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We are on a pilgrimage for a future without

war. We do not come in the name of a reli-

gion or an ideology, but in the name of GRACE –

in service of reconciliation, opening and sup-

port. We are part of a global movement for a

free earth, which bears no flag nor does it be-long to any organisation. Instead it grows from

the international solidarity and cooperation of

all those who are today determined to leave the

system of violence and to create models for a

new culture of peace.

The current economic system of globalisation

uproots the whole humanity from its anchor.

The ecological and military destruction in the

outside corresponds to a boundless misery

inside the human being. Humans develop ina way which separates them from their home

and original embedding in the world. Values of

truth, trust and mutual support are destroyed.

The destruction of community caused a deep

wound in the human civilisation. This results in

the wars of our time, which are waged in a fe-

verish frenzy of killing and destruction.

We can no longer overcome the globalisation

of violence by moral appeals or political pro-tests. We need places where the original wound

of humanity is healed utilizing a model where

living systems are developed which reconnect

with the original values and the universal source

of community on a new level.

The Peace Research Village Tamera in Portu-

gal is such a place. Here social, ecological and

technological research compiles into a con-

crete vision for a future life. To carry the results

of this research into the world and to connectit with other initiatives, the “Global Campus“

was created. It is a kind of world university with

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GLOBAL GRACE DAY, 9th OF NOVEMBER 2010

bases on all continents in which the basis for a

global peace culture is researched, learned and

applied.

Today, we set examples of solidarity with all

courageous human beings, whose lives arethreatened daily, who are persecuted and im-

prisoned, because they speak the truth and

work for peace. In particular, we dedicate this

day to the Colombian peace community San

José de Apartadó, a rural community of 1500

inhabitants living in the North of the country,

who are severely threatened. The community

came together 13 years ago in order to create

an alternative of peace. Since then they have

not cooperated with any of the armed groups,

they do not tolerate any weapons and they areconnected in an unswerving ethics of peace.

However, the peace community is subjected to

massive persecution. In the last 13 years they

lost almost 200 members who were killed by the

military, paramilitary and guerilla. In the mass

media, they are accused of cooperating with

the guerrillas and are depicted as terrorists. The

international community, on the contrary, ap-

preciates the commitment of the peace com-

munity very much. In 2007 they were awardedthe Aachen Peace Price and nominated for the

Nobel Peace Price. We know that the slanders

are not justified. Colombia should be proud of

such a courageous and internationally acknow-

ledged initiative. By now the peace community

has become a symbol of hope for the nume-

rous suppressed and threatened forces in the

country – and far beyond its borders. In order

to support them, an international peace pilgri-

mage in the name of Grace is taking place at

the moment in the Colombian capital Bogotá,led by Sabine Lichtenfels (Tamera, Portugal)

and Padre Javier Giraldo (Bogotá).

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

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The power of community that we have seen

and experienced in San José not only gives an

answer to the situation in suppressed coun-

tries, but it concerns all of us, because we have

all forgotten what it means to live in community,

solidarity and charity. In addition to the openviolence in the crisis areas of the world there

is the – mostly hidden – human misery in the

Western societies which all live on the exploita-

tion and suppression of the poor countries. We

are all equally challenged to again understand

and embrace the power of community in its es-

sence as a global source of healing.

Today all over Latin America and in other parts

of the world the forces of a profound change

are sprouting. The creation of models for peace

could now become the trigger of a powerful,

non-violent revolution – a revolution without

losers.

More information:

Movement for a Free Earth • Tamera

Monte do Cerro • P-7630 Colos, Portugal

Ph: +351-283 635 484 • Fax: +351-283 635 374

Email: igp@tamera.org • www.global-grace-day.com

We invite you: Support these models, so that

they become known and therefore get the pro-

tection they need. Support them, so that the

truth about San José becomes known. Help

to save lives. On the 9th of November we are

coming together for the “Global Grace Day”:People from all over the world will connect in

solidarity with this growing movement in South

 America and in other parts of this planet. We

thank everyone who takes part in it.

The sacred matrix, the universal order of love

and union of all beings, still shines behind all

the pain. The goal of our work is to connect

worldwide with the powers of the sacred matrix

and to make a new human civilization possible.

May the blessings of God rest upon our work!

In the name of our children and in the name of

all creatures.

GRACE – Movement for a Free Earth