Churches March to Address Environmental Crisis And for a Just Society

With the theme “Restoring the Earth, Redeeming the City,” churches and other community groups will march this Palm Sunday to call for an end to the war against the earth and for progress in creating just and sustainable cities.

Since the organizers believe that an environmentally sustainable society cannot be achieved without justice, participants will “walk an extra mile” to the place where Kendrec McDade was shot three years ago to hold a brief vigil. One of the sponsors of the parade, The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, has joined the NAACP and the ACLU in a lawsuit against the city to make public the findings on this shooting from the Office of Independent Review.

The Palm Sunday Peace Parade will be held on Sunday, March 29, 3:00 p.m. The parade will begin at Messiah Lutheran Church (570 E. Orange Grove), stops at the corner of Garfield and Colorado and ends at Orange Grove and Sunset (site of Kendrec McDade shooting).

The Palm Sunday Peace Parade is sponsored by a coalition of churches and community groups including Church for Others, Crescenta Valley Methodist Church, First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena, The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Jill Shook and Anthony Manousos, Knox Presbyterian Church, Montrose Peace Vigil, Orange Grove Friends Meeting, Pasadena Community Christian Fellowship, Pasadena Mennonite Church, The Peace and Justice Academy, Progressive Christians Uniting, and The Urban Village of Pasadena.