Oralia Pacheco

Translation 

Hello, I am Oralia Leticia, I am 54 years old, and I am pediatrician from Mexico City. How was it that I became involved in the World March for Peace and Nonviolence? It is a story in which my friends and relatives and myself speak daily about the violence in which we live. From the people who do not have enough for their daily needs to the victims of drug traffic. How is it that we are immersed in violence? What are we teaching our children? to live in violence? Is that what we want for our Mexico and for the world? So thinking about all these things related to the violence in which we are immersed, the Humanist movement launches this call for the World March. So I told myself: How can I, an ordinary person, a salaried person, have an influence to change this? The World March allows me to say what I think to tell the world that we have to change and that we have to advance towards a world of peace, and if this is through nonviolence, then it must be done. This is why today I find myself here in New York. My idea was to complete the entire March. But well, at least I am here in the last [part] of the March. And I will contribute my grain of sand, as many other people are doing, to fulfill this dream, as Martin Luther King said it at some point. [cut]. So what will remain of the March? What is it that we would have done? The fact that we [will have] brought as many people as possible into awareness of the need for nonviolence to be able to give our kids and our people a dusk of peace and tranquility. I have never participated actively in a movement like this. So for me this is the beginning of being active and to begin taking direct action against violence. And how will it be? Through nonviolence.