Common Ground and Walk for Peace - Joseph Roberts

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Walk for Peace June 30^th– The Next Generation

30^th Anniversary 1982 – 2012

Vancouver’s Walk for Peace then and now

The year was 1982. Against the backdrop of the escalating nuclear arms race, 168 different groups cooperated to create Vancouver’s first Walk For Peace; 35,000 people gathered that first year, followed by 65,000 in 1983 and by 1984 we were 100,000 strong. We gathered at Kitsilano Beach forming a river of people that poured over Burrard Bridge to a concert stage at Sunset Beach. It was magnificent. A proud history for Vancouver and Canada. See our YouTube video with footage and photos from the 80′s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f80X5kp3CI

The Walk for Peace was exciting and inclusive. Children and teenagers walked with parents and grandparents, students walked with teachers, unionists walked with environmentalists and people of all faiths and all political parties walked together for peace. Our organizing principle was “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”

This is 2012. Thirty years later, we now stand at the birth of a new peace movement that we can create and grow. Come join us for the 30th Anniversary of Vancouver’s Walk for Peace, Saturday, June 30th, 2012. We are starting out at 12 Noon at Kits Beach, the same location as our first walk, then walking over Burrard Street Bridge to the entertainment stage at Sunset Beach 2:00 PM in the West End, as we did in 1982.

Get involved, volunteer, endorse or become a sponsor and let’s make this celebration as joyful as the first. You will discover you are not the only ones desiring peace; there are many more among us.

“Imagine all the people living life in peace, and the world will be as one.” – John Lennon

More information:

www.walkforpeacevancouver.org

live@commonground.ca

http://www.facebook.com/events/465189620165221/

Phone: Alastair Gregor or Joseph Roberts at
604-733-2215

Where we come from, and other secrets of the universe

Joseph Roberts

The year 1982 was huge for me. Against the backdrop of the escalating nuclear arms race, I found myself co-ordinating 170 different groups in Vancouver’s 1st Walk For Peace. Around 35,000 people walked that year, then 65,000 in 1983, and by 1984 100,000 had joined together. It was magnificent, history to be proud of.

The Walk for Peace created a new context because it was fresh, exciting and inclusive. Unionists walked with environmentalists, students walked with parents and grandparents. We were not marching to smash the state, but rather walking with dignity, living Gandhi’s words, “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”

Common Ground was born out of the spirit of these times. People had a need to connect with other people, to achieve something greater than they could by themselves. I believed anything was possible.

Twenty years on we now stand at the birth of a new peace movement, one that holds even greater potential. Our collective minds are being knit together more quickly through a powerful network of independent, activist web publications and journals like Common Ground. The organic, sustainable, fair trade, anti-globalization, peace and justice movements are awakening, joining, strengthening. Inspiration abounds.

Ethics commissioners are hammering politicians. Multinationals, with their government friends in Canada and USA, are squirming about corporate crime wondering where their morals went.

Meanwhile civil society in Vancouver just celebrated the 9th Annual Ethics in Action Awards where corporate social responsibility is honoured. Many large and small companies were nominated with six final award recipients: Capers, Little Sister’s Books, New Society Publishers, Small Potatoes, Thrifty Foods, and Whistler/ Blackcomb Mountain Resorts. Common Ground shared in their joy remembering when we received the Ethics in Action Award in 2001 for Ongoing Social Responsibility In Business.

…. see more at http://commonground.ca/about/

Common Ground and Walk for Peace – Joseph Roberts added by A R on June 27, 2012
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