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Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026
(Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org )
On May 9, 2026, join the Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine, a public witness calling for an end to military cargo shipments from Oakland to Israel. As the drumbeat of war and profiteering grows louder, we deepen our commitment to non-cooperation with harm and support the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo to proclaim: Divest from war. Invest in life.
This Mother’s Day, join us and be a voice for a different future, a future that sees children as our greatest inheritance. Children are sacred. As parents, aunties/uncles, grandparents, educators, healers and people of faith, let us put our values into actions that save lives and end the horror of the US and Israel’s war on children. For the sake of the future, let us create the world we want to see by demanding an end to the shipping of arms from Oakland.
Together, we will journey 12 miles through Oakland and Alameda, walking our prayers and embodying our shared conviction that every human life is sacred, and that peace with justice cannot be built through militarism. Participants are invited to join us for the entire 12 miles, or for one of the 5 legs (1-4 miles long).
This pilgrimage grows out of the global Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimages of 2024 and local collaborations such as the Right of Return Pilgrimage in 2025. In this third year, we renew our collective call for an immediate arms embargo—locally and nationally.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 9, 8am – 7pm
Location: East Bay, CA (from downtown Oakland, through Alameda, to the Oakland Airport)
Distance: 12 miles (the route will be segmented into 5 shorter legs (1-4 miles each) that participants can choose from; see below in schedule section)
Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026
Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org
The Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine invites all participants to journey and pray for an end to the US complicity in war and grieve the impact of war on children in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran.
The Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine aligns with the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, and advocates to
Participants are invited to join for the entire 12 miles, or specific legs below. Note: times include pauses for programming plus the journey.
8:00am – 9:00am Leg 1: Oakland City Hall to Oakland Ferry Terminal (1 mi)
Start at City Hall to call in our local elected officials to support the campaign: stop the flow of deadly military cargo from Oakland. Travel to the Port of Oakland, calling on our port commissioners for their support.
9:00am – 11:45am Leg 2: Oakland Ferry Terminal to Union Point Park (3 mi)
Start on the grassy lawn in front of the Ferry Terminal, in view of the cargo vessels and machinery of the port. Acknowledging the 1990s protests of shipments to apartheid South Africa, we call on our movement ancestors to help us stop military shipments to Israel.
Proceed along the Oakland waterfront, the Embarcadero, and out past Coast Guard Island Bridge, where last October faith and other protesters opposed the government’s attempt to bring a surge of ICE officers to the Bay Area and were met with violence.
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch break, , program and start of Leg 3
Speakers, music, and a special ritual “flipping the tables of injustice.”
12:45pm – 2:15pm Leg 3: Union Point Park to Shoreline Drive in Alameda (2 mi)
Travel to and across the Park St. bridge into Alameda, down the length of Park St. to the water. Garner visibility on this leg through the heart of Alameda. Pause at a Chevron station to uplift the anti-Chevron campaign.
2:15pm – 5:15pm Leg 4: Shoreline Drive to FedEx (4 mi)
Engage in ritual to connect with the sacred water and draw spiritual sustenance for the rest of our journey. Take the Bay Trail to Bay Farm Island. Continue down a smooth but unshaded length towards the outskirts of the airport. Note the presence of Flock (AI surveillance).
5:15pm – 7:00pm Leg 5 and Closing: FedEx to OAK Airport (1.5 mi)
At the intersection of Ron Cowan Parkway and Air Cargo Way, witness FedEx operations – where the company carries fighter plane parts to Israel – and other corporate complicity with genocide. Experience Buddhist chanting and mindfulness meditation before traveling to OAK airport. There will be an opportunity to flyer and raise awareness among travelers both in and outside the airport. Closing blessings; easy access to BART.
This is a joint effort! We need volunteers for roles from art to logistics, safety, clergy, comms, fundraising, and music.
Please indicate your interest in the registration form. Note that the safety team (which is fun and fulfilling) will require an additional online orientation May 6 at 7pm and move on a slightly different schedule the day of.
We are also offering an in-person Safety Training for new folks on April 26, 2-4pm.
7:30am – 12:15pm — Legs 1 & 2 Combined: Oakland City Hall to Union Point Park (4 mi)
12:15pm – 2:15pm — Leg 3: Union Point Park to Shoreline Drive (2 mi)
2:15pm – 5:15pm — Leg 4: Shoreline Drive to FedEx (4 mi)
5:15pm – 7:00pm — Leg 5 and Closing: FedEx to OAK Airport (1.5 mi)
In various pilgrimage traditions, generosity is specifically invited and cultivated as a practice. Offerings are made to express gratitude, seal vows, seek repair, or pay penance for our complicity. Rooted in these traditions we invite your generosity.
This Pilgrimage is a sacred journey in solidarity with Palestinians and other targeted communities. In that spirit, we ask for agreement on the following:
Alameda Families and Friends for Collective Liberation
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Bethel Community Presbyterian Church
Beyt Tikkun Synagogue
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Cal-Nev Palestine Task Force
Ceasefire Circle, Or Shalom Jewish Community
Chavurah for a Free Palestine
Church of the Sojourners
City Church of San Francisco
Congregation Beth El
Earth Justice Ministries
East Bay Church of Religious Science
East Bay Mediation Center
First Mennonite Church of San Francisco
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
Friends of Wadi Foquin
Haven Berkeley Faith Community
Heart and Soul Center of Light, Imagining Justice
Hindus for Human Rights
IEB Indy Gaza Action Squad
Japanese American Families for Justice
Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area
JeWitch Collective
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’s Peace in Palestine—Friends of Wad Foquin Solidarity Group
Loretto Link
Mennonite Action Bay Area
Oakland Peace Center
Oakland People’s Arms Embargo
Oaklife Church
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Pacific School of Religion
Palestine Task Force UMC
Plymouth UCC Jazz and Justice
Richmond Jews 4 Palestine
Sacred Mountain Sangha
SF Bay Area Friends of Standing Together
SF Interfaith Council
Shomeret Shalom
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Skyline UCC
St. Columba Catholic Church
Tsuru for Solidarity
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
Weirdo Queerdo Monastery
And more coming….
Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026
Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org
Sign up for our Art Build on Monday, February 23 from 4:00pm – 8:00pm to help prepare art for the Day of Remembrance Vigil!
This vigil will include prayer, song, and testimony as we stand in solidarity with immigrants and asylum seekers targeted by ICE and recommit ourselves to justice, dignity, and care for all.
When: Wednesday, February 25
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Where: ICE Field Office, 630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA
We invite you to join us for a public vigil of prayer, singing, and testimony as we honor the Day of Remembrance and stand in solidarity with immigrants and asylum seekers who are being targeted for violence, brutality, and persecution by ICE today.
More than 80 years ago, 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly incarcerated by the U.S. government. On this Day of Remembrance, we gather to honor their lives and resilience—and to recognize how systems of detention and incarceration continue to harm our communities.
We call for liberation, an end to detention and incarceration practices, and we pray for the sacred protection for all our communities.