I was invited along to an event last night in London and didn't quite make the connection until I got there that this was for the amazing charity which managed to stop all war on 21 September last year - including the Taliban in Afghanistan to allow 3million children to be vaccinated for polio. You may have seen Annie Lennox and Lenny Kravitz performing at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the event.
Peace One Day is the brainchild of an incredible film director Jeremy Gilley, and this year marks the 10th year since he had the thought back in 1999 'I wonder if it would be possible to get everyone to stop fighting'.
Of course everyone said he could never achieve it (the Jeremiahs are never far away when you try to step out and make change happen) but since then he's gone out and got UN support from all 182 countries and involved lots of celebrities including Angelina Jolie and Jude Law as well as making peace happen one one day for three years now.
So mark this year's date in your diary 21 September - and if you can, get tickets for this year's Peace One Day event (which I think is on 20 September in London and 21 September in Washington).
And spread the word - Jeremy's aim is to touch every person on the planet with the message that peace CAN be achieved, even if just for one day.
7 comments:
Mooji said.
"You are only the ideas you have about yourself, suffering other ideas about yourself".
In this understanding; are we not already at peace?
To teach this, is surely the greatest gift that any one can give to those impoverished by the mind.
As I have said in the past, PEACE can be achieved, all a matter of RESPECT for one anothers ways and cultures, to encompass all credes. Dispose of WMD. Talk to each other, work with each, HONESTY, TRUTH, RESPECT.
thedlog
I think they should go for two days this year, three the next...
C
Or better still........FOR LIFE
thedlog
Creates a bit of a branding issue...
Peace One Day
Peace Two Days
Peace Three Days
Would cost a lot to keep updating the brand collateral...
:-)
September 22 - Oops! Sorry if I now have to lop your head off and shoot your brains out - this is all because of the branding issues we are currently having.
Yep of course my last comment was made in jest.
Of course if women ran the world THERE WOULD BE NO WAR !!!!
War is the product of the 'Alpha' state: a world driven by money, greed, ego, power. Get rid of the Alpha state, then there will be no war.
R
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