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Press Conference was Thursday September 21
"International Day of Peace"
We announced plans to build:
“The Global Peace Museum” (ATL)

Andrea Kay Smith, Co-Creator of Partnerships In Peace, proclaimed:

“Mayor Franklin, you and Andrew Young inspired thousands by successfully leading civic, business, and government leaders of Atlanta to remove Dr. King’s Historical Collection of Papers from Sotheby’s Auction House and return them to his birthplace. Now please accept our invitation to speak at our September 21 press conference and lead in building of:
The Global Peace Museum (ATL)
Let's courageously seize this great opportunity to build
upon Atlanta's blossoming global peace-legacy! Now is a ideal time for establishing The Global Peace Museum (ATL) because it's the:
100th Anniversary of Gandhi's 1st Peace-Action (Birth of Peace Movement)
and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's 1st Peace-Action!
Mayor Franklin, you, along with Andrew Young,
Billy Payne, and all civic, business and government leaders

of the entire state of Georgia are now invited to be official

co-founders and co-creators. Please accept."

copyright © 2006 Atlanta: City of Peace
-- Peacemakers at "Atlanta's-World Wall for Peace" --
[Press Conference Sept. 21, 2006 announcing Global Peace Museum (ATL)]
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Great news... Atlanta is the best positioned city on Earth inspire the 80 peace museums of the world. Let's create"The World's Biggest Peace Museum" in Atlanta! Dr. Peter van den Dungen is Honorary Chair of our Global Peace Museum (ATL) Planning Committee. He was Professor, for 30+ years, at Univ. of Bradford, England's internationally-renowned Department of Peace Studies is also founder of The International Network of Peace Museums.

The Press Conference announcing our plans was held in observance of The International Day of Peace (celebrated globally by 1900+ organizations of 190 nations), and Atlanta-based Partnerships In Peace (PIP) also observed the 10th Anniversary of building Atlanta's World Wall for Peace (80' long x 12' tall). Greatly inspired by Mayor Shirley Franklin's leadership in purchasing Dr. King's Historical Collection of Papers, peacemakers of the Atlanta: City of Peace, Inc. and Partnerships In Peace, Inc. initiatives also announced plans to establish The Global Peace Museum (ATL) and requested Mayor Franklin's endorsement. Atlanta City Councilman-Jim Maddox attended.

The International Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations, and nations to create practical acts of Peace on a shared date. "Let's also support the 700+ other organizations registered world-wide with the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace: Years 2001-2010 [www.Decade-Culture-of-Peace.org]. The Global Peace Museum (ATL) Press Conference was at 6 PM in The 5-Spot parking lot (location of ATL's World Wall for Peace) in Little FIVE Points.

FACT: Dr. & Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. are great parental-figures for our entire Global Family and their widely respected legacies are more than civil rights and human rights. Founding Atlanta's Global Peace Museum will propel Atlanta's global peace-legacy and will also highlight the history of our entire Global Family (ALL nationalities) as we have experienced our odyssey towards Global Peace. Now is a great time in history to build the Global Peace Museum and Atlanta is the BEST place in the world to create it. Let’s courageously join energies to properly observe the 100th Anniversary of Gandhi's 1st Peace-Action (Birth of Peace Movement) and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's 1st Peace-Action. Even Dr. King, from the cold grave (with this powerful quote) still encourages us to remember Gandhi's globally-respected peace message of change and growth:

"Peace is the sweeter music…

Our lives begin to end on the day
we become silent about things that matter…

If humanity is to progress,

then Gandhi’s life is inescapable.

He lived, thought, and acted inspired by

the vision of humanity evolving toward

a world of PEACE and harmony.

We ignore him at our own risk!"

---Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Atlanta is an international city with 54 consulates from foreign nations; we have 1,800+ companies with foreign headquarters, also ~8,000 foreign students from 120+ countries, and we have 3 internationally respected centers of peace education (The Gandhi Foundation of USA, The King Center, and The Carter Center). Atlanta also has Coretta Scott King ("Our mother of the New America"--Congressman John Lewis) and three Nobel Peace Prize Nominees (Senator Sam Nunn, Dr. John Endicott, and Ted Turner). The Global Peace Museum needs to be developed in (what is fast-becoming): The Global Peace Cultivation District!

--- Host Architectural Organization Needed For ---
"Global Peace Museum-International Design Competition"

Atlanta Daybook Press Release:
http://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2006/09/15/450globalpeacemuseum.shtml 

Additional Information: ATLpeace@gmail.com

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