New authors: 8:

Poet, Dr Mona Gamal El-Dine, France,

Writer Robert Weir, USA,

Professor Charles Mercieca, USA,

Poet Tatomir Ion-Marius, Romania: he translated the Calendar o­n the Romanian language

Poet Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan: he translated the Calendar o­n Urdu,

Lawyer Alexander Verbitsky, Ukraine: he translated the Calendar o­n the Ukrainian language

Journalist Natalie Sidorova, Russia

Professor Ammar Banni from Algeria

New Dates: 11

New Statements: 5

New Languages: 3 – Ukrainian, Romanian and Urdu

New Countries: 3 – Ukraine, Romania and Pakistan

Total o­n February 15, 2007 the Harmonious Era Calendar have:

Authors: 35

Dates: 38

Statements: 24

Languages: 15

Origin Countries: 15

On behalf of the site authors I express everyone, who has brought in the additions into the Harmonious Era Calendar a deep gratitude and high appreciation for your contribution. The special gratitude and appreciation I express his translators o­n the new languages: Tatomir Ion-Marius, Muhammad Iqbal and Alexander Verbitsky for their great work for social harmony. I offer to recognize behind them the Highest Site Honorary Title "Creator of World Culture of Harmonious Peace", if not will be the site authors objections, and officially to announce about this o­n June 21 as the Global Harmony Day o­nHarmonious Era Calendar.

Dr Leo Semashko
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1.Tatomir Ion-Marius of Romania suggests  2 dates, Statement and the Calendar translation o­n Romanian:

Tatomir Ion-Marius of Romania, peace activist and poet, suggests 2 dates to the Harmonious Era Calendar:
6 February as the Global Day of Friendship with The Animal World - to promote in a special way the friendship with the animal world o­n this day, and to reject their torture and experiments o­n them and 
7 May as the Global Gratitude Day, dedicated to the feeling of gratitude, for all the wonderful gifts provided to mankind by the Universe. He suggests also for the Harmonious Era Calendar, to include the International Day of Peace, which was established by the UN resolution to be celebrated each year o­n 21 September.

Tatomir Ion-Marius

About Peace and Harmony

We are looking for solutions to the burden of war, hatred and conflicts we inherited as results of the past centuries. Major changes are taking place,and we are blessed to notice that mouvements for Peace and reconciliation are winning the hearts of the peoples,which join them with untold joy,hope and enthusiasm.

Nothing will can stand in the way of their dreams, of their will for Peace, which increases second by second, day by day. From different walks of life,from different levels of social existence, their souls yearns for Peace,and all the separating walls are falling to let free way to the understanding and brotherhood,to the o­neness and cooperation.

In the dark age of the division and enmity,hatred and intolerance, peoples were reminding daily the objects of their hatred,celebrating the wars,to find reasons in continuing the fight,to march o­n the senseless path of pain and suffering. Many childrens and innocent beings died in this race, and many lives were crushed. In the name of the childrens, we are sealing forever those dark chapters of the history, with our comitment to forgive and embrace the healing love and Peace.

We are decided to forget all the evil, to not give him chances to come back and grow, and we will plant reminders of peace, Peace Poles containing the universal prayer and message : May Peace Prevail o­n Earth! I believe that the message and universal prayer May Peace Prevail o­n Earth transcends all differences of ideologic,religious or ethnic appartenance,and ties together all the peoples of mankind in the ideal of Peace.

Together we will create the Harmony o­n all the existential levels. We will look in the Harmonious Era Calendar with joy and will remind daily the duty to build a society of Peace and tolerance,for the sake of our childrens and for the future generations! Peace from Harmony is the heritage of the coming generations! May Peace Prevail o­n Earth!January, 2007

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2.Muhammad Iqbal of Pakistan offers o­ne date and the Calendar translation o­n Urdu

Muhammad Iqbal, peace activist and poet of Pakistan offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar the India and Pakistan Reconciliation Day o­n the date of  birth of the common spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhiin October 2, 1869. January, 2007

 
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3.Ammar Banni, Professor of French language from Algeria offers o­ne date and the Calendar statement

Professor Ammar Banni from Algeria offers to include in the Harmonious Era CalendarDay ofLovers o­n February 14.

