Do You Know What Day It Is?
To hell with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which occurred last Tuesday. We need something more substantial to celebrate. While many people lose themselves in trivialities, thereby absolving themselves of any lasting contribution to world society, others are fighting the good fight of - well, not fighting at all!
Today is International Peace Day!
This holiday-we’ve-never-heard-of has been with us since 1981, when the United Nations dedicated a day to promote world peace. You won’t hear this on Fox News (or any Murdoch media outlet.) Bloodhawks and Warhounds don’t want us to know about this Unamerican holiday. As the UN created it, it must be FRENCH!
At noon today, I plan on taking a minute of silence to commemorate the remote possibility that humanity can come to its senses before it annihilates itself. Imagine:
September 21, the International Day of Peace, is a day on which
we reaffirm our commitment to this quest… It is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day.And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time. Twenty-four hours is not a long time.
But it is… long enough to look over the barricades, or through the barbed wire, to see if there is another path.MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
New York, 21 September 2005
For all people’s talk about God lately, one would think also that God might want us to live together peacefully. Yet we can’t seem to manage this… We are truly pathetic as a species.
"All we are saying is Give Peace a Chance."