Scoop September 2010
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(→Workshop: Build your own bike-powered generator, Sat. 25th Sept, 1-5 pm, Friends Meeting House) |
(→United Nations Association AGM, Fri 17th Sept, 12.30-2pm, Friends Meeting House) |
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Talk by Simon Wright MP: “My hopes for the UN”. | Talk by Simon Wright MP: “My hopes for the UN”. | ||
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| + | ==Peace One Day Vigil, Tue 21th Sept, 1:00-1:30 pm, Hay Hill== | ||
| + | Jeremy Gilley, a young freelance cinematographer, was making a film about peace, when he realized that, in all human history, there had not been one single day when people somewhere had not been killing each other. Why? Why was there never even one war-free day? Maybe, he reasoned, the place to start was with one day of peace. If people got used to just one day a year, perhaps then they could handle two. And so on, until one day, there would simply be peace. | ||
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| + | Jeremy’s simple idea caught the imaginations of the great and the good. The Dalai Lama supported his campaign and the Secretary General of the United Nations. Angelina Jolie and Jude Law gave their famous faces to publicize it. Finally, in 2001 the United Nations declared September 21st each year as its Peace One Day. And never was a day of peace needed more than in that September of 9/11 terror. | ||
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| + | Learn more at http://www.peaceoneday.org. | ||
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| + | Here in Norwich, we’ve been marking Peace One Day since 2006: sometimes with children and balloons, sometimes in more reflective ways. Again this year, a lunchtime vigil will take place in Hay Hill between 1 and 1.30pm on Tuesday, September 21st. Norwich Interfaith Link is the sponsor. Please join us to make your heartfelt wish that the world may be at peace one day. | ||
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| + | For more information, contact Joy Croft on Norwich 621947 or Jean Davis at jean.davis@talk21.com | ||
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==Workshop: Build your own bike-powered generator, Sat. 25th Sept, 1-5 pm, Friends Meeting House== | ==Workshop: Build your own bike-powered generator, Sat. 25th Sept, 1-5 pm, Friends Meeting House== | ||
