The Earth Proclamation

To:  City, State and US reps

Earth Proclamation & Magna Carta of the Rainbow Warriors of the 21st Century
By Rose Liberté

WE ,THE PEOPLE, in order to live a more perfect existence in this world of form in harmony with the natural laws of the Universe, are determined to heal and transform all institutions and social constructions that restrain mankind from living in perfect peace and love; or in harmony with all the divine qualities inherent in our god-natures.

WE THEREFORE advocate and promote the overthrow of all machinery of war and the undeclared war against nature by polluters of the environment; all engines of greed and inhumanity to man.

WE UNDERSTAND AND DECLARE that the five poisons of ignorance, hatred, greed, excessive desire and anger have been running our civilization for far too long. It is time (or the end of time according to the Mayan Calendar) for civilization to return to WISDOM (wise dominion), to conform to higher cosmic standards and return to the Garden of Edenic Consciousness, the original divine plan.

OUR PROCLAMATION, or MAGNA CARTA for the 21st Century is the following Earth Proclamation:


The Earth Proclamation
Drafted by Alan Moore, Bob Silverstein and John Hudon

"Historian Arnold Toynbee observed that the 21 civilizations he studied all collapsed for the same reason: their inability to adapt to changes taking place either within them or surrounding them. Like Joseph Campbell, Toynbee noted the importance of myth in shaping the future of a civilization. For from the myth springs the vision of new possibilities. Each nation, each culture tells such an overarching story about itself. But when great changes take place, a new myth is required." These words you will find on the back cover of a beautiful book by Norie Huddle called Butterfly, It was written to help usher in what she calls the "Butterfly Era" of global civilization.

The Earth Proclamation was written with this new myth in mind and was featured on James Redfield's front page for the month of February 2000. His site is www.celestinevision.com.

The World Peace Prayer Society has endorsed the Proclamation as they suggested the last line, May Peace Prevail On Earth. This was presented to the Peace and Justice Commission of the City of Berkeley on March 2, 1998. It was endorsed by the City of Berkeley on April 30, 1998, and by mayor Shirley Dean on April 25.

We would like to get 1000 groups and individuals signing the Earth Proclamation by year's end. Will you help? Can you please forward this to your online friends? Perhaps you can find at least one more organization to endorse it. You can even have your city endorse it and use that endorsement later as a tool to lobby them to walk their talk. We did this and it works. It was cited by the City of Berkeley when they endorsed the World Peace Candle and when they voted to call for an independent investigation of the alleged murder of Earth First! activist David "Gypsy" Chain.


The Earth Proclamation

WE ARE ONE PEOPLE...
WE SHARE ONE PLANET...
WE HAVE ONE COMMON DREAM...
WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE...
WE CHOOSE TO PROTECT AND HEAL THE EARTH...
WE CHERISH THE EARTH'S BIO AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY...
WE WILL CHOOSE TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL...
WE WILL BECOME STEWARDS FOR THE PLANET'S THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES...
WE WILL DEFEND AND PROTECT THE RAIN FORESTS, REDWOODS, AND OTHER SACRED PLACES...
WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MAKE THIS DREAM COME TRUE...
WE WILL DO THIS FOR OUR CHILDREN, AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN...
WE WILL TRANSFORM WHAT NEEDS TO BE TRANSFORMED...
WE WILL BREAK FREE OF OUR CHRYSALIS LIMITATIONS...
WE WILL JOYFULLY LOVE, SHARE, AND FORGIVE...
SO THAT PEACE MAY PREVAIL ON EARTH!
MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH!
(At ceremonies, repeat this line to each of the four directions)

Personal Commitment: I, the undersigned,

Aware that human activities are seriously endangering the fragile ecosystems of our planet,
Aware of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots,
Aware of the need to direct my energies to protect and restore the global Web of Life,
Decide to begin right now to strengthen and change whatever still needs to be changed in myself and around me.
I want the year 2001 - a symbol for a New Beginning - to be the turning point in the local and global efforts now underway to create a better world based on equality, justice and a sustainable planet -- a world in which Peace on Earth prevails. Understanding that we are all individually responsible for the kind of future we will create for our children and for countless generations to come, I will participate in initiatives, locally and globally, to transform our world and protect this Jewel of Life we call Earth.

I agree with this Earth Proclamation and personally commit myself to do all that I can to spread it throughout the world and help make our shared dream of Peace, Love and Harmony on Earth come true.

Please go to bottom of this page to sign petition.

