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World March for Peace and Non-violence Bulletin #05

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For information on thepreparations and how toparticipate see:

www.marchamundial.orgRead the Declaration ofWorld without Wars at:www.mundosinguerras.es/docus/63

Produced and publishedby the InternationalPromotion Team of theWorld March for Peaceand Non-violence

Our goal has beenthat this material istranslated rapidly. Itshould therefore beconsidered only a drafttranslation. Our interestis that materials circulatequickly and that theycan be understood bysympathetic readers.

FEBRUARY 2009BULLETIN #05

WORLD MARCH

FOR PEACE ANDNON-VIOLENCE

2nd October 2009 til 2 nd January 2010

Who is supporting theWorld March?See inside for details ofthe latest individuals andorganisations to endorsethe march.

The President of Chileendorses the World March

Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, endorsedthe World March for Peace and Non-Violenceduring a meeting held on 29th January withToms Hirsch, Latin American spokespersonfor New Humanism.(continued on page 7).

Open le erfrom FedericoMayorZaragozaaskingfor activeparticipationin the WorldMarch forPeace andNon-Violence

The former president ofUNESCO for 12 yearsand founder of Culture ofPeace explains his reasonsto join the WM and asks

for the active participationof his friends in otherorganizations.(continued on page 5).

Inter-Miln participatesin the WMThe football club Inter Miln endorses the Marchand will actively participate in its dissemination. Therewill be a public press release communicating theirparticipation soon.(continued on page 7).

SPECIAL FEATURE: WAR IN GAZAThe groups of young Israeli and Palestinianpaci sts are an example of non-violence.

Support around the world for the cease- re. Page 4.


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With only 9 months togo until the beginning ofthe rst World March forPeace and Non-violence,we can already rely on thefollowing endorsementsregistered on its Website:

SupportingIndividuals

7780from 108 countries

The following countrieshave joined the march thismonth so far: Andorra,

Armenia, Cameroon,Republic of Congo(Brazzaville), SouthKorea, Dominica, UnitedArab Emirates, Gambia,Gibraltar, French Guinea,The Comoros Islands, TheSalomon Islands, Maldives,Nepal, Syria, Uganda,Zimbabwe.

Viggo Mortensen

(USA)

Actor. Mortensen was bornin Manha an, New York,on the 20th October 1958.He lived in Venezuela froma few months of age until3 years old with his fatherfrom Denmark and motherfrom New York. His familythen moved to Argentina,where they remaineduntil he was eleven, wherehe learned Spanish and became a football fanof Club San Lorenzo deAlmagro. Not only did hehave a publishing house but he also starred in many

well-known lms (TheLord of the Rings is just anexample) and won severalinternational prizes.

Susan George (France)

Economist, Presidentof the TransnationalInstitute of Amsterdam,Philosopher and Politicaleconomist. Between 1999

and the end of 2006 shewas vice-president ofATTAC France. Doctoratein Political Science (Ecoledes Hautes Etudesen Sciences Sociales,University of Paris), BA inFrench from Smith CollegeUSA, and in Philosophyfrom the Sorbonne, Paris.She campaigns againstthe current model of

globalization, the WorldTrade Organization,international nancialinstitutions and to improvenorth-south relations.www.tni.org/george

Johan Galtung(Norway)

Political scientist,sociologist andmathematician. Oneof the most importantfounders and protagonists

of peace and socialcon icts research. In1959 he founded therst International Peace

Research Institute in Oslo,where he held the positionof director for 10 years.In 1964 he founded the Journal of Peace Research.He lectured in Con ictand Peace research at theUniversity of Oslo between1969 and 1977 and has

collaborated enormouslywith di erent UnitedNations departments aswell as taking the roleof guest lecturer in the5 continents, includingcountries such as Chile,UN university of Geneva,USA, Japan, China,India and Malaysia. Heis currently a professorof peace studies at the

University of Hawaii anddirector of TRASCEND, APeace and DevelopmentNetwork. He has takenpart in more than 40con icts as mediator, forinstance in Sri Lanka,Afghanistan, NorthCaucasus and Ecuador.In 1987 he received theAlternative Nobel Prize,in 1993 the Gandhi prize.His investigative workconsists of more than fty books and several hundredarticles. His work as athinker and writer has animmense impact in theeld of Peace studies.

h p://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Johan_Galtung

Pete Seeger (USA)

Folk singer, politicalactivist, and a pioneer ofprotest music in supportof disarmament, civilrights and environmentalcauses. Author/co-authorof Where Have All theFlowers Gone?, If I Had

a Hammer, and one of thesingers most commi ed topopularizing the spiritualWe Shall Overcome.h p://www.peteseeger.net

Philip Glass (USA)

Composer. Consideredone of the most in uentialcomposers of the late-20th

century, having wri eninternationally-acclaimedoperas, symphonies,concertos, solo works,string quartets, and lmscores (for which hehas been nominated forthree Academy Awards).Glasss operas includeEinstein on the Beach,Akhenaton, andSatyagraha, themed onthe early life of MahatmaGandhi. h p://www.philipglass.com

King KasongoMushilanama (Congo)

Lawyer. Defense lawyer ofthe Court of High Instanceof Lubumbashi in Congoand general coordinator ofthe NGO Humanismo yDDHH (Humanism andHHRR).

The World March for

Peace and non-violenceis essential. This will askquestions of the warlordsof this world.


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SupportingOrganisations

682Among them the mostrecent are:

Foundation for aCulture of Peace(Spain)

Founded by FedericoMayor Zaragoza, inMarch 2000, adheringto the protectorate ofFoundations of theCounsel of Education ofthe Madrid Community.

The Foundation hasthe goal to contributeto the construction andconsolidation of a Cultureof Peace through re exion,research, education andactions in that eld. Itsactivity is based mainlyon mobilization andconnection with theinstitutions, organizations,individuals andnetworks noted for theircommitment to the valuesof a culture of peace.The concrete actionsof the foundationare concentrated ondissemination andeducation. The media isalso a fundamental axisfor the dissemination of aCulture of Peace. It is fromthere that the foundationpromotes workshopsand days of re exionfor the information ofprofessionals.h p://fund-culturadepaz.org

OPANAL (Argentine)

Organisation for theProhibition of NuclearWeapons in Latin Americaand the Caribbean. TheTreaty for the Prohibitionof Nuclear Weapons inLatin America and theCaribbean (known as theTreaty of Tlatelolco) is aninternational Treaty thatestablish a non nuclearterritory for Latin Americaand the Caribbean by thesignatory countries. It wasproposed by the MexicanPresident, Gustavo DiazOrdaz and impelled by thediplomat Alfonso GarciaRobles as a response tothe fear generated by theCuban missile crisis.

