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The GlobalFamily Program
At a time in history when we have never had more need for human unity,
let's recognize a practical new tool for peace and sharing that the
US Congress and the UN General Assembly have created for us.
See resolutions
unanimously adopted in 2000, 2001 and 2006.
On January 1, let's recognize and celebrate GLOBAL FAMILY Day, One Day of Peace and Sharing
for all faiths, cultures, races, nationalities and economic classes.
During the 48 hours of January 1, let's break bread together, ring bells, and pledge to
find non-violent solutions to all our problems in the year ahead.
If you agree, please register here and sign the
GLOBALFAMILY HARMONY Pledge.
Then tell your friends, your families, your neighbors, your co-workers, and help us establish this new 21st century
tradition that puts true meaning and new pleasure into the words "New Year".
On January 1, at the start of the United Nations Year of the Planet, let's all gather at our electronic hearth and
celebrate life on earth together. Lets replace hate and hunger with peace and sharing, and begin to unite our global family.
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CELEBRATING GLOBAL FAMILY DAY
Commemorating the successful "One Day in Peace January 1, 2000" (UN Res.54/29)
To Prepare for a Worldwide Day of Reconciliation on January 1 each year:
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EASE HUNGER OF OTHERS Participants will first do all they can to see that fellow global
family members have food for the new year - because, as a child recently pointed out,
"Nobody can celebrate if they don't have anything to eat."
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LEARN TOGETHER Schools will be furnished with lesson plans for September on the
importance of holidays in our lives, October, on the logic of nonviolence, November,
on the senselessness of hunger and December on the joy to be had in celebrating life on
earth as one global family.
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REACH OUT Families, faith groups and organizations will be asked to reach
across cultural barriers and develop new ideas and new efforts at cooperation and understanding.
On January 1, Global Family Day, people of all nations will be invited to:
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SHARE Exchange a greeting, a gift of food (or a recipe) with someone in another part
of the world. (This will provide economic stimulus as well as increased good will.) First Families
of all nations can lead in this effort.
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GATHER Sit down to local meals (in homes, houses of worship and community centers)
that will be symbolically linked as part of a single world-wide gathering of the global family
to remember the past, enjoy the present (if possible) and resolve for a better future.
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GIVE Match the monetary value of their Global Family Day meal with a specially-dedicated
gift to the needy at home or abroad.
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PROMISE Write personal pledges for the future to loved ones or to the global family
at large and exchange small �connecting stones� from their own homeland that will link us to the
Earth and to one another. Pledge to renew your promises on the first day of every month.
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COLLABORATE Collectively review our achievements of the past year and plan goals to be achieved
by the global family as a whole in the year to come.
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CELEBRATE Join in special cultural activities: art, music, dance, indigenous children's drumming
for peace, pyrotechnic displays with a theme of peace and sharing on New Years Eve and appropriate
ceremonies during January 1st sporting events.
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Today: 12/3/2008
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