<p><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Update July 2011: Margaret and her fellow walkers have completed the walk but donations are still welcome. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Read a reflection on the Walk for Peace at <a href="http://www.quaker.org.uk/walk-for-peace">http://www.quaker.org.uk/walk-for-peace</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My walk for peace from London to York</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 1772, John Woolman travelled on foot from one Quaker meeting in England to another, walking about 500 miles in total, sharing his vision of a world governed by compassion and justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In the twentieth century, Gandhi&rsquo;s heroic faithfulness to a similar vision led to enormous political consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In 2012, about 100,000 of the marginalised people of India will converge on Delhi to express their faith that justice can be achieved by peaceful means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Other groups based on these principles are developing all over South Asia, and in many other parts of the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By following Woolman&rsquo;s route as closely as possible, without using any wheeled transport, I&rsquo;m attempting to focus attention on how we can become part of this movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Sharing some of our relative wealth to enable the voices of the poor to be heard is one obvious way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>At a deeper level, I hope that, in a world that in many ways seems to be ruled by greed and cruelty, together we can learn more of the principle which Woolman knew so well, which &lsquo;incites to exercise goodness toward every living creature&rsquo;.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Margaret Johnston</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;">&nbsp;</p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white;">&nbsp;</p>