Media Kit For Hot Air Balloon Race Around The World

“Flying for Peace”

News Release

(Press Release) - 23/02/2013 -

Safford — visualize a picture perfect morning amidst the peaceful scenery of the Mount Graham, where unexpectedly many colorful hot air balloons start inflating all together. It's an astonishing view. A Hot air balloon race around the world is going to start in this Summer from Safford, Arizona. The name of this Hot air balloon race will be “Flying for Peace”. The Hot Air Balloon race will be organised by “Greenpeace”, a renowned organization, “Greenpeace” raise thousands of dollars to make the Festival successful.

The race will start from Safford, Arizona on 15th June 2012 and end in Shirley, New York on 12th August 2013. It will be a world class occasion fascinating the best pilots from across the USA and the world. Peace has become the most needed thing today. To promote the culture of peace, the hot air balloon race around the world “Flying for Peace” is going to be arranged. This hot air balloon festival for global peace has rapidly grown into a family-oriented event with over 10,000 attendees each year.

Greenpeace is a citizen's action organization founded in 1971 in British Columbia, Canada in order to oppose underground nuclear bomb testing in Alaska. Since that time it has grown into an international organization with headquarters in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark as well as Canada. In the USA it has six regional offices. Greenpeace has adopted many additional environmental causes since its founding. It continues to advocate nuclear disarmament and protection of the ocean ecosystem by eliminating toxic dumping there. It also has initiated campaigns to save whales, dolphins, kangaroos and other species.

Greenpeace has adopted the tactic of direct action by its membership as opposed to traditional lobbying activities of more mainstream environmental groups. Rather than lobbying for passage of a new law, its members take personal action by demonstrating against projects, boycotting products, and intervening directly against companies and governments that engage in environmentally damaging activities. It is probably most famous for sending its small rubber inflatable boats into the path of whaling vessels to deter them from their prey. In 1987 Greenpeace established a research station in Antarctica to investigate the condition of that subcontinent and the impact of human activities on the ecosystem there.

The main theme of this “Flying for Peace” is that humans have always prized and sought peace. The concept of peace is contested. Some analysts use the term "peace" in opposition to war; this is negative peace, defined as the absence of direct physical violence. Other analysts stress positive peace, defined as social relations marked by considerable equality in life chances, by justice, or even by harmony. Some writers use the term "peace" to refer only to relations among global actors in a world system, while others include relations among persons and groups as well as among countries. Finally, some observers regard peace as a stable condition and ...