You may get a printable copy of this Earth Proclamation by request to bflyspirit@aol.com or mail it to the Butterfly Gardeners Association, 1563 Solano Ave.#477, Berkeley, Ca. 94707. Call us at 510-528-7730. You can also get more butterfly information at: http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm or http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm

You may want to check out the original and read more about the butterfly as a new symbol for the Renaissance of the Earth at: http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/Proclamation.htm

During preparations for the year 2000 celebrations, an international effort was made to promote the new Millennium as an opportunity to create a sense of hope about the changes we can help manifest for the well-being of all people and all life forms on Earth. We therefore present this Earth Proclamation to foster a more responsible vision of humanity's role for our future and ask that you help spread it throughout the world by copying it or forwarding it to all your friends.

If everyone reading this for the first time decides to introduce one more person, everyday, to this common goal hereby described, millions of people will have a chance to make this personal commitment by the year 2000.

Your endorsement of the Earth Proclamation and Prayer can help make this happen. If you would like to get involved with organizing the caravan or can offer suggestions, please let us know. Your letters of support for the Earth Proclamation and peace caravan would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know if you want to get updates. Feel free to forward this message to people and groups on your mailing list that you feel may be interested in this endeavor. Please ask them to let us know that it came from you. For every person that responds to this through your efforts, you get one butterfly kiss. That is a promise.

Please see the list of Earth Proclamation endorsers following my salutation.

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Alan D. Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Project Chrysalis/Director
Patch Adams Peace and Justice Center/Founder and ad hoc Director
Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace/Director
Authors for a Positive Millennium/Co-director
1563 Solano Ave. #477, Berkeley, CA 94707
510-528-7730 Email: bflyspirit@aol.com

www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm
www.woodstocknation.org/Performing.htm www.woodstocknation.org/Memorial.htm
www.patchadams.org


Endorsers of the Earth Proclamation

Endorsing organizations include:

The 22nd Century Group, Aquarian Perspectives Interplanetary Mission, Assyrian National Congress, Attitudinal Healing Center, Authors for a Positive Millennium, Auto-Free Times/Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, Bay Area Consciousness Network, Buddhist Church/New York, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Camp Winarainbow, Chiapas Support Committee, Circle of Compassion Initiative, Children of the Manhattan Project, Climate Action Now!, Committee of Correspondence, Community Peacemakers, Creativity Circle of International Women, Desert Moon Circle, Divine Science Community Center, Earthcode & Inner Light Network, Earth Day Network, Earth Rainbow Network, Earth Society Foundation, East Bay Contact & Support Network, Ecospiritual Worker, Environmental Patriots, Episcopal Power & Light Initiative, Eye of the Sacred Wind Foundation, For Mother Earth International, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Gaiabella Project, GaiaLink, Gainesville Citizen's Circle of the Global Rennaissance Alliance, Gesundheit! Institute, Global Empowerment Network, Global Initiative, Global Meditations, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Global Peace Foundation, Globally Integrated Village Environment Vienna, Global Peace Walk, Global Strategies Project, Grandmothers for Peace International, Greenaction, Grey Panthers of Berkeley, Healing Global Wounds, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee-Washington DC, Institute of Global Education, Institute for Space and Security Studies, International Association of Educators for World Peace(35,000 members worldwide), IvyGirls, Kids to the Country, Libertarian Party of Orange County, Light Party, Light2000, Livermore Conversion Project, Living Music, Medocino Coast Environmental Center, Middle East Children's Alliance, Millennium People's Assembly Network, Magick River, Mhona International Center, Milenio, Mysterious Tremendum Consort and School, Network 2012, Nevada Desert Experience, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Next Stage, No Nukes, One Day Foundation, Orange County Hemp Council, Organic Consumers Association, Pathways to Peace, Peace Abbey, Peace Research Institute - Dundas, Peaceday 2000, People for Peace, Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace, Philosophers for Art and Action, Plight of the Redwoods Campaign, Polish American Environmental Alliance, Princeton Center for Applied Intuition, Project Nature Connect, Prophets Conferences, Proposition 1, QuantumLeap2000, Quest Ministries, Rainbow Family of Living Light, Recovering Racists Network, Regeneration Project, Sacramento Area Earth Day Network, Sacred Earth Network, Saint Augustine Volunteers fro the Earth, Saint Joseph the Worker Church,San Bruno Mountain Watch, San Jose Peace Center, Save Ward Valley, Seed of Life Peace Foundation, Sentient Times Magazine, Shine a Light for Peace, Shundahai Network, Silkworm Peace Institute, Stanford Open Space Alliance, Star Alliance, Thirteen Moon Calendar Peace Movement, Through the Bagelhole, Trail Center, Unity & Diversity World Council, U-turn Society, Unitarian Fellowship/ Social Action Committee of the Berkeley, United Catholic Church, United Nations Assembly, United Nations for Artists, University of Creation Spirituality, V.A.R.I.O.U.S, Wam2000/Spain, Wings of Change, Wisdom Network, Women of the World for Cultural Wisdom, Women's Institute For African Rural Development, Women's Int'l League for Peace & Freedom/East Bay-Berkeley, Women's Spirituality Forum, Whoohah 1999, Woodstock Nation Foundation, World Citizens, World One Radio, World Peace Prayer Society, World Peace 2000, World Peace Through Technology Organization, World Stewardship Institute, World Wall for Peace, World Wise, Worldwide Foregiveness Alliance, Worldwide Servers International Organization, and Wounded Earth Environmental Project.


