Congratulations to 2015 San Antonio Peace Laureate Rosie Castro!
Watch the video, featuring music by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble
an introduction by Cary Clack
and (of course) a speech by Rosie herself
Since 2006, the peaceCENTER has celebrated The Blessing of the Peacemakers, a joyous hour-long interfaith ceremony featuring music, prayer, new inclusive and innovative rituals and inspirational speakers. It is the first event marking the beginning of the 64-day Season for Nonviolence and honors all of the peacemakers in the city. It is always held on the last Sunday in January.
The national Season for Nonviolence, January 30 – April 4, is a 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign that demonstrates that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired in 1998 by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world. It has been endorsed by such notables as the Dalai Lama and the late Coretta Scott King.
During the Blessing of the Peacemakers, since 2008, the peaceCENTER has announced and appointed the San Antonio Peace Laureate: a local a voice of wisdom and experience to speak for peace and justice in San Antonio.
In 2010 our friends at NowCast made a short video at the Blessing of the Peacemakers, when Jane and Woody Tuck were appointed Laureates:
