Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
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Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide
March 20th (Equinox Earth Day ) through April 22nd and Beyond See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org See also Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing http://WE.net/trends 
Details below!
      This year a variety of organizations, (including those above), with people around the world, are celebrating Earth Month . Earth Month is a convergence of events, broadcasts and other activities starting with the Original Earth Day on the Equinox March 20th (World Happiness Day), including World Water Day March 22nd, World Meteorological Day March 23rd, and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day celebrated), and culminating with the Peoples Climate March on March 29th. Here are selected event details:
The Earth Society Foundation
www.earthsocietyfoundation.orgcordially invites you to participate in the celebration of the 47th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony  The Ceremony will begin at 6:00 AM EDT at the Peace Bell
in the renovated Japanese Garden at UN Headquarters The Earth Society Foundation invites you to ring a bell for peace March 20th on the Equinox wherever you are. The Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York City will ring at 6:29AM Eastern Daylight Time – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same moment (11:29AM in Austria) the Peace Bell at the United Nations in Vienna will ring. The 2017 ceremony celebrates the anniversary of the first Earth Day initiated by John McConnell on March 20, 1970, in San Francisco, and will mark its 47th celebration at the United Nations in New York City. To attend this UN event, RSVP by March 15th is required, by email, to earthsociety1@hotmail.com. Include name and telephone number. Participants should bring a photo-ID for UN Security, and arrive by 5:50 AM EDT, Monday, March 20 at the UN Visitor’s Entrance at 46th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. To participate from anywhere around the world, you may ring a bell at this shared “Moment of Cosmic Equipoise” with the global intention to facilitate peace on our beautiful planet. WBAI Pacifica Radio Show Special
Health Action With Host Kathryn Davis Preview of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration March 20th 1PM Eastern Time (USA) Listen live online at http://www.wbai.org Featured Guests include:
On World Water Day March 22nd The Compassion Games will launch and build momentum for Earth Week happening from April 22nd through April 30. During Earth Month we will pass the Compassion Torch to different Champions of Compassion in Support of Standing Rock who are standing to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
 One Love Rising Radio – Special Teleconference Edition for World Water Day With Host Heidi Little – Co founder/Director of International Children’s Month and Co-Host Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World March 22, 2017 at 1PM Eastern Time (USA)To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1 516 418-5703 Featured Guests include:
 Planet Heart’s 10th Anniversary Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration 2017Saturday April 22, 2017 | 6:30pm (Sharp)–10:00pm (Doors open 6:00pm) Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew | 263 W. 86th Street, NYC Inspirational Talks – Live Music Performances – Inspired Poetry – Guided Meditations – Vibrational Sound Activations On Earth Day April 22nd, 2017 there will be Global Teach-ins and the March for Science in Washington DC and other locations.  The Peoples Climate March is on April 29th Thank you for all you are doing to create a better world!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing: WE.net/trends 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World An Urgent Message >From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide! Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate Donation Page: WE.net/donate Facebook – Twitter |
Sponsored by Women’s March Alliance
https://www.womensmarch.com/enough
Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.
FAQ’s
Why are we doing this?
We are living in an age where young people like us do not feel safe in our schools. This issue is personal for all of us, especially for those of us who are survivors of gun violence. We are walking out for ALL people who have experienced gun violence, including systemic forms of gun violence that disproportionately impact teens in Black and Brown communities. It is important that when we refer to gun violence, we do not overlook the impact of police brutality and militarized policing, or see police in schools as a solution. We also recognize the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations. We raise our voices for action against all these forms of gun violence.
Why March 14?
March 14 is the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Why 17 minutes?
The 17 minutes are in honor of the 17 lives taken in the tragedy in Parkland, Florida.
For more FAQs go to https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-faq
Share your smiles, compliments, time, talents, money, and energy with those around you. We must truly be the change that we want to see. And we can do it. We are doing it. Believe that the future is full of mindfulness where hearts mean more than our accounts.
The Love Initiative.
Notes From the Road – Bright Lights Blog
http://troubadourofpeace.blogspot.com/
Book a house concert or music for a yoga class today!!
TOUR DATES
| Date | Time | Venue | Location | Cost |
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| 3/22/18 | 3:00 PM | Choices | Akron, OH | |
| 3/22/18 | 6:00 PM | Tea Time for Peace | Kent, OH | |
| 3/23/18 | 5:00 PM | Friends of the Metro Parks Benefit w/ the Bright Lights | Akron, OH | |
| 3/27/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
| 3/30/18 | 6:30 PM | 330 Day @ Akron Civic Theatre | Akron, OH | |
| 3/31/18 | 10:30 AM | Celebration of Life for Marilyn Stroud | Cuyahoga Falls, OH | |
| 4/3/18 | 6:30 PM | MLK Kirtan | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 4/4/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Circle | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 4/6/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Rhodes St Rude Boys | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
| 4/7/18 | 8:30 PM | Mustard Seed Highland Square w/ Bright Lights! | Akron, OH | |
| 4/10/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
| 4/16/18 | 7:00 PM | Wolf Creek Winery | Norton, OH | |
| 4/21/18 | 6:30 PM | Bright Lights @ the Rialto | Akron, OH | $5 |
| 4/22/18 | 4:00 PM | Yoga Central | Canton, OH | |
| 4/28/18 | 7:00 PM | Wine Mill | Peninsula, OH | |
| 5/2/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Series | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 5/4/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Gretchen Pleuss | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
| 5/5/18 | 12:00 PM | Cleveland VegFest | Cleveland, OH | |
| 5/5/18 | 6:00 PM | Bent Ladder winery | Doylestown , OH | |
| 5/8/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH |
SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY APRIL 21ST, 2018
PLANET HEART’S 11th
ANNUAL WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing Our Heart”
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with We, The World (fiscal sponsor) & Jodi Serota.
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth.
Listen to Inspirational Talks, Experience Live Music Performances, and Inspired Poetry along with Guided Meditations.
Heal, Awaken & be Ignited through Vibrational Sound Activations.
There will be Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants.
All Are Welcome! Please Share! We Are One!
May Peace Prevail On Earth!
Featuring:
❤️Mitchell Rabin (Host/MC): Founder/Host/Producer, A Better World Radio and TVP, www.abetterworld.net
❤️Andrew Kaen: Executive Producer/Vibrational Sound Healer/Poet
❤️Jodi Serota: Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, www.jodiserota.com
❤️Rick Ulfik: Founder of We, the World, We Campaign (www.we.net)
❤️Kurt Johnson – Author, The Coming Interspiritual Age, President of the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS), www.interspirituality.com
❤️Ron and Victoria Friedman: Co-Founders, Vistar Foundation
www.vistarfoundation.org
❤️Barbara Biziou: Spiritual Life Coach and Global Ritual Expert
http://barbarabiziou.com/
❤️Premik Russell Tubbs: Composer, Arranger, Producer and an accomplished Multi-Instrumentalist, www.premik.com
❤️and you
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❤️Visit our Full Website for FULL DETAILS and bios of Presenters
http://www.planetheart.org/
Contact: info@planetheart.org
Event hotline: 212-222-5432
Direct line: 646-765-7890 – Andrew Kaen,
Executive Producer, Founder, Principal Organizer
❤️Visit the website http://www.planetheart.org/
ALL ARE WELCOME! Please Share!❤️
Time: 6:30PM Sharp – 9:30PM.
(Doors Open at 6pm for Registration)
Price: $25 (pre-paid by April 20th) or $33 cash only at door. (No Refunds).
Location: New York New Church
114 East 35th Street, New York, NY, 10016
More Info: www.planetheart.org ❤️
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld,org
Call: 212-222-5432.
