reparations curriculum.

We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and counties to reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for this day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step guide for participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome). Unity UMOJA is the key.

We will also center the tireless efforts of those who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, and The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit).

We wish to establish and adopt historical and new best practices for racial justice and anti-racism while building towards a 59 county Reparations tour of California next year. Our involvement in the hearing for AB 3121 California legislation, and the synergy of the 34th National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Oakland Convention will help to inform this work. Since last year, our project teams from the Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign, N’COBRA, and M4BL, have continued to build and refine pathways to healing, sustainable gardening, food justice, living and environmental reparations. On going community organizing strategies, funding programs and political education have always overlapped. Motivate, Educate, and Organize!

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

On this journey in 2026 we will begin walking in Palm Springs where black families homes were burned down to build commercial traffic which now is a casino at this desert oasis for tourist which Blacks call “Racist Trees”. We will then proceed to Long Beach where Kwanzaa celebration was formed and then to Los Angeles’s Bruce’s Beach that recently received reparations due to the work surrounding California Reparations Legislation AB3121.

We then continue on the roads to Allensworth Historical Town that was removed by violent white mobs that were in opposition to Black sovereignty and self determination. Russel City (Hayward) will be then our next stop to where a Black community on the Bay was erased from history. Oakland where the Black Panthers formed and made their home and where the community plans deserves their community land trusts to preserve that history prior to Black displacement, and gentrification. Then to Port Chicago to where only recently the Black military navy men had their names exonerated from the harm of a deadly bomb explosion that still traumatizes the East Bay. Onward to San Pablo where the community is fighting back against the city’s efforts to build a massive Cop City and where we do Political Education for the homeless in the library under the direction of M4BL Community Safety. We converge to the city hall and Richmond Oil Refinery which are the anti-Black sites of countless environmental battles especially the 66% that once were Black now is 14% Black due the the lung complications of our people.

We will walk over the Richmond Bridge where San Quentin Prison holds the prison movement started by George Jackson author of Blood in my Eye with efforts from Angela Davis. Now a space for book readings of Black cooperation through the book Collective Courage by Jessica Nembhardt-Gordon. Revisiting the Little Rock 9 civil rights integration of schools brings us to walk into Marin City where in 2019 the Black community of Marin City won against segregation having Sausalito to be sued for discrimination and having finally the Black kids legally given authority to go the the local school.

Over the Golden State bridge we walk to Fillmore District where thousands of atrocities due to the Bill that closed — Black businesses, banks, etc. The walk will be a walking prayer and a celebration, as well as skill building for those who wish to learn more and win reparations. We hold a three-fold commitment to political education, action practice, and healing towards a more just and equitable society and reparations in our lifetime. Reparations Now! We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and support Black joy to a 59 county reparations curriculum.

We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and counties to reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for each day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step (literally and figuratively) guide for Walk participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome). Unity/ UMOJA is the key. We will also center the tireless efforts of those elders who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit) and more.

The walk will be a walking prayer and a celebration, as well as skill building for those who wish to learn more, win reparations but through camaraderie.

We hold a three-fold commitment to political education, action practice, and healing towards a more just and equitable society and reparations in our lifetime. Reparations Now!

BACKGROUND

California 59 County Goal

The 2024 Juneteenth Reparations Bus Tour was the prelude to this year’s “Interfaith California Reparations Healing Walk,” where community, healers, and reparationists from around the state and beyond will be coming together to first walk pray while activating communities to coordinate Boots on the ground, block-by-block, street-by-street, 29 county-to-county Reparations now! We know that everyone from large cities to unincorporated townships are at their best when they legitimately utilize the equitable development and decision making of community-led infrastructure for Healing and Reparations.

As we situate this year’s walk and bus tour, we’d be remiss to not acknowledge the present moment we are in. The ongoing international crises in Palestine is amplified by protests at home. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and civil rights legislation are under attack across the country. The harm persists, and this moment underscores the crucial need for Reparations. It is our responsibility to equip our communities with the simple breath of mindfulness, the political education, tools, and insatiable appetite for reparations needed to navigate these complex landscapes with grit, humility, and self-determination.

As Black healers, community organizers/activists, community leaders, students, elders, politicians, university faculty, and lovers of everything Black we invite all our relations. So we will be screening some allies and comrades for this walk with us, in sacred geometry numbers for Black folks to feel safe.

We appreciate your honesty, reflections, and voice that you will bring. Help us foster a Black Buddhist environment of co-learning and growth as we work towards a future re-imagined with reparations in our lifetime.

Once again, welcome to the Interfaith Reparations Healing Walk and we thank you for considering to share this one month commitment time and space with us!

Registration with a telephone first, then later you will be sent a formal registration packet:

https://partiful.com/e/DGdENR7cqRzcsqVnOQwI

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register here:

https://tally.so/r/mOrkR8

Questions, donations and sponsorships email:

CAReparationsHealingWalk@proton.me

Contact us on WhatsApp number: 707-857-6455

While on the Journey we will answer this phone daily: 707-404-3259

Not only will our fiscal agent accept sponsorship, endorsements but we are building a New Economy so please consider dana, gift economics, alms food, and PLEASE give time-banking, all is also welcome!

Ashe, Amen, Metta, and so it is!

Sis Aleta Toure’

Parable of the Sower Healing Center (Intentional Community Cooperative)

Richmond, CA.

Monk Brother Tim San Bullock
Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order

Washington, DC

Venerable Claire Grace
NOLA Sangha

New Orleans, LA

INTERFAITH REPARATIONS HEALING WALK (PREPARATION WALK 2025)

Preparing 10 cities for a 5 mile walk in 2026