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This is an archive of prayers, pledges, and song composed for, or relevant to, Earth Day, an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on 22 April 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network). In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on 21 March 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on 22 April 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event "Earth Day". Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single-day protest in human history. On the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, Hayes took it international and organized events in 141 nations.

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Earth Pledge, by Carol T. Gaddy and Marianne Wolfman-Dawn (25 April 1981)

This earth pledge by Carol T. Gaddy and Marianne Wolfman-Dawn is included in a short essay by Gaddy entitled “Our New Pledge of Allegiance.” The essay can be found in What Will It Take to Prevent Nuclear War: Grassroots Responses to Our Most Challenging Question (ed. Pat Farren 1983), p. 149. Carol Gaddy writes that the pledge “was composed spontaneously by me and Marianne Wolfman-Dawn as we marched on the road to Damascus, Arkansas, April 25, 1981, protesting the nuclear missile site where a Titan missile had exploded the previous November, endangering the people it was meant to protect.”

Categories:

Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

Tags:

1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Anti-nuclear movement in the United States, Cold War (1979-1985), earth pledges, eco-conscious, interconnectedness, universalist

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Marianne Wolfman-Dawn and Carol Talbot Gaddy Graywing

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Earth Day 1970 pin (credit: Busy Beaver Button Museum). Sunset Horizon Earth Day by David Powell.

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