A portion of the proceeds helps support We.Net.❤️
Sponsors: We.net, Planetheart.org
Co-Sponsors/Partners: Inner Realm Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Creations Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio, WBAI, Talking Alternatives Broadcast, Good News Broadcast, Vigil for International Peace and Ecology, We Care for Humanity, Pete Rogina and Eileen Cohen’s Peace Lights, Aum Shanti Bookshop, Forest Nation, Action Moves People United, Interspiritual Network, A Better World with Mitchell Rabin, The Family of Light: Artists, Psychics & Healers (Alan Pratt), Ayurveda Cafe, Sanctuary for Harmonic Living, Peace December (NY Peace Coalition), Sylvia Moss, Vistar Foundation, FIONS, Peace Toys (HUGG A PLANET), Peace Lights Org, Media Dream Productions, Vanessa Espinosa Graphic Design, Anne Leighton Media Relations, #EarthDay2018 #PledgetoPlant
Planet Heart Logo © Elana Stanger, a.k.a. St. Angel www.diversityarts.com
Come help strategize at the first national meeting of NuclearBan.US!
• Find out how Takoma Park, MD, became the first US city to declare
itself “treaty compliant”
• Learn how other US cities, states, organizations and institutions are
implementing the Treaty
• Get the latest news and strategies from ICAN
• Be part of a crucial international movement
• Support the Treaty in your city and state
Come help strategize at the first national meeting of NuclearBan.US!
• Find out how Takoma Park, MD, became the first US city to declare
itself “treaty compliant”
• Learn how other US cities, states, organizations and institutions are
implementing the Treaty
• Get the latest news and strategies from ICAN
• Be part of a crucial international movement
• Support the Treaty in your city and state
International Children’s Month is a full year long, free, thematic, activity platform for all. The mission is “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Our peak month is JUNE and we ask all involved with children to take it up a notch or twenty and do something special for this month with them. Support the children in doing what they feel called to do. Support the children in what you feel called to do. This month is about celebration and joy of our children, and of appreciation. Please visit the SEL partner platform for all at www.internationalchildrensmonth.com
A Blanket of Dust is a political thriller and a new addition to the Theater of Resistance. It is the story of Diana Crane, a modern day Antigone. The daughter of a US Senator whose husband has died in the World Trade Center, her subsequent ordeal in seeking justice for his murder ultimately drives her to the outer fringes of society. Struggling with facts that the government, the media, her family and her countrymen deny, she finally confronts them all with a harrowing act of sacrificial tragedy.
This is a Facebook Live event with registration required. Go to bit.ly/DPIpeacedaychat
There will be a panel of 4 speakers followed by audience participation addressing the topic: Making the International Day of Peace Matter in Your City. This event will also mark the 100 Day countdown to the International Day of Peace on Sept 21!
At the time of the event, see https://www.facebook.com/UNDPINGO
In Association with Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Present
and the Power of Nonviolent Communication
http://WE.net/wwv-nvc-june18 Monday June 18, 2018
Registration, Seating and Networking 6:30pm – 7:00pm
Program starts promptly at 7:00pm to 9:00pm
227 West 13th Street 3rd Floor Aqua Room
(Between 7th and 8th Avenues) in Manhattan, New York City Outside of New York?
View the Free Online LIVE Webcast!
(Livestream link at www.YouCanView.com or go to WE.net)
Featuring
- Dr. Jude Currivan – Author of The Cosmic Hologram and Co-Creator of the WholeWorld-View
- Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net, Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Workshop Facilitator and leader
- Dr. Kurt Johnson – Author of The Coming Interspiritual Age, President of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a Co-Creator of Unity.Earth
- Kristin Hoffmann – Internationally acclaimed Singer, Songwriter and Recording Artist
- Gil Agnew – Co-Creator of the WholeWorld-View
- Robert Levine – Writer, activist, Yoga instructor, Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator for We, The World and Board Member of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Sliding Scale: $20, $15, or $10 (no one turned away) Limited Seating! To RSVP please write to Gil@newinnergy.com
Dear Friends,
We invite you to join us for a dynamic, inspiring, informative and interactive gathering in New York City and LIVE Online wherever you are. At this gathering we will deepen our understanding and experience of the emergent WholeWorld-View. And we will explore how the framework and language of NonviolentCommunication can apply this unity awareness, empoweringus to value our personal uniqueness and celebrate our diversity whilehealing and transforming our relationships with ourselves, each otherand our planetary home.
In this participatory and experiential evening, you will:
- Discover the key insights of the WholeWorld-View of unified reality and unity awareness
- Explore the principles and processes of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that have touched millions of lives and inspired many to believe that practicing NVC is a key strategy for bringing peace and unity to our world
- Understand the unity movements’ impetus in the world
- Participate in an NVC experience called Shifting Towards Compassion
- Attune with the transpersonal experience of unity awareness
- Explore and share what the embodiment of unity expressed in diversity means for our own lives
- Be deeply moved by the inspiring vocal performances of Kristin Hoffmann !
We look forward to hearing from you and hope you will join us June 18th – in person or online!
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
We come together for the Annual Children’s Global Wave Of Love, at 1:11pm in every time zone beginning in New Zealand and ending in Hawaii, we come together to collectively intention “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Based on the Fibinacci sequence of increasing increments of divine love we send out love across the waters and lands for all. A peak day for International Children’s Month and our free year long thematic activity platform International Children Love Self Love and Cooperation 2018.
Los días 22, 23 y 24 de Junio vamos a repartir los flyers de paz que puedes descargar a este link: www.gentlestar.org/difundir
Estos mensajes llevan las bases del principio para despertar el amor que vive en el corazón de cada uno y, en consecuencia, hacer que este planeta Tierra se transforme en un planeta de amor.
Si quieren, pueden compartir estos mensajes con cuantas más personas como gesto de amor, imprimiendo alguno para donarlos a los que sienten cerca de su corazón, o bien pueden enviar el fichero por email, pasarlo por otros medios como las redes sociales o compartirlo directamente en Facebook.
En esta ocasión mundial puedes participar con nosotros: vamos a repartir flyers en Barcelona, Madrid, Roma, Milán, Florencia, Caserta, Londres, Lisboa, Atenas y más ciudades en el mundo.
Realizar un mundo de amor es posible. La gran voluntad de amar hace que acontezcan los milagros.
Te esperamos!
June 26th an important primary election in NYC’s for those of us who want our US Representatives to recognize the urgency and importance of pushing back on nuclear weapons today. 131 Democrats voted last month to increase spending by 22 billion for new nuclear weapons, on top of an already huge layout of our tax money.
Suraj Patel is showing leadership, and bravely, wisely, making it an issue in this election. Spread word, lend support. Thank you
Please, spread the news of Suraj, to any who live in NY’s 12th District:
Union Square,
East Village,
Lower East Side,
Upper East Side,
Lenox Hill,
Sutton Place,
Midtown,
Midtown East,
Stuyvesant Town,
Gramercy,
Flatiron
Williamsburg,
Greenpoint,
Long Island City,
Astoria,
and Roosevelt Island.
https://www.surajpatel.nyc
Live Interactive Webinar
To Build Peace ~ Go Beyond All Borders
On July 7th, 2018, the Youth World Peace Forum will have a special one-hour program. Through this World Peace Youth webinar, the room in Manila will open to a much bigger room: the world!
Donata Ling from Canada & Antonio Maia from Portugal will interview 6 youths panelists from the 5 continents (Singapore, Mexico, Burundi, Portugal, Romania and Egypt) opening a dialogue with them and with the youth present in the Youth World Peace Forum in Manila, Philippines and many other youths from all around the globe.
YOU are invited to be a protagonist of this special global moment!
The title of our webinar intends to highlight the boundaries that need to be overcome at personal and social levels.
This global moment aims to inspire participants to feel capable of building a happier, peaceful and united world. To breathe, love, work and live with concern for everyone.
Invite all your friends to be part of this planetary moment of sharing.
