Earth Proclamation & Prayer WE ARE ONE PEOPLE... WE SHARE ONE PLANET... WE HAVE ONE COMMON DREAM... WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE... WE CHOOSE TO PROTECT AND HEAL THE EARTH... WE CHERISH THE EARTH'S BIO AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY... WE WILL CHOOSE TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL... WE WILL BECOME STEWARDS FOR THE PLANET'S THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES... WE WILL DEFEND AND PROTECT THE RAIN FORESTS, REDWOODS, AND OTHER SACRED PLACES... WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MAKE THIS DREAM COME TRUE... WE WILL DO THIS FOR OUR CHILDREN, AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN... WE WILL TRANSFORM WHAT NEEDS TO BE TRANSFORMED... WE WILL BREAK FREE OF OUR CHRYSALIS LIMITATIONS... WE WILL JOYFULLY LOVE, SHARE, AND FORGIVE... SO THAT PEACE MAY PREVAIL ON EARTH! MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH! (At ceremonies, repeat this line to each of the four directions, and then) GLOBAL PEACE NOW! (loudly three times towards the sky, preferably everyone holding hands in a circle with joined hands raised high) Personal Commitment: I, the undersigned, aware that human activities are seriously endangering the fragile ecosystems of our planet, aware of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, aware of the need to direct my energies to protect and restore the global Web of Life, Decide to begin right now to strenghten my ways and values, and change whatever still needs to be changed in myself and around me. I want the year 2000 - a symbol for a New Beginning - to be the turning point in the local and global efforts now underway to create a better world based on equality, justice and a sustainable planet -- a world in which Peace on Earth prevails. Understanding that we are all individually responsible for the kind of future we will create for our children and for countless generations to come, I will participate in initiatives, locally and globally, to transform our world and protect this Jewel of Life we call Earth. I agree with this Earth Proclamation and the goals of the Great Millenium Peace Caravan and personally commit myself to do all that I can to spread it throughout the world and help make our shared dream of Peace, Love and Harmony on Earth come true. Date ___________ Name ___________________________ Organization______________________________________ Please check one: Organization Endorsement_____ Personal Endorsement(Organization for Identification only)_____ Address______________________________________ Tel # _______________________ Email ___________________ You may copy or print this page to share it with others. You may then EMAIL your commitment by simply writing 'Earth Proclamation & Prayer commitment' in the Subject field of your email and sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or mail it to the Butterfly Gardeners Association, 1563 Solano Ave.#477, Berkeley, Ca. 94707. Call us at 510-528-7730. You can also get more butterfly information at: <A HREF="http://prop1.org/protest/bga/ ">http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm </A> or <A HREF="http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm"> http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm</A> You may want to check out the original and read more about the butterfly as a new symbol for the Renaissance of the Earth at: <A HREF="http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/Proclamation.htm "> http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/Proclamation.htm</A> In preparation for the year 2000 millennial celebrations that will take place all around the world, an international effort has arisen to use this opportunity to create a sense of anticipation about the great changes that can occur for the well-being of all people and all life forms on Earth. We therefore present this Earth Proclamation to foster a more responsible vision of humanity's role for our future and ask that you help copy and spread it throughout the world. If everyone reading this for the first time decides to introduce one more person, everyday, to this common goal hereby described, millions of people will have a chance to make this personal commitment by the year 2000. Endorsing organizations include the 22nd Century Group, Assyrian National Congress, Attitudinal Healing Center, Authors for a Positive Millennium, Bay Area Consciousness Network, Buddist Church/New York, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, City of Berkeley, Children of the Manhattan Project, Committee of Correspondence, Community Peacemakers, Earth Rainbow Network, Earth Day Network, Earth Rainbow Network, Environmental Patriots, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, GaiaLink, Global Empowerment Network, Global Initiative, Global Peace Foundation, Global Meditations, Global Peace Walk, Grandmothers for