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Join the worldwide movement to create a Global Ceasefire and Day of Peace & Nonviolence in our homes, our communities and between nations on September 21, The International Day of Peace. Peace Day has been a focal point for community-uniting and peace-inspiring events since its inception in 1981. This year will be the greatest Peace Day, yet. Together we can create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world, one heart, one family, one community at a time. Join the Countdown To Peace and help inspire your community to celebrate humanity's first day of peace, ever.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

  • Ask your favorite organization, group or religious institution to support the International Day of Peace
  • Plan or attend a Peace Day Event in your community (scheduled events include concerts, parades, marches, fasts, conferences, festivals, gatherings, service projects, ceremonies, children's activities such as peace art & essay contests and pinwheels for peace, Peace Day parties and peace vigils)
  • Ask your Mayor, City Council, Governor and President to declare a Proclamation of Peace
  • Print out Flyers, Posters and other Resources
2006 PLANS

Official Peace Day Message from Governor Rick Perry!

Print out for your Peace Day event. (PDF - 503K)

Please ask your Mayor or City Council to issue a proclamation and scan and email to peaceday@pathwaystopeace.org
or fax to 503-214-6864 to post on this website
ANDREWS
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
ARLINGTON
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
ARLINGTON
School of Ageless Wisdom
Group size: 60
Contact person: Gloria Crook
Phone: 8176541018
Email: gcrook@airmail.net
Website: theschoolofagelesswisdom.org
IDP Vigil : One hour long candle-lighting and meditation -- outside. 7 pm to 8 pm.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)

AUSTIN
Proclamation declared by Mayor Will Wynn
(PDF - 272 K)
AUSTIN
Travis Heights Elementary School
Email: glaubenthal@austinisd.org
On Thursday at 9 am students from Travis Heights Elementary School will rededicate their Peace Garden and tiled Peace Wall. A proclamation from the City of Austin and the Austin ISD will be read, students will sing peace songs and read peace quotes. We will observe the moment of silence at noon and at 1:30 565 students will parade around the track with their Pinwheels for Peace and then plant them in the Peace Garden.
AUSTIN
University of Texas Child Development Center
Tel: 512-475-9500
Email: jvtma.deb@mail.utexas.edu
placing pinwheels for peace around our play ground.
AUSTIN
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
AUSTIN
CodePink Austin
Tel: 512.573.6194
Email: debmocracy@yahoo.com
Web: www.codepinkaustin.com
Vigiling on the Congress Ave. bridge sidewalks from 5-7 pm.
BELLAIRE
Post Oak School
Web: www.postoakschool.org
We celebrated International Day of Peace by: 1. Painting a Peace Mural 2. Making Peace Bracelets 3. Creating skits about the 8 keys of Peace 4. Observed a minute of silence 5. Lit a candle for peace 6. Spread the word to promote peace day and much more!
CORPUS CHRISTI
South Texas Alliance for Peace and Justice
Group size: 80
Contact person: Ann E. Smith
Phone: 361 992-1535
Email: smtann@stx.rr.com
Website: www.stpeace.org
IDP Vigil : Prayers at All Saints Episcopal Church at 5:30 p.m. Outdoor Candlelight Observance with music and speakers at 7 p.m. on Del Mar College Campus
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
DALLAS
PeaceMakers, Inc.
International Women's Peace Conference
www.womenspeaceconference.org
Peace Vigils.
DALLAS
Cathedral of Hope
www.CathedralOfHope.com
Facilitating a noon prayer service beginning with the ringing of the church bells, a minute of silence and one half hour of thoughts, prayers, and meditations.
DALLAS
Nithyananda Bliss Team_Dallas
Group size: 25+
Contact person: akhila Lakshminarayanan
Phone: 469-774-5705
Email: akhilal@gmail.com
Website: www.nithyananda.org
IDP Vigil : Nithyananda Foundation's Dallas chapter members will promote and honor the United Nations call for peace by conducting a one hour group meditation & peace prayer to increase the positivity of collective consciousness. Paramahamsa Nithyananda's mission is to work towards global peace through individual transformation using meditation.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
DENTON
United Methodist Women
FUMC Denton
Email: rewatson5438@earthlink.net
 ringing our church bell at noon (CST)and continuing in prayer until 6 p.m.
EDINBURG
Pax Christi/Holy Spirit Peace & Justice
Email: mpena113@rgv.rr.com
 We will be hosting in cooperation with the Muslim Community of the Rio Grande Valley a Peace Day Celebration and visit to their Mosque for shared prayer, information exchange and community building.
ELGIN
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
FORT WORTH
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
HOUSTON
Houston Community College Central, International Student Services-
Creating a program that will promote world peace in which students,staff and administrators will participate. The program will consist of poetry, musical performance,holding hands prayer and candle lighting. Everyone in the college community will be encourage to wear white T-shirts on that day. Literature promoting The International Day of Peace will be distributed.
HOUSTON
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
HOUSTON
Nithyananda Bliss Team-Dyanapeetam
Contact: Prakash Morolia
Email: shm@starpipeproducts.com
Web: http://www.nithyananda.org
Nithyananda Foundation's Houston chapter members will promote and honor the United Nations call for peace by conducting a half hour group meditation & peace prayer to increase the positivity of collective consciousness. Paramahamsa Nithyananda's mission is to work towards global peace through individual transformation using meditation.
HOUSTON
The Peace Hour
Email: thepeacehour@sbcglobal.net
Web: www.thepeacehour.org
Radio Broadcasts September 8 and September 22, 2006 on www.KPFT.org at 10 a.m. Central.
HOUSTON
River Oaks Elementary
Email: rlieber@houstonisd.org
Web: es.houstonisd.org/riveroakses
creating 650+ pinwheels for peace
HOUSTON
Westchester Academy for International Studies
Email:juergen.mueller@springbranchisd.com
Web: http://wais.springbranchisd.com
creating posters in German (this is a German language class) with illustrations and words of a peaceful world and by singing a peace song
IRVING
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Org. at Dallas
Email: dallas@us.bkwsu.org
Web: www.bkdallas.org
A global campaign being launched on September 17th at Wembley Arena by the Brahma Kumaris in London, dedicated to the United Nations Day of Peace. Dallas is linking up to the launch, live, at the Women's Museum on the 17th, from 9am-12pm. Details on the campaign : just-a-minute.org
IRVING
VOLBSC Diversity Team
VOLBSC Diversity Team will recongize the day on our intranet site, gives out handout presentations to everyone in the building to explain what the day is about and encouraging our people to spread the word and get involved in their communities.
KERRVILLE
Notre Dame Catholic School
Web: notredameschool.cc
EVENT: We are celebrating White Ribbon Week, the week of Sept. 11 - 17. During this week our students will be focusing their studies on being peacemakers. some students have written Haikus of Peace on white doves which will hang in our courtyard. We have invited community peacekeeps (police,fire,military, social agencies) to attend our school mass and they will be prayed for and receive tokens of thanks from our students.
KINGWOOD
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
KINGWOOD
Pines Montessori School
Web: www.pinesmontessori.org
EVENT: We will make pinwheels for Peace and display them in front of our school. We will have lessons about Peace in each classroom and continue to develop our Peace curriculum.
LEAGUE CITY
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
LOS FRESNOS
Los Fresnos Elementary
All students, teachers, and staff will be wearing white, having a moment of silence at 12 noon and planting the peace rocks in their respective classrooms. The pinwheels for peace will also be done. PK and Kinder students will plant those around the playground to show that we should have peace with our friends when we're out playing. Teachers were given a peace pencil flag found on http://www.pencilflag.com in which the students will make and attach to their pencils to use on that day. Our music teacher will sing a song of peace over the intercom in the morning, and counselors will read poetry about peace over the intercom. There are other activities..
MCKINNEY
Mckinney North High School
Handing out flyers to students and teachers encouraging them to wear white, tell others, and be aware of all thatmade this day come to be and why.
MIDLOTHIAN
J.A. Vitovsky Elementary School
Singing peace songs in each class and reading stories about peacemaking.
ODESSA
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
PASADENA
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
PORT ARANSAS
Port Aransas High School Physics
EVENT: Some of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
SAN ANTONIO
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
TEXARKANA
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)