Register Now – Please visit: http://www.worldpeaceyouth.org
A great soul /funk concert. Come and be uplifted by great music and let’s raise as much money as possible to help re-unite children who have been separated from their families at the U.S. border. Tickets are $10. Please click on the link below to buy tickets, bring friends! You may make an extra donation on the night if you so wish. All proceeds will go to this great cause. Rob Duncan has played music all over the world, is a father of 3 and writes music about his experience of being human, man and father.
Here’s what he says about his music and this concert:
My music draws from my life experience; spiritually, soulfully, intellectually, and emotionally. All of my songs represent my musical influences like soul music, blues, jazz, and rock. Deeply soulful, funky, melancholy music with ultimately a message of hope. That’s how I write my music. That’s how I sing my music. I lay my heart on the table and reach you in places that you feel.
I have decided to donate the cover charge from my upcoming show at Rockwood Music Hall 3 to RAICES. RAICES primarily provides two very very important things.
It provides lawyers for the children who have been torn from their parents by ICES, and it pays the Immigration Bond which releases the parent from detention allowing their children to rejoin them. This is where your $10 cover charge for my upcoming show will go. If you wish to donate extra you may do so on the night of the show.
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
ROB DUNCAN LIVE with his Funkin Soul Band
Date: Saturday, July 7
Time: 7 PM – 8 PM (Arrive by 6:30. Show starts at 7:00! )
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3
185 Orchard St, New York, NY
Hosted by North Corner Music
$10 Cover Charge
For Tickets, Click Here: https://bit.ly/2LB0QPM
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts
of people, organizations and movements working for the common good
WE.net
Dear Friends,
As one of the supporting organizations of this conference, We, The World is very excited to invite you to attend (in person or via livestream) the Inaugural Global Town Hall for Global Governance Renewal, Innovation and Reform – a FREE event July 21-23, 2018 at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This will be the first of a series of Global Town Halls leading to 2020 the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The Global Town Halls are a means for direct citizen input into an effective and inclusive preparatory process for a UN2020 summit to catalyze the renewal and strengthening of the UN.
Complete details are below. Please Note: If you Register for the livestream, you will be given the direct livestream link prior to the event. We hope you will join us!
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
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Preventing war. Averting trade skirmishes. Reducing international tensions. Slowing the flood of refugees. Assuring plentiful food supplies. Ushering in an era of renewable energy. Reducing nuclear threats.
Dear Peace-making, Peace-building, and Peace-keeping Friends of All Souls Church and beyond,
For the past 37 years, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area has been organizing for the abolition of nuclear weapons and power, and in support of nuclear victims. We believe that if the world is to avoid repeating the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must strive to keep alive the memory of the bombings. This August we again will commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While we will not have our traditionally provided Hibakusha guests from Japan this August, instead, this summer we welcome Reverend William H. Lamar IV, Senior Pastor at Metropolitan AME Church and an activist in the New Poor People’s Campaign. Reverend Lamar was recently arrested at the Supreme Court protesting against unjust voting laws. He will speak about the links between the issues of racism, poverty, militarism, and ecological devastation and the threat of nuclear annihilation. In addition, Reverend Rob Hardies, Senior Minister of All Souls Church will speak to his, and All Souls Church’s activism in relationship with the Japanese Survivors, our Japanese Partnerships, and our congregational activism in nuclear weapons abolition.
Reverend Lamar will be joined by Martin Fleck, program director for the Physicians for Social responsibility Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program and by Diane A’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director at the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. They will discuss current issues concerning nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
This August, HN-DC leadership team member, John Steinbach, will represent the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon his return, we will host him in discussions of his contemporary findings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The website of The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area is located on the Web at John’s speech will be posted on the website.
Please make every effort to attend one of the Commemoration activities, and please forward this announcement as widely as possible.
Details of the DC Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorializing events are as follows:
2018 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Calendar with Hibakusha & Downwinder Testimonies
Hiroshima Peace Commemoration
Sunday, August 5, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall
There will be a moment of silence at 7:15pm to commemorate the Hiroshima catastrophe (exactly 13 hours before memorializing the detonation in Hiroshima)
Nagasaki Candlelight Vigil
Wednesday, August 8, 9:45 pm
White House (Lafayette Park)
Moment’s Silence at 10:02, sharing of thoughts for peace. Candlelight Vigil (exactly 13 hours before memorializing the detonation in Nagasaki)
For more information, contact Kio Kanda: 571-319-6688 or Mel Hardy 202-630-4635
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
http://GlobalUnityCalendar.orgPlease let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
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Events on all four days (see image).
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
http://GlobalUnityCalendar.orgPlease let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity
You’re invited to tune in online Saturday, August 25th for the Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity webinar hosted by Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath Inc.; Rollin McCraty, Director of Research, HeartMath Institute; and Owen Ward, Chief Strategy Officer, HeartMath Inc.
Click here for simple instructions to determine the webinar times in your area:
- For Select time and place to convert from, choose San Francisco, Calif.
- For Select time and place to convert to, choose your country and a city in your time zone.
When you register for the Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacitywebinar, you will receive a replay link
They will share valuable information and preview this year’s event, Lifting the Vibration of Our Spirit: Unleashing the Heart Power of Collective Consciousness, which will be held November 14-18 in the Mexican Riviera on the beautiful Yucatan Peninsula.
Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity
(A free HeartMath/
Saturday, August 25
11-11:45 a.m. or 6-6:45 p.m.
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HeartMath Institute
We are passionate and dedicated people, steadfast in our commitment to provide solutions for activating the heart of humanity. HeartMath Institute empowers individuals, families, groups and organizations to enhance their life experiences using tools that enable them to better recognize and access their intuitive insight and heart intelligence.
Resources to empower you.
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Explore HeartMath’s collection of free resource and downloadable materials for expanding your heart connections including practical solutions for your personal growth, health and life fulfillment.
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Sample of available webinars:
Empowering Coherent Groups: New Frontiers in Social Coherence Research and Development
What happens when a group’s members are resonating in-sync – past their normal performance levels? Researcher explains how an energetic field connects individual group members, which simultaneously distributes information between the group members leading to key social behaviours. Learn about a new heart rate variability system being developed for measuring group coherence and a training program for facilitating team and group coherence.
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The UN High Level Forum on The Culture of Peace, 5 September 2018 at United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY – Webcast at UN WebTV At this Forum key UN and civil society leaders discuss strategies for resolving and preventing conflicts and implementing the UN Programme of Action on the Culture of Peace. 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Rigoberta Menchu Tum will be the keynote speaker. President of the General Assembly and UN Secretary-General will also speak. The theme of the Forum is “The Culture of Peace: A Credible Pathway to Sustaining Peace“. Please visit the following UN link to know more: https://www.un.org/pga/72/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2018/08/PGA-letter-Culture-of-Peace.pdf “Contact: Iris Spellings optu.ny@gmail.com
Join us on the Road to 2020!
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11 Days of Global Unity is a community action-oriented program, hosted by the Florida Earth Charter Initiative and “We the World.” Beginning on September 11th, and leading up to the UN’s International Day of Peace – September 21st – Syraj Syed, founder of Your Authentic Self Work, and Sue Blythe, creator of the FutureFlash! Climate Challenge, will interview community activists for each of 11 Themes for Change.
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms (copy link to browser) to receive each day’s Community Exchange and learn how you can find your place in the movement of movements for a sustainable, just and peaceful future.
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Celebrating 20 Years With We, The World & Good News Planet
CHURCH OF THE VILLAGE
201 WEST 13TH STREET (corner of 7th Ave.) Manhattan, NYC
WEDNESDAY SEPT 12, 2018
6:30PM – 9:30 PM
Sliding Scale: $10/20 in advance, $15/25 at the door
Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/WTW20GN
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/250681448989549/
Livestream Link (day of event): https://www.youcanview.com/
Official Website page: https://we.net/20years
Don’t miss this Unforgettable Once-In-A-Lifetime Event!