Political and civic endorsers include:

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the City of Berkeley and its mayor Shirley Dean, San Francisco Mayor Willy Brown (endorsed our World Peace Candle Initiative), Dash Butler*/Chief of the Berkeley Police Department, Medea Benjamin*/Founding director of Global Exchange and Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate 2000, Joe Fortunato/Candidate for Congress, Dr. Heather Harder*/Harder for President 2000, Rick Hauptman*/California Democratic Party Computer & Internet Caucus, Rebecca Kaplan/Green Party Candidate-Oakland City Council, California, Jan B. Tucker*/Candidate for Green Party nomination for U.S. Senator 2000, and the State of Pennsylvania's House and Senate.


Individual endorsers also include:

David Brower/Earth Island Institute and founder of Friends of the Earth, Julia Butterfly*/Luna Tree-Sit, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Judith Conrad/Talk show host, Christopher Curtis*/National Coordinator Earth Day Network-Earth Day 2000, Kevin Danaher*/Global Exchange, Ram Dass, Dr. RA-Ja Zoltron Dove & Professor Moi-RA Kwan Yin Dove /Taos Ashram, Patricia Ellis*/International Network for Attitudinal Healing, Daniel Ellsberg, Christine Emmerling*/Divine Science Community Center, Ethan Flad*/The Forum at Grace Cathedral, Peter Ferenbach*/California Peace Action, Mathew Fox, Michel Geoghegan*/Earth Society Foundation, Jason Gibson*/13 Moon Peace Calendar Change Movement, Ted Glick*/Independent Progressive Politics Network, Linda Grover*/Friends of Tree Island, Michel Geoghegan*/Earth Society Foundation, Mitchell Gold*/ International Association of Educators for World Peace, Judy Guggenheim*/ADC Project, Bill Hajdu*/Libertarian Party of Orange County, Barbara Marx Hubbard*/Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Norie Huddle*/Center for New National Security, Derrick Jensen/Railroads and Clearcuts Campaign/Native Forest Network, Bishop Joey*/First Church of the Last Laugh, Kathy Juline/Science of Mind Magazine, Marylia Kelley*/Tri-Valley Cares, Ervin Laszlo*/General Evolution Research Group, Michael Lerner/Tikkun Magazine, Robert Muller*/World Peace Academy & former Asst.Secretary-General of the United Nations, Brian O'Leary/US astronaut, Joanna Macy, Peace Pilgrim II, Father Bill O'Donnell/Saint Joseph the Worker Church, Dr. Ursala Oswald*/International Peace Research Institute, Elizabeth Ratcliff*/founder of the National Peace Garden Foundation, James and Salle Redfield*/Celestine author, Redwood Mary*/Plight of the Redwoods Campaign, Paul Ray, PhD/Coauthor of The Cultural Creatives, Mark Ritchie*/Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Rabbi Michael Robinson*/Jewish Peace Fellowship, Michael Ruppert*/From the Wilderness Publications, Rebecca Sandel/Earthstewards Network, Elisabet Sahtouris/Author, David Seaborg*/U-Turn Society, Richard N. Salvador*/Abolition 2000 Pacific Islands-Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, Bernie Siegel/Child of God, Jerry Spivak*/United Nations Communication Coordination Committee, Mark States/Duomo Reading Series, Robert Theobald*/Transformational Learning Community, Ida Urso/Aquarian Age Community, Meir Vanunu/Nuclear Free Middle East, Neale Donald Walsch*/Global Renaissance Alliance, Michelle Waters/Art & Revolution, Marianne Williamson, Paul Winter/Paul Winter Consort, Karina Wood*/Hague Appeal for Peace-U.S.,


Performers and musicians include:

Patch Adams, Wavy Gravy, Cardel Daniels*/Tamarack Mountain Music Festival, Clan Dyken, Martin-DJDragonfly/Groove Garden, Kelley Green and Diane Patterson*/Green Eye Records Foundation, Groovy Judy Band, Dancing Rhythm Dogs, Gorilla Choir, Belinda Farrell, David Gans, Hali Hammer, Obeyjah and Saints, One Love Vibrations Foundation, Mike Oakland*/Seeds Music Group, Out of Many One, Performers and Fine Artists for World Peace, Reggae Angels, Sophia Roberts, Timestreams Band, Jimmy Twyman, Village Culture, Paul Winter and X Dot 25 Music.