Ammar Banni

Harmony and Cultural Diversity

The Harmonious Era Calendar: The quality of Social Existence and Future of Children (2006) represents a new cultural dimension of peace. Its joint authors meet to discuss, exchange, expose their opinions o­n the cultural, religious, social and information questions. It will allow these researchers to carry the strong points of the social harmony for the future generations, and the weak points of the culture of the wars, hatred, which enjoy a favorable statute in the current society.

Vis-a-vis with this worrying situation, the universal harmony of an information society will take over. It will receive the vast samples of very varied ethnic groups which contribute the cultural richness in children and young people.Social harmony will be a symbol of diversity in its broad but common movement. The pluralistic internal is in the heart of the harmonious external. This internal animates the future project of social harmony. However peace for a long time based its concept o­n a fictional and sacred o­ne-dimensionality, which allows to understand a traverse of history and its consequence.

A new prospect intends to articulate unit and diversity thanks to the availability of universal information. o­ne of the tasks of harmony today is to ensure cultural diversity and the opposite to social monoculture. But today social harmony remains while o­nly by phrase or slogan for a cultural diversity. Why harmony dogma is fruitful there? And main question: how to apply harmony? How the clean culture of harmony must be articulated with the universal educational cultures, and various individuals and organizations?

A priority task is that the harmony will serve for a rise and blooming of children in all areas of the world. That it found a confirmation in the various actions of the international organizations. Thus I would wish that the harmony make it possible to consolidate a dialogue, made the mutual respect and friendship, to keep cultural diversity cultural as a base of the human societies o­n the five continents. The harmony develops cultural riches. But the challenge of harmony is veiled.29/01/07

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4.Dr Charles Mercieca from the United States offers 1 date:

Dr Charles Mercieca from the United States offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar a new date: "Global Leadership of Social Harmony Day" o­n October 30, when in 2006 China has accepted the unprecedented decision "building a society of social harmony. 27/01/07

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5. Lawyer Alexander Verbitsky, Ukraine, offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar two dates, statement and Calendar translation o­n the Ukrainian language.

March 1 as the Reverence Day. It is day of admiration before Life, reverence and deep respect of the World, its unique harmony, environmental nature, all peopl and nations, children, youth and old humans, women and men, Human as creator of harmony, human culture and its highest spiritual values o­n the Earth.

December 31 as the Global Thanking Day. It is day of gratitude of all people for gift given the human to be and to create o­n the Earth harmony of the world. The gratitude and thanking is a quality of the cultural and harmonious human, who understands dependence of the life from all natural and social environment.27/01/07

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6. Natalie Sidorova, journalist, chairman of club "Paradise" from St.-Petersburg offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar 1 date: January 13 as the Earth Paradise Day. January 13, 1980 in a private apartment at the centre of St. Petersburg the club of creative and harmonious dialogue was born. It united the people of the most different trades and ages. This club is a original urban island of harmony, where the people communicate in home conditions, being together pleased and helping each other. Since then much has exchanged, our children and grandsons have grown but harmony feeling at meetings remains constant. We would like to distribute this feeling o­n other people in the different countries and consequently we offer to include January 13 as the Earth Paradise Day in the Harmonious Era Calendar. 16/12/06

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7. Robert Weir, the writer from USA offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar the following statement

Robert Weir

A People’s Campaign for Peace in the United States

Peace is often in the news today, almost as much as its diabolical antithesis – war. While politicians postulate, violence continues, innocent civilians die and citizens around the world pray for peace. But war contorts those supplications into cries of pain, agony, suffering, anger, frustration, sorrow and grief.

So, where are peace, harmony and happiness for which people clamor? Where is “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” that the founders of my country, the United States of America, espoused? Where, in my government, do we have a paradigm of peace?

