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FFTI Supports World Silent Day

World Silent Day (WSD) is a community-based moral movement to provide space the Earth to breath even if only for one day. The Earth is currently facing environmental degradation, social conflicts over scarce resources and climate change caused by human activities especially unsustainable production and consumption. A momentum is needed to create awareness that this earth, which has been providing for humans seven days a week, 365 days in a year, has to be given time to heal herself from toxins and ecosystem damages.

The WSD was proposed to the members and secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be adopted and implemented.

The FFTI thinks such movement is important and has positive impacts on the environment. For this reason, the FFTI participates actively in supporting the campaign in which a series of activities with the WSD team has been undertaken as follows:

1) A coordination meeting in the FFTI secretariat on March 8th, 2011 with WSD team and volunteers.
2) Fair Trade Lunch with Fransiska, the WSD campaign coordinator on March 15th, 2011.
Students, NGOs, business sectors, youth organisations, and art and music communities were invited. This event succeeded and raised many positive responses in supporting WSD.
3) An audience with the Denpasar Mayor, Mr. Rai Rantra, on March 15, 2011. He said that supported this program by giving a declaration, signing up the WSD petition, and issuing a permission for the WSD Campaign Team to undertake a campain during a Car Free Day program.
4) A press conference on March 18th, 2011 to explain the WSD campaign activities on 20 – 22 March 2011.
5) Joining the Car Free Day Program, in Renon (public space in Denpasar), including performing art exhibition and collecting signatures from people to support WSD.
6) World Silent Day, on March 21st, 2011 at 10am – 2pm. The WSD team, communities, journalist carried out several activites: meditation, discussion, and made 1000 origami as a symbolic solidarity to the victims of earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

7) Giving tree seeds to a baby who was born on March 21, 2011, at Puri Bunda Hospital and RS Kasih Ibu Denpasar. It is also a routine activity carried out by the WSD team a day after WSD. March 22 is the World Water Day, and is still in a series of WSD. Tree seedlings are given to babies as a symbol of new life and there are ‘messages’ for the babies to protect the environment from an early age.

WSD could be recognized worldwide if it is proposed by a state or through a petition by at least 10 million signatures. All campaign activities are established offline and online are to obtain supports. WSD as a hope could bring local knowledge to the global level, to jointly cope the impacts of global warming and climate change.
WSD series of campaign events this year have also been covered by various printed and electronic media, such as: Bali Post, Radar Bali, the Jakarta Post, RCTI and SCTV. More further information about the WSD could be seen in www.worldsilentday.org