A Just Peace Pilgrimage is not a tourist trip with nice scenery; it is a deliberate act of listening to the stories you were never assigned in history class, told by the very people who lived them.
- Hike Monument Valley, the sacred ancestral land of the Navajo Nation, where you will learn that the U.S. government mined the land for uranium in the 1940s-60s, leaving behind nuclear waste, abandoned mines, and numerous health hazards for the local Indigenous Peoples.
- Douglas, Arizona resident Jack Knox will show you a cemetery in Douglas Arizona that holds remains of migrants who died in the desert as they attempted to find refuge in the U.S.
- Travel to Johannesburg in South Africa where in 1966, the apartheid government announced that District Six — then primarily comprised of Black residents — would be razed and rebuilt as a Whites only neighborhood. More than 60,000 of its residents were removed over the next decade. The neighborhood was never rebuilt.
Encounter a new understanding of justice and resistance in the world through pilgrimages in the U.S. and abroad. Learn more about the Just Peace Pilgrimage program.
