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- 0:04Say hello to Mother Earth. We're standing on Mother Earth. We're sitting on
- 0:08Mother Earth. So Tom Harris is the president of the Times Square Alliance.
- 0:14Thank you very much everyone, and welcome to Times Square. It's so great
- 0:17that you could be anywhere today to celebrate Earth Day, and you chose Times
- 0:21Square. And I'm gonna first start with Ohm M Manhattanboro President Mark Levine,
- 0:30who you'll meet later at one o'clock. Let's disrupt Digital has been partnering with
- 0:35our Good News Corporation. I want you to know this land right here Father
- 0:40Duffy Square. There's Father Duffy up there, and George M. Cohen is
- 0:44behind us here. And so let's do a shout out for Kathy Hockel and
- 0:48the governors and everybody on doing their sustainabilities. I've been asked and I'm part
- 0:55of the faith based community here under Mayor Adams and Pastor Monrose, who's the
- 1:00executive director. Prayer for all from the Iroquois Indian prayer. We return thanks
- 1:07to our mother, the Earth which sustains us. We return thanks to the
- 1:12rivers and streams which apply us with water my symbolism for peace. And now
- 1:19this tree stands as a symbol of what nature and us can do together the
- 1:26heal the world. But we've got to work much harder. We must respect
- 1:30each other, no matter what country, religion, or culture, but we
- 1:34must respect the natural world. Unless we can interact better with the natural world
- 1:42in more harmony, world peace will be impossible because if you lose water,
- 1:46if the climate changes, if the whole world is polluted, how can there
- 1:51be peace between men? The word piece has many possible meanings, and the
- 1:57Messenger of Peace program has been idle to addressing some of the most pressing challenges
- 2:02of our time, head on poverty, disease, human suffering, issues which
- 2:08defy the very concept of peace. So today I want everyone here to commit
- 2:15to join the quest for peace. Go forward in the struggle for peace with
- 2:22passion and compassion. The future of this world is in your hands. Oh
- 2:30shunky, everyone, Good afternoon. I'd like to invite everyone to take a
- 2:35moment in the hustle and the busyness of this specific area. I'm going to
- 2:43invite you to take a moment to turn your attention inside of yourself. Hello,
- 2:49thank you, Happy Earthday to everybody in New York City. Afternoon,
- 2:52ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to each and everyone of you.
- 2:57The gather here in a kind of Times Square in New York Colo for this
- 3:38and we are city on the front lines of the fight to protect our planet
- 3:45on Earth Day and every day. So in twenty seventeen I started working with
- 3:50the United Nations. Can hear me? It is Elan's birthday, So happy
- 3:54birthday to Elan. Thank you so much everyone for bringing your beautiful and we're
- 4:00here today and for supporting this wonderful cause. Can we please get a hand
- 4:13Lamatashi with the rest of his amazing group guest very close to my heart,
- 4:17his Royal Highness, shake up, do lasease al Naomi? Well, I
- 4:24want to share with you some thoughts about how to make a better future.
- 4:28We came here when Sabad could come. Unfortunately maybe next year, for sure.
- 4:34We're asking you for your urgent support and telling these stories. We didn't
- 4:40live in one place. We moved through the forest. I've been doing this
- 4:51sustainability thing for like twelve years, right, bringing people energy, helping the
- 4:55world. I feel like I'm in a blue ocean. I feel like I've
- 4:58been alone. So I wrote a b modern human history and utilizing music and
- 5:06the arts as a good medicine, serves as a bill of hope and inspiration.
- 5:13I'd really love to have each of you share your story in one minute
- 5:18or less. So what I see waste, I see the opportunity to bring
- 5:23new life. So are we gonna move into some talent section right now?
- 5:27My name is Dennis Ramdahan and I am the co founder of the Humanitarian Humanitarian
- 5:35concert fundraising initiative. Jillia, who will be performing for you? Mm hmm,
- 6:02you should shin rush. We are going to do over the Rainbow.
- 6:10Okay, it's Earthday and if that's okay with you, Georgia, we're excited
- 6:16to have you share that on this important day. Let's look up in the
- 6:20sky over a rainbow and there's clouds underneath it. Example, a bless chunk
- 6:39and the rain dress. Letty just a slap soon es Letty read of.
- 7:50By the way, this was produced by the legendary Father mc h holiday Sealday
- 8:28Holiday Celebay. If we took a holiday. Hey, we're out of times
- 8:39square. We're at times square for a reason. We have Michael Ellie who's
- 8:43lives down there in Nashville. Hi, Michael, how are you doing well,
- 8:48sir, Good to see him. Let me in the line that shines
- 8:54upon my word. Let me be the hand brotherhood and friend, and let
- 9:09me be the truth in every word I say. Let's get back to the
- 9:18studio. Thanks so much. Let's go Times Square Live. Let's go to
- 9:22you win. The lights go around? But do you go in around?
- 9:28What do you do but just love care? But their motto is, may
- 9:37there be peace with Mother Earth and with all people, animals and nature.
- 9:45That's what that mess burd and bess and trees and flowers, smocks with presents,
- 9:54the less for out rejoice Rachel sunto shelta Kimmi country. Do it so?
- 10:13Please join Good News Corporation, nonprofit for our twenty second annual, a
- 10:18celebration for peace and Mother Earth in our neighborhoods. The worldwide broadcast will be
- 10:24held in Times Square, New York on September twenty first, twenty twenty four,
- 10:30starting at noon, where one hundred ninety three countries unanimously of food the
- 10:35United Nations International Day of Peace un Peace Messenger Ringo Starr, where we pressed
- 10:41a world moment of silence or peace, and we prayed that eight billion join
- 10:46us and then continue living in peace. From that moment. We are one
- 10:54peace of love, everybody, piece of love. Yes, my name is
- 10:58Ringo and I'm here to make you a word. On the twenty first of
- 11:03September, it's the International Day and Moments of Peace. So I'm here on
- 11:11behalf of the UN General Secretary to let you know that at noon on the
- 11:16twenty first that we can have a moment of silence for peace. I'm going
- 11:22to have my moment now. Oh, I feel good. Peace, love.
- 11:31Everybody that's son comab tomorrow, so you gotta hang on till tomorrow.
- 12:00The doctor, the doctor, the p