Peace International, Grey Panthers of Berkeley, Healing Global Wounds, Light2000, Light Party, Living Music, Millenium People's Assembly Network, Magick River, Mhona Interational Center, Milenio, Mysterious Tremendum Consort and School, No Nukes, One Day Foundation, One Love Vibrations Foundation, Quest Ministries, Pathways to Peace, Peace Research Institute - Dundas, Peaceday 2000, People for Peace, Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace, Project Nature Connect, Recovering Racists Network, Next Stage, San Bruno Mountain Watch, Save Ward Valley, Sentient Times Magazine, Shine a Light for Peace, Shudahai Network, Unity & Diversity World Council, U-turn Society, Unitarian Fellowship/ Social Action Committee of the Berkeley, United Nations Assembly, V.A.R.I.O.U.S, Wam2000/Spain, Wisdom Network, Women of the World for Cultural Wisdom, Women's Institute For African Rural Development, Women's Int'l League for Peace & Freedom/East Bay-Berkeley, Woodstock Nation Foundation, World Citizens, World Peace Prayer Society, World Peace 2000, World Stewardship Institute, and World Wise. Individual endorsers also include: David Brower/Earth Island Institute and founder of Friends of the Earth, Paul Winter, Bernie Siegel, Julia Butterfly*/Luna Tree-Sit, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Ethan Flad*/The Forum at Grace Cathedral, Linda Grover*/Friends of Tree Island, Judy Guggenheim*/ADC Project, Corbin Harney*/Western Shoshone spiritual elder, Barbara Marx Hubbard*/Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Norie Huddle*/Center for New National Security, Derrick Jensen/Railroads and Clearcuts Campaign/Native Forest Network, Kathy Juline/Science of Mind Magazine, Michael Lerner/Tikkun Magazine, Robert Muller*/World Peace Academy & former Asst.Secretary-General of the United Nations, Peace Pilgrim II, Rebecca Sandel/Earthstewards Network, David Seaborg*/U-Turn Society, Bernie Siegel/Child of God, Jerry Spivak*/United Nations Communication Coordination Committee, Robert Theobald*/Transformational Learning Community, Ida Urso/Aquarian Age Community, David Crockett Williams/Global Emergency Alert Response, Paul Winter/Paul Winter Consort, Karina Wood*/Hague Appeal for Peace-U.S., Juliette Beck/California Fair Trade Campaign, Ed Elkin/Earth Rainbow Network, Clara-Rae Genser/Jounalist, Jonathan Granoff/Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Claire Greensfelder/Plutonium Free Future, Lucille Green*/Action Coalition for Global Change, David Hartsough*/Peacemakers, Michael Linden*/Guatemala Project, Warren Linney*/ World Stewardship Insitute, David Lionel*/Lionel Television Productions, Jene McLovey/Native American Coalition for Headwaters, Hagit Ra'anan/Isreal, Ted Schettler/Physicians for Social Responsibility, Lou Schoen/Episcopal Peace & Justice Network for Global Concerns, Jennifer Viereck*/Healing Global Wounds, Ray Wat/Seventh Generation Fund, Storm Waters/Earth First!, Jack Weinberg/Greenpeace, Barbara Wolf/Harmonic Convergence. (Organization listed for identification purposes only, the * symbol indicates CEO or executive director) Indigenous organizations include Indigenous Environmental Network, Dini Care, Groupo Maya Quasamej Junan, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Defense, Native Support Network, Samoa United Nations Assn., Shundahai Network, Trail of Joy, Turtle Island Project, Unity Long Walk Project, Indigenous individual endorsers include Jamie Echo-Hawk/First Nations, Gustavo Guiterrez/Tonatichha, Elizabeth Crowe/Ky Environmental Federation Business endorsers include Life Resources/Sedona, NetWorks Productions Inc., and Vibrant Life Productions. Business sponsors include Carolina Biological, Magical Beginnings, McDonalds/Allentown, Monarch Watch, National Car Rental/Allentown, Copymat/Albany, Kinko's/New York & Berkeley, Office Depot, Enterprize Car Rental, and Musikfest. If you would like to get involved with organizing a peace caravan or can offer suggestions, please let us know. Your letters of support for the Earth Proclamation and peace caravan would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know if you want to get updates. Feel free to forward this message to people and groups on your mailing list that you feel may be interested in this endeavor. Butterflies Proclaim Global Peace Now! Letter to Rev. Yamato of the Global Peace Walk Date: 1/22/99 4:17:21 PM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:Bflyspirit">Bflyspirit</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:GPZONE2000">GPZONE2000</A>, <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Dear Reverend Yamato and Butterfly Board Members, For 6 years the goals of our organization have not changed. Although we have been promoting world peace since since Aug.5, 1997 by doing a ceremony on the Washington Mall for the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Observance, we have not proclaimed