<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>OLYMPIC GAMES UPDATE</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>AUGUST 12TH</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="../../../../images/paris-olympic-24-poster.png" style="width: 400px; height: 577px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" width="400" height="577" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">With famine through mass starvation in Gaza and global propaganda demonizing Russia yet glorifying Israel in another ‘panem e circencis’ (give them bread &amp; games) Olympics. </span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;">‘We are crucially at the midnight hour of   Armageddon in our lifetime, and still we missed this opportunity for a global ceasefire in the form of the Olympic Truce. Worse still ...</span></span></span></em></p> <p style="text-align: left;">.<span style="font-size: 12pt;">.. this has been one of the most politicised Games ever, demonizing Russia and glorifying Israel  That the Israeli presence was permitted by the hosts and the IOC, and that Russia’s attendance was denied, showed just how engrained politics and sport have always been.   The mainstream narrative always says <em>‘Keep politics out of sport</em>’ yet at these Olympics the world has seen just how much media distortion and damage control is covertly exerted by the military-industrial Zionist networks of financiers, generals, politicians, judges, media personalities and entertainment celebrities that own the Olymic process thorugh its governmental and corporate sponsorship model.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At this Olympics the official calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the Ukraine have been tokenistic, even antagonistic, with their promotion of the US -UK - EU double standard of omitting Russia yet including Israel, both of whom are committing war crimes. Russia is demonised, Israel is glorified and the Truce ignored, no call for ceasefire heard from President Bach or many governments in attendence. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Palestinian athletes were represented, but over 340 athletes were killed in Gaza since October 7th, training facilities obliterated, food and water rationed to starvation level by the Israeli State, whos athletes were all ex-members of the IDF and many of whom actively supporting the genocide on line, even signing bombs to be dropped on Gaza. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>'No bronze, silver or gold medal can shine during yet another Genocide Games ...'</em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">READ THE FULL MAGAZINE ARTICLE  </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Paris ’24 Olympic Games – War, Injustice, Weak Institutions.</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="paris-24-olympic-games-war-injustice-weak-institutions."><img src="../../../../images/paris-report-cover.png" style="width: 400px; height: 559px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" width="400" height="559" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;"></span></strong><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> <span style="color: #800000;">UPDATE 18th JULY </span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #800000;"></span></span></strong><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;">PEACE PARKS PIZZA PARTY - </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;">CELEBRATING THE CALL FOR AN OLYMPIC TRUCE THOUGH RESISTANCE MUSIC FROM VIETNAM TO GAZA.</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b>We held a Peace Parks Pizza Party Summer Peace Camp celebrating peace and calling for a ceasefire in Palestine on the Eve  of the Olympic Truce.    Marek Juggler launched his new album 'World Peace' </b></span><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDnMwQhJgg&amp;list=PLC7Br-G43-6D7ezYGh_8fqHM0hDjCnqDP"><img src="../../../../images/world-peace-album.png" style="width: 353px; height: 344px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" width="353" height="344" /></a></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b>and Peyote for President performed a live version of Palestinian Children.</b></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0ho-96ddc"><img src="../../../../images/palestinian-children.png" style="width: 369px; height: 375px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" width="369" height="375" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 32px;">Thanks to all the musicians, volunteers and Pizza Party Organisers - we raised 600 Euros to give the UNWRA and the Palestinan Children's Relief Organisation.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 32px;">'Rise Up and Be the Guardians of the Palestinian Children! They will need us for years to come ...'</span></span></span></strong></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 32px;"></span></span></span></strong></em><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong></strong>WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE PEACE PARKS PIZZA PARTY VIDEO UPDATES :) </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>UPDATE 16th May </strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Inner Peace Forest School ‘ Stop the War Paris Olympics ‘24 ‘ programme</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is both  a  personal and professional appeal  to the humanity of all parents in our school and others, parents of whatever nationality, religion or political interest,  to put our human morality first and support this peace program in the spirit of empathy and compassion, and  as an example to our children at school. Many of you would have read my Xmas ‘Animal Farm Revisited’ post Orwellian story at the end of the year, ending with the animals corralled at the end of the farm, no shelter,  no food, no water, wounded, sick and dying. This 31st March Equinox  you heard me reiterate the ‘ -Stop the War!’ end of Spring term message.