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3 Minutes World Silence

Please DELETE 3 Minutes World Silence from Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Mary Cassini, Australia. Founder 3 Minutes World Silence. Dated: 5 January 2012.

This event takes place on January 1st at 11.00 o'clock in the morning, local time, with a message for every one of us to remember the future and to wish for peace.

Founded by Mary Cassini in Australia in December 1983, the first World Silence took place at the eleventh hour on January 1st 1984 [1]

Mary and her husband, Peter Stapleton, travelled round the world in 1986 to publicize the idea. It was supported in many countries. In the former Soviet Union it was accepted by the Soviet Peace Committee as a way for the USSR to join the West. In 1987 Mary was a delegate to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's first conference for glasnost and perestroika. On December 30 1989, the Russian newspaper Pravda published details of the 3 Minutes World Silence on its front page. [2]

A public exhibition with a large globe of the world to illustrate the event was held in Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, from December 30 1989 to January 2 1990. This was with the support of both Houses of Parliament. [3] This globe shows the 36 time-zones of the earth highlighted in turn. Lights were installed by students of Birdwood High School, South Australia, in 1987. The globe has been exhibited in many public areas each January 1st, including in and around Jerusalem, December 1990 to January 1991.[4]

A soundscape, Footsteps, composed by Ros Bandt in 1991, dedicated to 3 Minutes World Silence, was premiered on Australian Broadcasting Corp. [ABC] FM Stereo radio and was broadcast nationwide on January 1st 1992 [5][6]

The Garnaut Review on Climate Change accepted a submission in 2011 for 3 Minutes World Silence. [7]

1.The Advertiser,South Australia, 29 December 1983, front page article headed A plea for peace at the 11th hour

2.Pravda Moscow, [former]USSR, 30 December 1989, front page article headed 3 Minutes Silence including logo. Opening words On the New Years Eve, our newspaper has received a letter from Australia ...[signed]A.Boldinyuk. Newspaper distribution 10.5 million.

3.HansardFederal Parliament of Australia.Statement by House of Representatives Member, John Scott MP,[Hindmarsh]p789 17 May 1990I would like to convey to the House, to you, Mr Speaker, and to the President of the Senate the sincere thanks of Mary Cassini for the assistance given in allowing her to present the three minutes world silence exhibition in the New Parliament House ...

4.http://www.worldsilence.com/adventures of the globe.

5.ABC Stereo radio program 24 Hours 1 January, 1992, 10.45 a.m. to 11.03 a.m. National broadcast of a soundscape composed by Ros Bandt titled Footsteps[World Premiere]

6.Australia Post Journal, February, 1992, Page 17 World hears our chimes ... the clocktower of Adelaide GPO helped radio listeners in many countries to commune in thought on New Year's Day ...

7. http://www.garnautreview.org.au/C25734E0016A131/pages/submissions.html-459k[html]

8. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/mss/oliphant/oliphant_series3.html Cassini, MaryRe 3 Minutes World Silence proposal. 9. National Library of Australia Bib ID 1823697 Format Book Biographical cuttings file ... Subject Cassini, Mary. 10. Warrior for Peace Willa McDonald, ISBN 978 | 74097 147 8 Format Book Australian Scholarly Publishing P/L, biog. of Dorothy Green, pages 155,159,160,161,165,192 - references to Mary Cassini at the Moscow Forum for glasnost, Moscow Feb.1987 11.http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/ - ref to Ros Bandt-Footsteps an 18 minute soundscape composed by Ros Bandt, commissioned by Mary Cassini and dedicated to 3 Minutes World Silence. Premiered nationally in Australia on ABC FM Stereo Radio, 1 January 1992.{{reflist}}