World March for Peace MARCHA MUNDIAL ECUADOR
MARCHA MUNDIAL ECUADOR – the World March for Peace is a real happening event and is going to take place in several different cities in Ecuador such as Tulcán, Otavalo, Cayambe and Quito and Guayaquil and Cuenca. In Riobamba and Loja, there will be events to accompany the march.
The March is going to be a part of almost 90 countries all over the country. The march will continue in Ecuador until 20 December and then move to Peru in Lima to continue on its worldwide journey and acclaim.
The aim of the World Peace March
The project called the World Peace March is based on the main idea and theme of non-violence. The entire world needs to be without boundaries and nuclear arms. There should be total nuclear disarmament, removal of conventional arms, and reduction in the countries of the world resorting to wars. The World Peace March will also focus on signing non-aggression treaty between nations and the resignation of governments to use war as a means to resolve conflicts rather than negotiating across tables. This is what is showcased on the official website of the World Peace March.
The march began on October 2 in New Zealand and ended in Argentina on January 2, 2010.
The movement that it followed included a tour of several cities, which included Beijing, Prague, Lisbon, Montreal, Toronto, New York and Mexico.
There have been summon-up characters representing each country in different fields, who will be the speakers that promote the event in their respective nations.
The World Peace March aims at bringing together people in the pursuit of human development. They also want people to become a part of the International Humanist Movement organization and get their rights by the use of non-violence.
The MARCHA MUNDIAL ECUADOR will be held on March 19 in the Ecuadorian capital to launch the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. There is bound to be a participation of various organizations, schools, institutions and individuals. The meeting will be held at 17:00 in the arch of the Circassian at Avenida Patria y Amazonas in the pursuit of generating a million minds for peace.
The MARCHA MUNDIAL ECUADOR is an initiative of the organization World without War that left New Zealand on October 2, 2009, which is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and has been declared by the United Nations as International Day of Non-Violence, and the end in the Andes (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010.
This is the first global march all round the world demanding an end to wars, nuclear weapons and the removal of all forms of violence from the face of the earth. In Ecuador, there have been several well-known personalities who have taken the initiative and have joined the MARCHA MUNDIAL ECUADOR, they are the likes Ivan Vallejo, Juan Fernando Velasco, Juana Guarderas and Rosa Maria Torres. At the international level there are people like José Saramago, Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama, Eduardo Galiano, Juanes, and more.
The joining of Ecuador for the World Peace March and its support of non-violence is certainly a great step in the right direction. The World Peace March has now got countries across the five continents that want to see a world without wars and brotherhood amongst the human race.
The president of the Legislative Committee, Fernando Cordero, after a meeting with the international coordinators of the Global March said that the accession of Ecuador was certainly a proud moment.
The other important people are Rafael de la Rubia, international coordinator of the initiative, the Chilean Thomas Hirsch, to Latin America, and Jose Salcedo, Ecuador organizer of the activity, among other delegates.