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now more than 7 months into this online 24/7 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I am disappointed in the response I have had from school families despite good communication at our last meeting on this issue. I am hoping the peace program we will run at the school will compensate for a lack of action from the school and its community to date to speak up for the children being killed in our names by our governments. No in my name please. The activities programme will echo the current University protest movement at the school level and link to the Summer Olympic Truce message and the Stop the War campaign in the UK. We will present the programme in the school to raise the awareness of what is happening in the face of the government lies we all hear. One of the most disturbing aspects of this horror show has been the lies that our states tell us to cover up their collusion in this historic injustice. We will involve those students who voluntarily wish to participate in the ‘BDS - No Vote Protest’ and student actions, which we will also be asking you to support at home. I am particularly interested in any Jewish/Israeli families from the school or your friends who could  represent the ‘Jewish Voices for Peace’ or ‘ If Not Now’  Organization or similar. A call for a ceaselfire and prisoner/hostage exchange benefits everyone except the military industrial war mongers. None of us wishes to see either ourselves or our children manipulated by the nation state war machine, especially as they all grow up to be of age when the state calls them in a future perhaps darker than this one. . We as parents concerned for humanity must at the same time confront our own nationist indoctrination- to agree eith putting the perverse concept of ‘national security’ above the lives of 1.2 million children living in the same nation - this is  moral no no, and we must collectively show our children a moral stance  by example. And by deed. For caring words are not enough. So please join in the activities we will be running and really make an Olympic effort with me, our children and the wonderful international community we have here in Peaceful Portugal. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In practical terms we will be working toward a Summer Peace Parks Music Camp with our Algarve star Peyoti with his Zeitgeist song ‘Palestinian Children,’ and former music teacher Marek Juggler launching  his World Peace album of songs he wrote here.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The event runs from the 16th of July to the 20th of July and will highlight the start of the Olympic Truce on the 19th of July at the Pizza Party. Camp when we  can celebrate the start of six weeks of global peace during the Olympic Games. If only… but … If we could just make that happen in one country - Palestine - and stand up to out government‘s financial military, industrial stranglehold on our culture, our global culture, then we can truly provide a good example to our children by being part of a historical and global statement from the school that puts peace first. We will be inviting other schools to join the program. It will also be linked to the ‘Fridays  for the Future’ school activities on Climate Change.  The program will be presented on the ‘Awareness Day on Empathy and Understanding’  being held this Thursday. Please contact me for further information on my personal number if you have any questions or wish to join in.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>UPDATE 4TH APRIL 2024</strong></span></p> <p>bring back peace to the Holy Land :)</p> <p><strong>Launch of the ‘Algarve Stop the Wars International Citizens’ Peace Summer Coalition</strong>.’</p> <p>In the spirit of compassionate action we are calling for Algarve International residents from as many countries as possible to form a citizens peace summer coalition to add our voices to end war. With famine and genocide happening as you read this, time, join in  coordinated actions to ask our governments to stop funding the war machines in our respective countries. Under our Olympic Truce slogan for this year ‘ Paris Olympics’ 24, Make Ukraine the Last War - Apartheid and Genocide no More!’ Be part of the solution and add your voice and actions –</p> <p>1) First of all, in support of a ceasefire in Gaza to focus our efforts as Guardians of all children and innocent civilians caught in war, bearing Sudan, the Congo, Chad and  the Rohynga  in Myanmar in mind.</p> <p>2) Secondly to stop sending arms, military support and encouragement to Israel immediatel calling for a immediate end to occupation. Join a No Ceasefire No Vote campaign in your country.</p> <p>3) Thirdly to follow the guidance of Professor Geoffrey Sachs of the UN Sustainability Innovation programme and University of Colombia to recognise the enormous 2 trillion military budget that is spent annually – half of it by the USA and the reast by everyone else – and give 10% to the reorganisation of the UN and re designing Agenda 2030 for Peace and Security based on Sustainabillity First diplomatic and economic solutions.</p> <p>Yes, we can have a world of 8 -10 billion living in peace prosperity and security in this lifetime!