By World BEYOND War, February 8, 2026

University of Wisonsin-Madison students and members of Madison for a World BEYOND War held a Walk for Peace 10K on frozen Lake Mendota. The walk started at Tenney Park Beach, went past the Frozen Assets Festival and the UW Winter Carnival, and continued out to Picnic Point, and then back to Tenney Park. The media are welcome at any time.

The walkers’ messages were: “Stop arming Israel, Ukraine & the rest of the world,” “No to militarism and killing anywhere,” and “Close military bases & abolish war.” The walkers carried banners with their messages.

The walk was co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Madison and Madison Veterans For Peace.

ABC (WKOW) reported(video at link):

MADISON (WKOW) — World Beyond War Madison Chapter, an organization with chapters in nearly two dozen countries, walked around the city in support of world peace. A dozen people marched in the chapter’s first-ever walk.

The walk was inspired by the ongoing Buddhist walk of peace from Texas to Washington, D.C. It lasted four hours and stopped at several places around Lake Mendota.

Donte’ Young, a U.S. Navy veteran, says the group stopped at these locations to promote their cause to others.

“There’s people with their families having fun, and we’re like, ‘Yep, we’re going to be out there. We’re going to be freezing, and we’re going to have signs to show people we know what’s right,'” Young said.

Young served for eight years, and was stationed in Guam and Hawaii. He says his experience made him gradually become anti-war.

“There’s times where we got messages when we figured out what some other Russian boat was saying, and it was them sending messages to each other about how much they hated being on submarines. And it’s like, ‘Okay, so these guys are out here looking for us, and we’re out here looking for them. We’re just spinning our wheels in circles. This is a waste of everyone’s time. We could be doing literally anything better right now,'” Young added.

Some key messages from the walkers are to stop supplying arms to Israel, Ukraine, and the rest of the world, no militarism and killing anywhere, and no more military bases or war.

Young says everyone fighting is someone’s family, and that people need to stop forgetting that.

“I think a lot of people in the military forget that, like the people there are supposed to be someone’s son, and that they’re someone’s son, and like the people we are ostensibly fighting against the someone’s son, and it really detracts from the humanity of it all,” said Young.

World BEYOND War hopes that this creative action by the Madison Chapter inspires some ideas for actions around the world during the upcoming Global Days of Action to #CloseBases.

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