“PEACE DAY”

UNITED NATIONS’ INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE 2009

24-Hour World Peace Celebration & Global Broadcast

September 21, 2009

On September 21, 2009, the 27^th Annual United Nations’ International Day of Peace will be celebrated with “Peace Day”, a 24-Hour World Peace Celebration & Global Broadcast via the internet, radio and television.  This 24-hour multi-media event is designed to celebrate and showcase the accomplishments and on-going activities of organizations around the world working tirelessly to establish world Peace and achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as agreed upon by all 192 UN Member Nations: www.UN.org/MillenniumGoals 

   Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

   Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

   Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

   Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

   Goal 5: Improve maternal health

   Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

   Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

   Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

 Additionally, the global broadcast will address central issues of our time - Nuclear Proliferation and Global Climate Change.  On this 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we will also give major focus to the need for Human Rights and Economic Justice for all and promote the importance of the Earth Charter and the solutions necessary to save our planet.

The multitudes of organizations working on these vitally important issues rarely receive media attention or recognition for their efforts on behalf of Humanity.  Therefore, on Peace Day, we will honor them as the true heroes of our planet and encourage the mass media around the world to recognize the vitally important role they play in the future of our world.  The goal of this special event is to educate people around the globe about the most crucial issues facing humanity and to inspire them to take collective action to solve these international problems.

Peace Day will be the largest and most inclusive International Day of Peace Celebration ever produced, as initiated by the Unity Foundation in association with our leading Peacebuilding Partner: Pathways To Peace.

Co-Chairs for this event are Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chancellor Emeritus of the University For Peace in Costa Rica.  As well as Avon Mattison, Founder and President of Pathways To Peace and Co-Coordinator of the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) Annual Report to the UN Secretary-General which documents the International Day of Peace events around the world since 1984.

The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) website www.CultureOfPeace.org will host the 24 hours of pre-produced and live streaming video from locations throughout the world.  This interactive website will empower organizations and individuals to participate in the celebration and to take action to create a more peaceful and sustainable planet through a year-round calendar of global events, tools for networking and collaboration, and links to educational resources.  The internet content will be subtitled into multiple languages and made available for download around the world.  Official UN Peace Bells will ring along the international timeline as Peace Day unfolds continuously across the globe. 

The finale will be a one-hour television special highlighting the official ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York.  The ceremony will feature UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the President of the UN General Assembly and high profile UN Messengers of Peace such as Michael Douglas, George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Yo-Yo Ma and Elie Weisel, among others.

Also featured will be Michael Franti’s “Power to the Peaceful” celebration in San Francisco and the Jane  Goodall  Institute’s “Roots and  Shoots” Peace  Day  Celebration  in  Santa Monica, California, where John Quigley, the world’s foremost aerial artist will create a massive Peace design on the beach.  The crew of the International Space Station has been invited to participate in this broadcast with a message of Peace from their unique vantage of the world.

Hal Uplinger, international television producer for LIVE AID will be the television consultant for the event.  Laurien Towers, producer of LIVE AID’s video messages from world leaders, Nobel Peace Laureates and celebrities will again serve in that capacity.  Bill Miller, host of Global Connections Television will conduct interviews with high profile world leaders at the UN Headquarters in New York.  Video segments will also come from Unity Foundation’s award winning news and public affairs television program “Positive Spin”.

In anticipation of Peace Day we are also petitioning the UN Member Nations for:

1.  An international holiday for every man, woman and child to celebrate Peace in every country on Sept. 21st.  (This would be the first holiday celebrated by every country on the same day in our global village.)  Please see the attached Petition currently designed for the U.S.

2.  An Accord to "Invest in Peace" for UN Member Nations to donate one day's worth of warfare budget to non-profit Peace organizations in their country to support their efforts towards Peace.  

If you are unfamiliar with us, the Unity Foundation at www.UnityFoundation.org (a non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in San Francisco) has been established for 33 years and supports the United Nations for world Peace through human rights, saving our environment and accomplishing the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.

To view recent episodes of our award-winning "Positive Spin" news and public affairs television program of 10 years that presents positive, innovative and solution oriented news from around the world (it highlights all the good things that are happening on our planet and reaches over 30 million homes), go to www.Positive-Spin.tv.  

