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August 6th, 2023: The peoples of the world demand peace and non-violence

On August 6th, we commemorate the nuclear massacre carried out by the United States in Hiroshima 78 years ago, against an unarmed civilian population. It was the first time such an extermination of this scale occurred and was repeated three days later in Nagasaki.

It marked the beginning of the global domination of the United States. No other State committed such a tremendous act of genocide with a nuclear arsenal before or after these events.
It also marked the following years (the so-called Cold War) in which power State armed themselves exponentially.

Today, the escalation initiated by U.S. military strategies, focused on NATO expansion to the east and the creation of new military alliances in the Indochina region, has provoked a bellicose response from Russia (war in Ukraine) and China (increased military pressure on Taiwan). This puts all the humanity at risk of nuclear conflict again, at a time when the United States is losing global economic control to other world players.

The arms industry, the largest industry, is the one for which United Nations Security Council member States spend the largest budget. Yes, those same States that should guarantee peace and possess the largest nuclear arsenal.

"Preventive" wars, for the "defense of strategic interests," "restoration of freedom and democracy," "free trade," "stability," and other lies seek to justify the use of weapons, and wars for money.
Money that seeks to reproduce itself through the global financial system, at the cost of misery, hunger, exploitation, marginalization, forced migrations, and genocides.

The global financial system deepens social inequalities by imposing certain areas of the planet to provide low-cost or semi-slave labor, plundering resources for the growth of their empire in others. Still, others are destined to become a "theater" of internal struggles, social and biological experiments, or continuous bombardments. In all cases, in violation of every human right.

The arms industry proliferates not only through "conventional" wars but also through control systems that governments use to monitor, control, and suppress populations when they rise up demanding respect for their fundamental rights.

This is the scale of values of this violent and anti-humanist system. The predominance of violence through weapons. Death over life.

The peoples of the world do not want this. They want to live in harmony and develop themselves free from injustice, revenge, and senselessness.

It is time to leave behind the decadent values of this system and build a new society.

In many parts of the world, humanists and many other communities will commemorate this date. To remember, but also to demand:

  • Adherence and respect for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by nuclear powers to free humanity from this deadly danger.
  • Cessation of armed conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy.
  • Reduction of the budget for armaments and armies and the use of this budget to ensure decent living conditions and respect for human rights in all regions of the planet.
  • Demilitarization, withdrawal of troops from occupied territories, and an end to economic blockades.
  • Fair distribution of wealth.
  • Planning and agreement of populations on the use of resources.
  • Cancellation of public debts and the creation of an interest-free banking system.
  • Active nonviolence as a moral force for a new planetary civilization already nested in the hearts of the peoples of the world.

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World communiqué on the pandemic

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Photo Miroslava Chrienova, Pixabay

The World Coordination Team of The Community for Human Development, in the face of the global health catastrophe that is occurring due to the COVI Pandemic, made even more evident in the very serious events that are happening to our brothers in India, Bangladesh, Latinamerica, Africa and many other places of this Universal Human Nation.

We make a worldwide call to all international organisms, social organizations and individuals to help in this critical situation and to act, as far as they can, to solve immediately this serious Pandemic that is devastating humanity.

We call for solidarity among individuals and peoples, convinced that there will be no future for anyone, if it does not belong to everyone and for everyone.

For all these reasons, we demand immediately:

1.  The release of patents on all vaccines.

2.  The massive production and urgent distribution of vaccines to the entire world population.

3.  The production and distribution of all pharmacological treatments and material means, essential to treat this Pandemic.

4.  The control of the world sanitary situation to the world organisms: UN, WHO, PAHO, etc. their coordination and the application of these and other measures, using the necessary means.

We are sure that:

THERE WILL BE NO FUTURE,

IF IT DOES NOT BELONG TO ALL AND FOR ALL.

Nothing more. Thank you very much.

 

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October 2, 2018 International Day of Non-Violence

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No Human Being is born violent, violence is not a destiny, it is an intention. The opposite intention is possible.

The Methodology of Non-violence is the only valid way to banish violence in the World.”

In 2007 the General Assembly of The United Nations (UN) established 2 October, day of Mahatma Gandhi´s birth, as the “International Day of Non-Violence”. So, this year we are celebrating its eleventh anniversary.

Violence in every conceivable form is spreading across the planet. Conventional wars, occupied territories, nuclear that could lead to a future nuclear catastrophe, famine, mass migrations, economic exploitation, crisis of millions of refugees, terrorist attacks, violence in schools, cities, homes, and violence also within people that is expressed as internal suffering and generates despair.

Violence, in all its forms, is a fundamental part of an individualistic and dehumanizing system whose methodology of action always generates more violence.

However, by observing the events of recent years, it is possible to see a way to solve the problem: the “Methodology of Active Non-Violence”

Non-Violence is a new sensitivity that beginning to be expressed in the growing opposition to different forms of violence on different continents and in large and small groups of people and even in individual actions.

Non-Violence is a methodology of action that promotes a profound individual and social transformation, placing the Human Being as a Central Value.

Non-Violence is a force capable of changing the violent and inhumane direction of current events.

Non-violence promotes a new internal and external attitude towards life, having as main tools:

  • Personal change, empowerment and internal development, and simultaneous social transformation.

  • The rejection of and void in different forms of discrimination and violence.

  • Non-collaboration with violent practices.

  • The denunciation of all acts of discrimination and violence

  • Civil disobedience against of institutionalized violence.

  • The organization and social mobilization, voluntary and supportive.

  • The development of personal virtues and the best and deepest human aspiration.

The Methodology of Non-Violence has been expressed in history with clear actions and developments in its attempt to transforms the world. Contributions such as those made by Leon Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and more recently by the Guide of Non-Violence and founder of the current of thought known as New Humanism, Silo.

