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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral connected a trek to dispersed a connection of bid crossed the United States made his archetypal halt successful Fresno connected Sunday.
Nitin Sonawane, oregon "Slow Man Nitin," says it took him 12 days to march from San Francisco, done Coalinga and to Fresno. Why? To dispersed peace.
"We unrecorded successful a nine wherever determination is simply a batch of injustices, discriminations. Either racial, color, language— truthful galore discriminations that we are divided by, culturally we are divided by, but arsenic a whole, we are one," Nitin said astatine the Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
Fresno was Nitin's archetypal halt successful his seven-month travel to conscionable with the existent president, Donald Trump, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C. He volition yet marque his mode to Bakersfield, L.A., Dallas, Chicago, and connected Aug. 18, helium expects to conscionable his destination.
"In this chaos, it's precise important to speech astir peace," helium expressed.
For the past 7 years, Nitin has trekked each astir the satellite connected akin journeys and believes this is the opening of a caller one.
"To beryllium benignant to 1 another, it's precise important," said Nitin. "There are truthful galore sayings that taught america beauteous messages and that support us, each quality beings, together. And we privation to stock this connection again and again due to the fact that arsenic quality beings we hide this message."
Slow Man Nitin invites anyone who sees oregon encounters him arsenic helium journeys done the state to articulation him oregon honk successful support.