The prepared text wascommended to thepreparatory commissionfor Non NuclearWeapons for LatinAmerica (COPREDAL )presided over by JorgeCastaeda and Alvarezde la Rosa who built theheadquarters in MexicoCity and organised fourplenary sessions. The naldraft of the treaty wascompleted by COPREDALon February 12th 1967and given to the countriesfor signature on February14th, becoming valid onApril 25th 1969.

There are 33 signatorycountries from the NuclearWeapons Free Zone:Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina, Bahamas,Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,Brazil, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Cuba,Dominica, Ecuador,El Salvador, Granada,

Guatemala, Guyana,Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica,Mexico, Nicaragua,Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Dominican Republic, SaintKi s and Nevis, St Vicenteand the Grenadines, StLucia, Surinam, Trinidadand Tobago, Uruguay and

Venezuela.Compliance with theTreaty is supervised byOPANAL.

Greenpeace (CzechRepublic)

Ecological and Paci stInternational Organization,economically andpolitically independent,does not accept donationsor pressure fromgovernments, politicalparties, or companies. Ithas developed campaignsto stop climate change, toprotect biodiversity, to endthe use of nuclear energyand weapons and topromote Peace throughoutthe planet.

AMARC ALCArgentina.

World Association of LatinAmerica and CaribbeanCommunity Radio stations:

We share the spirit of the March and we willbe disseminating and

communicating thedi erent WM activities

An InternationalNon-GovernmentalOrganisation (INGO)secular and not-for-pro t. An Internationalmovement and referenceorganization of communityradio stations formedaround politics, andcommunications .www.alc.amarc.org

ALER Ecuador

Latin AmericanAssociation of Education by Radio di usion. Civilassociation established by institutions from LatinAmerica and Caribbean,that make educationalcommunication through

radio di usion. Workswith others social actorsfor the democratizationof communication,sustainable humandevelopment and theconstruction of societieswith greater justice, equityand democracy.

Galena Orchestraof Camera (OCGA)Spain

Founded in 1995, by

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SPECIAL FEATURE:WAR IN GAZA

January 3rd, 2009

Berlin, GermanyLets break the wallswherever we are!Two groups of young Israeli and Palestinian youngstershave been recently awarded the Carl Von Ossie kyMedal in Berlin. The International League for HumanRights gives this yearly award in order to highlight thework a person or a group has done to draw a ention toa social subject or issue related to violations of humanrights. This year, the award was given to two groups ofMiddle East youngsters who have been gathering everyFriday for over 4 years, to march protesting against thewall built in the Gaza Strip, in the town of Bilain.

A group of young women of the town of Bilain hasfound a way to survive and take care of their children,creating a cooperative where they work with Palestiniantraditional crafts.

Five years ago, when the wall began to be built anddivided the town in two, these women and their grownup children, began a protest. Since then, Bilain has turned

into an emblematic place against the wall building awall that is 600 km long and divides 183 towns.

Along this concrete and barbed wired border, youngstersfrom the Palestinian Peoples Council as well as youngpeople from Israel who started coming regularly fromdi erent parts of the country, gather every Friday.They get organized and bring banners with slogans,sing anthems, tie themselves with chains to logs andmany other creative and collective ways of protest anddemonstration. They even organized an internationalcongress in Bilain, last year.

Each Friday, they face the Israeli army, against whomthey take a communicative and non-violent a itude, inspite of being a acked over and over again with rubber bullets.

A young Israeli girl describes the confusion of thesesoldiers: When the Israeli soldiers wanted to take us prisoner, they didnt have any justi cation, they didnt have the imagined enemy, the usual stigma, because wewerent terrorists or communists or religious fanatics or violent people. Being so confused, they needed to de neus as a group and look down on us. So they called usanarchists. We adopted this name as our identity andsince then weve called ourselves The Wall Anarchists.

When they went up on stage to get their awards, theseyoungsters said that usually, no one writes about non-violence because it clashes against the tabloid press,since there are no dead bodies or weapons.

Then, thanking for the award, they said we need theinternational community so we can be heard, so this non-violent resistance in uences public opinion.

Text link of Ilse Schimpf-Herken (Germany):Derrumbemos los Muros donde estemos!

January 3rd - 17th, 2009

Protest voices against violencein Gaza travel around the world

On Saturday 3rd, exactly when Ehud Barak gave theorder to begin the bloody o ensive a ack againstGaza, around 10,000 Arab and Jewish citizens weredemonstrating in Tel Aviv, while 150,000 people did the

same through Israel. As a human being, as an Israeli,as a defender of peace, I feel proud of being here today ,said the speech that *Uri Avnery* could not give to thedemonstrators, because of the siege and the threats of thefundamentalists. Thats how a wave of demonstrationsand press releases began. A wave that would repeatitself during the weeks of January, throughout theworld. Protests in front of the USA and Israel embassiescontinued one after the other, demanding that someoneput an end to the massacre. There were spontaneousdemonstrations, while others were organized inEurope and America. The activists, wearing Palestinianheadscarves, raised the half moon ags of the country,while taking o their shoes and throwing them, whichhas become a symbol of resistance since the Iraqi journalist threw one at Bush. The next two weekends


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there were simultaneous large protests again all over theworld, but specially in the cities and capitals of the Arabicworld. One of the biggest was in Alexandria, with 50,000people condemning the complicity of Arab governmentswith the blockade.

Pictures: Demonstrations in Tel Aviv, London, Barcelona and Madrid

Display of statementssupporting the cease- reWorld Without Wars supports the Israeli and Palestinianyoungsters in their protest through a statement. Thefounder of the organization and coordinator of theWorld March for Peace and Non-violence, Rafael de

la Rubia , explained: The missile a acks of the armed group Hamas on Israel are no justi cation for the armedo ensive of the Israeli army in Gaza just as the economicsanctions against Palestine do not justify the suicidea acks, the missile a acks of Hamas or any a ack byany other Palestinian armed group.

All humanist spokesmen declared their rejection of theevents in Gaza, highlighting the paci st work of theorganized groups from both peoples. We condemn theviolence of Israel and we condemn the violence usedby the Palestinian armed groups. Only a non-violent consciousness will be able to stop the violence and if

such consciousness today is small, well have to make it grow , said Toms Hirschs open le er. He is a formerpresidential candidate and current Latin-Americanspokesperson for humanism.

The World March is a proposal open to the expressionof all people, all religions, all cultures, that favorsreconciliation towards the future. We join together for a non-violent future thats already emerging from thedepths of the human being , explained Javiera Oate ,spokesperson for World Without Wars, Chile.