The Methodology of Non-Violence is also expressed in the thousands and thousands of common actions that millions of people around the world promote every day. Organizations, groups of volunteers and isolated people who, with a spirit of solidarity, try to transform the situations of violence that exist around them.

Are signs of Non-Violence, sings of a new spirituality and a new solidarity.

Signs of a new personal and social horizon that we need to build. They are signs of a Non-Violent evolution of which everyone can be part.

Bit by bit is being understood that: “Without progress for all, there will be no progress for none”.

It is the right time to express the calm and powerful message of Non-Violence. A time of great need that we must express our best qualities to build a Non-Violence future.

Next October 2nd let us radiate with strength to the world the message that says:

The Methodology of Non-Violence is the only way out”

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October 2, 2017: International Day of Nonviolence

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“To become aware of, learn and produce concrete actions based on the Methodology of Nonviolence is the only way to banish violence from the World”

In 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) established the 2nd of October, the day of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, as the “International Day of Nonviolence”. So, this year we celebrate its tenth anniversary.

Violence strikes the world and spreads over the planet in the form of conventional wars, occupied territories, nuclear threats (that could lead to a future nuclear catastrophe), famines, massive migrations, economic exploitation, crises of millions of refugees, terrorist attacks, violence at schools, in the cities, in the homes, and violence also within people, expressing itself as internal suffering. Violence, in all its forms (physical, economic, racial, religious, moral and psychological) is a fundamental part of an individualistic and dehumanizing system whose methodology of action always generates more violence.

The solution to the problem of different forms of violence exists, and lies in applying a precise methodology: the “Methodology of Active Nonviolence”.

Nonviolence is a methodology of action that promotes a profound individual and social transformation.

Nonviolence is a force capable of changing the violent and inhuman direction of current events.

Nonviolence promotes a new internal and external attitude towards life, having as main tools:

  • Personal change, strengthening and internal development, and simultaneous social transformation

  • Rejecting and creating a void in front of  different forms of discrimination and violence.

  • Non-collaboration with violent practices.

  • The denunciation of all the facts of discrimination and violence.

  • Civil disobedience to institutionalized violence.

  • Organization and social mobilization, voluntarily and with solidarity.

  • The development of personal virtues and the best and deepest human aspirations.

The Methodology of nonviolence has been expressed in history with clear actions and developments in its attempt to transform the world. Contributions such as those made by Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, and more recently by the Guide to Nonviolence and founder of the current of thought known as New Humanism, Silo.

The Nonviolence Methodology is also expressed in the thousands and thousands of common actions that millions of people do daily around the planet. Organizations, groups of volunteers and individuals who, with a spirit of solidarity, try to transform the situations of violence that exist around them.

They are the signs of nonviolence, the signs of a new spirituality and a new solidarity. Signs of a new personal and social horizon, that we need to build. They are the signs of a nonviolent evolution of which each one of us can be a part.

It is the right time for expressing the calm and powerful message of Nonviolence. A moment of great need, in which we must express our best qualities to build a nonviolent future.

On the 2nd of October we will radiate a message to the world with Force that says:
“The Methodology of Nonviolence is the only way out”

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October 2, 2016 - International Day of Non-Violence

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Next 2nd of October we will radiate with force the message that says:

"Nonviolence is the only way out"

In 2007 the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) Organization, established October 2 as the "International Day of Non-Violence".

This coming October 2nd of October of 2016, finds our world immersed in a process of crisis, increasing violence and disintegration.

No region, no country, no group or person escapes this situation.

The escalation of violence and suffering is expressed in different ways, from the most abhorrent and cruel to the most hidden and subtle.

Regional famines, wars and conflicts, millions of refugees abandoned by the countries, permanent nuclear threat, cultural and ethnic wars, financial crisis, economic exploitation, growing unemployment and threats of all kinds seem to multiply in every corner of the planet.

At the same time, violence and suffering also invade rapidly the interiority of human being, submerging him/her into despair and life’s nonsense, and generating an increasing of mental illnesses, personal violence, madness, isolation, lack of communication and suicide.

It is false and illusory to imagine that these serious problems will be solved only by the action of governments or the sectors of the current world power that generated the crisis. It is required the reflection and decisive action of organizations and ordinary people who want to live in a better world.

Day after day, expressions of those who struggle to transform a violent and inhuman system multiplies: solidarity mobilizations of aid to refugees, war demonstrations against war in Europe, America and Asia, mobilizations of the "outraged" that oppose in all cases to the inhuman economic system that governs them; massive non-violent demonstrations of new generations to demand better education and social justice; all this added to dozens of activities that develop humanists around the globe, in their neighborhoods , universities and workplaces.

Nonviolent sensitivity is felt in the proposals of many organizations and individuals. From the community we welcome and encourage these enablers expressions of a non-violent future.
Today, more than ever, as we recall the 2nd of October as the International Day of Non-Violence, members of The Community around the world want to repeat the most important proclamation of this moment, which tells us:

"Nonviolence is the only way out"

"Non-violence" is physical nonviolence, economic nonviolence, religious nonviolence, racial nonviolence and psychological nonviolence.

We invite all friends and solidarity organizations to multiply our voices next 2 October. Let’s spread the message of non-violence with strenght in every corner of the planet.

Let the "shout" of good people, who aspire to live in a supportive and non- violent world, be heard. So the force of this shout will be multiplied to transform violence and suffering into peace, solidarity and joy. Like Silo, spiritual leader of nonviolence, said:

"... All I ask is that these tremendous forces that history triggers, generate a planetary and truly human civilization in which inequality and intolerance are forever abolished. Then, as an old book says: "the weapons will be turned into farming tools".

The Community (for Human Development)
Word Coordination Team
September 2016

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