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Whoever we are, where-ever in the World we are...we share many of the same common needs, issues and concerns. Basic needs such as clean air, potable water, sufficient food, shelter from the elements, kinship, a sense of belonging and purpose and the means to provide for one's family is universal. Humanity is one family... "In Community, common unity ...we are One". "Unity is the Heart of CommUnity!"
Celebrating over a decade of service! (1996-2008)  Since 1996, the World Unity Flag Mission is to provide an icon of ecological, social, cultural and spiritual respect; a co-creative, energetic symbol of co-operation, diversity and hope – A Flag, representing the essential unity, interconnectedness and interdependence of All Life. As we enter the New Year of 2008, we can look back in retrospect at the current and increasing awareness of the fragile balance and interconnectedness of the earth's natural systems. This awareness, this global awakening, compels us to end divisiveness and seek to find common ground. INTENTION: The World Unity Flag is foremost a co-creative art activity offered to the world community as an egalitarian way to provide a unifying symbol that recognizes and celebrates diversity and honours the collective wisdom. The hands-on group activity of making and painting co-created individual/ group Flags is an active metaphor, visibly reminding us: "how the common threads of our lives intersect and inter-connect and weave into the overall fabric of humanity...how our individual efforts (our little dabs of diversity add colour) co-create a much Greater whole and together...many hands make light work!" A symbol by merit of how it is made is inherently inclusive. Not "owned" by any body, representing no one perspective, making and/or displaying a World Unity Flag is a subtle and effective gesture of reconciliation and mutual support that communicates without words - spanning the boundaries of language, age, race, culture, gender, religion, politics or nation borders. Distributed about the World through the natural networks of human networks, the World Unity Flag is a reminder of the natural systems, air and water, how they flow freely and require a global perspective towards their stewardship and protection. The World Unity Flag is: - inclusive
- recognizable
- non-political
- non-religious
- devoid of national affiliation
The World Unity Flag project is offered to serve as a symbol and activity to encourage reconciliation, co-operation and mutual support, promoting solutions, strategies, tools, techniques and technologies to meet humanity's common needs in Balance with Natural Laws. From the awareness of Unity, the acknowledgment of our inherent Oneness, all needed solutions, strategies, systems, tools, techniques, technologies, methods of communication and mutual support will self-organize, as we come to know - we are all ONE FAMILY. This year, 2008, the World Unity Flag project continues to join with millions around the world in support of the global campaign to END POVERTY, NOW! TOGETHER we can create the civic will and concern to end extreme poverty (income of less than $1 a day), of which a billion suffer (one in every six human beings alive on the planet). "May we abolish war, homelessness and hunger in our lifetime!" Let us take the personal responsibility to support the fulfillment of the United Nations, (2000-2015) Millennium Development Goals: UN Millennium Development Goals
1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2 - Achieve universal primary education
3 - Promote gender equality and empower women
4 - Reduce child mortality
5- Improve maternal health
6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7- Ensure environmental sustainability
8- Develop a global partnership for development "Endorse the Earth Charter."
We Need Your Help! World Unity Flag is being shared, and passed around in various forms within the world community. It's only purpose and intention is to provide a recognizable symbol that promotes the awareness and appreciation of "Our" World as a whole-system. Although a flag cannot be eaten, nor will it help to build a house or a school or plant trees, lobby for social change, the spirit of cooperation and mutual support it represents can, will and does. The World Unity Flag is a symbol of a self-organizing , self-replicating movement of concerned and caring citizens actively doing their little bit to apply the solutions and strategies needed to to improve the quality of life. The World Unity Flag exists to support humanity in seeing beyond borders (regional, national and international) and separation (age, ability, race, gender, culture, religion, politics). By recognizing our inherent oneness, we can work together as one community, one family, to meet our common needs, issues and concerns. We Need You...People who will be or are interested in attending events (celebrations, ceremonies, conferences, events, classrooms) to become facilitators and/or emissaries of the World Unity Flag project around the world. It really is a fun way to meet people, bring them together in a community-building/ strengthening exercise. Pre-made flags have been reproduced and are available by donation to raise funds for the worthy causes you care about: the list is endless, but here's a few: Youth, Art, Sports, Education, Faith, Festivals, Social justice, Environment, Peace, Earth Restoration, Land Trusts, International Law, Climate Change, Animal and Human Rights... Please, contact us if you are interested. If you think this project is a good idea? Please let us know! We need your unique perspective and insight to make it better. Join us and get involved! Here's how: We Want to Connect With You!  Are you, your school or organization actively working to spread peace, harmony, and/or foster ecological sustainability? Share your stories with us! We want to meet people like you and do all we can to support your projects. Contact us and we will respond quickly! We would like to co-create networks with people who are working to make the world a better place. Please look around our website. Tell us what you think? Submit a story, poem, or song, send us your web-site links and we will do our best to post them here! Most importantly, CONTACT US so that we can encourage each other in this work - together for Peace and Dignity. Each, unique-one of us, notes in a global symphony - co creating greater harmony on our beautiful, precious home, planet Earth. "We are all connected and inter-dependent."  Through these past twelve years, countless World Unity Flags have circled the globe many times and have been co-created (hands-on) by tens of thousands of people in many countries (to such countries as Brazil, Panama, Argentina, Jamaica, Mexico, Africa, New Zealand, India, Tibet, Spain, Zimbabwe, to name a few.) And we've only just begun! Imagine... "This project is "from the people, for the people, for the Benefit of All!" The success of the World Unity Flag depends on people. (Remember the U in Unity) If it's something you believe in, why not get involved? Contact -
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