An unprecedented attempt to bring global peace began with an international team of marchers who set off from Wellington, New Zealand on October 2nd beginning the World March for Peace and Nonviolence -- a three-month worldwide march involving more than one million participants.
Their goal is to create awareness of the dangerous global situation in which we are living, marked by an increased probability of nuclear conflict, a renewed arms race, and violent military occupations.
This extraordinary event will culminate on January 2nd, 2010 in Punta de Vacas, Argentina, in the heights of the Andes Mountains; with hopes to generate a global consciousness that universally condemns all forms of violence: physical, psychological, racial, sexual, economic and religious.
Simultaneously, an unprecedented social mobilization is taking place in more than 100 countries, where marches, festivals, exhibits, concerts, forums, conferences and social, cultural, educational and athletic events are happening calling for an end to wars, nuclear weapons and all forms of violence.
This year’s six continent march was officially launched at the Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies in Punta de Vacas, Argentina, on November 15, 2008. It was initiated by World Without Wars, an affiliated organization of the Humanist Movement that is internationally active in the fields of peace and disarmament.
Rafael de la Rubia is the founder of the international organization Mundo Sin Guerras (World Without Wars) and the creator and spokesperson for the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. De
la Rubia has worked more than 35 years in the field of nonviolence,
primarily through his association with the Humanist Movement.
On December 2nd, the marchers arrived in Washington, D.C. and paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, the great American leader of nonviolence and one of the inspirations for
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