ON OCTOBER 27, “MEDITERRANEAN SEA OF PEACE”, THE MARITIME PATH OF THE 2ND WORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NOVIOLENCE, LEAVES GENOA (ITALY)

THE NOVEMBER 5 IN BARCELONA THE MEETING WITH THE PEACE BOAT BOAT

On October 27, 2019, from Genoa, the “MEDITERRANEAN SEA OF PEACE” begins, the maritime route of the 2nd World March for Peace and Nonviolence, the peace event that began in Madrid on October 2 and will end in the Spanish capital on March 8, 2020.

«MEDITERRANEO DE LA PAZ», is an initiative of the Base Team of the March, in collaboration with Don Antonio Mazzi's Exodus Foundation, which has made available one of the two sailboats of the Elba Island Community; the association for the promotion of marine culture La Nave di Carta and the Italian Solidarity Sailing Union (Uvs).
The trip will depart from the pier in front of the Galata Mu.Ma, Museum of the Sea and Migrations of Genoa and will stage in Marseille and Barcelona, ​​where it will arrive at the same time as the ship PEACE BOAT, from the Japanese NGO that has been sailing for thirty-five years worldwide for the promotion of the culture of peace, nuclear disarmament, protection of human rights, protection of the environment and sustainable development.

After the Catalan city the sailboat will stage in Tunisia, Palermo and Livorno, the last stage will be in Rome, by land, for the meeting with the Italian Geographical Society where the travel diary will be presented.

«Peace, nuclear disarmament, human rights and the environment: these are the themes of the 2nd World March which, ten years after the first, will traverse a world in which there are thirty ongoing wars and eighteen crisis zones. At the heart of our action is the call on States to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to commit to a path of disarmament of conventional weapons. Concepts already contained in the Barcelona Declaration of 1995 for the Mediterranean partnership of peace signed by 12 countries”, explains Tiziana Volta Cormio, member of the International Team of the March. “A statement remained on paper. What we see every day in the Mediterranean is intolerable: Europe, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2012, is today the scene of great violence. Weapons leave Europe, but migrants cannot enter; there is a proliferation of events dedicated to weapons in which minors are also allowed to enter. For this reason we have decided to “walk” by sea. We also want to bear witness to the need to say enough with words of hate and violence that oppose different cultures, and also denounce the violence against the marine environment on which the climate depends. We want to do it with the powerful weapon of Active Nonviolence».