May Peace Prevail On Earth News

Eagle Scout Awarded for Peace Pole project, New Richmond, Wisconsin-USA

September 21st, 2012

Eric Lusardi, age 14, received his Eagle Scout Award upon the completion of the New Richmond Community Commons Peace Garden.

The garden was dedicated on Friday, September 21st, 2012, in a ceremony attended by City Mayor, Fred Horne, along with State Senator, Sheila Harsdorf and State Representatives, John Murtha and Dean Knutson. The Mayor and the City Council signed a proclamation naming that date as New Richmond’s Peace Day, in addition to being the International Day of Peace.

Also in attendance were Dick Bernard of World Citizen and Melvin Giles, Peace Representative of The World Peace Prayer Society.

March 7-9th, 2013

Jim Dugan has been growing the Youth Art Peace Pole Project for the past two years with a current goal of enlisting one professional K through 12 art teacher in each of the 50 States including Washington, DC,  to work with their students to design and create a seven foot tall Peace Pole. During a trial run a year and a half ago, thirteen school groups in New York and Connecticut created Peace Poles.

Due to the overwhelming excitement among the teachers and student who participated, staff of the WPPS decided to go nationwide!

Educators came from all over the United States, comprised of art teachers from public & private schools, colleges and universities as well as a few major museum curators.

As of April-2013,  45 States have already been represented. These Peace Poles will be created during the upcoming school year and all the finished Peace Poles will be displayed in the State where they were created at a place of significance on the International Day of Peace-September 21st, 2014.  Joining Jim Dugan at the NAEA convention was WPPS longtime volunteer, Carol Winters.

If you know of an art teacher in Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho or Nevada who would like to be part of this amazing project,  please contact Jim Dugan at:  yappp@worldpeace.org

May Peace Prevail in the USA!     May Peace Prevail On Earth!

February 22nd, 2013

On February 22nd, 2013, Jim Dugan, of The World Peace Prayer Society met with organizer Amelia Roger and several hundred Girl Scouts and their parents for World Thinking Day. They all got together at 6:30 p.m., on this chilly Friday evening at Center Court in the famous Galleria Mall in Poughkeepsie, New York for a World Peace Flag Ceremony to give thanks for their international friendships and to remember that we are all part of a global community. This is not the first time the Girl Scouts in this part of New York State have participated in the World Peace Flag Ceremony on World Thinking Day and it certainly will not be the last.

Information on World Thinking Day can be found at:

http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/global/world_thinking_day/

Information on the World Peace Flag Ceremony can be found at:

http://www.worldpeace.org/activities_wppcflag.html

Photo by Claudette Mack

International Day of Peace in Linzhou, CHINA

September 18th-22nd, 2012

Friends of the United Nations was among the organizers, with China International Culture and Artistic Center (CISAC) and China National Academy of Painting, to hold a series of activities and forums about art and peace from 18-22nd September, 2012 at Linzhou, Henan Province, China to observe the UN International Day of Peace. Dr. Noel Brown, a WPPS Founding Advisory Board member, contacted me with an invitation to speak on world peace at the events, among a delegation of UN personnel, NGOs and artists.

WPPS offered a Peace Pole to be shipped from Japan and the Peace Pals Art Exhibition for display at the new Peace Museum in Linzhou. Unfortunately, there was a crisis of mounting tensions between China and Japan, which resulted in the Peace Pole – a potential bridge of peace – being held in customs. However, the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” permeated the events, from Dr. Brown’s speech at the main event for 10,000 people in the grand canyon of China, to Deborah’s speech at the Forum on Peace Arts and Friendship, to the giant peace scroll, to Deborah’s singing at the Night of Peace concert, to the art of WPPS Peace Pals around the world gracing the pillars of the Peace Museum.

The Chinese people loved seeing the message of peace in their native language and were delighted by our stickers. Hopefully, the Peace Pole will soon find a public home in Linzhou.

“After School Peace Club” at the World Peace Sanctuary in Wassaic, NY-USA.

