Peace Pole Planted in People's Park
Monday, October 27, 2003
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Comments (A redwood pole proclaiming the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in Farsi, Japanese, Croatian and five other languages now stands six feet tall in People's Park.
UC Berkeley officials, the People's Park Community Advisory Board and Roots of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the replacement of land mine zones with agricultural fields, placed the pole adjacent to the recently planted peace garden in the park on Friday afternoon.
The planting ceremony fell in conjunction with United Nations Day, a celebration commemorating the founding of the United Nations 58 years ago in San Francisco.
Having the Roots of Peace, the university and People's Park collaborate and plant a garden and pole in an area originally filled with tension, "can be a symbol for the world, in a positive way," said Heidi Kuhn, executive director of Roots of Peace.
The peace garden of People's Park, planted in April, is one of four gardens planted by Roots of Peace around the world. One rests across the street from the United Nations Headquarters in New York, another in between two war-torn Serbian and Croation villages, and one in San Rafael.
Roots of Peace aims to plant the next one in Baghdad.
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