Some links to statements, articles and

declarations:Guillermo Sullings,December 30th:h p://blog.latercera.com/blog/thirsch/entry/con icto_israel_palestinaTomas Hirsch,January 6th: The Israeli and Palestinianpaci sts are an example to the whole world:h p://www.tomashirsch.org/xoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=563Giorgio Schul e , January 6th:h p://www.giorgioschul e.eu/index.php?lang=esp&secc=news&acc=id&idnoti=91&fontsize=1Javiera Oate:

h p://www.marchamundial.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=126:apoyo-de-mundo-sin-guerras-a-paci stas-israelies-y-palestinos&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=58

French press releases:h p://www.dailymotion.com/group/125955/video/x7xj16_porteparole-nouvel-humanisme_news,h p://www.dailymotion.com/maruchoq/video/x7xmon_cdc_news

Campaigns supportingthe end of warDecember 29th, 2008: Peace in Gaza Campaign, byAvaaz, that will be sent to the United Nations SecurityCouncil and to key world powers, demanding a cease-re.

h p://www.avaaz. org/es/gaza_ time_for_ peace/98. php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

January 8th: FREE GAZA, NOW. Online petition: 1,5million signatures for 1,5 humans in Gaza.h p://www.PetitionOnline.com/1500000/

January 14th, 2009: Boyco of Israeli products andresearch projects, international movement to pressureIsrael launched by the Canadian journalist/writer NaomiKlein.h p://www.alternet.org/audits/118332/?page=entireh p://www.dailymotion.com/maruchoq/video/x7xmon_cdc_news

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Open le er from FedericoMayor Zaragoza asking

for active participationin the World MarchDear Friends:

I wish to inform you of my decision to join andto actively participate inthe World March for Peaceand Nonviolence, which isan initiative of the WorldWithout Wars Association.This is the way FedericoMayor Zaragoza, presidentof the UNESCO for 12years and founder of theassociation Culture ofPeace, opens his le eraddressed to his friends ofother organizations. Thisdefender of social justice,who plans to recreate the UNO, did not hesitate to beone of the rst personalities to give his decided andenthusiastic support to the World March.

Several reasons have prompted me to join thisinitiative: - I am sure that this is the right moment in history to promote a vast popular mobilization in

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favour of a worldwide radical change ( nancial, social,environmental, nutritional and ethical) to achievethe transition from a culture of imposition, violence andwar to a culture of dialogue, conciliation and peace, from force to the word; from a war economy to an economy of global development, including the eradication of povertyand alienation.

A march with these characteristics would contribute torapidly creating a consciousness of peace in and among peoples, who must cease to be passive spectators andbecome the tireless protagonists of solidarity. It is timeto awaken the Rosa Parks that we all have deep downinside.

- I believe that the time has come to participate in anaction that will unite all men and women who havededicated their lives to building a culture of peace,whatever their role may have been, and to enable themto span the globe, raising their voices and proclaiming justice, freedom and the equal dignity of all humanbeings, so that they may be heard by all, and particularlyby world leaders, parliamentarians, those in powerwho being aware of what is at risk, may likewisebe prompted to participate in the transformation that weadvocate.

From the onset and in each place, it is essential to beable to count on the participation of singers, orchestras, performers, athletes, actors who due to their popularity have the power to mobilize people.

- Today, modern communications technology enables us for the rst time to use distance participation techniques(SMS, Internet). Lets put them to use. Let us forever

remember the words of Burke: Nobody makes a greater mistake than those who do nothing because they thinkthey could only do a li le! No one can harvest the fruits of seeds that they didnt have the courage to plant.Let us invent the future and prompt a rapid evolution.Between evolution and revolution there is only the r of responsibility.

- Paraphrasing Federico Garca Lorca, this march willundoubtedly prompt a spiritual explosion that willcontribute to achieving the possible world we all dream.

These are some of my reasons. I ask for your collaboration.Video Federico Mayor Zaragoza talks about the WM in CNN:h p://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4565361076970034418

January 31st. 2009

Santiago, Chile

The three Spaniards spreading the World Marchby bike will be received by fans on their waythrough Santiago.Bicicultura , an association from Chile that has justendorsed the March, will summon other bikersassociations to go and receive, on their way throughSantiago, the Spanish bikers that are travelling all overthe world promoting the World March for Peace andNon-Violence.

Luis Marquinaand Emilia Curiel , a Burgalese couplekeen on cycling, left Madrid for Buenos Aires on January4th. to embark on travelling the 8.000 kilometers by bike so as to make this worldwide project known. InArgentina they met Javier Siz , who joined them duringtwo of the six months of travelling.

The Chilean south-to-north route they are travelling rightnow is often quite tough, but they are very satis ed bythe positive way the idea is being received, according to

their own declarations. They take pictures of the peoplethey get to endorse the March holding the banner theyare carrying. They interview mayors and institutions, andthe local media is doing a good coverage of them (seelinks).

They have a blog (h p://patagoniaenbici.blogspot.com) whereyou can see the trip and impressions they are sending.

Leaving Madrid video:h p://marchamundial.tv/Edicion/20090104%20CiclistasBarajas/20090104MM_CiclistasBarajasHD.mp4Some articles:

h p://www.laprensaaustral.cl/lpa/noticia.asp?id=32694,www.dimensioncalafate.com.ar



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30 January 2009

Santiago, Chile

Michelle Bachelet recordsa video message with herendorsement in order todisseminate the WMcontinued from page 1

The President Michelle Bachelet showed her enthusiasmabout the project and o ered to record a video messagewith her endorsement in order to call on others to join the World March, during a meeting held on 29th

January with TomsHirsch, humanistspokesperson forLatin America andher competitor in

the last presidentialelections.

In the videomessage whichwas recorded thefollowing day, shecon rmed thatshe will receivethe Core Team of

the March on its arrival in Santiago de Chile. Bacheletcommi ed to support di erent initiatives related with theWM and hence, in the month of March, she will receiveRafael de la Rubia, World Coordinator of the WM. Herendorsement will contribute so that other presidents ofthe region, which we are going to meet during the nextmonths, will also join the World March, declared TmsHirsch to Pressenza IPA.h p://www.marchamundial.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id =133:presidenta - of-chili-stick-to-the-mm&catid =1:latest - news&Itemid=58

30 January 2009

Milan, Italy

Soccer is with the March: Inter-Milan endorses the Marchcontinued from page 1

On Jan 30th, the currentItalian championsFootball ClubInternazionale Milano joined the World March. Apublic press release will bemade known during one

of the usual Sunday pressconferences. Mourinho ,themanager will invite one ofthe players to explain why

they are joining the WM. Then the European HumanistSpokesperson, Giorgio Schul e , will present and explainthe meaning of this world project to the media. Thesoccer Club will also contribute to the dissemination ofthe March contributing ideas and the necessary meansto carry them out. Together they studied the proposal ofrecording a video with the starsdressed in a T-shirtof the March, the projection of videos on the big screensduring the soccer games and other possibilities to involve

the young new generations of sportsmen/women andthose who want to create a consciousness for non-violence.

