World March for Peace

03/04/2009

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
Marcel Proust

World Forum Global Leader Zorica Trikic from Serbia, whose creative Global Leaders advocacy project entitled, Beginning is Important - Promoting Importance of ECCD in Serbia, can be viewed on the World Forum web site, shared news of the upcoming World March for Peace and Nonviolence which will include participants such as Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Pete Seeger, Zubin Mehta, Juanes, Helen Caldicott, and Noam Chomsky.

The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Non-Violence” by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010. The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel. It will pass through all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia. The stages will be the longest American and Asian, both almost a month. A permanent base of a hundred people of different nationalities will complete the journey.

Reasons for the March:

Because we can end world hunger with 10% of what is spent on arms. Imagine how life would be if 30-50% of the arms budget went toward improving people’s lives instead of being used for destruction.
Because eliminating wars and violence means leaving human pre-history behind and taking a giant step forward in the evolution of our species..
Because a “world without wars” is an image that opens the future and seeks to become reality in every corner of the planet, as violence gives way to dialog.

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