Certainly not in the oxymoron “peace through strength,” as espoused by President George W. Bush, for that phrase is symptomatic of bullying. Certainly not in the manufacture and use of bombs, missiles, bullets and tanks that blaze and rumble through Iraq and Afghanistan, through Palestine and Israel. Certainly not in tribal warfare of Africa where the death toll goes mostly unreported by mainstream media. Certainly not in ceasefire rhetoric that produces minimal results.

Where is the paradigm of “peace through understanding” that comes from truly listening to another person’s point of view? Where is the joy that comes from “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” whether that neighbor is the person next door, a homeless person across town, or a fellow human being in Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, China, North Korea, India or Africa? Where is the realization that we – all of us o­n Earth – are connected as o­ne global species?

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA – where I live – weekly peace vigils have been held at the U.S. Federal Building since before the Attack o­n Iraq in March 2002. Other vigils in another part of my community protest the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that began in July 2006. And a vigil was held in a city park o­n August 9 to commemorate the lives lost due to the nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 61 years ago.

In addition to these vigils, another force is active within my country and elsewhere in the world. That force is a campaign to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace within the U.S. federal government.

The Department of Peace movement exists as proposed legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and in the U.S. Senate, introduced by Senator Mark Dayton. The House Bill has 75 co-sponsors. The Senate version has o­nly two so far, but that number will increase during this 2006 Senatorial election year as the issue of war versus peace rises to the top of political debate. Thousands of people are involved with the Department of Peace campaign throughout the United States.

The movement exists in other countries as well. The first international People’s Summit for Departments of Peace took place in London, United Kingdom, in October 2005. Forty people from 12 countries participated in the two-day summit. Currently, citizens in 20 nations have initiated actions to establish a Department of Peace within their homelands.

Author-speaker Marianne Williamson initiated The Peace Alliance, which is the campaign’s principle grassroots support organization. “The o­nly two forces more powerful than any bomb are love and hate,” Ms. Williamson said, “and love triumphs hate.” Ms. Williamson reminded that we live in a new century of enlightened thinking where fear and oppression can and must be replaced with understanding, love and forgiveness. That is the destiny of our species if we are to survive.

We also learned that Congressman Kucinich originally wrote the Department of Peace legislation prior to the September 11, 2001, attack o­n the World Trade Center in New York City, not simply as a deterrent to international warfare, but in response to the need for nonviolent resolution of domestic and community violence within the United States.

While the War in Iraq, for example, has cost U.S. taxpayers over $300 billion in four plus years, the cost of domestic violence within the U.S. is $300 billion annually, according to the World Health Organization. Health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. There are 31,000 gangs in the U.S. and the rate of youth homicide in my country (11.0 per 100,000 people) is more than ten times that of other industrialized nations; the second and third highest rates are 0.9 and 0.8 per 100,000 in the United Kingdom and Germany, respectively.

Clearly, U.S. citizens live in a violent society. This barbaric paradigm was created with old thinking, shoot-em-up gunslinger thinking, bring-em-on and beat-em-up thinking, my-dad-can-whup-your-dad thinking, I-win-and-you-lose thinking. That thinking has killed 100 million people, worldwide, in the last 100 years.

We give peace a chance. Serving as a complement to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Peace would be the primary political instrument to bring the peace paradigm into greater human consciousness, and it would bring the voice of peace to the U.S. President’s highest advisory Cabinet.

I strongly encourage you to please get involved in a peace campaign – regardless of what country you live in. The organization within the United States that is most responsible for establishing a Department of Peace here is called The Peace Alliance; the web site is www.thepeacealliance.org. Other countries have similar organizations and campaigns. If your country doesn’t have a Department of Peace campaign, start o­ne.

Robert Weir

District Leader for the Department of Peace campaign in Southwest Michigan, USA. Writer. E-mail: robtweir@aol.com, web site, www.robertmweir.com.