6:00pm Doors Open
6:30pm Sharp – 9:30pm Program
9:30-10:00pm Networking
With Hosts
Paul Sladkus, Founder, Producer and Host of Good News Planet and
Rick Ulfik, Founder of We, The World and the We Campaign
Featuring:
Special Opening Performance at 6:30 by Dynamic New York R&B Recording Artist Al Smith
Kathryn Davis, host of Heart of Mind Radio
Rev. Deborah Moldow, founder of Garden of Light
Singer songwriter Heidi Little
World Dance with Kaeshi Chai and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment)
Singer songwriter Kristin Hoffmann
Claire Diab, International Yoga Therapist, Board Member of the Deepak Chopra Center
Joumana Rizk, Peacelights
Monica Willard, United Religions Initiative
Rev. Susana Bastarrica, Founder, Vigil for Peace and Ecology
Alan Steinfeld, host and producer of New Realities
Mitchell Rabin, host and producer of A Better World
Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Academy For Future Science
Andrew Kaen, Founder, Planet Heart, Producer of Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Tribute To Carole Hart (helped launch Sesame Street, Free to Be, You and Me)
World Premiere of the We, The World Song by Heidi Little, Rick Ulfik, Andrew Kaen and others
Tribute to Aretha Franklin & Wilson Pickett Featuring Cherette White, Al Smith, Rick Ulfik and other Musicians
Plus Special Video Presentations including:
Video Message from Deepak Chopra (Bestselling Author and We, The World Advisory Board Member)
Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love, Hope. Movie Premiere Trailer
An Urgent Message From Your Children
For more information contact: Andrew Kaen, organizer 646-765-7890
or email andrewkaen@wetheworld.org
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT
Moscone Center South in San Francisco, California.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action.
It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from countries—supported by all sectors of society—that can put the globe on track to prevent dangerous climate change and realize the historic Paris Agreement.
The decarbonization of the global economy is in sight. Transformational changes are happening across the world and across all sectors as a result of technological innovation, new and creative policies and political will at all levels.
States and regions, cities, businesses and investors are leading the charge on pushing down global emissions by 2020, setting the stage to reach net zero emissions by midcentury.
ATTENDING THE SUMMIT
People everywhere are encouraged to participate in the hundreds of affiliate events taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the world during the week of September 10-14th, including climate action panels, workshops, tours, exhibits and other special events. The full affiliate event schedule will be posted here this summer.
From September 12-14, you can virtually attend the Summit by streaming it live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. In person, Summit attendance for the plenary and other high-level sessions is by invitation and will require accreditation. If you represent an organization ready to make a major climate commitment at the Summit, please send details about that proposed announcement by clicking here.
The Global Climate Action Summit is also committed to reducing the environmental impact of the Summit event itself. To see how the Summit looks to meet or exceed international sustainability standards for large events, please click here.
At the heart of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is the commitment by national governments to review their progress and rachet up the ambition of national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The Global Climate Action Summit, happening midway between Paris 2015 and 2020, is timed to provide the confidence to governments to ‘step up’ and trigger this next level of ambition sooner rather than later.
The momentum we generate this year must lead to bending the curve of emissions down by 2020—science advises us that this gives the world the best opportunity to prevent the worst effects of climate change. 2018 therefore must be the beginning of a new phase of action and ambition on climate change.
The Summit will underscore the urgency of the threat of climate change by mobilizing the voices and experience of real people, in real communities already facing real and stark threats. It will challenge and channel the energy and idealism of people everywhere to step up and overcome it.
At the Summit, international and local leaders from states, regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society—known as “non-party stakeholders/non-state actors”—will be joined by national government leaders, scientists, students, nonprofits and others in a new wave of mobilization.
They will be sharing what they have achieved to date and committing to doing more to usher in the era of decarbonization, greater levels of sustainability and prosperity for the many rather than the few.
These actors will also celebrate a range of new climate commitments under five key areas: Healthy Energy Systems, Inclusive Economic Growth, Sustainable Communities, Land and Ocean Stewardship and Transformative Climate Investments.
The confidence, enthusiasm and support generated by this wave of action now and through 2019, will embolden national governments leaders to trigger the necessary domestic processes ahead of 2020 while also triggering more states and regions, cities, businesses and investors to ‘step up’ further action themselves.
THE CO-CHAIRS
We’re running out of time. There’s been some backsliding since Paris, and our Summit on September 12, in San Francisco—our Global Climate Action Summit—aims to increase the commitments that have already been made in Paris, to make them even greater, and thereby build the momentum going into the conference of the parties at Poland.
JERRY BROWN Governor of California
I am delighted to be one of the co-chairs of the California Summit where we have an opportunity to move the needle further and faster towards the swift realization of the goals of the Paris Agreement.
PATRICIA ESPINOSA
Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
I am delighted to be one of the co-chairs of the Summit and look forward to continuing the momentum set in motion by the Paris Agreement.
ANAND MAHINDRA
Chair of the Mahindra Group
During this important period, the Summit will help mobilize the national, sub-national, business, and society as a whole to demonstrate their actions and determinations, which will not only advance the global climate governance process, but also push forward the global green and low-carbon transformations.
XIE ZHENHUA
Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs of China
I’m so honored and pleased to be invited as a Co-Chair of the Global Climate Action Summit. This a recognition of the transformative power of young people as equal partners in the fight against climate change. We must continue to support youth-led innovative climate solutions at scale and provide spaces for young people to lead climate action globally and on the ground, mobilizing communities in support of the Paris Agreement.
JAYATHMA WICKRAMANAYAKE
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
In part one of our fundraising series, international speaker, author, and peace activist, John Dear will host a discussion based on his latest book,“They Will Inherit the Earth”. In it, he examines the connection between violence and our treatment of Mother Earth. He writes, “We need not be blind any longer.” We can reclaim “a vision of peace for ourselves, Mother Earth, and her creatures.”
Join us for an afternoon of challenging reflection on how the current time calls for a transformation of our vision and way of life. A reception to follow in our gardens.
Tickets are required for this event. All proceeds benefit the Center for Environmental Transformation.
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
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This powerful film serves as a warning sign of the impending threat of escalating regional war in the Middle East. With the increasing number of U.S. military bases and direct U.S. military involvement in the region, it is clear that our governmental officials as well as the public are not sufficiently informed in regards to the dynamics of the conflicts in the region. Enemies of Peace shines a spotlight on the instigators, aggressors and funders of these catastrophic wars as well as their motives. Featuring some of the most renowned scholars, journalists and activists on the subject, Enemies of Peace offers insights and solutions not often expressed by the mainstream media and serves to empower activists in helping to bring the principles of peace, justice, cooperation and diplomacy back into politics, international relations and the collective consciousness.
For more information about Enemies of Peace and to view the trailer, visit:
EnemiesOfPeaceFilm.com
facebook.com/EnemiesOfPeaceFilm/
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
WORLDPEACEPRODUCTIONS.ORG, WE.NET, VEGANSEDONA.COM & FamilyOfLight,org invite you to participate in a global #11DAYSOFGLOBALUNITY movement for Peace & Sustainability Sept 11-21, culminating with the International Day of Peace.
The 9th DAY of our ONLINE #11DaysOfGlobalUnity FREE FILM SCREENINGS – VEGAN FILM FESTIVAL is Sept. 19. THEME: Freedom FILM; 101 REASONS TO GO VEGAN Please host or attend a free improVdinners.com film screening, watch the film online, donating to our cause and joining our MEDIA THAT MATTERS movement, and/OR take the Compassion Challenge to goVegan! for 11 Days and Break Bread Together for a Better World! www.VeganFilmFest.com
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Connect for Peace is a public street happening for peace in honor of the International Day of Peace. We invite participants and passersby to connect with one another in a spirit of openness, spontaneity, and childlike innocence. A cross between performance art and a peace rally, these powerful events have touched the lives of people from around the globe.