it. Our newest goal # 16 now reads To proclaim Global Peace Now! and May Peace Prevail on Earth! It was an honor to finally meet and join you for tea and ceremony. To have an 1800 year old family tree is quite wonderful. To have you tell me the butterfly is the crown and symbol for your family lineage is nothing less than amazing. I am glad we both felt that this may be much more than a mere coincidence. Perhaps we are all of the Butterfly Clan. I am also asking that my board members offer their comments and support. I believe that one of them, Norie Huddle, will contact you soon. She speaks fluently both Japanese and Russian. In her endeavors as a "peacemaker," she has lived and traveled abroad extensively. She lived in Japan for four years while she researched and wrote, with Michael Reich, Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan. She worked closely with Japanese environmental and consumer groups, and helped organize the nonpartisan group, "Japan Plus 20." to look at long range social, political and environmental issues and trends in Japan and Southeast Asia. She has also visited the Soviet Union frequently, to attend conferences and conduct interviews with a wide range of Soviet citizens concerning their perspectives on national and global security, and to meet with Soviet entrepreneurs and design joint ventures. From 1979-83, she interviewed over 400 people from all walks of life about their positive visions of the future and their ideas for how to make America and the world more secure. Surviving: The Best Game on Earth, published by Schocken Books, is a compendium of 30 of these interviews. One reviewer commented, "This is the first time I have weighed the issues of global survival without feeling futility or despair. Instead, reading this collection of interviews on the subject has been an inspiring look at the power of individual effort. If this book, and others like it, were introduced into the curricula of school systems worldwide, a shift toward more planetary cooperation might well occur." On Earth Day 1990, she published her fourth book, Butterfly, a "tiny tale of great transformation" which sets forth a global myth for our times. I know you will find her both inspiring and delightful. I also urge all those interested in the essence of peace to visit <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/yamato.html">Global Peace Walk </A> to read Rev.Yamato's story. In the dance, Alan Moore / Member of the Peace and Justice Commission/City of Berkeley Butterfly Gardeners Association/Friends of Tree Island/Global Empowerment Network Earth Rainbow Network/Action Coalition for Global Change 1563 Solano Ave. #477 Berkeley, CA 94707 510-528-7730 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <A HREF="http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm"> http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm</A> <A HREF="http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm ">http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm</A> Butterfly Gardeners Sites <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/yamato.html">Global Peace Walk </A> Rev. Yamato's Story <A HREF="http://www.treeisland.com/ ">http://www.treeisland.com/</A> Tree Island Millennium Gathering & Coalition <A HREF="http://www.GlobalEmpowerment.net/events.htm "> http://www.GlobalEmpowerment.net</A> Global Empowerment Network <A HREF="http://www.earthsite.org">http://www.earthsite.org</A> John McConnell <A HREF="http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000"> http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000</A> The Millennium Gathering <A HREF="http://www.motley-focus.com/~timber/essence.html "> http://www.motley-focus.com/~timber/essence.html</A> Jean Houston's Of Essence and Butterflies/ from A Mythic Life Thoughts concerning changes in Earth Proclamation Date: 1/22/99 5:45:25 PM Pacific Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Crockett Williams) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> (David Crockett Williams) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rev. Yusen Yamato) Alan called me this afternoon and we had a half hour or more phone conversation. He asked me to consult with him on how best to include the proclamation of "Global Peace Now!" into his earth proclamation that so many others have already joined in endorsing. We discussed his idea of including the prayer of "Global Peace Now!" into that document and he sent draft copy to you and me and his associates. I explained that we wanted every organization to proclaim the prayer of "Global Peace Now!" so that it may become a universal human resolve and that we hope everyone will recognize the value of joining together in endorsing the broad appeal of this message on behalf of all groups they represent which spread the "survival issues" messages that the Global Peace Walk is carrying to propagate the Global Peace