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Monthly World Peace Lunch - July 2008
ANNOUNCING OUR SPEAKER FOR THE FRIDAY, JULY 18TH, NOON TO 1:15PM WORLD
PEACE LUNCH; NOTED HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY AND ASIAN REPORTER COLUMNIST
RONAULT LS (POLO) CATALINI WHO WILL SPEAK ON "MAKING PEACE IN IMMIGRANT
OREGON"; AT THE PSU UNIVERSITY CENTER RESTAURANT, 310 SW LINCOLN STREET;
LUNCH $13; AND MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
COME HEAR THIS INSPIRING SPEAKER, NO LUNCH RESERVATIONS NEEDED
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Making Peace in Immigrant Oregon
How Gandhi-ji did not die, where HH Dalai Lama's nation lives, and why
Dozono-san never loses.
By Ronault LS (Polo) Catalani
Polo's family was expelled as ethnic undesirables from the nascent nation
of Indonesia, lived briefly in Amsterdam than resettled in Salem. He is a
Fellow of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, and a Howard U.
Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, Washington DC. His practice is community law
among Portland's Asian, islander, Mexican, and Muslim families; he does
asylum and extractions in Southeast Asia. He is senior contributing editor
for The Asian Reporter, and the civic engagement guy at IRCO (Immigrant &
Refugee Community of Oregon).
www:MarginalButTrue.com
ronaultc@mail.irco.org
971.344.4177
A NOTE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ON WPI ACTIVITIES
Hello I am in Vietnam this week working on different issues. I hope to
engage the government of Vietnam in a series of world peace activities and
when I return home to Portland will fly to San Francisco to continue the
dialogue with the Vietnamese Consul General who was kind enough to give me
a visa, 10 minutes till 5pm on a Friday, even waiving the requirement to
have two pictures in hand.
I want you to know of a new initiative will be spending a lot of time on
in 2009 and the later part of this year:
1. We are initiating the building of Nobel Peace Laureate peace schools in
Afghanistan, India, North Korea, Uganda, and Vietnam. The schools will
serve as an antidote to the "child soldier movement" in the world today, a
horrible phenomenon as well as an antidote to the Taliban resinous schools
who teach the young and students hate, violence, and suicide bombing. We
feel the need for these peace schools are an educational movement that
must take place in the 21st century. One can logically draw the
conclusion that the educational system of the 20th century has failed
civilization in many ways. Mostly because it has not included the
teaching of basic moral values and training in basic spiritual values (not
religious values) such as forgiveness (no relationship can survive without
this value); compassion (His Holiness the Dalai Lama says this is what we
all are at our core; so education must nurture the inner self to bring
this out); reconciliation (we must teach children to reconcile conflict to
that they grow to be adults with these skills); self-sacrifice (there is
no getting around this value and in today's world of comfort, this value
is often ignored but Gandhi said "if you want to make great progress; do
not give speeches but be prepared for great suffering"; he proved this
point to the world); finally hope, we give wings to our hope and these
schools must be the wings to a new century.
2. We intend to bring together a Peace Tour of celebrities in 2009 to
visit Afghanistan, India, North Korea, Uganda and Vietnam. The Institute
is working on which celebrities now and the Tour will fundraise and build
peace schools in these five countries to begin with.
3. A Nobel Peace Laureate conference in Jerusalem which would bring
(invited) Shimon Peres, Betty Williams, Kim Dae Jung, and His Holiness the
Dalai Lama for a two day conference to apply President Kim's Sunshine
Policy to the Israeli Palestinian Conflict.
Please come to our September 5 & 6th events, see below, we need your
support and love for this work.
