Start of 2ª March for Peace and Nonviolence

The Start of the 2 World March for Peace and Nonviolence took place on October 2 on Km 0 in Madrid.

From kilometer 0 in Madrid, the October 2, International Day of Nonviolence decreed by the United Nations in tribute to Gandhi, when it was the 18: 00 officially started the World March.

Around a hundred people were present when Rafael De la Rubia, founder of Mundo sin Guerras and general coordinator of the March began his intervention.

De la Rubia recounted the 1st World March when the base team left Wellington - Australia and toured 5 continents in 92 countries; now they aspire to visit more than 100 nations.

Attendees among whom were several personalities of the Humanist Movement, supporters of the MM, members of MSG then accompanied an event planned by the organizers in the Circle of Fine Arts.

Several people presented on the background of this great event

Several people presented the background of this great event, the Central American and South American marches, the symbols of Nonviolence, TPAN, educational centers and universities, novel awards, media, among others.

Cover photo by Gina Venegas G., first photo, J. Carlos Marín, photo on current text, Ibán P. Sánchez

For its part, the Small Footprints orchestra made a presentation in the intermission and then a video of Federico Mayor Zaragoza another one by Carmen Magallón, an intervention by Philippe Moal of the Noviolencia Observatory of France; the actor Alberto Ammann with the theme of Art and Culture and Isabel Bueno with the activities of the educational centers.

It ended with an outline of what will be the route of this second World March

Finally, Rafael de la Rubia finished with an outline of what will be the route of this second World March and read a message, prepared for this occasion, which said: “Years later that March was repeated, repeated and repeated ...

It grew and expanded until it reached every corner of the Earth and became a Long March. The intensity and magnitude that it took caused anonymous people, who had rarely expressed themselves before, to take to the streets and squares in large numbers peacefully and without violence. The large number of initiatives, new collaborative forms in multiple fields that were overshadowed by the prevailing single thinking, were also made visible. Such was its impact that like a wave of solidarity, like a great silent cry, with a great joint realization, it went around the planet transmitting a common feeling, a current of “collective consciousness”, that a “new moment” was opening. ” for the human species.

The signal that this moment had arrived was transmitted by word of mouth

The signal that this moment had arrived was transmitted by word of mouth. It rang from ear to ear. He recognized himself from look to look. There were people who imagined it, another dreamed it, another saw it and another lived it ...

Then the times multiplied to meet, reconcile and work together in a new stage for humanity where hunger, aggressions, invasions and wars will finally be part of the past.

It was amplified to give voice to the voiceless, by putting communication technologies at the service of people. Then his echo traveled the planet saying:

! Enough ... so much violence!

... It was the dawn of planetary civilization ...
There on the horizon that human nation presses from the future ...
Every time he does it with more force ...
Guiding the personal senses ...
and giving direction to the people
There we will meet again and we will all recognize ourselves as human ”


Article written by Gina Venegas G.

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