Subject: EARTH CHARTER CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16th in
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY - TAMPA
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005
From: The Whimsy LOOPS
To: Whimsy LOOPS Readers
Organization: The Whimsy Political Clearinghouse


Forwarded To: The Whimsy LOOPS Readers
By: Nadine Smith, Executive Director, Equality Florida


EARTH CHARTER CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16

Please join us in an Earth Charter Candlelight Vigil on Tuesday, August
16 from 7:30 p.m. to approximately 8:15 p.m. to shine a light on the
Hillsborough County Commissioners' anti-gay and lesbian policy and to
stand together for inclusiveness. We will meet in the center of
Gaslight Park (bordered by Tampa Street, Madison Street. Franklin
Street, and Jackson Street in downtown Tampa) at 7:30 p.m. and then walk
in silence three blocks east on Kennedy Blvd, cross Morgan Street to
Courthouse Park across from the large pink County Building. We will
congregate on the Northwest corner of the park under the Cupola Dome to
read together a few words from the Earth Charter and silently
meditate/pray for ten minutes for fairness and equality for all
residents of Hillsborough County. Please invite friends and family to
join us in this peaceful gathering.

We will be carrying a banner with the words "One Human Family" from the
Earth Charter. Options include wearing a white shirt, T-shirt or blouse
with a positive sign to express who you are and/or what you are standing
for. Suggestions include: ""Grandmother", "Parent", "Artist",
"Christian", "Inclusiveness', "God loves all people".

Please bring a candlesome will also be available along with plastic cups
for holding the candle.

Please recycle the plastic cup.

Tuesday evening was chosen because it is the evening before County
Commissioners' meeting on Wednesdays.

A follow-up to the vigil will be held on at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 23
in Hyde Park to make future plans. Please email
Roberts@transformworld.org or call 813-254-8454 for directions.

Words from the Earth Charter to be read in unison:

We are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny.

We must join together to bring forth a society founded on respect for
nature,
universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of peace.

Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth,
declare our
responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life and to
future
generations.

To do this, we commit to:

Uphold the right of all, without discrimination,...and to eliminate
discrimination in all its forms, such as that based on race, color, sex,
sexual orientation, religion, language and national, ethnic or social
origin.

Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for
life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening o the
struggle
for justice and peace and the joyful celebration of life.


Ten minutes of silent meditation/prayer

Gong will ring to indicate time has passed.

Dispersal.