30th ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE DAY IN CHICAGO
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington, Chicago, IL USA
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September 19, 2008:
1 - Chicago Public Schools Commemorates Peace Day
Peace Day activities will be encouraged in all schools by the Chicago Public School's CEO.
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2 - Build the Peace Celebration
Daley Center Plaza, 50 W. Washington, Chicago, IL USA
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Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL USA
Presentation of the world's flags and Call to Peace at opening of Chicago's World Music Festival.
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Peace Building in Families, Schools, Communities, Cities
UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL USA
12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
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Peace Day: A Chicago Institution
Chicago has pioneered in the celebration of Peace Day and serves as a model for cities throughout the world. Four years before the United Nations established the International Day of Peace, Chicago designated an official Peace Day on September 7, 1978. Chicago is perhaps the only major city in the world with a 30 year history of Peace Building through annual Peace Day events, and has been recognized by the United Nations as an official Peace Messenger city. The Peace School, the founding organization of Peace Day, is recognized as a U.N. Peace Messenger organization.
Peace Day has been celebrated in Chicago every year since 1978 and has been organized in cooperation with the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events since 1993. The annual celebration includes One Minute of Silence for World Peace, the Call to Peace, the World Peace Flag Ceremony, and cultural performances celebrating the diversity of our city and world. Representatives from the Consular Corps of Chicago, members of cultural and ethnic organizations, students and other volunteers form a unifying procession as they present on stage the nearly 200 flags of every U.N. member nation. Each nation is honored equally with wishes, thoughts or prayers for peace. For more information on Peace Day, click here.
Speakers at the Daley Plaza Peace Day celebration include Honorary Co-Chairs Arne Duncan, Patricia Maza-Pittsford, Dana Starks and Arthur Turner. Click on the 30th Anniversary Celebration page for more details.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Peace Day, a free public Build the Peace Workshop is held on Saturday, September 20, 2008. This Workshop explores practical methods to Build the Peace in the family, school, community and city. Speakers include Howard Sandifer of Chicago West Side Community Music Center to speak on Music & Peace, and Bob Love of the Chicago Bulls to speak on Sports & Peace. For more speakers and other detailsl click on the Workshop page.
Chicago Build the Peace Committee
The goal of the CBTPC is to mainstream a Culture of Peace in Chicago. This means that we work to insure a just and sustainable peace that promotes the values, attitudes, behaviors and institutions that build the peace. We are proposing that Chicago undertake a year of Peace Building (2008-2009) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Peace Day and that the proposed 2016 Olympics become the "Chicago Peace Olympics".
JOIN THE CHICAGO BUILD THE PEACE COMMITTEE!
Meetings held monthly: Thursdays at 6:00 pm Oct. 23, Nov. 20, Dec. 18
Meeting location: The Peace School, 3121 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
For information: Contact Jennifer Kim, Committee Chairperson
773.248.7959 info@buildthepeace.org
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Honorary Chair
Richard M. Daley
Mayor
City of Chicago
Honorary Co-Chairs
Maggie Daley
Founder and Board Chair
After School Matters
Arne Duncan
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Public Schools
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
President
Little Village Community
Development Corporation
Gene Lee
Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the Mayor
Patricia Maza-Pittsford
Consul General of
El Salvador and
Dean of the Consular
Corps of Chicago
Maria Pappas
Cook County Treasurer
Frank G. Pogue
Interim President
Chicago State University
Dana V. Starks
Chairman and Commissioner
Chicago Commission
on Human Relations
Clarence N. Wood
President and CEO
Jane Addams Hull
House Association
Arthur L. Turner
Illinois State Representative
Committee Coordination
Jennifer Kim
Committee Chairperson
The Peace School
Gregory Garrett
Peace Day Coordinator
The Peace School
Barry Weisberg
Workshop Coordinator
Violence Prevention
Peace Promotion Strategy