27 January 2009

Morocco

Morocco has formed itsPromotion TeamAfter considerable dissemination work carried out during

the last months, di erent Moroccan associations haveconstituted the Promotion Team of the March in Morocco.The contact, directed to society and local personalities,produced a multiplicative e ect whose result is theendorsement of personalities as important as the greatMoroccan poet Driss Allouch (h p://allouch.jeeran.com) aswell as 120 associations throughout the whole country.In December, the Humanist Forum of Tangier took placewhich facilitated the meeting of participants of the team.

Thanks to this work and the participation of associations,now there are local Promotion Teams in the cities ofOujda, Cup and Fez, and in others like Tangier, Rabatand Agadir where they are being formed. Moreover the brochure exists now in Arabic.

In the cities of Fez, Cup and Taourirt the project waspresented with an a endance of 70 associations andorganizations, like the Church of Taza, as well aspersonalities like the founder of the 1200 anniversary ofthe city of Fez. Meanwhile, in Tantan, Gulimine and thewhole region of Sahara more than 100 associations andheads of tribes were contacted.

The organization of a regional gathering of associationsfor communication and agreement in Oujda and its

region allowed the participation of around 100 importantpersonalities as well as the presence of the press, radioand television. Both the press and the second publicchannel of Moroccan television 2M disseminated theactivity (see links).

Press:h p://acodec.and-monsite.com / he/she signs, go-mondiale-pour1118457.html

h p://www.oujdacity.net/regional-article-16808-fr.html

h p://www.ville2fes.com/news-2403-unite-go-mondiale-pour-the-paix-et-the-non-violence.php

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25th January 2009

La Paz, Bolivia

The Bolivian peoplerenounce warWith the backing of 60% of the electorate, polls areshowing a victory for the YES camp in the referendum

that took place on the 25th of January to approve a newconstitution in which Bolivia renounces war as a meansto resolve con icts.

The National Electoral Court con rmed anunprecedented participation in the voting, 85% of themore than 3.8 million voters, but it will take a few days toproduce the o cial results.

350 International observers monitored the process on aday without incidents, while the opposition was invitingpeople to disregard the results in the four regions inwhich the NO triumphed.

Days before, World without Wars, through itspresident Rafael de la Rubia, released a communiqusupporting the YES and applauding Evo Moraless visionof the future, with this new ConstitutionPhoto: AFP AP Efe

25th January 2009

Caracas, Venezuela

O cial Launch of theWM in VenezuelaThe Promotion Team (PT) o cially launched the Marchin Venezuela on the 21st January at the CELARGFoundation (The Romulo Gallegos Centre of LatinAmerican Studies), with the participation of 60 peopleand in the presence of a national TV channel, VenezolanaTV. The event consisted of presentations by membersof the PT and the projection of promotional videos.

During the speeches, the general project was explained,mentioning a few of the initiatives and well-knownendorsers, and also the speci c situation of the country.The main route of the March will arrive in Venezuela nextDecember and will pass through the cities of Caracas,Valencia, Barquisimeto, Acarigua and San Cristbal.

To join in Venezuela:[email protected] p://www.marchamundialven.blogspot.com

24th January 2009

Congo

Congo in MotionDuring the month of January the preparation of theMarch has taken a qualitative leap in the DR Congo.In the meeting of the Promotion Team (PT) a nationalcoordinator was chosen who will participate in theInternational Promotion Team meetings and also someimportant functions such as International Relations andEducation. The teams in the provinces of Katanga andKinshasa are already in full swing and with nominatedcoordinators with great activity in South Kivo.

The country will participate in the March througha convergent route that has yet to be de ned. Theconnection that the March delineates between thedi erent provinces is important. The PT is in contactwith the coordinator of the East and South African route,initially designed to cover Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania,Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa.In the last weeks two interviews have taken placewith the secretariat of the Archbishop of Lubumbashi(Katanga) and in the rst two weeks of the month withthe diplomatic council of the President of the ProvincialAssembly in the same province.

In the national and provincial calendars in di erentplaces we are working on the calendar with somepresentations planned, like the activities for the 22nd ofFebruary, the Scouting Day, which is very well supportedin the country.

21st January 2009Ecuador

March activities growOn the 19thof January, aconsiderable groupof students fromvarious collegesand universities,organisations and

institutions startedthe so-called Peaceand NonviolenceGangwith a


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march from the Ministry of Culture to El Ejido Park,where a human nonviolence symbol was formed. Theactivities, that have young people as the protagonists,will continue with a plan of training and multiplication ofactive nonviolence nurseries , besides the developmentof multiple initiatives to create consciousness infavour of nuclear disarmament, the end of wars andthe elimination of all forms of violence. Two daysafterwards, on the 21st, the rst meeting of the Ecuador

Promotion Team was held with the participation of 35people, representing 26 organisations.

Also on the same day, the Latin American Association ofRadio Education, broadcast an interview with Rafael dela Rubia. The World Coordinator of the March explainedthat In 2008 approximately USD900,000 million wasspend on weapons. Peace is not possible in the worldwith this massive purchase of tanks and bullets in caseof possible wars , And he added Neither is peace possible with poverty, hunger, lack of access to educationand health care, among others things .www.marchamundialecuador.comBlog:h p://semillerosnva.blogspot.comFotos Rafa:h p://www.aler.org/img/fotos/cs/csv-21012009.jpgFotos Minga:h p://picasaweb.google.es/semillerosnoviolenciaactiva

16th January 2009

Santiago, Chile

A thousand poems for PeaceThe World March was the muse behind the event Athousand poems for Peace , put on by the group Poetsfor Peacein Santiago library, in which 70 peopleparticipated. It was a very emotional event with musicand videos, in which various poets read their poems, atroubadour performed a poetic-theatre piece based onDialogues of the Isla Negra , by Silo. As a surprisenale, a non-violence action was made to support thecease- re in Gaza, launching into the sky cardboardplates on which poems were wri en and good wishes forthe people of Palestine and Israel.

7th January 2009

Mexico D.F.

