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Massive planetary celebrations planned September 17-21,
A worldwide call for Peace involving millions of people in 192 countries is slated for September 17-21. More than 2,000 parades, concerts, dance celebrations, exhibitions and educational events inspired by the United Nations International Day of Peace are planned. People can log onto the Peace Day Global Broadcast, at www.PeaceDay.tv., to view live stream internet coverage of the events.
Beginning September 17 with the ringing of the Peace Bell from U.N. Headquarters at 8am EDT, the five-day celebration includes coverage from the Peace In Our Lifetime concert in London, a Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots youth event in Los Angeles, the planting of peace trees from Finland by Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors, a Peace Day Parade in Hawaii, the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus in San Francisco and Earth Dance festivals from at least twenty locations globally. There will also be live coverage from the United Nations Millennium Review Summit in New York as world leaders convene to assess global progress in attaining the eight social and economic targets set in the year 2000.Interspersed with these live segments, the Peace Day Global Broadcast will present documentary segments showcasing the world’s most effective aid and peace-building organizations that are creating solutions to global crises. Documentary content is provided by CARE, UNICEF, ONE Campaign, Millennium Campaign, The Elders, Water.org, U.N. World Food Program, Peace One Day, UNIFEM, Action Against Hunger, Amnesty International, World Economic Forum, United Religions Initiative, Agape International and Playing For Change.

The Broadcast will air the entire "Day After Peace" documentary created by the Peace One Day Foundation and will include a film festival comprised of short films provided by the Global Oneness Project. Additional collaborators are listed on the www.peaceday.tv website. In addition, over one hundred celebrities from musicians Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Usher to global dignitaries Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter will share the work they are doing to promote peace.
Jacqueline Ripstein international master artist, United Nations ECOSOC rep of the International Association of Educators for World Peace presents to us an inspiring video with the proposal of using The Arts as an Instrument for World Peace!
You can watch this video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MqLVQ_SiE

Or at : www.PeaceDay.tv - www.Jacquelineripstein.com
Jacqueline will also Participate at "EARTHDANCE MIAMI: A Global Festival for PEACE!"

According to Broadcast Co-Directors Stephen Fantl and Kevin Kerber, “The Broadcast is our state of the planet address. It’s an opportunity to tune into the world’s goodness and see the effective ways people are working together to help one another. It’s also an empowering call to participate.” The Culture of Peace Initiative website, at www.cultureofpeace.org, is the central resource for connecting participants to local and worldwide events and projects. For nearly three decades Avon Mattison, Michael Johnson and Melvin Weiner of the Culture of Peace have been at the forefront of advancing the International Day of Peace.“Peace had never received much media attention,” continues Fantl, “but with the power of the internet, we’re able to directly connect thousands of Peace Day activities and millions of people, which strengthens all of our collective efforts.” Last September, 200 million people participated in coordinated events and actions worldwide. “That’s when we put up our inaugural Peace Day webcast and reached 2 million people,” said Kerber. “With the host of collaborators we’ve added this year, who are embedding our video player on their websites, the Broadcast may reach twenty million or more. This rivals viewership for the most-watched programming on American television. It shows that people want to participate in peace! We’re sending a message to world leaders and corporations that we want meaningful change for the wellbeing of our planet and its inhabitants.

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WHAT THE PRESS SAYS ABOUT JACQUELINE RIPSTEIN

"Jacqueline Ripstein has broken away from the abstract schools of modern art in her concern with significant content. She is shedding a new light on the traditional myths of the past by applying them to the present predicamment of mankind. In this period of moral and spiritual stagnation, she has the courage to strike out as a humanist and a moralist [Through her art] she is asking for peace, human love, humility, reverence, for high art and for humanized science."
Beril Becker, Critic and writer, New York City, New York, USA, 1976.

ART EXPRESSION MAGAZINE

"I CONSIDER HER WORK LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN MICHAELANGELO AND SALVADOR DALI"
Henk Abbink

THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

"Jacqueline's work, the liberty of ideals, is based on liberty of execution and at the same time, allows admiration of this artistic language, through the mastery of the brush, the colorful accuracy and the great spiritual richness of this visionary who has created an original form of art expression."
Bertha Taracena from Mexico and member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

COVER OF IBEROAMERICANA MAGAZINE

"On our cover renowned artist Jacqueline Ripstein. She has broken with the established schools & far away from Abstract Art, into her need to bring back the importance of Art into a new expression, where art will be used as a Healing Tool, to use it as one of the instruments used by the New Era, as well as a new movement called HueManIsm."

THE SUN POST

"There are live Artists in South Florida, who have great potential & one or two who have done neo-classic work. But there is almost no voice speaking for this artist's cosmic chess Game by Aventura artist Jacqueline Ripstein."

HOLA MAGAZINE

"Creadora de la técnica invisible es la primera Artista invitada a raiz del Sefarad '92. Expone en toledo del 14 de Abril 30 Abril..Profundamente mística, su pintura refleja la necesidad que ella tiene de clamar y luchar por un retorno a los valores humanos y a la conciencia espiritual a través del Arte."

ART EXPRESSIONS MAGAZINE /COVER

"Through Ripstein's Art, you will feel an encounter a challenge each painting acts as a mirror, reflecting visions of your soul you were curious to see. I consider her work like a cross between Michael Angelo and Salvador Dali and there will come a time when her work will be priceless."

HAUT DECOR MAGAZINE

"A Symbolic/surrealist painter, her preoccupation with the plight of mankind is the dominant theme in all her paintings. She conveys meaningful messages about life and man's existence on earth, exploring human nature and our range of emotions: love, hate, greed, ambition, envy, cowardice. Each painting begins with her search for the Light of God, a search she believes all of us must explore internally."

VOCES ESTETICAS II

"Como Gustavo Dore y otros ilustres dibujantes, ha puesto sus ojos en páginas inmortales, se ha internado en sus reflexiones volviendose viajera de los desiertos de la humanidad, Jacqueline trabaja, dibuja, pinta, ilumina con una paleta enriquecida por la calida pasión sensual amorosa de los colores intensos y de este modo va entregando en cada obra su testimonio: Verbo elecuente y vigoroso de un modo de pensar y de una categórica manera de sentenciar los equívocos de los hombres en forma precisa y preciosa."

VIEW ON DESIGN

"Jackie's paintings are nothing less than phenomenal," remarks Mitch Fine, president of the Judith Norman Collection. "Everybody who sees them is deeply affected in their own personal way. She is passionate about touching as many people as she can with her art in order to wake them up to the destruction of our society."

SANTA FE NEW MAGAZINE

"Miami-Jacqueline Ripstein, an accomplished surreal and symbolic artist, has developed " invisible art," an innovative technique that allows the artist to explore beyond what is visually obvious in an oil painting through the use of special pigments."