The model of the mainstream media is I suppose to wait for the news to happen, and of course it has either to be trivial in the extreme to entertain we, the masses with our glued eye balls and our pulp-like brains, or it the news has to represent those (who imagine) they control things.
Anyway Present Obama apparently, and folks like him, would do not believe that mass demonstrations have any effect will not be interested in the news of the World Peace March. The Institute for Public Accuracy reports (via Waging Nonviolence):
This Friday, October 2, the World March for Peace and Nonviolence kicks off in New Zealand, marking the start of the world’s first six-continent peace march calling for the elimination of wars, nuclear weapons and violence of all kinds.
Launched by the international organization World Without Wars, the World March has been endorsed by Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace Prize winners, Sarah Obama (President Obama’s Kenyan grandmother), thousands of organizations including Mayors for Peace, Abolition 2000, Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, and more than a million people, including writers Noam Chomsky and Eduardo Galeano and celebrities Yoko Ono, Cate Blanchett and Viggo Mortensen.
Chomsky brings the ideals of the World March back to the principles of Gandhi, whose October 2 birthday was chosen as both the International Day of Nonviolence and the day the March begins its 93-day journey around the world. “The World March for Peace and Non-Violence is a wonderful idea,” says Chomsky, “a fitting commemoration of Gandhi’s legacy on the centenary of his birth… It could hardly be more timely, and should serve as an inspiration to those who seek to fulfill the noble ideals that Gandhi’s life and work symbolized in ways that are rarely approached.”
In the U.S., the march kick-off will be marked by dozens of events around the country, including:
* The formation of a human peace symbol in Santa Monica, California;
* An interfaith blessing ceremony at the New York Harbor; and
* An environmental peace walk in Richmond, Virginia.Between November 30 and December 3, 2009, the international marchers will visit several U.S. cities (beginning in New York City), including Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
For more information, including a complete list of events, visit World March USA (national) and the World March (international).
A little behind of the start, but the program moves forward and around the globe.
Actions often have more and longer lasting effects that words and imagines which the media platforms drown us. Peace is an issue for all of us since it confronts us directly with our essential and common humanity. Let us not forget it is not just conflict between human beings that is at issue, but the development of our capacity to provide a decent life for every person of global community. Violence against nature is part of the paradigm of violence against persons.
This had better not be another “focus group” outing like Iraq. The first step is petitioning, then if that is ignored then it will be necessary to move to nonviolent civil disobedience, then there is the direct (or as indirect at the perpetrators of violence can make it) where lives on the line. Hopefully the people of the world are not going to let anybody wreck the place, and they are going to save the future and the planet. Spectators and viewers are largely irrelevant. Participants had better be ready, and have the determination and patience to win.
Disclaimer: I do not speak for any other person other than myself. I am not claiming any special wisdom or insight, and I am probably deficient on both counts.