</p> <p>The aim is to work in online and regional groups to  call for this sumer's Olympic Truce at the Paris Games in support the UN efforts of countries such as South Africa and Malaysia alongs several internet basied civil society groups (see Rango’s List!)  to reform the UN to be fit for purpose, ie create global peace</p> <p>Please contact me to ioin in and help organise our <strong>Paris Olympics ’24 Summer of Peace</strong> campaigning on the Algarve to join inthe call for ceasefire NOW and immediate humanitarian assistance and everything that’s ben said above – with URGENCY PLEASE – A FAMINE LASTS FOREVER BUT THE SUFFERING IS DAY BY DAY&lt; HOUR BY HOUR…</p> <p>Together we represent a slice of global citizens who have the joy of being international residents in this peaceful and welcoming country. Together we can speak up for justice and a sense of morality to end the political and military cruelty of occupation apartheid ethnic cleansing and genocide raging on our planet, when instead we could all enjoy security peace and prosperity based on our common and civilized humanity. </p> <p>I am particularly interested in hearing from my Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli/Jewish and Palestinian friends, colleagues and acquaintances who have joined groups such as Jewish Voices for Peace or Stop the War campaigns to bring us into a regional coalition of international community members who share common human morals and wish to stand up and be counted as the Guardians of the Palestinian Children to put an end to war and global apartheid immediately in Gaza to stop this genocidal atrocity of military famine and to  build  in our lifetimes for our sakes, for he sake of our children and for this blessed planet, we end the  war and greed that are  tearing us apart.</p> <p>Please<a href="mailto:gordon.sillence@gmail.com?subject=OLYMPIC TRUCE"> contact me</a> to ioin our Peace campaigning on the Algarve on the call for ceasefire now together. We represent a slice of global citizens who have the joy of being international residents in this peaceful and welcoming country. Together we can speak up for justice and a sense of morality to end the political and military cruelty of occupation apartheid ethnic cleansing and genocide raging on our planet, when instead we could all enjoy security peace and prosperity based on our common and civilized humanity.  I am particularly interested in hearing from my Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli/Jewish and Palestinian friends, colleagues and acquaintances who have joined groups such as Jewish Voices for Peace or Stop the War campaigns to bring us into a regional coalition of international community members.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>27.10.2023 </strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>URGENT CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW!</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>BE PART OF PREVENTING A GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND NAME AND SHAME THOSE WHO ARE KILLING CIVILIANS FOR  PROFIT, POWER AND PRIDE. </strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img src="../../../../images/al-jezeera-gaza.png" style="width: 602px; height: 338px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" width="602" height="338" /></span></strong></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axaHx9u7xvc">See this video! </a></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><img style="width: 530px; height: 199px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" src="../../../../images/olympic-rings-peace.jpg" width="530" height="199" /></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>PEACE PARKS MUSIC MOVEMENT</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;">…<br />It is one of the ironies of life for the Peace Parks Music Movement that the current escalation of violence in the Gaza strip started on October 7th at a left wing peace music festival ... since then the barbarism of this war has escalated to genocidal proportions, claiming thousands of lives of children - civilian bodies piling up as the inhuman collateral damage of military power struggles over land, labour and oil. The call for Israel, the United States, UK, Germany, France and other western powers to halt their criminal actions against civilians with an IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE AND UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID must be heard by them so they stop their murderous attacks that are perpetuating hourly this unendurable suffering of 75 years of British, Israeli and American colonial apartheid, now in a crescendo of insane militarized state violence.<br />But we must stand up again in the spirit of one global community - Russians with Ukrainians, Israelis with Palestinians, black and white, old and young, men and women, rich and poor - and assert our global humanity over cruel national sovereignty. <br />https://destinet.eu/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme<br />Please set up your own Peace Parks Music Movement event to bring your communities together to find our liberation in this lifetime for all of us, but right now name those who need shaming and support those in urgent need of our voices and actions to create humane conditions for all civilians in Gaza.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;"></span><br /></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Peace Parks Music Movement - Background</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first event to launch the Peace Parks Music Movement programme was held at the Inner Peace Forest Retreat in the Algarve, Southern Portugal on June 21st 2022 where a Peace Garden was opened and a Day of Peace in the Community celebrated though poetry, music and dance. Our event attracted over70 people from 33 countries and we all wanted to live in the same peace and harmony, not in the conflict and misery our governments present us.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><img style="width: 800px; height: 600px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" src="../../../../images/img-8758.jpg" width="800" height="600" /></span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">UPDATE: Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors -</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>Peace Parks Music Movement</em> campaign</span> </p> <p><em></em><br /></p> <ul> <li>We held a launch event last year on 21^st June and to date we have without had responses to run  events in 10 different countries!  