Originally published on the CGS blog on November 24, 2009.
GlobalSolutions.org is excited to announce our partnership with Global Family Day this holiday season. At a time in history when we have never had more need for human unity, we can all recognize a practical new tool for peace and sharing that the US Congress and the UN General Assembly have both adopted. What binds us together as true GlobalSolutions.org is our strong belief that we are all, everywhere in the world, connected as members of the Global Family.
In this vein, on January 1st, 2010, we will recognize and celebrate Globalfamily Day, One Day of Peace and Sharing for all faiths, cultures, races, nationalities and economic classes. During the 48 hours of January 1st, 2010, we will break bread together, ring bells, and pledge to find non-violent solutions to all our problems in the year ahead. Celebrate with your friends, your families, your neighbors, your co-workers, and ask them to do the same. Holidays are society’s most powerful tool to inspire and unify individual groups and we will use Global Family day to remember that we are all part of the global family and to remind our leaders that we need global solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.
On January 1st, at the start of the United Nations Year of the Planet, let’s all gather at our electronic hearth and celebrate life on earth together. Let’s replace hate and hunger with peace and sharing, and begin to unite our global family. Please sign the petition to ask President Obama to celebrate Global Family Day this January 1st and remind us that we are all part of the Global Family.
A little more about Global Family Day Founder, Linda Grover:
Linda has devoted many years of her life to making real her children’s idea of creating a unifying holiday for all people each January 1. Born in New England, daughter of an inventor and an poet, and raised in the military family during WW2, Linda developed a keen early interest in politics and human rights. Completing high school with honors in Las Vegas at 15, (the same year she won the city’s highest beauty award) she worked as a secretary, migrating to Washington, DC at age 19, where she became California congressman Sam Yorty’s DC legislative aide. At 21, she became Clerk of the House Indian Affairs Subcommittee. Grover also worked for the National Committee for an Effective Congress and as a caseworker for the International Rescue Committee following the Hungarian revolution.
GlobalSolutions.org is so excited to be working with Linda on this project and hopes to continue her amazing years of work on creating a global day of peace and harmony.