TOMBALL
Proclamation issued by Mayor H. G. Harrington
(PDF- 252K)
THE WOODLANDS
Peace and Justice Network of Montgomery County
Email: steveharr@houston.rr.com
Tel: 713-301-1012
Please join us for a silent candlelight vigil at the Town Green Park in The Woodlands, TX. The Park is located at Lake Robbins Drive adjacent to the South Montgomery County Library. We will gather inside the park from 7PM to 9PM. Everyone is invited to bring a candle Please no signs or banners at this event.

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Peace Day CONTACTS

Season for Nonviolence Network
 Arlington, Brownsville, Dallas, Houston, Kerrville, League City, San Antonio
Email: snv@agnt.org

Peace Day SUPPORTERS

Please ask your favorite group, organization or religious institution to support
The International Day of Peace

(*The opinions of these organizations are their own.
Pathways To Peace and The International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN
do not necessarily support the views expressed by these organizations
that support the International Day of Peace.)

Peace Day ARCHIVE

ANDREWS, TEXAS, USA
2005- Students at Andrews High School celebrated the International Day of Peace with pinwheels for peace. The students wrote on the back of their pinwheel about what Peace means to them. Some of them wrote poems, some had very personal thoughts about peace in their own lives. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS, USA
2005- The Peace and Justice Center - Arlington held a candlelight Peace Vigil for the International Day of Peace.
(www.arlingtonpeace.org/idp.html)
DALLAS, TEXAS, USA
2005- At William B. Travis middle school, "the 7th and 8th graders in Art tutored their peers on how to construct the pinwheels, we decorated the sidewalks outside our school with peaceful symbols and quotes (i.e. John Lennon), we "planted" our pinwheels in front, and held a ceremony in which some of the students shared their thoughts and feelings with the entire school. It was an amazing experience." (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
TEXARKANA, TEXAS, USA
2005- Students at Texas High School celebrated the International Day of Peace with pinwheels for peace. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)

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