Round Table of theWorld MarchA meeting about the World March was held at 7th January in Mexico D.F. with the participation of:Jorge Mansilla Torres , Ambassador of the Republicof Bolivia; Daniel Horowi , General Secretary of theEuropean Regional of the Humanist International andCoordinator of the WM in Swi erland; Anne Farrell ,Member of the Promotion Team of the WM in Canadaand winner of the Medal for Peace 2008 for the Guay(YMCA); Rafael Barajas , El Fisgn, well known Mexicancaricaturist; Pedro Miguel , famous Journalist; JanetHernndez Sotelo , Secretary for Equity, Gender andHuman Rights of the Democratic Revolution Party ofthe Federal District; Balazs Szigeti , Spokesperson of theHumanist Movement in Hungary and member of thePromotion Team in that country; Ivone Smano , nationalCoordinator of the WM in Mexico. And there was also avirtual participation of Alfredo Jalife Rahme , Head ofDepartment of the UNAM and Analyst and at the endRal Martelsang his song Voicesthat is composed forthe WM.

The event was held in the Club of Journalists with a totalassistance of 120 people. There were also 8 journalists of5 Medias. The radio program of the Club of Journalistscalled A-B-C realized an interview and during thisinterview the club of Journalists endorsed the march.In Mexico D.F. monthly ceremonies for peace anddisarmament in Zocalo are planned as well as a dinnerwith journalists on February 14th, in that month Mexicoalso is launching a campaign for Non-Violence.

2nd January 2009

Buenos Aires

The Rally Paris-Dakarspreads peaceTwo drivers carried to the starting point of the Paris-Dakar Rally a banner with them that demanded Peacein the Middle Eastand that invited people to supportthe World March. The current phase of the rally haschanged continents, trying to avoid the violence su eredin Africa last year and is now taking place in Argentina


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and Chile. Some organizations used the start of the racein Buenos Aires to protest against the war in Gaza andto spread the word about the World March. More thanhalf a million people gathered at this event with a lot ofcommunication media. The activists distributed yersto the audience and the participants of the rally. It wasalso possible to talk to some drivers and to the pressabout the necessity for awareness of peace and aboutthe methodology of non-violence to solve all kinds of

Con icts.

31st December 2008

So Paulo

Athletes ask for peacerunning in the streetDuring the 84th traditional competition of San Silvestreseveral demonstrations for peace took part on December31st in So Paulo. A team of participants of the WM,

protesting against the recent a acks by Israel in the Gazastrip, participated to demand the end of war.

24th December 2008

Santiago de Chile

Presentation of the Marchat the Gala Dinner of theFoundation Illuminated GoalAt the Gala dinner, organized by the FoundationIlluminated Goalto reward distinguished Chileanfootball players in 2008, four members of the WMpromotion team in Chile participated. They had thepossibility before the start of the dinner to hand over thetrophies to present the project of the WMarch in frontof 181 participants. The audience, consisting of footballplayers, business people, publishers and journalistswelcomed the proposal with a warm ovation. Somecelebrities who had endorsed the march previouslywhere present too: the mayor of Pealoln, ClaudioOrrego, Elas Figueroa, Fernando Astengo and MarceloZunino a mayor that endorsed there in the event.

The president of the Chile football association, Sir HaroldMayne Nichols , was very interested in the march and inthe idea to declare this year the Year of non-violence

in footballin Chile, with the option to make it aninternational one.

Spain for the World MarchMadrid

Communities andneighborhoods in marchA delegation of World without Wars said good bye to the

year Sweating the Shirtin San Silvestre Vallecana, thecameras of Smiling for peaceagain captured faces inPuerta de Sol and the Community for Diversity of Silosmessage and ADAC celebrated a meal to support theWM in Alcal de Henares.

Canillejas celebrated 31st January as the international dayof peace and non-violence, with an event that initiatedthe campaign of endorsement. The C.E.I.P. AlbertoAlcocer of San Blas celebrated this day which wascrowned by the course Educating for peace and non-violenceand in Fuenlabrada Amigos Solidarios and theHealth Forum carried out an information meeting for the

WM while CEPA Paulo Freire opened the inscription ofthe Workshops for peace and non-violenceorganized by World without Wars.Video Workshops Educate to Peace and Non-violencewww.youtube.com/watch?v=SVh_ZYF-nFA&feature=channel_page

Salamanca:

The city council gives avenue for activitiesThe HQ for activities of the WM is located in the Miguelde Unamuno Center of Cultures. Salamanca and willspread news of the WM in the festival of Cultures andArts in Castilla-Len, on the local radio and at theUniversity.

On the 28th February the o cial launch of the WM inMollet del Valls (Barcelona) in the Civic Center, will takeplace lead by the humanist association Amalgama, LaBombeta and Association Kandeema.h p://www.molletenmarxa.blogspot.com/

Malaga:

Endorsement and activeparticipation of an EducationDelegationThe delegate for education gave his endorsement tothe WM online during the celebration of the Day forpeace in Malaga. The delegation invited the educationcommunities and the center of education in Malaga toparticipate in the WM.

h p://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/nav/contenido.jsp?pag=/ Delegaciones/Malaga/NOTICIAS/denyp09&delegacion=442&vismenu=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0


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professionals like of AraMalikian, Juan de Udaeta, Jose Luis Estelles, AnthonyPay, Teresa Berganzaor Juan Lomba. Alsothey made registrationsfor RTVG, RTVE, hadparticipation at the VI andVII International Festival

of Galicia and a lot ofconcerts all over the Spaingeography. In 2005 theorchestra was responsiblefor the world premiere ofthe Opera Manuel GarciaDon Quijote at the RealMaestranza of Sevilla.www.orquestracamaragalega.com

Cultural Associationof Artists UtopiaITALY

We want to join theorganization of World March for Peace and NonViolence together withother artists to create acultural movement, able to join forces and energies todefend the human rights,equality and an economicconstruction not basedonbusiness and wars.

Has as a goal to promote

a new dialogue betweenartists, the celebration ofgreater forms of creativity,surpass divisions, froma minimum commonpoint of view acceptingthe di erences and ghtagainst all discriminationand the disintegration ofsociety.h p://cordoba.it/

The Greenhouse of

Lavapis (Spain)This is a group ofsupermen in greenoveralls, called gardeners.

