Niigata Mini GPF

Mini GPF in Niigata
Kurosaki Shiminkaikan, Niigata
Oct 26,2008

Report By: Allan C. Cadano

Niigata peace advocates organized a peace rally last Sunday October 26 at Niigata City Kurosaki Civic Hall. Some organizations who called each other as peace-partners shared a common vision of not only appreciating peace but to build a world of peace starting from himself as an individual, to family level to community, nation, world and realize the global peace aimed.

Mrs.Angelita Obara together with her peacemates in FJMGP shared their perspectives in achieving peace by educating the many Filipino people in Japan through a so called mini global peace festival. She introduced her organization with the top of being a co-sponsor of Japan’s Global Peace Festival which will be held in Tokyo on November 15, 2008 at Ajinomoto Stadium.

Another speaker during the Niigata event was Mr. Brian Dirige who fathomed man desiring for peace. He correlated it to 3-D he called dream, desire and destiny. He declared peace as not isolation; equated true peace to unconditional love; that give and take action processes peace between man’s mind and body or between husband and wife.

The main speaker was a Japanese in the person of Mr. Mori Hayato. His realistic views about peace in man, in family were presented with some factors challenging peace in them. He correlated Aids to the absence of purity of love. He mentioned one case between students who have problems and teachers who use force that leads to violence as a contradiction to peace. He mentioned the tradition of Japanese as lover of nature, as people who live peacefully but lost these during and after the WWII. He strongly said that these need to be restored. Global Peace Festival is one way to make it restored and there will be GPF in every two years according to Universal Peace Federation which he leads in Niigata being one of the peace ambassadors in that place.
The event was polarized with good cultural numbers like the Salakot and tinikling dance from Philippine culture; the Hula and Okinawan Dance from Hawaii and Japan culture; the Martial Arts ballet of Tong Il Mo Do Martial Arts Club of Master Hoshiko sensie and some songs. All of them resemble peace in tune and movements as they were all heartily rendered and demonstrated to and for all.

All the peace messages are good to ponder when one brings it back home and shifts himself from being a peace-lover to peace-builder..The master of ceremony, Mr. Ronie delos Santos made very wonderful untiring job; the organizers in Niigata led by Mrs. Ethel Hayakawa including one mother Maricon who was craddling and taking care of her young child but untiringly served the audience with good foods, the fathers too who were around doing technical works behind, the registrar, Roselle, the errands, the drivers, the cook and volunteers and all who prefected their unity in making the event a real success.

The closing remarks was delivered by Allan Cadano who made a perfect re-cap of the whole event !
Mabuhay ang kapayapaan para sa buong mundo!!! Long live peace for the whole world.