We take a moment to connect for peace. We take a moment to really see the person in front of us. We say, “I see you” and are genuinely seen in return. The bungee cords physicalize the invisible connections between all people. As we realize how interconnected we are, peace is a natural outcome.
Amazing things happen at every Connect for Peace event. It touches something deep. Passersby stop to share intimate details of their lives. Strangers are moved to extraordinary acts of kindness. The premise is simple but the results are incredibly powerful.
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
CAMPAIGN NONVIOLENCE CONVERGENCE: MOMENT OF TRUTH
TIME: All Day
ADDRESS: 1640 Columbia Rd., NW
CITY: Washington, DC
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Join us on Sept. 21, 2018, International Peace Day, for an evening of reflection on five years of Campaign Nonviolence and the next steps forward, with George Martin, Rev. John Dear, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Shane Claiborne, Dr. Ken Butigan & Dr. Kit Evans-Ford, and on Sat. Sept. 22, 2018, for a legal rally and a nonviolent silent march from the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue to the White House for a rally and nonviolent direct action.
Friday, Sept 21. 2018
Gather at 7:00 p.m. at The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, D.C. for an evening featuring Campaign Nonviolence The centerpiece of this Week of Actions will be The Moment of Truth – The Campaign Nonviolence Convergence September 21-22 in Washington, DC. On September 21, we will gather, reflect and prepare. On September 22, we will assemble at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, march to the White House, vigil, and take nonviolent action.
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., we will march in the spirit of the prophetic declaration he made the night before he was killed: “The choice is no longer violence or nonviolence; it’s nonviolence or non-existence.” In this moment of truth, we will call on the nation to choose a culture of nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction.
Now is the moment of truth for taking action – and for recommitting to the power of truth itself, in light of the many false or misleading statements made by the administration. On September 22, we will take action for peace, economic equality, racial justice and environmental healing – and for a new spirit of truth and nonviolence.
Speakers will include Lisa Sharon Harper, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr, Kit Evans-Ford, Rev. Ray East, George Martin, Shane Claiborne, and Rev. John Dear.
Join us in Washington at this critical moment of truth.
THE NATIONAL CONVERGENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, September 21, 2018
Location: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, D.C.
4:00pm – 5:30pm: Nonviolence training by CNV with Ken Butigan and Veronica Pelicaric. Free. Dinner available for purchase at The Potter’s House restaurant and bookstore next to the Festival Center.
7:00 pm: Gathering at The Festival Center to celebrate, reflect and share stories on five years of the Campaign Nonviolence movement and discuss next steps. Speakers include CNV leaders Rev. John Dear, Ken Butigan, George Martin, and Kit-Evans Ford. Free-will donations accepted at the door.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Location: King Memorial, 1964 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024 near West Basin Dr. SW
9:00 am: Rally at the statue of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Southside of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Jefferson Memorial Tidal Basin.
10:00 am: Silent March. We will line up in pairs holding signs and walk in silence from the Dr. King statue past the Lincoln Memorial to the front of the White House, where we will stand in silence with signs in Lafayette Park. While some keep vigil in front of the White House, others will participate in nonviolent direct action.
Registration: Please let us know which events you will join and how to contact you.
Please note: CNV is not coordinating lodging or transportation.
This convergence is taking place during the 5th Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions September 15-23, 2018. Be sure to hold your event locally earlier that week, then join us in DC!
Together in this Moment of Truth, we choose the way of nonviolence and we will take our message to the White House and the nation. Together, our collective actions and voices are calling for an end to the culture of racism, poverty, war, and environmental destruction, and making the choice for nonviolence, peace and truth.
For more information, contact Ryan Hall at Pace e Bene, at info@paceebene.org.
YES! I AM COMING TO WASHINGTON!
“A decade ago, Unity Foundation launched the Peace Day Global Broadcast to celebrate the message that peace is really possible,” explains Bill McCarthy, founder of Unity Foundation and co-founder of the Peace Day Global Broadcast. “Since then, we’ve been honored by participation from world leaders and international celebrities. Our audience has grown each year. Last year, we had more than 700,000 views in more than 130 countries. This year, we plan to surpass a million views.”
Share and support the Peace Pledge on the International Day of Peace.
What you can do:
One action or many from the suggestions below.
1. Print out the Peace Pledge document and give it to someone (download @ www.peacepledgeproject.org) Available in 11 languages.
2. Post the Peace Pledge document on your Facebook Page (download @ www.peacepledgeproject.org)
3. Sign the Peace Pledge on Change.org ( www.change.org/p/the-peace-pledge-to-live-loving-kindness-compassion )
4. Share the Peace Pledge Petition on your Facebook Page ( www.change.org/p/the-peace-pledge-to-live-loving-kindness-compassion )
5. Share the Peace Pledge document with a school, organization, institution, business etc.
The BeThePeace Challenge is a free 3-day program to help clarify your vision for the peace you wish to see in the world and to embody that. Sept 21-23. Join us at www.bethepeace.com
Can the world be peaceful for 24 hours? Every hour a new invitation, action, mission, and hero will invite you in the UNIFY Experience for all to do and share together! This is hosted by UNIFY and all our amazing Partners honoring The International Day of Peace. The Incredible Celebration will be led LIVE on UNIFY FB Page.
Sept 21 we will be LIVE on FB,starting the kick off of this Global Synchronized Event and will be working towards breaking our last Guinness World Record!
Learn more about this at http://www.home.unify.org/
Share your peaceful actions on Twitter, FB, Instagram with us featuring hashtag # reporting your actions on the Map on our site
Please share this event! Peace on!
From Peace Accelerators Description: It is our dream (and hopefully it will become your dream as well) that over the next decade we begin to celebrate the International Day of Peace (September 21st) more and more each year, until over time it becomes the first holiday that the entire world celebrates.
It is not religious and it is not about any made-up country — it is about all of us seeing the commonality between each other, realizing we’re on one Earth (and in many ways this place needs us to adapt to her quite quickly at this crucial point in history).
This Thursday we are holding a large beautiful inspiring event for the International Day of Peace. There will be community leaders, speakers, musicians, meditation, yoga, dj’s and much more.
This will be one evening you will not want to miss.
It will be the largest celebration for the International Day of Peace in NYC, the heartbeat city of our one planet.
Let’s show the world what we want.
10 MINUTES FOR PEACE GLOBAL MEDITATION
Friday September 21 9a-10a PDT
Synchronized meditation for peace
10 minutes | SEPT 21 | 4 pm GMT
10 Minutes for Peace is a coalition of organizations, corporations, and individuals demonstrating the power of humanity coming together as ONE to create a world of greater peace and prosperity.
Participate from wherever you are!
Align with millions of people around the world
in a synchronized experience on September 21:
starting at 9a Los Angeles,
12p Washington D.C.,
6p Paris,
9:30p New Delhi,
and 12a Beijing.
Check-in with a photo of “You at a peace gathering,
Commit to
10 Minutes For Peace
9.91K more People needed to Hit Threshold
Unifyre catalyzes a wide variety of group experiences,
anything from a local gathering
to a global movement
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity! Today, we culminate these 11 days as we mark the UN International Day of Peace. When Dr. Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga, began spreading his vision of sharing intentional laughter, he recognized that Laughter is a universal language and since its founding in 1995, he has hoped others will share his vision of using shared intentional laughter to help the world find peace. I’m SURE I’ve enjoyed laughing with each and every person who has called in during the 11 Days of Global Unity. On this, our last call of this series, we will focus on Laughter Exercises that envision a more peaceful world. As always: no previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Time given is for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Also NOTE: Sarah continues these Laughter Calls every MONDAY MORNING at 9am Central Standard Time for 15 minutes. You are always invited! Thanks for joining the fun as we all work together to find a more unified, and much more peaceful world, one big smile and one shared laugh at a time!