They have supernaturalpowers which most ofthe mortals do not use:critical, creative and activeminds. They are dangerousand they have weaponsof mass destruction tofurther re ection, dialogueand communication

between persons. Theyproduce creative seeds

and plant them. Eachgardener a ends to theirseed, proposes an ideaor a project and amongall gardeners develop theseeds of each and plantthem. The World Marchfor Peace and Nonviolenceis a unique opportunity toset in motion the powerof the people. We knowthat as individuals we

dont have any powerof in uence, none at all,and we also know that ifvery many get togetherin one direction thenthey can have a very bigpower. Why not unitethen? There are manysubstantial reasons thatstop it, to state some ofthem: individualism anddi erentiation in thesociety of consumers, the bubble of the world wherewe all live, the rule of liveand let die... The WorldMarch is an initiativewhich could remove allthat which prevents ourunion, and just becauseof that it already has adecisive importance.h p://elinvernaderodelavapies.blogspot.com

DiGay ProjectITALY

Roman Association GLBTthat care to give directionto the Gay and Queerpeople. DGP is an APS (Promotional SocialAssociation ) paci st, nonpartisan, non violent anddemocratic, that opposeactively all forms ofdiscrimination againstminorities of gays, lesbians, bisexual, transsexual,transgender, also ethnicand religious.

DGP ght for humanand civil rights. www.digayproject.org

Energia per i Diri iUmani Onlus (Italy)

The association wasfounded in December of1998 in Rome and its aimis to further the respectfor human rights. It is aninternationalist association,consisting of persons fromdiverse cultures, religions,languages, beliefs andeconomic and socialconditions, organizingto further a great socialchange. Energia is a

national associationwith o ces in Rome,Campobasso, Bari, Bolzanoand Ghilarza, Cerdea.www.energiaperidiri iumani.it

Cultural associationControchiave (Italy)

Controchiave organizes ayearly Cultural Festival

and this years festival hasthe World March as itstheme. It takes place everyyear in June in theGarbatella district of Rome,lling ve public squaresand the adjacent streetswith musical spectaclesand thousands of people

participating.www.controchiave.it

Esperanto group ofPistoia (Italy)

The Esperanto group ofPistoia is a free associationwith the objective ofspreading informationand promoting the use ofthe international neutrallanguage Esperanto,a rming the importanceof the contributions to thefreedom of the individualand to worldwidecooperation.www.esperanto-grupo.it/pistoja

Nuestras Hijas deRegreso a Casa(Mexico)

Association of women ofthe city of Jurez. Womenwhose children have been murdered. Theirspokesperson MariselaOrtiz thanks for the e ortto struggle for a be erworld and suggests therecould be more people likeus...



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IPTJanuary 3rd, 2009

5th meeting of

the InternationalPromotion TeamThe chat was a ended by55 people representing 39countries and 14 functions.

The March bycountriesThere are activities in 81countries, of which 67already have people in

charge of the PromotionTeam (PT).

Promotion Teamshave di erent levels ofdevelopment, in somecountries there alreadyexists local coordination.Thanks to the e ortto connect with otherorganizations, theirpresence grows in thePTs and this also leadsto a bigger number ofendorsements.

In several countriesactivities were carried outon December 10, HumanRights Day, and December31, popular race of SanSilvestre.

In relation to the o ciallaunch in Chile, thea endance of famous

sportsmen at the annualgala produced a greatpopular impact, apart fromthe presentation infrontof 12.000 people therewas a match in whichthe 22 of the most famousfootballers of the countrywere playing.

Although the decision isfor each PT, it is suggestedthat the o cial launches

take place in the rstthree months of the year,six months before the beginning of the WM.

Routes and thecore teamThe last version of the mapof routes which is nowcirculating will be updatedin one or two months. TheCore Team will be dividedinto two when it entersSouth America, a Paci c branch and an Atlantic branch. The proposalsfor modi cation of thecentral route must be sentpreviously to the list fortheir viability to be studied,since it is establishedin the general calendar.There is no deadline forchanges or inclusion ofconvergent routes. That

will vary until the lastminute, but it is necessaryto coordinate them withthose responsible for eachstretch.

Around 60 people areincluded in the Pre-coreteam, coordinated andkept in touch through amailing list and receivingmore details about theway the team will operate.

However, the membersof the Team will be madeknown when they arede nite. More nationalitiesare still needed, sincethere are only 20 countriesrepresented so far.

Disseminationof the MarchIt is necessary that the PTimpels in their countries

the formation of pressteams to collaborate andreinforce the work of theNews Agency.

People that participaterequire a specializationfrom the point of view ofwhat is newsworthy a skillwhich could be acquiredwith speci c workshops onwriting, photography andvideo.

The wri en bulletins are aselection of the informationthat arrives via the webs

and through the email listsand it can be ampli ed by following hyperlinks,in this way we can limitthe number of pages.It is convenient to sendthe bulletins in all thelanguages with the link toget it from the web, rather

than as an a achment.TV dissemination is apriority, for which we areencouraging the formationand quali cation of videoteams in all the places to beable to lm all the activitiesin high quality.

Video-bulletin:h p://videoforum.theworldmarch.org/index.

php?action=videos;cat=7

Institutional RelationsAn international teamhas been formed with acoordinator and peoplewith experience in eachcontinent to establishrelationships, to determinethe truly internationalpersonalities and

to organise existingendorsements. Anotherteam has also beencreated to contactthose responsible forinternational organizationsor big organizations to lookfor points of convergencein concrete and combinedactions in the framework ofthe WM.

Webs and blogsApproximately 50 websand blogs of the WM arerunning. The main webreceives 700 hits per day,with a daily top limit of1,000.

A function will becreated to take detailedstatistics. Also, the accessto the endorsements ofpersonalities is being

reorganized with anew outline, by themeand country and withthe possibility of being

downloaded as a listing.Please send the links of thevideos produced in eachcountry to enlarge in theweb those already thereonly in Spanish. Soon, amassive delivery of the bulletin will take place toall those registered in the

web. Apart from the sixlanguages on the centralweb, a bu on has beenenabled that connects withthe additional web sitewww.worldmarchforpeace.orgwhere more languages areavailable. The technicalteams of all the countriesneed more people tocollaborate.

TranslationsThree people coordinatethe translation teamsinto 15 languages. Theinclusion of new languagesis being prepared. Adatabase of translators willallow a systematizationof this work that, becauseof its volume, needs greatorganization.

It is recommended that,

when editing and decidingthe texts to be uploadedonto the web, one hasco-present the work of thetranslators.

General calendarFor events, we can takeadvantage of the daysalready highlighted, suchas March 8 (womens day)or March 17 (anniversary

of the war of Iraq)The next virtual meetingwill take place on February1st 2009 at the same time.


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Wendy Guerra (Cuba)

Writer and Poet. Tooka degree in lm makingat Havanas InstitutoSuperior de Arte (ISA).She has published hertexts in magazines such asEncuentro, La Gaceta deCuba and Nexos, as wellas specialized editionsin Artes Plsticas. Sheconsiderers herself a writerof diaries. Guerras rstpoetry collection Plateaa oscuras (Poetry, 1987),made her win a prize fromthe University of Havanaon the 13th March 1987;Cabeza rapada: (Poesa,1996), won the prizePremio Pinos Nuevos,and Posar desnuda in LaHabana. Wendy Guerrassource of inspiration wasAnas Nin, the legendarydiarist.