Other personal endorsements include:

Barry "Plunker' Adams/Rainbow Gathering Elder, Juliette Beck/California Fair Trade Campaign, Gene Bernardi*/Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Eric Brooks/Forests Forever, Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC, Lance Carter/Aquarian Age Network, Diji Christian/Foundation for Global Community, Dennis P. Davie*/Earth First! Santa Cruz, Jill Davies*/Heron Food and Garden Co-op, Norman Domenech/OMJ Pharmaceuticals(Johnson & Johnson), Jay Earley, Ph.D, Ed Elkin/Earth Rainbow Network, Thomas Ellis, Ph.D.*/Dharma Gaia Circle, Mattison Fitzgerald/Artist, Sue Anne Foster/Mandala Labyrinth Center, Clara-Rae Genser/Jounalist, Jonathan Granoff/Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Greg Getty/Nuremberg Actions, Claire Greensfelder/Plutonium Free Future, Lucille Green*/Action Coalition for Global Change, David Hartsough*/Peacemakers, Jean Houston, David Jones/Green Party of Ohio, Jim Kovacs*/Lake County Coalition for a Healthy Environment & Life, Denny Larson/Communities for a Better Environment, Judith Light Feather/Academie of Light, Michael Linden*/ Guatemala Project, Warren Linney*/ World Stewardship Institute, David Lionel*/Lionel Television Productions, Martin Litton*/Sequoia Alliance, Jene McLovey/Native American Coalition for Headwaters, Tom S Morin*/Dance of the Soul, Kathleen A. Niece/Magdalene House Catholic Worker, Dale Nesbitt/ Easy Bay Peace Action and Livermore Conversion Project, Heidi Ogle*/Environmental Action Council-Chico, Debbie Ortman/Organic Consumers Association, Hagit Ra'anan/Isreal, Alison Richards, Wilson Riles/American Friends Service Committee, Ed Rippy/East Bay Peace Action, Ted Schettler/Physicians for Social Responsibility, Freed Schmitter*/Planetwork-Amsterdam, Patti Jeane Spencer, Lou Schoen/ Episcopal Peace & Justice Network for Global Concerns, Stephen A. Shechtman* and Lucille Mitchell/Integrated Psychology, Rudy Stolfer*/Walt Root's Quest for Peace, Kristin M Tomczak*/Miracom Partners Inc., Jennifer Viereck*/Healing Global Wounds, Maxina Ventura/Sonoma Pesticide Alert, Ray Wat/Seventh Generation Fund, Storm Waters/Earth First!, Jack Weinberg/Greenpeace, David Crockett Williams/Global Emergency Alert Response, and Barbara Wolf/Harmonic Convergence.

(Organization listed for identification purposes only, the * symbol indicates CEO, executive director, or board member.)


Indigenous organizations include:

All Nations Singers, Indigenous Environmental Network, Dine' Care, Groupo Maya Quasamej Junan, Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Defense, Native Support Network, NIM E(Church of the Spiritual Path), Project Underground, Samoa United Nations Assn., Shundahai Network, Star Knowledge Conferences/Maka Wicahpi Wicohan, Trail of Joy, Turtle Island Project, Unity Long Walk Project,


Indigenous individual endorsers include:

Grandfather Matthew Davison/Southeastern Native American Alliance, Corbin Harney/Western Shoshone spiritual elder, MaryLue Griffen/Ely Shoshone Tribe, Dennis Manley*/Friends of Big Mountain, Christopher Sewall/Western Shoshone Defense Project, Standing Elk, Jamie Echo-Hawk/First Nations, Gustavo Guiterrez/Tonatichha, Elizabeth Crowe/Ky Environmental Federation and Christopher Peters/Seventh Generation Fund.


Business endorsers include;

Body Temple, Casbah Teahouse, Butterflies & Botany, DL Trotter & Associates, EarthArt Graphics, Eartheart Enterprises/San Francisco, Frog Hollow Studio/San Francisco, Funkstock Ventures, Kansas City's Evolving Woman Magazine, Life Resources/Sedona, Mermade Magickal Arts, NetWorks Productions Inc., Rainewalker Studio/Lauren Raine, Source Seminars, Tierra Linda Company, and Winged Lion Creative Expeditions.