In keeping to these declarations, and, in the spirit of the original vision that brought forth the Charter of the United Nations, the UN Secretary General announced a Culture of Peace in the 21st century initiative to unite the strengths of organizations, projects and peoples in order to make Peace a practical reality for the children of this and future generations.
Picking on these declarations, the members of the Africana Women Working Group at the United Nations and the Palava Hut enacted action to address peace with the support of the office of the First Ladies of UN Member States, Peace advocates and celebrities through the Danny Glover Power of Dreams and the U. Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centers and Associations on the following initiatives;
i. Culture of Peace
ii. HUG4PEACE
iii. 1000 Women in Religion for Global Peace
The purpose of these initiatives is to strengthen the global movement on culture of peace and provide educate on the SDG16 and Targets in celebrating the United Nations Day for Peace every September 21.
In celebration of our common humanity, we join with citizens from all around the world on September 21st for International Peace Day. This year we are excited to celebrate the EMPOWERED VOICES OF YOUTH in our commUNITY, who are leading the way to a more peaceful and just world. International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution and this day of peace provides a globally shared occasion for all humanity to commit to peace above all differences and to contribute to building a culture of peace.
Come and join us as we
march, chant, dance, rally, listen and create
with one another to celebrate our
connection, hope, and commUNITY!
Festivities include:
March
Unique voices from our International community
Performances
International Flag Ceremony
Face-painting
Sign Making
…and more!
BE THE GENERATION TO TAKE ACTION.
Global Citizen is calling on YOU to take a stand, use your voice to make change and Be the Generation to Take Action.
From Sep 22 – 29, we are turning NYC into an arena of advocacy, with dozens of events and activations. We are uniting Global Citizens to learn, take action, and see world leaders commit to achieve the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and a world without extreme poverty by 2030.
Global Citizen Week coincides with the annual leaders meeting of the United Nations. We kick off at the historic Riverside Church on the Upper West Side celebrating the human rights leaders and movements who spoke up against injustice, and culminate at the iconic Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, Sept 29.
Join us at conferences and concerts, on the streets, in shops, and in churches to show our leaders that the movement for change has never been stronger.
Be sure to check back as we add more events and opportunities for you to get involved!
SEE events already listed on website!
Peace Walk & Singing Peace
Hosted by Zach Freidhof
May all beings know peace. Om Shanti.
My the leaves of aggression fall from the trees of society,
and may the rotting fruits of anger
be turned to compost
through our inward efforts and outward compassion.
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We will begin at Big Love HQ and walk in silence and mindfulness to Chestnut Ridge Park, about 25 min. We will meditate there for about 20 min and return to Big Love HQ. Then we will have a Peace Kirtan until 2pm, chanting for Peace – mainly Peace Shalom Salaam Shanti.
All are welcome! If anyone would like to bring food, it can be there at Big Love HQ for after the walk. We will walk rain or shine, though if there is a drenching rain or thunderstorm, we will just chant for Peace and reschedule the walk.
For those who have not experienced The Big Love Network, Peace Month is the perfect time. Come and walk with the kindest group of folks you”ll ever meet. Laugh and share food. Please bring a dish to share and stay for the meditation and chanting for inner peace and the power to send that on.
SEP 24 – 26
DC Advocacy Days 2018 – Peace Alliance DoP Campaign
TICKETS –$25
Event Information
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It’s become an annual tradition since 2011, Several or many of us prepare materials, strategies and sometimes gifts, connect in DC, welcoming newcomers and preparing ourselves for a new year of advocacy meetings and conversations while dropping off information packets with staffers and Members of Congress. We meet with prospective, former and current co-sponsors to continue to build the case for a federal infrastucture making peacebuilding and nonviolence a priority in all that we do and supporting U.S. cities who choose to do the same.
Attend 1, 2 or 3 days of Advocacy 9/24-26/18;
Contact Karen at politicalstrength@gmail.com or 312-545-3460 for room shares at the Harrington.
Advocacy materials will be provided in DC; more information to registrants.
Pre-Lobby Days Options
- 9/21-22 in DC – Pace e Bene Campaign Nonviolence Convergence (some DoP advocates will be attending; see www.paceebene.org/events/campaign-nonviolence-convergencefor more information.)
- 9/21-23 in Toronto – World Beyond War Conference (9/22 DoP Workshop, “Departments and Other National Infrastructures for Peace – A Way Forward” with Saul Arbess and Anne Creter, plus a DoP table at conference); optional Sunday event through WBW. Portions of the WBW conference will be simulcast. (See NoWar2018! for more information.)
- 9/23 in DC – 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. – limited number of free “timed entry tickets” for The National Museum of African American History and Culture – reserve ASAP by contacting kendramon@comcast.net; optional a.m. event through Campaign Nonviolence.
Hotel Harrington
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Organizer of DC Advocacy Days 2018 – Peace Alliance DoP Campaign
Meditation * Mantra for World Peace * Music * Dance * Speakers * Vendors * Kirtan * Bhajans * Annual Award Ceremony * Prasad * Guru Dileepji’s 50th Birthday Celebration
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Get Inspired and Engaged by the Global Community
Reconnect with the Source of Pachamama Alliance
A 75-Minute Conference Call for Our Global Community
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These calls are designed to
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participants, leaders, and supporters who are actively engaged
in creating a shift in humanity to a worldview
that honors and sustains life
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By coming together and grounding in this vision, you will:
*Feel supported in your work.
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network committed to a new future for all.
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INCLUDES Zainab Salbi’s new book!
Freedom is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World
Stories of Personal Triumph with Zainab Salbi and Laurie Adams, featuring sacred world music by Desert Rose
By all appearances, Zainab Salbi has had an impressive life. Growing up as the daughter of Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot, she eventually became a celebrated humanitarian and activist. Yet, as she was helping thousands of women in war-torn countries, Salbi’s personal life was coming to a crisis.
Tonight Zainab & Laurie explore their own riveting journeys to wholeness—and how embarking on such journeys enables each of us to create the world we want to live in.
“If we want to change the world, we must begin with ourselves.” – Zainab Salbi
A copy of Freedom is an Inside Job is included in your ticket price and Zainab will be signing books after the program.
In Conversation With Mother Jones
Mother Jones is bringing its fearless reporting and in-depth conversation to a city near you. Our In Conversation series features timely discussions with writers, thinkers, and changemakers who are pushing the national conversation forward.
Our latest event featured the Rev. William J. Barber, a preeminent civil rights leader and co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, in conversation with our senior reporter Ari Berman about voter suppression, civil rights, and the upcoming midterm elections.
Watch the Facebook Live stream of the event.
Join Us for Our 2018-19 Events Lineup
(Current topics and dates are tentative. More details to be updated shortly.)
February 2019: California leads the way (Part 1 – San Francisco)
April 2019: Women leading the way (New York)
June 2019: Food security and politics (Los Angeles)
August 2019: The future of education (Washington, DC)
October 2019: California leads the way (Part 2 – Los Angeles)
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“Give Yourself A Raise!” FREE LIVE Online Webinar!
Dear Friend,
I have something to share with you today that will help you lift yourself above any feelings you may be experiencing of overwhelm around your health, relationships, money issues, politics, or the state of the world.
It’s a FREE Online Video Class called ‘Give Yourself a Raise’ that will raise your mood, consciousness and energetic presence!
Here’s some of what you’ll experience during the class:
- A Convenient Truth! See how science and age-old wisdom merge seamlessly
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This FREE class was created by my good friend and co-host of the award-winning Get Conscious Now TV program, Stu Zimmerman, who has interviewed numerous luminaries, including Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, George Zimmer, Van Jones,Tony La Russa, and Gay and Katie Hendricks.
I have known Stu personally for over a decade, and I know you’ll benefit from his many practical pathways that will lead to greater levels of peace, joy and playfulness, no matter what is happening in your life.