David Nalbandin(Argentina)

Tennis player. The rstLatin-American tennisplayer to play the semi-nals in all the grandslams. He was worldchampion in Japan when14 years old and won theUS Open in 1998. In 2005he won the Masters. In2006, Nalbandian defeatedFabrice Santoro of Francein the quarter nals of the

Australian Open, becomingonly the third active player(along with Andre Agassiand Roger Federer) tohave reached the semi-nals of each Grand Slamtournament. He fell to No.26 in the world until hisluck changed after winning

the 2007 Madrid Masters.www.davidnalbandian.com

Jorge Mansilla Torres(Bolivia)

Ambassador of Bolivia inMxico.

I want to take part inthe March for Peace andNon-Violence; I wish to dothis also in support of mycountrys new constitutionthat proclaims peace asthe rst priority of theBolivian state. War isnt the solution to border con icts, revenge or therestoration of justice;war is hate, war is deathand Bolivia doesnt want that, this can be read inits constitution as the rst priority.

Leonardo Bo (Brasil)

Theologian andPhilosopher. Became aDoctor in Philosophy

and Theology in MunichUniversity (1970). Onreturning to Brazil, hehelped to consolidate

Liberation Theology. Hetaught Systematic andEcumenical Theology inthe Franciscan TheologyInstitute in Petropolis.He was the editor of themagazine Concilium between 1970 and 1995(International theology

magazine), the magazineCultura Voces between1984 and 1992 and theBrazilian EcclesiasticalMagazine between 1970and 1984.

He was professor ofTheology and Spiritualityin various Brazilian andoverseas institutions. He isa Doctor Honoris Causa inpolitics at Turin University,Italy and in Theology atthe University of Lund,Sweden and in the Facultyat the Theology HighSchool in San Leopoldo(Brazil). In 1992 he left theFranciscan Order and thepriesthood. Professorof Ethics, Philosophy ofReligion and Ecology inthe University of Rio de Janeiro. His literary and

theological productionsurpasses 60 books, amongthem the bestseller TheEagle and the Chickenwww.leonardobo .com/site/ lbo .htm

Rafael OlarraGuerrero (Chile)

Football player. In 2006played in Israel withMaccabi Haifa, but in2007 he began playingfor Universidad de Chile.He started his career in

Audax Italiano in 1996,where he remained fortwo years, then spent timewith Universidad de Chile

where he made a name forhimself and began to playfor the national team. Afterthat he played in Osasunaof Spain, before returningin 2002 to the Universidadde Chile where he stayedanother year until he was bought by Independiente

de Avellaneda in 2003.After a good periodof performance forIndependiente, hereturned to Chile, but toUniversidad Catlica - theclassic rival that had madehim well-known.

Rolando Araya Monge(Costa Rica)

Politician, author,professor. He has servedas a member of Parliament,

a Minister, and MunicipalExecutive in San Jose;as Secretary General ofthe National LiberationParty, for which he was apresidential candidate in2002; as vice-president ofthe Socialist International;and as president of theOngoing Conference ofLatin American PoliticalParties. He is currentlyleader of a edgling party:the Costa Rican Social-Democratic Front.

Jos Sacristn (Spain)

A renowned actor in the


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elds of cinema, theatreand TV. As a member ofthe group of actors namedLandismo, his careerturned suddenly afterthe Spains transition todemocracy, with lmslike Flor de Otoo orAsignatura Pendientewhich helped him improvehis acting skills. He hasdirected 3 lms. In 1978he won the prize for BestActor for Un hombrellamado Flor de otoo inthe Festival de Cine de SanSebastin, and in 1982 hewon a Fotogramas de Plataprize as Best Actor for thelm La Colmena.

Gianni Pitella (Italy)

Politician and graduatein Medicine and Surgery.Regional Secretary of theYoung Socialists; memberof the DS (Democrats of theLeft) national leadership.Member of the EuropeanParliament since 1999,serving on the Budget,Industry, Research andEnergy Commi ees.President of the ItalianDelegation to PSE, theSocialist Group in theEuropean Parliament.

Tony Benn (UnitedKingdom)

The World March willbring people together and give hope to the younger generation whose futuredepends on our successin making Justice the foundation of Peace. Socialist Politician. Elected

Member of Parliament in1950 and Member of theGovernment from 1964-1970 and from 1974-1979.

Co-founder of theMovement for ColonialFreedom and theHydrogen Bomb NationalCommi ee that madea national petition fornuclear disarmament.Campaigned activelyagainst the Suez war, andopposed the wars in Iraq,the Falklands, the Gulfand Yugoslavia. In 1983a ended the HiroshimaPeace Rally. In February2004 was elected the rstPresident of the Stop theWar Coalition. In 2005received the Frank CousinsPeace Award. Author of21 books. Currently vice

President of the Campaignfor Nuclear Disarmament.h p://www.tonybenn.com

Canol Kocagz(Turkey)

Cartoonist. His sketcheshave been published invarious daily newspapersas well as political andart magazines since 1970.Canol is the chairmanof the Association ofCartoonists since 1996. His

work has been exhibited inmany countries around theworld.

Pepe Viyuela (Spain)

Actor, writer and poet.Born on June 2nd 1963in Logroo. He studieddrama and got involvedin humor making mimeparodies with objects. Aswell as being a big cinema,theater and television loverhe has a BA in Philosophy.As a poet, he has wonSegunda Edicin delPremio Internacional dePoesa Margarita Hierro(second edition of theinternational poetry prizeMargarita Hierro) withthe collection of poems Yamarte, sin saber wri enin memory of the daughterof Jos Hierro, a famousSpanish poet. In 2003 hepublished a novel: Bestiario

del circo, with a AndrsAberasturi prologue. He isalso member of the NGOPayasos Sin Fronteras.


World March for Peaceand NonviolenceOrganized by WorldWithout Wars, the WorldMarch for Peace andNonviolence will begin inNew Zealand on October2 2009, anniversaryof Gandhis birth anddeclared by the UnitedNations InternationalDay of Nonviolence .After travelling 90 daysand six continents, it willculminate on January 2nd2010 in Punta de Vacas,Argentina, at the foothillsof Mount Aconcagua.

It will travel more than160.000 kilometres, byland, sea and air throughmore than 90 countrieswhere it is foreseen thatmore than a million diversepeople will participate inthousands of initiatives joined together withthe common objectiveof creating a worldconsciousness about Peaceand the eradication ofall kinds of violence inthe human being, be itphysical, as in wars, or

economic, psychological,racial, religious, sexual...