Peace & Love
Gary Alan Spanovich
Executive Director
REGISTER FOR OUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH SUMMER PEACE INSTITUTE; GLOBAL
HEALTH AND WORLD PEACE-THE INTERCONNECTIONS AND HOW TO ACHIEVE THEM-GIVE
WINGS TO YOUR HOPE AND FIND OUT HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
The Wholistic Peace Institute's: 2008 Summer Peace Institute: Global
Health & World Peace; How to Achieve Them & Their Interconnections
Friday, September 5, 2008; 8 AM to 5 PM; OHSU
Doernbecher Children's Hospital (Located at OHSU); Vey Conference Room on
the 11th Floor
Cost: Free To Full Time Students (ID Required); Free to Institute Members;
$75 for All Others
$10 Optional Box Lunch for All; Must Sign Up By September 1st for Lunch
Co-Sponsors: Doernbecher Children's Hospital at OHSU; Portland State
University; Physicians for Social Responsibility (1985 Nobel Peace Prize)
World Health and World Peace Speakers: Including the 1985 Nobel Peace
Laureate-Physicians for Social Responsibility; OHSU Physicians; PSU
Professors
Keynote Speakers:
1. Dr. Catherine Thomasson, MD, PSU; Current Board Chair, Physicians for
Social Responsibility (1985 Nobel Peace Laureate) Will Speak On "The
Health Effects of the Iraq War And What Could Have Been Done To Prevent
The War".
2. Dr. Thomas Koch, MD, OHSU, Chief, Pediatric Neurology, OHSU; "Achieving
Global Health through a Holistic Approach & the Merging of East and West".
3. Dr. Dana Braner, MD, OHSU, Chief, Pediatric Critical Care; "Achieving
Global Health through Dedicated Personal Humanitarian Service-Our
Individual Global Responsibility".
4. Geshe Kelsang Damdul, Religious Advisor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama;
"The Dalai Lama's Views on Peace Education for Students; and World Peace &
Global Health"
5. Dr. Robert Gould, Chair, Conflict Resolution Studies, PSU; "World Peace
Is Achievable".
6. Rabbi Joshua Stampfer; Board, Wholistic Peace Institute; "The
Inter-Connections between World Peace &Global Health".
7. Gary Alan Spanovich, Executive Director & Ali Koch, Press Secretary,
Wholistic Peace Institute; "Creating a Culture of Peace through Education;
Building Nobel Peace Laureate Schools in India, Afghanistan and Africa".
The Carver Nobel Peace Laureate School-Christy Carl-Administrator (A Local
Noble Peace Laureate School conceived by the WPI.)
ALSO PLEASE CONSIDER PURCHASING TWO TICKETS TO OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISER OR A
TABLE; VICE PRESIDENT MASOOD OF AFGHANISTAN IS OUR INVITED KEY NOTE
SPEAKER
Rooftop Fundraising Dinner and Concert at the Hotel deLuxe
729 SW 15th Avenue, Portland
Fundraiser for the WPI to Build Nobel Peace Laureate Schools in
Afghanistan, India, Africa
Saturday, September 6, 2008; 6 PM to 11 PM; Hotel Deluxe
6 PM to 7 PM: Appetizers & Open Wine & Beer Table
7 PM Dinner: Non-Vegetarian Selections & Vegetarian menu by Paul Wenner of
Gardenburger
Opening Blessing & Chant by the 7 Tibetan Monks from Gaden Shartse
Monastery, India
8:30 PM to 11 PM Music by Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer and His Band
Cost: $175 per Person to Help Us Build One Peace School in 2008; Tables of
ten-$1500
- Keynote Speakers & Honored Guests:
His Excellency Ahmad-Zia Massoud, Vice-President of the Islamic Republic
of Afghanistan will speak about the Need for Nobel Peace Laureate Schools
in his country to combat the Taliban & the Pressing of Children into Child
Soldiers.
- Music:
Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer and his band will perform
- Gourmet Food:
Dinner price includes appetizers and open wine and beer bar as
well as a selection of both fish, chicken and a vegetarian menu designed
by Paul Wenner, Founder of Gardenburger & Wholistic Peace Institute
Supporter.
- Desert:
NW Cheesecake; Coffee or Tea
PEACE,
Gary & Ali
Wholistic Peace Institute
PO BOX 1178
Portland, Oregon 97207
Phone: 503-266-8996
Ali: 503-830-0619
Fax: 503-263-4081
Email: worldpeace@canby.com
Web Page: www.wholisticpeaceinstitute.com
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