Event Description: Time to Wake Up to Peace! Progressive Peace Day
Eighth Annual Peace Day - Santa Fe

Because Peace Day will progress to many important landmarks for peace, we are calling it Progressive Peace Day, Saturday August 5th, 2006. The commemoration will begin with a Buddhist mediation practice for peace at the Children’s Peace Statue. Santa Fe Mayor Coss will proclaim Peace Day. Children will hang peace cranes sent from around the US on the Statue and play “Cooperative Games” with peace crane folding - Tibetan Peace Tales - Prayer Flag making for a Children's Prayer Flag Procession across the Plaza to St. Francis Cathedral. An afternoon labyrinth walk at St. Francis Cathedral will flow into a procession to the Capital Rotunda for the Hiroshima Peace Bell ceremony. Churches all over town will ring their bells in response, after which we will plant the first Tree of Peace on the Capital grounds. Pax Christi will present Kathy Kelly from Voices in the Wilderness at El Museo Cultural Center in the evening.

Hotels, galleries and parks around the Plaza area will feature the local performance arts and much more. The schedule of events will be available at hotels, stores and cafes for people to find out about the many varied events. Peace Day is a call to the community to come together first to mourn the suffering caused by past and current violence all over the world, and second to celebrate our shared commitments to find solutions to so many pressing problems facing our community and planet Earth.

A "Call to Action" postcard will be passed out to the tourists and locals - put in their shopping bags - to mail to their legislators with a demand to uphold the Non-Proliferation Treaty.