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Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Welcomes the 23rd Annual International Day of Peace to Times Square/NY. 9/20/25 · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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  Speaker 1: Borough President of Manhattan. I'm gonna read now, and the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor who Will asked me to represent them, So I
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  Speaker 1: am the city now, I represent the city here today
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome you all. Today is the International
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  Speaker 1: Day of Peace. Actually tomorrow is literally in the United Nations,
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  Speaker 1: actually started eighteen nineteen eighty four, reinvigorated in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two, and we have been doing a concert for
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  Speaker 1: twenty three years. We've taken the bill. Yeah, and there's
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  Speaker 1: some of the original community Made Peace Prevail on Earth
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  Speaker 1: and Monica's religious organization, and we have that mayor. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna do a global Peace moment around noonish. We're
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  Speaker 1: trying our best to get noonish and then after she
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  Speaker 1: finishes ish, then Ringo starish we'll say something. Okay, we
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  Speaker 1: like Bringo right, So it's all good. Everything is coming together.
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  Speaker 1: But let me start off with reading something from hold
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  Speaker 1: On who buryl President Mark Levine, Dear friends, it's a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to join you at pause the world for peace
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  Speaker 1: and to celebrate twenty twenty five. In a world with
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  Speaker 1: so much discord and in humanity, the International Day of
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  Speaker 1: Piece reminds us that no matter our differences, every person
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  Speaker 1: deserves to live free. Freedom. I got a freedom tie on.
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  Speaker 1: I keep this tie on because I did Woodstock Woodstock
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth anniversary and with Richie Havens, who sang freedom
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  Speaker 1: to start Woodstock. Okay, so I'm very proud of the
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  Speaker 1: freedom tie and I'm very proud of Woodstock Forever. That
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  Speaker 1: Woodstock Forever portion will be at the around three point
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  Speaker 1: thirty today. Okay, I'll mention that you see underneath these
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  Speaker 1: chairs we have a human well we have a blue
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  Speaker 1: a blue peace sign at this point, but around three
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  Speaker 1: point thirty actually literally we''ll be lining up to create
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  Speaker 1: a human peace sign and Fumi will we have all
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  Speaker 1: the flags? Where are those flags? We need the flags?
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  Speaker 1: Are they down here? Okay? Well the flags need to
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  Speaker 1: be somewhere, all right, So because we're gonna have like
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred flags and we're gonna be handing them
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  Speaker 1: out and we're gonna create a human peace sign and
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  Speaker 1: a flag ceremony, and Katya will play some piano. We
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  Speaker 1: got hook up planets video and Shakira we'll saying imagine
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  Speaker 1: from the United Nations. That's gonna be virtual, just like
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  Speaker 1: Michael Douglas. So the Superstars, Oh, and then Stevie Wonder
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  Speaker 1: and doctor Jane Goodall also virtual. We can't bring him
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  Speaker 1: here because there'd be little more than three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: that will walk past Times Square today. It would be
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  Speaker 1: a bigger thing. Back to the Mark Levine Borough President,
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  Speaker 1: by pausing the world for peace, we create a space
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  Speaker 1: for reflection, healing and dialogue that can lead to lasting
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  Speaker 1: change and peace is not merely the absence of conflict,
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  Speaker 1: but the presence of justice. For over twenty years, the
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  Speaker 1: state is called to unite and build a more compassionate,
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  Speaker 1: equitable world on behalf of the Borough of Manhattan. That's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. But as we all know, it's one world. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We could call these places America, we could call it
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  Speaker 1: a country, but the bottom line, it's Mother Earth. And
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  Speaker 1: today we're also celebrating New York Week Climate as well.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll hear from the doctor Jane Goodall that if
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  Speaker 1: we don't take care of Mother Earth, we'll never have peace, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because we'll flood the sad things. There's some concerning situations
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  Speaker 1: here and we need to be uh cognizant is the word.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to be aware that there's some
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  Speaker 1: concerns okay, and unitedly, we have to pull our act
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  Speaker 1: together