Find Out More About Stu’s FREE Online Video Class: ‘Give Yourself a Raise’
In Oneness,
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Humanity’s Team
P.S. If you feel like your life is in a rut of any kind, the class will lift you out of it fast and get you moving along your destiny path again in no time!
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THE ALCHEMY OF WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE WISDOM AND POWER Pre-Parliament Women’s Sacred Circles On November 1, 2018, 9- 12 PM EST, a collaboration of women’s organizations will host a circle with a sacred center for 200 women and girls attending the Parliament of The World’s Religions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, www.parliamentofreligions.org.
We hope you will host a local circle anytime on Nov. 1st, and connect with us in prayer and through this Group. We will live-stream the opening, speakers, water ceremony and the closing. We will have reflection questions that empower and unite us as a mighty force of feminine energy. The questions and other information will be posted here. We will have a water ceremony and encourage you to have one also. Each person adds water from their source to a common bowl and blesses the water.
Please connect as local circles of women, men, youth gathering to give each one a voice in a circle with a sacred center that supports, encourages and empowers the collective feminine wisdom and power. Please spread the word to organizations, circles, groups and individuals. Please put in your newsletter, newspaper, FB groups and Timeline.
Basic Circle Principles and information on how to start a circle found on www.millionthcircle.org and www.gatherthewomen.org
SEE more on Facebook — Alchemy of Women’s Collective Wisdom & Power
Early Childhood Education and Public Charge
November 7 at 3:00 PM ET – 4:00 PM ET (12:00 PM PT – 1:00 PM PT)
On October 10, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was published in the Federal Register, outlining the administration’s intent to dramatically change the meaning and application of “public charge” provisions in immigration law. This proposal could harm the health and well-being of millions of children and families and is of great concern for young children’s development and the early childhood field as outlined in this Q&A. Staff at the Center for Law and Social Policy will provide an overview of the proposed public charge rule, its potential impact on young children, and explain how the early childhood field can support immigrant families and take action during the public comment period.
What Housing and Homelessness Advocates Should Know about the Public Charge Rule
November 8 @ 3:30 PM ET – 5:00 PM ET (12:30 PM PT – 2:00 PM PT)
On October 10, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposed rule that would make it more likely for certain immigrants to be denied admission to the U.S. or denied green cards because they receive or would receive lifeline benefits, including public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, and project-based Section 8 housing subsidies. Previously leaked drafts of this drastic policy change have already led many families to drop out of critical food and nutrition programs for their children. This chilling effect is poised to impact hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrant households that depend on these programs for survival.
PIF Campaign: New Research and Estimating the Impact of Public Charge
November 8 @ 3:00 PM ET – 4:00 PM ET (12:00 PM PT -1:00 PM PT)
Join partners with the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Campaign as we discuss new research estimating economic and demographic impacts of the proposed public charge rule. During this webinar, panelists will present the findings of three new resources from Manatt Health, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Fiscal Policy Institute. For more information about the webinar, please contact Jackie Vimo and Renato Rocha.
PIF Campaign: Public Charge 101
November 14 @ 2:00 PM ET – 3:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT -12:00 PM PT)
A recurring webinar from CLASP and NILC. The Department of Homeland Security has published a proposed regulation on “public charge.” If finalized, the regulation would dramatically rewrite immigration policy and make green cards only available to the highest bidder. This webinar describes public charge policy today, how it would change, and what you need to know if you work with immigrant families.
For more info: bit.ly/askPIFcampaign
Interfaith conference on Healing the Soul of the Nation. As we witness what appear to be attacks on the spirit of Truth, Integrity and Unity in our country, let us people of all faith traditions join together and share our thoughts and visions on
ways to uplift our nation. Please email your response to abnathoo@hotmail.com
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Prem Rawat Foundation Supports Veterans With Peace Education Program
This article is also available in: French
For too many veterans, finding an enduring sense of peace remains elusive long after they return from war. They often face immense challenges as they transition to civilian life, from trauma disorders to unemployment and homelessness.
Thankfully, November 11 marks an occasion to honor their service and support solutions that can improve their lives. The date is Veterans Day in the United States, and in many other countries it is called Remembrance Day and Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I.
A growing number of veterans say the Peace Education Program is a solution that gives them the tools they need to harness their own inner-strength and overcome their obstacles. The program’s workshops feature videos of Prem Rawat’s empowering international talks on themes such as dignity, choice and hope.
“The Peace Education Program tries only to achieve one simple thing: it’s to put you in touch with yourself,” says Rawat.
While the goal is simple, the impact was profound for Alyce Knaflich, a veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress, depression and homelessness for 10 years. She credits PEP with giving her the confidence to now work as the executive director of Aura Home Women Vets, a charity in Asheville, NC that provides housing and support to homeless women veterans.
Veteran Alyce Knaflich shares her story in this video.
“I was lost. Prem Rawat and his message in the program, it brought me home. And my home is my heart. Peace starts on the inside,” says Knaflich.
She has incorporated the Peace Education Program into Aura Home’s services to help her clients have the same enriching experience that she did.
“Prem’s message will help them heal their emotional stress, and ease the transition of coming out of the military and trying to find a new career path. It will help them center themselves and bring out their confidence,” says Knaflich.
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture is a people-powered department — a grassroots action network inciting creativity to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging. Learn more about the USDAC and read our Statement of Values, then join this act of collective imagination
Contact info: hello@usdac.us.
PROTOTYPING CULTURAL DEMOCRACY SERIES Part 7: Remember2019, Memory and Reflection on Mass Lynching in Phillips County, AR
By Arlene Goldbard, Chief Policy Wonk
This is the sixth in a series of blogs profiling the USDAC’s Policy Prototype projects, seven projects across the U.S. receiving micro-grants to document their work related to the proposals in “Standing for Cultural Democracy: The USDAC’s Policy and Action Platform.”
The proposal submitted for a one-off USDAC Policy Prototype micro-grant by Ashley Teague, a theater director with extensive community experience, focused on the critical issue of commemorative justice (as did the STICK + MOVE project featured earlier in this series). Partnering with Mauricio Salgado, co-founder of Artists Striving to End Poverty and Arielle Julia Brown, founder of The Love Balm Project, Remember2019 lives in South Phillips Country Arkansas where in “1919 arguably the largest mass lynching in American history, took the lives of more than 230 African Americans in less than 72 hours….,”
Remember2019 was developed in response to Bryan Stevenson’s (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) call to action when he said, “Formalizing a space for memory, reflection, and grieving can help our communities recover from this traumatic history of mass violence.”
In the Remember2019 proposal, Ashley wrote:
As we approach the centennial of the massacre in South Phillips County, our goal is to partner with individuals and organizations throughout the region to create a theatre event that unearths this erased and contentious history and considers how it has affected the communities past and present. Furthermore, we will raise Dr. Martin Luther King’s timely question—where do we go from here?— tour the play during the 2019 centennial year, organize an annual residency that will continue after the theater event, offering local artists opportunities to create their own self-determined work around issues of memory, reflection, belonging, and cultural citizenship.”
Three Platform points were referenced:
- Point 2. Support A Culture of Justice and Equity
- Point 3. Redeem Democracy with Creativity
- Point 5. Invest in Belonging and Cultural Citizenship
The work touched on all three, but as Ashley explained when we spoke, “we ended up doing more work towards point five, investing in belonging in cultural citizenship. That’s where this long-term artist residency came from, working with community-based centers to reuse abandoned or underused spaces and some of our focus with the young people.”
“We believe that culture influences policy,” Ashley wrote in her proposal. “Therefore, it is our responsibility to reframe our cultural narrative so that it inspires just policies. This project begins by recognizing a history that was intentionally devalued and disposed of in order to entrench a normative white supremacist culture. In order to do that, this project will embody equity and participation by prioritizing the leadership, stories, and talents of community members that have been historically ignored. Our model is flexible, scale-able and nimble enough to adapt to the specific context and goals of the community, while still based in well-researched frameworks and proven methodologies.”
