PEACE PAPER BLOOD
There are people who do not say much, but prove their humane attitudes by concrete actions. Jozef Pupala from Čierny Potok has a handshake like a lumberjack, but his heart is like a Gemer meadow. The lifelong credo of this convinced pacifist, anti-fascist and humanist is that blood should only flow at transfusion stations, and therefore he has donated blood an incredible 175 times during his lifetime. Today, when he should be on a well-deserved rest, he organizes blood samples at Gemeri and leads the local organization of the Slovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters. So we quickly agreed and agreed that an event called the “Peaceful Drop of Blood” should be part of the United Nations International Peace Forum we are organizing in September. Hospitals today report a lack of blood, so we believe that we will at least contribute a little to overcoming the unfavorable period.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNION FOR PEACE BECAME HUMANIST OF THE YEAR 2021
On the occasion of World Humanists Day (June 21), they handed over the 19th ceremony. June 2021 to the President of the Trademark Union Eduard Chmelár in the Cikker Hall of the historic town hall in Banská Bystrica in the presence of the President of the European Humanist Federation Michel Bauer the prize and honorary title of Humanist of the Year 2021. It was awarded to him by the Central Council of the Prometheus Society – an association of secular humanists for “systematic, creative and inventive promotion and support of humanism and its values in Slovakia, for significant activities in the fight for peace and in promoting democratic principles in Slovak society”.
