International Day of Peace Walk
Walk for your peace of mind and add another mile for world peace
For more information: email us at info@unitednationsweekly.net
Date: Thursday, September 21 & Saturday and Sunday, September 23rd and 24th.
Time: 12noon -4pm
Location: New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut (the Tri-State), and around the World
Target Audience: Everyone.
Wear Green to be in Unison!
Background
1981, the United Nations General Assembly declared, in a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom and Costa Rica, the International Day of Peace, to be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace. Put simply, it aims to build a more peaceful world for everyone who lives in it. Peace affects almost every aspect of our lives. Each year, the United Nations chooses a different theme for this special day, for example ‘End racism: build peace’ or ‘Climate action for peace’.
International Day of Peace Walk, (UNGA Week of International Affairs)
The International Day of Peace Walk, the initiative, is of the belief that Peace is personal and starts from within. Peace is about our wellbeing and our health. Unless we can continue to enjoy that breadth of life, we are helpless to ourselves and of course to others.
On this year’s momentous occasion of International Day of Peace on Thursday September 21, 2023, the International Day of Peace Walk, the initiative, calls on every New Yorker and people in the tri-state area, and others around the world, to join us in unison and “Walk for your peace of mind and add another mile for peace”. On the 21st, we call on all to park their car, their bicycle, their mule, and camel, and walk. Walk, and Walk, and Walk. Walk in appreciation for the gift of walk we come to expect the very first time an infant takes his magical first step. Start walking on this day of the 21st for your wellbeing and never stop walking. Walk even more if you are more than able and think of others less fortunate who may be grounded in place by hunger, by paralysis, by a condition they are born with.
We are reminded of Queen Mother Blakely’s Little Angel, her daughter Ini, severely disabled from birth, whose beautiful spirit, although bed-bound, blesses everyone who drops by her room for a visit.
We are also reminded of our friend Donna Tsufura, the Dayako, who recently lost her beloved mom this year, as we call on you to express your solidarity to the ideals of peace by helping an elder or recovering stroke victim to simply take a few steps across the room, on the day of, or the weekend of the September 21st day.
Walk to your job. Walk to the grocery store, to your errands. Walk in your neighborhood with a friend or two. Walk in green if you can. Walk for multiculturalism and diversity. Walk wherever you are across the globe knowing that we stand with you every step of the way, one heartbeat at a time!
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At some point in time on the 21st we will be walking to Times Square to join our friends “Pause the World for Peace” organization to pause, celebrate Walk and give thanks to the creator.
For more information contact us at info@unitednationsweekly.net