September 28, 2006

http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=239

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8. Guy Crequie, poet and the philosopher from France, offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar two dates: Fathers' Day o­n June 19^th and Mothers' Day o­n second Sunday of May

Guy Crequie

For an Epoch of Harmonious Peace in a Society of Information

Creative education of values to the future generations

Statement for the Harmonious Era Calendar

Eleanor ROOSEVELT wrote o­ne day: « If we want our revolutionsscientific, economic and social to be successful, we shouldprepare ourselves for the revolution of education which will be inevitable if wewish to face up to new conditions, to understand them andcontrol them. Without a completely new approach of education, ouryouth will not completely be equipped to confront the future world. »

It seems to me that the calendar for a new epoch conceived by international authors and conducted by Leo SEMASHKO, registers in this perspective of the world without wars and dialogue between civilizations.

For his part, the great violinist YÉHUDI MENUHIN, undoubtedly o­ne of the greatest of the twentieth century, in a essay called: "Citizens of the world " declines 4 essential qualities for a humanist practice of the social relationships:

- Be responsible for what occurred in the past, as much as what will take place in future,

- Be aware of a geographical space, transcending national borders,

- Have an acute conscience of all creation, of all demonstrations of life,

- That every citizen of the world has belief and respect for his specific humanity.

The present education system in every country with its particularities is however inserted, dated, in a legislative and regulatory environment defined by the State in given political, economic, social, cultural conditions.

As wrote the teacher of education Tsunesaburo MAKIGUCHI, happiness characterizes the existence of o­ne who can entirely acquire and create a harmony between social and individual values.

Next to the three powers: legislative, executive and judicial, there should be a specific authority within the United Nations I mean: « the United Nations of education »

It seems to me that it is a similar proposal which every year, January 26th mister Daisaku IKEDA, addresses among his annual proposals to the general secretary of the UNO.

In the present world, 860 million adults are still illiterates, 121 million children do not have access to school, therefore the importance of the campaign "Education for all" which is backed by the UNICEF.

The UNICEF in its report "The state of the children of the world" reminds us of the emergency to reduce military expenditures. 4 days of fewer military expenditures every year per country before 2015, this measure would allow all children of the world to achieve primary school.

In my work « The humanist challenge of an ordinary citizen (for a dialogue between civilizations) - editions The Manuscript, Paris December, 2005, I added that education must aim at 3 objectives: teach, think, undertake.

To end this short contribution, regarding the calendar of the epoch of harmony, I think that the day of January 1st of every year is that of happiness. It goes beyond the global golden rule of religions day.

Edited by Claude Veziau

October 20, 2006

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9. Leo Semashko behalf of the site authors offers in the Harmonious Era Calendar o­ne more date: "Global Harmonious Community Day" o­n February 15 in honor of the opening our International site “Peace from Harmony” February 15, 2005. Our site united for two years about 200 people of harmony from 33 countries of the world. This date will be the best monument for our site and his authors.
February 11, 2007

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Leo,

Your Harmonious Era Calendar is a grand idea.Thank you for offering me this opportunity to edit your letter to PresidentPutin.While editing, Ilearned much more about the Calendarand about you. I absolutely love your statement: ”make the year to be so full ofcelebration that there remains no more days for war, enmity and humiliation.” Iam delighted to know you.Have I told you that Iam among the many UnitedStates citizens who are working to establish a high-levelDepartment of Peace within the U.S. federal government? I think wecan make it happen – not soon, but eventually. There are also Department ofPeace initiatives in Canada and other countries. Perhaps,we will be able to add a “Department of Peace Day” to your calendar. …………………….

Robert Weir

June 29, 2006

Dear Robert,

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I very much like your activity o­n an establishment of a Department of Peace within the U.S. government and your offer to add our Calendar by the appropriate date. Please, look as it has made others in our Calendar and send me the appropriate text with date of Day of Peace Department. We shall include it in a new edition of our Calendar. I also wait your short bio and your statement (on o­ne page) for Calendar.

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Leo Semashko,

June 30, 2006

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