Business sponsors include:

Arrowsmith Farms, Carolina Biological, Magical Beginnings, Ashby Lumber, Inner Productions-Psyche Game, True Value Hardware, McDonalds/Allentown, Monarch Watch, Museum Bank, National Car Rental, CopyMat/Albany, Kinko's/New York & Berkeley, Oakland MicroCentre, Office Depot, Enterprise Car Rental, Musikfest, Performance Enhancement,and White Eagle.


Founding members of our affiliate group Authors for a Positive Millennium include:

Jay Bremyer, Judy Carman, Michael Cohen, Susan Ferguson, Helen Fisher, Sue Anne Foster, Ph.D, Barbara Gardner, Joanne Lauck, Linda Grover, Judy Guggenheim, Gary Goldman, Lucille Green, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Norie Huddle, Kathleen Jacoby, Derrick Jensen, Kathy Juline, Ken Kalb, Linda Laird, Nick Manolukos, Tony McGettigan, Eric Meece, Alan Moore, Melvin Morse, Tricia (White Dove) McCannon, John Muni, Robert Muller, Antares Numi*On, Dr. Melvin Morse, Peace Pilgrim II, Ann Puryear, Elisabet Sahtouris, Howard Shapiro, Natalie Smith, Robert Theobold, and Kay Witmer Woods, Ph.D


City of Berkeley Proclamation
Butterfly Berkeley Earth Week

WHEREAS, The Butterfly gardeners Association, founded by Berkeley resident Alan Moore in 1993, was established to promote an understanding and appreciation of butterflies and advocate the building of butterfly sanctuaries; and

WHEREAS, The organization has expanded its original mission to include the promotion of environmental stewardship, global consciousness, education, conservation, teamwork, peace, and love by using the symbolic beauty, transformation, and life of butterflies; and

WHEREAS, Dedicated members of the association have planted butterfly gardens in nursing homes, hospitals, churches and schools throughout the country, created the largest butterfly garden in the State of Pennsylvania and coordinated hundreds of butterfly releases at distinguished events, including the Earth Summit held at the United Nations in June 1997;

WHEREAS, The Butterfly Gardeners Association has mobilized over 2000 school children and their teachers throughout the East Bay and Berkeley to raise butterflies and facilitated their participation at local Earth Day events.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Shirley Dean, Mayor of the City of Berkeley, do hereby commend the Butterfly Gardeners Association for their extraordinary and devoted work by declaring the week of April 22 through April 30, 1998 as

BUTTERFLY BERKELEY EARTH WEEK

In the City of Berkeley. This is truly an example of how a group of inspired and dedicated citizens can make a real difference in our society.

Shirley Dean, Mayor April 25, 1998


Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The House of Representatives

Citation

Whereas, The Butterfly gardeners Association, headed by Alan Moore of Allentown, is being recognized and honored for its inspiring work in raising global consciousness and promoting environmental stewardship, education, conservation and world peace through the symbolic beauty, transformation and life of butterflies. The Butterfly Gardeners Association was created in 1993 by Mr. Moore to promote an understanding and appreciation of butterflies. But the organization has a much deeper meaning, which is to promote world peace and a more peaceful, productive society by uniting people all over the world using butterflies as a catalyst for love, peace, teamwork and global understanding. Thousands of volunteers have spoken throughout the country on the importance and beauty of these creatures, and they have been an outspoken advocate of building butterfly gardens and sanctuaries; and

Whereas, Dedicated members of the organization have planted butterfly gardens at nursing homes, hospitals, churches and schools throughout the country and created the largest butterfly garden in Pennsylvania at Bushkill Elementary School. They have also coordinated hundreds of butterfly releases at numerous events, including the Earth Summit held at the United Nations in June 1997. These simple, beautiful creatures touched the life of one man, who in turn has worked diligently to motivate thousands of people into working together peacefully to save the planet and promote harmony and understanding throughout the world.

Now therefore, the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pays tribute to the Butterfly Gardeners Association for their extraordinary and devoted work, which is truly an example of how a group of inspired and dedicated citizens can make a real difference in our society; offers best wishes for success in all future endeavors;

And directs that a copy of this citation, sponsored by the Honorable Charles W. Dent on August 4, 1997, be transmitted to Alan Moore, Butterfly Gardeners Association, 1021 North Main Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104.

Charles W. Dent, Sponsor Matthew Ryan, Speaker of the House

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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