2012 has been the third consecutive year that Jim Dugan has gotten together with a group of local middle school students for the “After School Peace Club” at the World Peace Sanctuary in Wassaic, NY, USA. Each year the Club has been creating and maintaining a nature trail at The Sanctuary that leads to a very special and rare ecosystem called a Fen. In addition to working on the trail and learning about nature, this year the Club put together a demonstration that showed the potential devastation that all the current nuclear weapon stocks would have on life on Earth if deployed. The Club is done in collaboration with the Northeast Community Center and we intend on continuing it for years to come.

April 2012

We had the pleasure to organize PPIAE in Jelenia Gora city from April 22nd through May 11th, 2012.

Exhibition was organized in Karkonoshe Art Gallery with the support of Jelenia Gora Municipal Office.

In honor and celebration of International Earth Day (April 22nd), keynote speakers, Mrs. Miroslawa Dzika, Vice Mayor of Jelenia Gora and Mr. Pawel Domagala, Director of Education Department in Jelenia Gora Municipal Office, opened the ceremony for the Peace Pals Exhibition.

Participation in the opening ceremony consisted of officers from the Municipal office, school directors, teachers and students.

During the opening ceremony I spoke to the audience about The World Peace Prayer Society’s Peace Pals International Art Exhibition and the Essay Contest offered by the Goi Peace Foundation.

In a central location we presented the Peace Pole which bears the Universal Peace Message, May Peace Prevail On Earth in the following languages: Polish, English, Japanese and German.

During the following days many students and teachers visited the Peace Pals International Art Exhibition.

Jacek Kozlowski
POLAND

If you are interested in Hosting a Peace Pals International Art Exhibition in your Country/Community – Please visit: http://wppspeacepals.org/ambassador-of-peace-tour/

September 30th, 2011

Peace Pole planting inspired by Chandra Fernando, Montessori Educator and Peace Advocate.

Languages placed on the Peace Pole are:
English, French, Spanish, Cherokee, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Chinese

August-2011

We are so happy to send you photographs of our peace activity.

Peace Mountain in Kojsovska Hola Peak is 23 kilometers from Kosice in East Slovakia.

During this anniversary ceremony we unveiled a “remembrance stone” in loving memory for victims of the tsunami in Japan.

Sending you infinite Peace, infinite Light and infinite Love, from Peace Mountain and from every one of us here in Slovakia.

Humatrend NGO Slovakia, Kosice

Klara Hodnicova

August 1st, 2011

Members of URI CC “Euro-Asia” were invited to the Center of Day Social Services in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

The Children’s Program is to prominent, especially during summer months.

Galina Ermolina and another member of URI CC went to the Center with the World Flags Card set to facilitate a World Peace Flag Ceremony with children and staff.

First, Galina engaged the children in dialogue by posing the question, “what does it mean to actually live in peace?” It was a good discussion; the children had much to share.

Then they closed with songs, followed by the World Peace Flag Ceremony. They were all very impressed!

The children and their teachers have invited them to return to facilitate another WPFC and Peace program in the near future.

May 13th, 2011

I am writing to the Peace Pole Project of The World Peace Prayer Society to share our story about our Peace Pole experience.

My name is Charlotte Loyd, I am a Montessori teacher at Firelands Montessori Academy school in Huron, Ohio. I created the inspiration on this school-wide project.

Our school houses children from toddler age to 8th grade students. We came together for a year long school project to add a Peace Pole to our playground to remind us that we all can make a difference in our world. We wanted to have each child and staff hands on this project. With many great minds working together we decided to make a mosaic Peace Pole. Each child and staff member drew a picture of what they thought peace looked like on a 2×2 tile. Our Peace Pole sends the message MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH in English, Spanish, Korean, and German. These are languages that some of our families at our school. The topper of the Peace Pole is our Earth, which is also our school logo.

On May 13th, 2011 everyone at the school came out to watch our Peace Pole get planted in our playground, around it is a peaceful work for the children. We have placed the Peace Pole in a Zen garden with two benched for the children to create and find peace within themselves and for our world. We ended this planting of the Peace Pole with the children singing “Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.” It was a very special moment for our school. We shared this with our families at our an end of the year picnic, so the children could share what they created as a whole for our Earth. We are now sharing it with you at the Peace Pole Project to share our part in Peace on Earth. If you would like we would love for you to share our testimony on your website.

Thank you!

Peace
Charlotte Loyd