Press Release: For Release September 12, 1997

The September 16th Ringing of the Peace Bells at the United Nations will never be the same.

This years ringing of the Bells will be initiating a new sense of global awareness.

It will be the Launching of the World Citizenship Challenge.

It will be the Launching of the http://www.homeplanet.org Website.

It will be the launching of the IAEWP Children's Fund to raise $100 Billion Dollars for the Children of the World.

And what makes the ringing different this time? Why, when the bell have been rung at the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly for the past twenty two years?

Why? Because this year the bells are being rung differently. They are being rung by "we the peoples" of the world, not the Nation States. "We the people" was the original intention behind the united nations. Unfortunately, the United Nations does not represent "we the peoples" but rather it represents the Nation States. Nation States.

Nation States. What are Nation States. Who gives them the right to starve the children of the world? Who gives them the right to operate UNICEF with a meager $1 Billion dollar budget? Who?

When the Bells ring this Tuesday morning on the September 16th at the United Nations , they will be signaling a change in the consciousness of humankind. It will signal in the launch of the first initiative for the Global Commons. It will signal in the launch of the World Citizenship Challenge to raise 100 Billion Dollars for the Children of the World.

Organizations participating in this years Bell ringing Ceremony are: the World Peace Prayer Society (originators of over 100,000 peace pole ceremonies) participating in hundreds of schools worldwide, the World Peace Bell Society ( originators of over twenty cities with "Peace Bells"

The internet, the original security instrument for the military mind, is being turned into a plough share, to enable humankind to till the soil of the minds of children worldwide - to feed them, to provide healthy water, food and common core curriculum concepts that will move us to the next level of evolution on planet earth, which we the peoples of the earth, call HOME.

Monday September 15th. Luncheon at UN with Ambassadors from 185 countries hosted by the Peace Bell Society.

Tuesday September 16th: Ringing of the Peace Bells at UN - Ceremony by World Peace Prayer Society and several classes of students

At 12:00 noon: Ring Bells of Peace / Followed by: A prayer for Peace: say the words "May Peace Prevail on Earth" followed by a minute of silence.

Sing the song / Imagine / or Give Peace a Chance / or your Choice /

Additional Events:

Canada - various events

Czechoslovakia - Prague - students participating through IAEWP

Amsterdam - homeless in Amsterdam participating

Worldwide - Classrooms, communities ringing Peace Bell

New York PS 173 participating with whole school

Summary to be posted on www.homeplanet.org