This includes Westminster UNA’s  offer to host an event in the UN Green outside the Houses of Parliament in the UK during the Paris ’24 Games</li> <li>Breda university plans to make this  part of their official student activities and may engage over 200 students in this work bring peace  and tourism activities together.</li> <li>The IIPT will support the action as a legacy project to mark the retirement of Mr Louis D’Amore, a life time high-level peace campaigner.  We link up our work with the IIPT’s own Peace Parks initiative in the Caribbean.</li> <li>In Zambia our Peace ambassador  Victor Mutanga  is using his musical talents to encourage peace,</li> <li>Armin Alic is bringing the programme to Bosnia to mark 30 years since that conflict,</li> <li>An event is being planned to take place in Ukraine itself to support sustainable recovery of their communities.</li> <li>Marek has produced 12 tracks for a peace album as the heart of our peace, music and education education work </li> <li>Peace Parks Playlist sitll has John Lennon's <em>Gove Peace a Chance</em> as number 1! </li> <li>We have formed a  small team  working to engage musicians around the world to link the peace and Truce issue and then mainstream the message over the next 14 months.</li> <li><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>We are calling for Truce in Gaza now! </strong></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peace+parks+music+movement"><img src="../../../../images/peace-parks-music-movement.png" style="width: 700px; height: 405px; margin: 0px;" width="900" height="521" /></a></span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Set up Your Own Peace Parks Music Movement Event!</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have made a  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXTW86FIao&amp;ab_channel=GordonSillence">Peace Parks Music Movement video</a> from the day that aims to encourage people in other countries to nominate a peace park or garden where they will hold an event to communicate the message of local to global peace built on individual, family and community economic, environmental and cultural security, not military-industrial autocracy. </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> By Paris 2024 we want all the countries of the IOC participating at the Paris Games who sign up for the United Nations Truce in July-August 2024 to be represented by peace park music movement events during this six week period of peace. </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Imagine, 140 Peace Park Music Movement events happening during the Olympic Truce in the summer of ‘24, each one celebrating local to global peace in our lifetime, sharing inner peace through community unity, and you are making it happen …</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please let us know if you want to set up an event in your country. There’s 3 easy steps to take:</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1  Send us an email to let us know you are interested</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>2  Identify a park where you can host an event</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>3  Develop an event programme for summer ‘24 that can include music and movement to celebrate peace and nature.</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>We will put your event on a global map and bring us all into a peace parks music movement global community. </em></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Contact:</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gordon Sillence: gordon.sillence@gmail.com</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Nicola Vitali:  0035 1932653 510  Telegram/Whatsapp</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Emma Ravelli: 0031 619 607616</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Marek: https://madmarekjuggler.bandcamp.com/track/peace-parks-music-movement</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"<em>We all need to do it personally when its clear our nation states do not want it for society - they maintain nationalist identities in competition, when we are now becoming one global community, cooperating to build a peaceful, prosperous planet for all, with no-one left behind, remember... do not accept the military-industrial Agenda of the kleptocracy, but let's state our common Agenda for equality and peace with a global voice, together in truely Communitarian Democracy</em>."</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.................................................................. </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> ARCHIVE</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">21st June 2021</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first event to launch the programme will be held at the <strong>Inner Peace Forest Retreat</strong> in Southern Portugal, where a Peace Garden will be opened and a Day of Peace in the Community celebrated though poetry music and dance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A site will be built which will encourage people in other countries to nominate a peace park or garden where they will hold an event to communicate the message of local to global peace built on individual, familiy and community economic, environmental and cultura security, not military-industrial autocrary. By Paris 2024 we want all the countries of the IOC participating at the Paris Games who sign up for the United Nations Truce in July-August 2024 to be represented by peace park music movement events during this six week period of peace.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sunday 19TH  June 2024  </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PROGRAMME AT THE INNER PEACE FOREST RETREAT</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ALL DAY FOREST SCHOOL/YOGA COMMUNITY EVENT </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MORNING YOGA AND MEDITATION PROGRAMME  08.00am - 11.00 am  Yoga Teachers Unite!