More information:www.marchamundial.orgwww.worldmarchforpeace.org

World without WarsIt is an internationalorganization which has been working for 16 yearson the issue of ending allwars, nuclear disarmament

and the elimination of alltypes of violence in theworld.www.mundosinguerras.org


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246 days leftAll the information about the preparations and about joining the World March can be found at:www.marcha mundial.orgwww.worldmarchforpeace.org

Read World Without Wars statement:www.mundosinguerras.es/docus/63

Writing, editing and publishing: World Without WarsInternation Press Team

[email protected] events are being organized around the WorldMarch; below is a list of selected initiatives covered onthe internet as well as mailing lists pertaining to thisinternational orgnaization.

Links to Bulletins:

Bulletin 05 FEB 2009

h p://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajc6vpgccg4q_468d4scz8dpBulletin 04 ENE 2009h p://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajc6vpgccg4q_365dr69w3c4Bulletin 03 DIC 2008h p://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajc6vpgccg4q_251gnpqv2fnBulletin 02 NOV 2008h p://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfzd6365_257d4zj5jhfBulletin 01 OCT 2008h p://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajc6vpgccg4q_150hg85b9c8

News releasesCadena 3Com - ArgentinaPaci st Jerusalem councilman demands cease- re(Margalit Meir).h p://www.cadena3.com.ar/post_ampliado.asp?post=21349Red marcial - ArgentinaHundred-day-long march will end in Mendozah p://www.redmarcial.com.ar/el-recorrido-de-casi-cien-dias-culminara-en-mendoza.1353.htmlDaily Jugantor - Bangladeshh p://www.jugantor.com/online/content/2009/01/30/news0459.htmh p://www.jugantor.com/online/content/2009/01/30/news0460.htm

Los Tiempos - BoliviaHumanists prepare for world march for peaceh p://www.lostiempos.com/noticias/28-12-08/28_12_08_loc1.phpComunidad Segura - Brazil2009, year of the World March for Peaceh p://www.comunidadesegura.org/?q=es/node/41539La Nacin - Chile2009, year of the mega walk for peaceh p://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias_v2/site/artic/20090107/ pags/20090107215740.html

Canal81.com - ChileVideo about WMh p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQBYmkD1-M

Caiga quien Caiga - ChileInterview at the Match for Peaceh p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_77PRiRKPsoLa Prensa Austral - ChileSpanish cyclists promote peace and nonviolenceh p://www.laprensaaustral.cl/lpa/noticia.asp?id=32694Nueva Regin - Chile

President Bachelet joins the World March for Peace andNonviolenceh p://www.nuevaregion.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6846:la-presidente-bachelet-adhirio-a-la-marcha-mundial-por-la-paz-y-la-no-violencia&catid=200:nuevo-humanismo&Itemid=202La Tercera newspaper- ChileBachelet personally endorses international campaignfor peaceh p://www.latercera.com/contenido/674_98076_9.shtmlNacin Dominicana - Santo DomingoBachelet announces World March for Peace andNonviolenceh p://www.lanaciondominicana.com/ver_noticia.php?id_noticia=5958&sesion_periodico=14Noticias Positivas - SpainThe organization rbol de la Palabra participates in theWorld March for Peace and Nonviolenceh p://www.noticiaspositivas.net/noticia.asp?IdNoti=1207Madrid Digital - SpainWorld March for Peace and Nonviolence: a historicalmilestone

h p://www.madriddigital.info/13/11332/marcha-mundial-por-paz-no-violencia-hito-historico.htmlJuanes joins World March for Peace and Nonviolenceh p://www.madriddigital.info/13/11279/juanes-adhiere-marcha-mundial-por-paz-no-violencia.html20 Minutos - SpainTwo Spanish cyclists will travel 7,000 Km. to ask for anend to warh p://www.20minutos.es/noticia/440841/0/ciclistas/marcha/ paznoviolencia/ Las provincias.es - SpainThe band Nio Stanton supports world peaceh p://www.laprovincia.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2009010600_15_200359__Cultura-Stanton-mundialLa opinin de Tenerifa - SpainThe Socialist Youth of the Canary Islands jointhe march organized by the World Without Warsassociationh p://www.laopinion.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2009011900_4_194371__Canarias-Juventudes-Socialistas-Canarias-adhieren-marcha-Asociacion-Mundo-GuerraUtopia trying to carve out a space for itselh p://www.laopinion.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2009012100_4_194763__CANARIAS-utopia-buscando-hueco

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Mayors andMunicipalities:

Municipality ofBresso MI (Italy)Municipality ofCastenedolo Brescia(Italy)Maria del PuertoGallego Arriola,Mayor of Santoa,Cantabria (Spain)Miguel AngelMayorgaHampton Bays, NewYork (USA)Luis Justo MaytaLivisiMayor, Municipalityof Paucarpata,Arequipa (Peru)

One has to sign for support to the World March because it is a goodcause for Humanity.

Universities:

Universidad de Mariano GlvezQue altenango(Guatemala)UniversidadFriday dizidroBendito Maputo(Mozambique)CorporacinUniversitaria Minutode Dios Bogot(Colombia)Universidad Pedrode Valdivia Santiago(Chile).Universidad NacionalMayor de San MarcosLima (Peru)

Universidad delPaci co Santiago(Chile)Universidad deUagadug (BurkinaFaso)Universidad de

Panam (Panama)This month, the followinguniversities andeducational centres have joined the March for Peaceand Nonviolence:

Universidad deGuayaquil (Ecuador)Academia Superiorde Artes Medelln(Colombia)High School SportsProgram Braila(Romania)Centro de Educacinde Personas AdultasPaulo FreireFuenlabrada,Madrid(Spain)

MusicThis month, the WMCreative websitereceived two songs fromsongwriters in favour ofPeace and Nonviolencewho are no longer in ourmidst: Xavier Jimnez and Johnny All, from Barcelonaand Lima, respectively.It is moving to hear themsing their thoughtful lyrics

ushering in a be er world because they do so fromanother time and place.Memory and the futurefuse in the march.

WebBesides...www.marchamundial.orgthere is now also:www.worldmarchforpeace.org

...there you will nd links to websites around the world in manydi erent languages.

WM Banners:

New for bloggers andwebmasters: Spectacularembeddable banner withday counter and slideshowof participants. Available inseveral languages: h p://iniciativa.260mb.com

Map of theMarch

h p://www.agora9b.org/msgWMMMdocs/ MMmapV2%20080829.pdf [500Kb]

Documents

WMBulletin-05eng