Zone 20000, rather than to just see the Global Peace Walk as merely endorsing each particular issue or campaign since EVERYONE MUST proclaim Global Peace Now! I will review the draft he sent to me and forward suggestions on how to best incorporate these ideas into his Earth Proclamation and soon send these suggestions. Alan has offered to take suggestions for a draft of a City of Berkeley resolution in support of the Global Peace Walk to the Berkeley commission in charge of these matters at their meeting on Monday, February 1st, expecting such proclamation to be issued two weeks later. I will draft suggestions for your review and consideration on this idea. Alan has explained that in his conversations with Mayor Jerry Brown's office he has learned that Mayor Brown is scheduled to be out of the country on February 26th so this would seem to explain the message of a week ago from his secretary that he can not participate with us in the press conference at Oakland City Hall to start the Oakland to Berkeley Global Peace Walk that day. We should still expect that Mayor Brown will favorably consider issuing his Mayoral proclamation in support of the Global Peace Walk and declare a Global Peace Walk Day for that date in Oakland and also a Global Peace Zone designation for Oakland following the precendent of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and so many other city mayors. I will also compose suggested draft resolution for this matter and submit for your review before delivering to Jerry Brown's office perhaps with Alan's assistance. We should meditate on getting both Oakland and Berkeley proclamations as soon as possible for February 26th Global Peace Walk Days. The spirit of the peace walk has been inspiring Alan for some time and he has indicated that he would like to take part in the Global Peace Walk this year and perhaps join from the UN to Washington, DC, on the Fall schedule. I will write more on this later but wanted to let you know soon of these results. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo David <http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000> ********************************************************* Global Emergency Alert Response: GEAR2000 David Crockett Williams 805-822-3309 20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 USA ********************************************************* CAMPAIGN for a BETTER AMERICA with General Agency Services ********************************************************* UNITED NATION Global Peace Walk Annually: 22apr Taos, NM, ---> Santa Fe 26apr 1999: 16sep New York -> Washington DC 24oct 2000: 15jan San Francisco --> New York 24oct 12feb Santa Barbara, 22feb Los Angeles 22apr Taos, NM, 16sep Washington, DC ONE NATION, Aware of God as Love for All ! GLOBAL PEACE NOW !! Help Now !!! ********************************************************* http://www.egroups.com/list/global-peace-walk Hague Update and Patch Adams Connection Date: 1/2/99 3:08:41 AM Pacific Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Global Initiative) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore Alan), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kinne Lilo) >From Roland Schutzbach, Global Initiative to Linda Grover, author of Tree Island: Dear Linda, Thanks for your offer to help with the Peace Candle. I am ccing this letter to Alan Moore, Berkeley and to Lilo Kinne, New York. Lilo has also offered to help. Things are developing well; I have good hope that Costa Rica will help to be an official presenter of the World Peace Candle. Also, I will quit my job at the beginning of April: So I will have time! (Only that it would be good if also some more funding would come in by then). I am very optimistic. I will ask my friend Patch Adams who lives in Arlington near Washongton D.C. if he would be willing to help create an event for the presentation of the World Peace Candle. Patch is a famous doctor and clown; the Hollywood movie about him just started in the US; I aks you to go and see - we must wait in Switzerland until February. Robin Williams plays Patch in this moovie... Patch is one of the patrons of the Global Initiative and a really good personal friend of mine; he would be ideal to take the task together with you of creating an event - it would be funny as well as deep! Please also forward our letter "join us in peace walk" to your friends. I think it is a very good idea to look for food and I wish that you will be successful with it! Of course I would be happy if you, Linda, could help to promote the Peace Candle idea. One of the easiest ways, I think, is just to find groups and individuals who endorse the idea and sign the form. I wish you all the best for the new year and hope you will have a good time in Washington. Thank you also, Lilo, for your readiness to cooperate, and to you, Alan, for all you have done until now. Best wishes Roland Current News * The BGA has been asked to take the honourful task to present the World Peace Candle to Mr. Kofi Annan next year on Saturday, 10th of July, 99 by the Global Initiative and to get the support of other participants of the Tree Island Millennium Gathering. The City of Berkeley officially endorsed the project and designated Alan Moore as a representative of the City of Berkeley on Nov. 24, 1998. Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco also endorsed the project. The Peace Candle (presently in their office in Solothurn), will be given to the Secretary General on the last day of the "People´s Walk for Peace." The Peace Candle has not been lit yet. It has been waiting since the spring of 1995 with the following purpose: It shall be lit as soon as the last nuclear weapon are abolished, as a first step to total disarmament. They want this candle to be a gift for the UN, and would like the UN to provide a room for it. There the candle would wait until the moment for lighting has come. Private organizations cannot donate anything to the UN, only governments. They plan to ask Ireland or Sweden since they are leading countries for nuclear abolition. They also hope the BGA will endorse the idea of the "People´s Walk for Peace." This was supported unanamously by the Peace & Justice Commission and adopted by Berkeley City Council on Nov. 24, 1998. Council designated Alan Moore as an official peace ambassador to the World Peace Candle presentation. The United Nations Peace Caucus has offered to help organize the event. * The BGA will attend the Hague Appeal for Peace Convention in May 1999. They are interested in the butterfly peace initiative and an official involvement for the BGA is being explored. The World Peace Candle will be part of the Hague Appeal for Peace and the BGA will most likely be returning to the United States with the Peace Candle for a US tour. * Berkeley Peace and Justice Commissioner Alan Moore successfully petitioned the City of Berkeley to call for an independent investigation into the death of Earth First! activist David Gypsy Chain by the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General of California. A Pacific Lumber employee dropped a redwood tree on David after being caught on video threatening to do just that. Pacific Lumber had made public statements that they didn't know anyone was in the area and it was a tragic accident. At that time they didn't know Earth First! had made a video. The truth is now out and this crime cries out for justice. Public outrage over this and illegal logging operations, including our testimony at two public hearings on the Headwaters, have resulted in the suspension of PL's logging license for the remainder of 1998 and possibly 1999. * The BGA is planning to bring together a coalition of environmental, peace, faith, spiritual, and millennium groups to organize a Great Millennium Peace Caravan for the summer of 1999. The theme will be "transformation through forgiveness" and will focus on creating a sustainable and peaceful world through personal and planetary transformation. The group will consist of artists, musicians, educators, muralists, sculptors, story tellers, thespians, gardeners, dancers, lecturers, activists, futurists, global visionaries, and authors. We will celebrate the Earth's biological and cultural diversity as we visit social justice, environmental and peace festivals across the country. The 30th Woodstock Anniversary and Festival will be a major destination, as well as the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Observance in Washington, DC and the World Peace Festival in Armenia New York. * August 18-22, 1998 A sky filled with rainbows and butterflies was a visual treat for the Klamath Falls community, conference attendees, and international media at the Tree Island Millennium Gathering held at the Oregon Institute of Technology at the end of the conference's second day. Alan Moore, the "Butterfly Man", and the children of Klamath Falls released monarch and painted lady butterflies as artist Fred Stern, the "Rainbow Man", created a magnificent rainbow backdrop in the sky. The event was scheduled to commemorate 500th day before the turn of the century on August 19th. Alan worked as a volunteer for publicity and outreach during the two weeks preceding the event. * August 2-5, 1998 The BGA will attended the Indigenous Environmental Network Gathering not far from Mt. Shasta. The Butterfly Initiative is being embraced by many indigenous elders and activists, including Hopi, Western Shoshone, Lakota, Mohawk, and Cherokee. The Network endorsed the Earth Proclamation. * The BGA will be working to promote the People's Assembly to the United Nations for the year 2000 with the San Francisco based Action Coalition for Global Change which has held a Pilot People's Assembly meeting at San Francisco State University Seven Hills Center on June 20-21. Call (415) 922-6721 for more info.