Your support of Peace Day will promote the ongoing efforts of thousands of organizations around the world working for Peace through human rights, development and environmental sustainability.  Through your generosity, the international community will recognize your leadership in creating a Culture of Peace.  Sponsorships are tax-deductible through the Unity Foundation’s fiscal sponsor, the Agape Foundation.  For more information please contact the Unity Foundation at (310) 450-5592, or by email at:

“PEACE DAY”

UNITED NATIONS’ INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE 2009

24-Hour World Peace Celebration & Global Broadcast

September 21, 2009

On September 21, 2009, the 27^th Annual United Nations’ International Day of Peace will be celebrated with “Peace Day”, a 24-Hour World Peace Celebration & Global Broadcast via the internet, radio and television.  This 24-hour multi-media event is designed to celebrate and showcase the accomplishments and on-going activities of organizations around the world working tirelessly to establish world Peace and achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as agreed upon by all 192 UN Member Nations: www.UN.org/MillenniumGoals 

   Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

   Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

   Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

   Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

   Goal 5: Improve maternal health

   Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

   Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

   Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

 Additionally, the global broadcast will address central issues of our time - Nuclear Proliferation and Global Climate Change.  On this 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we will also give major focus to the need for Human Rights and Economic Justice for all and promote the importance of the Earth Charter and the solutions necessary to save our planet.

The multitudes of organizations working on these vitally important issues rarely receive media attention or recognition for their efforts on behalf of Humanity.  Therefore, on Peace Day, we will honor them as the true heroes of our planet and encourage the mass media around the world to recognize the vitally important role they play in the future of our world.  The goal of this special event is to educate people around the globe about the most crucial issues facing humanity and to inspire them to take collective action to solve these international problems.

Peace Day will be the largest and most inclusive International Day of Peace Celebration ever produced, as initiated by the Unity Foundation in association with our leading Peacebuilding Partner: Pathways To Peace.

Co-Chairs for this event are Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chancellor Emeritus of the University For Peace in Costa Rica.  As well as Avon Mattison, Founder and President of Pathways To Peace and Co-Coordinator of the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) Annual Report to the UN Secretary-General which documents the International Day of Peace events around the world since 1984.

The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) website www.CultureOfPeace.org will host the 24 hours of pre-produced and live streaming video from locations throughout the world.  This interactive website will empower organizations and individuals to participate in the celebration and to take action to create a more peaceful and sustainable planet through a year-round calendar of global events, tools for networking and collaboration, and links to educational resources.  The internet content will be subtitled into multiple languages and made available for download around the world.  Official UN Peace Bells will ring along the international timeline as Peace Day unfolds continuously across the globe. 

The finale will be a one-hour television special highlighting the official ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York.  The ceremony will feature UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the President of the UN General Assembly and high profile UN Messengers of Peace such as Michael Douglas, George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Yo-Yo Ma and Elie Weisel, among others.

Also featured will be Michael Franti’s “Power to the Peaceful” celebration in San Francisco and the Jane  Goodall  Institute’s “Roots and  Shoots” Peace  Day  Celebration  in  Santa Monica, California, where John Quigley, the world’s foremost aerial artist will create a massive Peace design on the beach.  The crew of the International Space Station has been invited to participate in this broadcast with a message of Peace from their unique vantage of the world.

Hal Uplinger, international television producer for LIVE AID will be the television consultant for the event.  Laurien Towers, producer of LIVE AID’s video messages from world leaders, Nobel Peace Laureates and celebrities will again serve in that capacity.  Bill Miller, host of Global Connections Television will conduct interviews with high profile world leaders at the UN Headquarters in New York.  Video segments will also come from Unity Foundation’s award winning news and public affairs television program “Positive Spin”.

In anticipation of Peace Day we are also petitioning the UN Member Nations for:

1.  An international holiday for every man, woman and child to celebrate Peace in every country on Sept. 21st.  (This would be the first holiday celebrated by every country on the same day in our global village.)  Please see the attached Petition currently designed for the U.S.

2.  An Accord to "Invest in Peace" for UN Member Nations to donate one day's worth of warfare budget to non-profit Peace organizations in their country to support their efforts towards Peace.  

If you are unfamiliar with us, the Unity Foundation at www.UnityFoundation.org (a non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in San Francisco) has been established for 33 years and supports the United Nations for world Peace through human rights, saving our environment and accomplishing the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.

To view recent episodes of our award-winning "Positive Spin" news and public affairs television program of 10 years that presents positive, innovative and solution oriented news from around the world (it highlights all the good things that are happening on our planet and reaches over 30 million homes), go to www.Positive-Spin.tv.  

Your support of Peace Day will promote the ongoing efforts of thousands of organizations around the world working for Peace through human rights, development and environmental sustainability.  Through your generosity, the international community will recognize your leadership in creating a Culture of Peace.  Sponsorships are tax-deductible through the Unity Foundation’s fiscal sponsor, the Agape Foundation.  For more information please contact the Unity Foundation at (310) 450-5592, or by email at: