On this page: Postcard 1999 /
TreeIsland meeting August 1998 / Hague Appeal for Peace May
1999 with rainbow and Millennium
Meal / UNO Income
for all Mankind / Creativitals
(still in preparation)
This postcard design for
1999
was a plea to find the
fitness needed to realize many many creative and uniting events,
leading to a peaceful and sharing /caring spirit for the millennium
to come.
Illustration by Luiz Yudo, concept © 1986/1998 by Freed
Schmitter / Aurelio Toscani
Interested in our creative power? Contact via
Typos Concepts,
P.O. Box 63123, NL-1005 LC Amsterdam, phone /
fax +3120 - 6839606
To create (or find those created by others*) unique new
transformative symbols that explain or make understandable the human
unity in a simple way is my main concern. A symbol / logo / picture
is communicating in a more profound way than words. Therefore i
mainly focus on developing visually appealing signs of unity, which
at the same time transmit positive energy. The PLANETWORK
logo of the index page and shaded
here in the background is considerably my best proof until now. See
the net2 and the @ section for further examples.
* This awesome design is called the Earth Flower (South and North). It is presented and explained in detail in the 'Tree
Island' book. Perceived by the author
Linda Grover and designed by Robert Bernard (as i understood).
Click on the banner above, You
may alternatively order the book via http://www.amazon.com or http://www.barnesandnoble.com or http://www.frontstage.com or via us (temporarily, only locally).
The Earth Flower is a visual
expression of the core project presented in ''TreeIsland':
January 1st 2000 as a
day of peace, and everyone on Earth will have a meal to share.
To realize this, a
collaboration and linking-up between a huge number of people and
organizations is essential. To facilitate such a gigantic task,
the world would be divided in the 24 natural time zones. Each one
of these 24 time zones consists of money-rich and culture-rich
countries / counties, oceans and a piece of Ant-/Arctic. Seen in
this perspective, new challenges and new opportunities are ahead
for all.
Many new friends i met in
the USA at the Tree Island Day500 Gathering co-hosted by Linda
Grover and Hillel Schwartz:
Ken Kalb http://www.lightshift.com, Kate Lutz
http://www.light2000.com, Steve Diamond and Bob Silverstein
http://www.oneday.org, http://www.oneday.net; Michael Contardi / John Francis
representing http://www.peaceday2000.com, Javier Creus from
Barcelona http://www.wam2000.org, Marv Lyons at http://www.gaialink.com, sometimes, you can find on his
site more fine photos of the Gathering like this one:
Peter Rosen's various projects: http://creativity.net, Zeren Earl representing
http://www.firstnightintl.org, Laurence McGilvery's enormous
literary attempt with the http://www.countdowncalendar.com, Fred Stern the Rainbow Man, Alan Moore the butterfly and peace action man at
http://prop1.org/protest/bga/, Catherine Margerine of
Milenio, Ed Elkin representing
Planetary
Activation Organization and Jean Hudon's Earth Rainbow Network, Peace Pilgrim II via
http://www.pilgrim2.com, Tom Esakin for
Vancouver2000.bc.ca, Beth Skye of Magical Child Foundation, Greg Wright promoting the
Millennium Snapshot and Globalideasbank, Jeff Reiss representing Peace Poles, Ed Johnson of Eco-Communications Intl, Ed Rippey presenting
Earth Charter, George Heiner and Lane Brechbill for
http://www.club2000.com, Christopher Murray of Catalyst
Youth Network, Penny McManigal's Weaving the Dream, not to forget the Millennium People's Assembly
Network,
Peace
in Prison,
etc.
Crescent Diamond, Ron Taylor for LightOn Video Prod. and David
Lionel did a video documentation of the event. Numerous helpers,
representatives, school children of Klamath Falls, plus
delegations of the Klamath Tribe did contribute to an event that i
will always remember with joy and gratitude. Browsing the
Planetwork.org site, you will find many events and projects that i
came to know of from the contacts during this first
meeting.
The participant who
traveled the longest distance was Yermentay Sultanmurat from
Almaty, Kazakstan. Several times we have met again, in
May/September 2000 he published a booklet: 'Transformation of the
World' presenting the
concept of a wise people's self government DAKHAB.
top 
i envisioned that the
'Tree Island' project could be launched internationally at the
Hague Appeal for Peace (11-15th May 1999), a world-meeting to
honour the 100th anniversary of the first International Peace
Conference in The Hague.
Linda Grover
is living presently (beginning 2000) in the vicinity of the
Capitol in Washington DC. As a former congress woman, she is now
lobbying in the White House. The official Y2K advisor of the White
House declared to be very sympathetic to the project. A Millennium
/ Y2K Washington DC network with some 300 organizations formed.
Talks with the Vice-President, his wife, the President of the USA,
the First Lady, and Congress members have taken place, see now
website http://www.millenniummeal.org.
top In May 1999, Linda Grover
was in the Netherlands. We prepared the international launch of the
Millennium Meal during the Hague Appeal for Peace. Several of the Klamath Falls
gatherers were present (besides Linda): Fred, Bob, Peace Pilgrim
II, Ed, David, Catherine, Bruce, Freed, and Rob Wheeler, Lois
Nicolai, etc.
Report Hague
Appeal Rainbow / Millennium Meal launch:
On Wednesday 6th May,
a short article appeared in the free newspaper of the Hague 'de
Posthoorn' to announce the above-mentioned rainbow. On Friday,
Fred and i had an appointment with the Fire department in the
Hague to make a selection from the necessary materials. Caused
by a moment of miscommunication, an accident happened.
Fortunately, it turned out to be not grave in the end.
Rehearsal was on
Saturday afternoon. Due to Mystèr TV (now Kleurnet, an
Amsterdam Cable TV station by Luc Sala - http://net.info.nl), this successful rainbow was
documented.
Thanks to the support
of Luc Sala (press releases, adresses, etc.) some press
representants were present on Tuesday afternoon: the NOS (Dutch
TV), a Hague Appeal for Peace camerateam, and others. We
experienced an impressive rainbow in the beautiful park, shared
with about 100 witnesses.
The next day we were
rewarded by a huge picture (similar to the one above, of course
in much better quality) on the frontpage of the 'Volkskrant',
one of the biggest Dutch newspapers. The following day, 100
cabbage butterflies were released as a sign for peace and
transformation. The 'Butterfly man' Alan Moore could not make
it to the HAP, i had to collect the butterflies personally,
alas they were not yet present at the rainbow event.
The 'Millennium Meal' had a rememberable start on
Tuesday, when 4.000 sweet buns were arranged on a huge table (see
Artist's impression below) in the form of the continents. Everyone
could eat and share a 'krentenbol' while learning about the
project. A Latin-american music group helped to draw
attention.
We as the Amsterdam supporting group (Chris, Marijke, Dré,
Freed, and others) were striving to find ways to realize this
biggest project ever, starting January 1st 2000, to enhance and complete the UN-sanctioned
Day of
Peace. It headed the
UN International Year of a Culture of Peace. The period 2001 to
2010 has been declared the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and
Non-violence for the Children of the World. It will be wise to benefit from
this extraordinary opportunity as much as possible.
Dr Robert Muller
recently was proposed
as a Nobel Peace prize candidate for 1999 (the Belgian / Dutch
organization Médecins sans Frontières / Artsen
zonder Grenzen was laureated instead). 50 years of unceasing work
for Peace would have been appropriately crowned finally. He is the
one Assistent-Secretary-General wo served under not less than four
Secretary-Generals in the United Nations!
Via the 'Authors for a
positive Millennium' he is involved closely in the 'Millennium
Meal' project. He was the first to sign the spectacular Millennium
Meal table (located near the entry to the Congress Center) on
Tuesday 11th May and during the Hague Appeal, a few moments before
the rainbow event.
top Find out more about the Hague Appeal for Peace
at:
http://www.haguepeace.org and at: http://www.ipb.org/hap
More background info: http://www.ialana.org
Mon and Tue 17th-18th May,
the Official
Governmental Meeting took place in the 100 years old Peace Palais /
International Court of Justice.
Parallel to this, a Spiritual Conference 'World Peace - Inner Peace' with magnificent
contributors happened nearby in Noordwijkerhout, from 18th to 20th
May 1999. (info at http://www.healingarts.net/hspaat/hosp99.html, and via St. Davidhuis Rotterdam,
tel. +3110 - 412 3442, e-mail: davidhuis@hetnet.nl ). This event was initiated by
aforementioned Robert Muller, see http://www.robertmuller.org .
The
United Nations of
Youth UNOY (read:
You Know Why) organised on 6 - 16 May in the context of the HAP its
'2nd Global Youth Peace Conference: Empowering Youth in non-violent
Conflict Resolution, Reconciliation and Building Cultures of
Peace'.
UNOY, phone
(+31)299 - 436093. e-mail: unoy@unoy.org
and via their reconstructed website: http://www.unoy.org
Solutions to burning questions: Via Internet, the many individuals
who all have a part of the puzzle can connect. This website
PLANETWORK.ORG is set up to play a role in this and serve you.
An example worth to know of: The UNO Income for all Mankind has an unusual approach for a new
world economy. In this plan of Pieter Kooistra (who died in 1998), an
additional income of 250 UN dollars is created for every citizen of
Planet Earth. Find more details at: http://www.uno-inkomen.org.
I imagine a combination with the UNILETS plan that was presented in
May 2000 during the Millennium Forum in New York. (see recent)
Soon here: the first CREATIVITAL:
(animation still in preparation - are you interested to
help?)
(This page slightly updated: 11 February 2002)
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