Nonkilling Day June 28, 2025

It is an honourable coincidence that the pioneers of the Center for Global Nonkilling have chosen June 28th as Nonkilling Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Late Professor Glenn D. Paige.

Image for 'Global Colloquium' 2021.

I mentioned this coincidence on 1 July 2021 in my remote presentation 'Nonkilling Message at Global Colloquium'. I regret not personally participating at this years 'Webinar on Nonkilling Day', but I sent the poem below which was read for me.

June 28 coincides with the day that 7,000 of my Russian ancestors, the Doukhobors, burned their guns in the Caucasus on midnight June 28-29, 1895 (Old Style; New Style July 11-12).

Their goal (which Dr.Glenn D. Paige, founder, would have obviously embraced) was a plea to get rid of all wars once and for all and get on with the task of living together in harmony on Planet Earth.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Spirit,

Today we are living in a very dangerous world of lethal weapons and barbarians who threaten the lives of all of us — young and old, women and men, and people of all colours, rich and poor.

As responsible peacemakers carrying the peace day message, we must urgently speak from the rooftops large and small:

Save us from the scourge of wars

Save us from the stupidity of our times

Save us from lies of corporate oligarchs seeking wealth

from the killing fields of perpetual wars.

What folly from the new barbarians!

It's time to Stop this wholesale murder.

It's time to replace soldiers of war with genuine Peacemakers.

Save us from murderous bloody hands

Save us from sick greedy minds

who refuse to see the danger we face

in being burned alive as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Stop. Look. Listen. The time is now…

Prevent the danger that awaits us if we don't.

What is the meaning of ‘A Global Nonkilling Day?’

Listen dear friends brothers and sisters –

Stop NATO. Stop regime change.

Treat nations with respect. No more wars.!

Diplomacy and Peace have a future,

Yes, it is time to speak up.

Tell the world: War is a crime against humanity.

Tell them – NO MORE WARS!

Brothers and Sisters, make Peace matter on June 28th and give us hope for the future.

In search of truth and a nonkilling world,

Koozma

A fellow Doukhobor peace activist

Koozma J. Tarasoff, Ottawa, Canada

Website: http://www.spirit-wrestlers.com

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