</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">OPENING OF THE PEACE GARDEN AT THE INNER PEACE FOREST TEMPLE  11.30-12.00 noon</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(World Yoga Day and Solstice Celeberation)</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PEACE GARDEN MEDITATION 12.-00 -13.00 HRS</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COMMUNITY LUNCH - WORLD FOOD THEMES (Bring a dish to share)  13.00hrs - 15,00 hrs</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AFTERNOON &amp; EVENING LIVE MUSIC  15.00 PM to Midnight: Mad Marek Juggler, Mina, Anisha Melody and more...</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Global video links to: (proposed) Rocky Peter, Victor Mutanga </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Olympic Truce Paris 24 Peace Message from Gordon Sillence - '<em>No Sustainability without Community, No Peace without Equality'.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>If you wish to organise a similar event in your country then link to us to offer support, join in or tell us know what you will do and lets' lead the Way to global peace on earth in our lifetime, together! Its the only way...</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact: <a href="mailto:Gordon.Sillence@Ecotrans.de">Gordon.Sillence@Ecotrans.de</a>  <br /></span></p> 2024-08-13T09:45:03Z tag:root.destinet.eu,2024-08-13:/demo-design/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme http://root.destinet.eu/demo-design/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gif ECOTRANS Tourism2030 tag:root.destinet.eu,2023-12-23:/demo-design/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme/tourism-war-and-peace-un-2030-agenda-implementing-sdg-16-or-scrapping-idea 2023-12-23T21:15:42Z Gordon Sillence Gordon Sillence

<p><em>This article is a reflection on where we really are on the path to sustainable development, highlighting the escalation of a globalized nationalist war economy as the major threat to tourism development and overall socio-economic and prosperity and environmental conservation. Underlining the imperative need to implement the just, equitable and peaceful value system of Agenda 2030, it argues for tourism stakeholders to take a moral and active stance on <strong>SDG 16 -Peace Justice and Strong Institutions</strong>, calling for the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) tool to become part of tourism stakeholders formal response to those countries and corporations involved in immoral and unjust economic and political actions, focusing on its immediate application to support a ceasefire in Gaza this Christmas. </em></p> <p>It specifically argues for  collective action should be to disinvest in Israeli companies and sanction their government through the EU and UN. Specifically these means working towards: <br /></p> <ul> <li><strong>Boycott travel to Israel on Air Israel and other air lines flying into Israel</strong></li> <li><strong>Cancelling all holidays to Tel Aviv and the Israeli coastline</strong></li> <li><strong>To ban Israel form participating at the ITB Berlin, Fitour and the London Travel Market and other travel and tourism trade shows</strong></li> <li><strong>To ban Israel from major sports events such as the Olympics</strong></li> <li><strong>Remove</strong> <strong>their vote in the UN general assembly to observer status.</strong></li> </ul> <p><br /> <br /> </p>

tag:root.destinet.eu,2024-06-05:/demo-design/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme/peace-parks-pizza-party-summer-peace-camp 2024-06-05T17:39:26Z Gordon Sillence Gordon Sillence

<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In this record year of global genocides  we have the opportunity to use the Olympic Truce - called for every Olympic Games  by the United Nations, to add our voices to the call to Stop teh War Now! The Olympic Truce will run all summer - from the start of the Paris '24 Olympic Games to the end of the Para Olympics in September.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> This <strong>Algarve Summer Peace Music Camp</strong>  runs from the 16th July to the 20th July and will highlight the start of the Olympic Truce on the 19th July with a peace celebration at the Pizza Party Algarve Southern Portugal.  Remmbering the 60s spirit of love and peace to end the Vietnam War, we  invite you to celebrate the start of six weeks of global peace during the Olympic Games with like-minded people from all nations, races and ages.  If we could just make a ceasefire happen in one country - Palestine - and stand up to our government‘s financial, military, industrial stranglehold on our culture - our global, One People, One  Human Tribe culture, beyond nationalism, inidividualism and material selfishness.   Come along and join our call to our <em><strong>Stop the War - Ceasefire Now.</strong></em></span></p> <p><span></span><br /></p>

tag:root.destinet.eu,2024-08-12:/demo-design/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme/paris-24-olympic-games-war-injustice-weak-institutions. 2024-08-12T17:55:44Z Gordon Sillence Gordon Sillence

<p><strong>Ambassadors Network</strong></p> <p><strong>Release Date 12.08.2024</strong></p> <p><em>A magazine length article highlighting the reality of the Olympic Truce in the face of famine and propaganda </em>demonizing Russia and glorifying Israel<em> in another ‘panem e circencis’ (give them bread &amp; games) Olympics. ‘We are  crucially at the midnight hour of planetary Armageddon in our lifetime, and this a call to bring SDG 16 into your work and communities if you want to see any other sustainability goals met by 2030, and usher in a world of peace, justice and strong institutions.’</em></p>