World March introduction

Friends, I will make a brief introduction about the “World March for Peace and Nonviolence”.
Beforehand I would like to thank the organisers for opening this Forum for the first public presentation about the World March in Europe. Soon there will be presentations for America in Buenos Aires, for Africa in Nairobi and the official launch that in one month from now will take place in Punta de Vacas at the foot of Mount Aconcagua.
How and why a World March ?… I will present some of the numerous reasons.
Because for many of us we don’t like what is happening. The profound crisis in which we are will have serious consequences, among others the increase of famine in the world.
However, hunger could be resolved with 10% of what is spent on weapons.
What could be done if 50% were to be used to improve the life of people instead of being applied to destruction and the benefit of a few ?
Because everyone already knows that conflicts and violence lead us down a blind alley, towards self-destruction and the abyss.
Because global problems have to be given responses at the same level, that is, global.
Because those who want peace are the vast majority. An absolute majority. And if we are in democracies, how is that this will is not respected ?
Because in this aspiration we are accompanied by the strength of the voices of so many previous generations that suffered the consequences of wars.
Maybe because there is nothing that unites all the initiatives in favour of peace and nonviolence that remain dispersed and diluted…
The moment has arrived to make the voices of those without a voice be heard ! We want thousands, millions of human beings to express themselves.
All of this we can achieve by uniting all social sectors through the World March.
For some this World March is madness. Others are enthusiastic. To the great majority it’s interesting, even necessary… but unachievable....

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