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Founding Families - Conyers & Grovers
JOHN CONYERS, JR, born in 1929 and raised in Detroit, was educated in
city's public school system. After serving in the National Guard and the United
States Army Corps of Engineers in the Korean War, he returned to Michigan where
the earned both his Bachelor of Arts (1957) and Juris Doctor (1958) degrees at
Wayne State University. (Pictured: John Conyers III, William Jefferson Clinton,
Carl Edward Conyers)
He is the recipient of many awards for leadership, including a Southern
Christian Leadership Conference Award, which was presented to him by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. He has also been awarded a number of honorary degrees from
colleges and universities throughout the nation. He is married to the former
Monica Esters. Mr. and Mrs. Conyers have two sons, John III and Carl Edward.
Representative John Conyers, Jr., a Detroit Democrat, was re-elected to the
14th Congressional District in November 2006, to his 21 term in the U.S. House
of Representatives. (Read more)
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History of Globalfamily Day
The
Wellstone Resolution, S. Con. Res. 138, passed
unanimously on December 15,
2000, was the first concrete
governmental step toward manifesting the dream
of an
annual holiday for all humankind that children in an
inner-city school
had envisioned thirty years before. It
could become, over time, one of his
most valuable and
lasting legacies for the children of the world. Thank you,
Senator Wellstone.
Globalfamily
Day is the new annual international "One Day
of Peace and Sharing"
for all faiths, cultures and
nationalities. It's the result of a grass roots
initiative
conceived by children, confirmed by the U.S. Congress,
commended
by Presidents Clinton and Bush as well as
heads of state around the world and
recommended by the
UN General Assembly (Res. 56/2). It represents the joined
efforts of young citizens from several countries - those
who created the
successful "One Day in Peace January 1,
2000" and those who
envision an annual global "Millennium
Meal, designed to give the world's
peoples a single shared
tradition to hasten the bonding that is vital to our
survival.
(Read more)
| The History of the "One Day" Initiative
Sometime
around 1970, four children from Public
School 84 in Manhattan started talking after school
one
day about the year 2000, when all people in the
world would surely come
together in peace and
friendship to celebrate and grow closer as a result of
the shared celebration. Twenty-five years later that
conversation inspired a
visionary novel, Tree
Island,
written by
author and former soap head writer Linda
Grover, the mother of three of the
children. The book
in turn motivated Grover to organize a 1998 meeting
in Oregon's Cascade mountains
of fifty millennium
groups from around the world all dedicated to making
the
turn of the millennium a turning point for
humanity. (Read more)
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