Healing the Land Ceremony in Elaine, AR, October 30, 2017
Remember 2019 is a long-term project, as Ashley explained when I interviewed Mauricio and herself:
The big picture is that we’re producing six residencies over six years. The first two are trailblazed by Remember2019, beginning with a blues event featuring local musicians using their music to synthesize personal stories and testimony with the rich history of the blues in the Delta. The next residency is the original, full-length play featuring community testimony and community and professional actors on stage. Then the next four will be determined by local artists. We are part of funding those residencies and getting a group of local folks together to take on those residencies past our involvement in the community, creating a long-term artist residency in the neighborhood.
“Another way of thinking about this long-term project, Mauricio added, “is that we are supporting local efforts to build an ecosystem of art spaces and work. At the moment there are a couple of spaces where folks engage in visual or performing arts—aside from churches, I think there are only two. There are local artists like Kyle Miller at the Delta Cultural Center who are hoping to build out a community of art spaces and art makers and that’s what we’re trying to do. How else do we build that ecosystem but by creating opportunities for performance and for sharing?”
Ashley agreed. “In this community there are a lot of vacant spaces that used to be for commerce. One part of our conversation is if there is a way to repurpose these as creative spaces. Is there a way to take on these underused or unused spaces in the blues festival performance and also in other residencies moving forward?”
The team’s time on the ground in South Phillips County was revealing and catalytic, as Ashley explained:
During the two months we were in South Phillips County we found ourselves wondering, “Where are the young people?” There’s nowhere to hang out. There’s no public space to let loose and relax and see friends other than going to church. How can we create space for that? How can we provide food and entertainment and make a space where people can just hang out and commune?
A major goal is to create and perform in 2019 a play grounded in the experiences and voices of local people who have been affected by the massacre of 1919. Mauricio explained:
All of our work, both the story-sharing institute as well as the current blues festival, has conversation at its core. We are interested in reflecting on the story-sharing practices that remember that moment in time and how that has been affected and where that has been channeled. There’s some research at the institute that the blues changed in response to the red summer of 1919, for instance. So all of that’s in the mix of thinking about the dream for the play next year.
Ashley explained that the playwright, Clos Sirah, “has gone several times to the community for interviewing and story-gathering, including one time when we were all there together for weeks. We’ve been having meetings with our community partners—community-based organizations, community-based centers in the area—as we shape what that play will be to make sure we’re getting community feedback at every stage. Ultimately it will be a performance that is inspired by and based on community testimony and will involve community in the making and performance. One idea is that it may travel around the community so that part of the experience is really being present in the space, really being aware of generations stacked up on this land and here we are now as a community moving through our space together.”
Team photo, July 2018 Staged Reading of Scapegoat by playwright Christina Ham in Helena, AR
Mauricio noted the nuances and controversies that commemorative justice projects can entail. “The Elaine Memorial Foundation is putting up a memorial and there are a series of events that are being organized for next October. And so how are we doing something that adds to that conversation? That puts up against it? That isn’t just the same thing? How is our work refracting, reflecting on, reckoning with the conversation that is already happening in light of the memorial that’s being created?
The past is always in dialogue with the present in such work. “Something we heard often from our partners and from folks we’d meet in the community,” Mauricio told me, is ‘We’re not just what happened in 1919. We’re a lot more than that, and who’s interested in that? It seems like folks are only interested in the hype around that one moment. How do we broaden our understanding of that story so that we can tell that side of ourselves too?’ That’s only possible if there are several conversations happening simultaneously that can use the events of a hundred years ago as a jumping-off point.”
Ashley and Mauricio explained that their team has been in conversation with all kinds of local groups, from Waves of Prayer to the Delta Community Center to the Boys and Girls Club, local educators, social service organizations, and beyond.
What binds our work and theirs is a desire to have this story told on a national level, to give voice to these stories, and understanding that art and theater is the way to do that. People tell us “We’re trying to move our community forward and we need this story to get out and we need attention to come here. We need jobs to come here. We need work to come here,” and the understanding is growing that theater as a vehicle for storytelling can serve those purposes as well.
This type of long-term relationship-building grounded in art calls on Citizen Artists to be open to sharing their gifts in a spirit of flexibility and generosity. For instance, Mauricio noted that he’d been helping folks from the Delta Cultural Center write a grant proposal for an after-school music academy, and the person he was working with
…says to me, “I feel funny. I don’t know what this has to do with your work.” And I said “Listen, Kyle, we are in for the long game of supporting the development of the arts in the area. So helping you write this grant is also my work.” We are showing up as much as we can for the community and the community’s needs, checking at the door our own particular agendas or even our own abilities. In that way I think this project will continue to morph. We will continue to produce these events, and that will be a centerpiece of our work. But also a whole lot of other things, because it’s going to take participating in many things.
Remember2019 has received funding from Alternate ROOTS, the Highlander Research and Education Center, The MAP Fund, and the Network of Ensemble Theaters to support this long-term cultural development in the service of commemorative justice.
In fact, a keystone event made possible with this funding is coming right up: in Marvell, Arkansas on 29 September 2018 and Elaine, Arkansas on 2 October:
Remember2019 Collective members Carlos Sirah and Mauricio Salgado are collaborating with James “Gone for Good” Morgan, Marcus “Mookie” Cartwright, and Vera White to present Black ‘n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta. The event is free to the public and will include a reception with food.
In Black ‘n da Blues, Phillips County musicians explore the relationship between legacies of race and artistic expression – locally, nationally and beyond. The event is being produced in partnership with The Delta Cultural Center, The Elaine Legacy Center and The Boys, Girls, Adults, Community Development Center (BGACDC).
Major events like these emerge from a fabric of community dialogue and story-sharing. For example, Remember2019 Collective members Arielle Julia Brown and Carlos Sirah convened a two-day story-sharing institute on 18 and 19 June, inviting local people to share “freedom songs, delta blues traditions, oral histories, meal centered oral traditions, story circles, testimonies, gossip, folklore, interviews and more,” culminating in a Juneteenth Freedom Celebration in a local park.
Specific activities also emerge from a convergence of interests in which the artists’ desire for commemorative justice—for their work mattering to people and serving as a vehicle for everyone’s liberation—connects with local desires and aspirations. Mauricio recalls being asked by a community leader
“What’s your investment in the work?” She would question us whenever we would say “We’re here for you.” Towards the end of our last time together, she heard us start to say “We’re here because we want. We want.” She says, “I only trust people who are here 100% for themselves because how do I know that you’re committed unless you too realize there’s something here for you?” That’s the level of commitment we’re being asked.
If you’d like to explore bringing any points in Standing for Cultural Democracy to life in your community, please feel free to contact us at hello@usdac.us. While Policy Prototype micro-grants were a one-time thing, we can still offer technical assistance and help share information with the wider world if you have a project that promotes one of more of the Platform points, so call on us.
Militarism, violence, and war are pervasive in pop culture and the entertainment industry. The mainstream news media largely refuse to critique skyrocketing military spending and the vast negative impacts of perpetual warfare. Join World BEYOND War for our next free webinar featuring experts on the strained relationship between militarism and the media.
Militarism is the “elephant in the room,” says FAIR founder Jeff Cohen. Former TV pundit for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox, Jeff was fired for shedding light on the perils of U.S. interventionism and in particular, for opposing the invasion of Iraq on the air.
Rose Dyson, President of Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment, expresses concern about the culture of war that is perpetuated by TV, music, video games, and social media. Popular culture glamorizes the use of guns, normalizing violence and conflict.
Tune in to our Militarism in the Media webinar with experts Rose Dyson and Jeff Cohen to discuss the role of media in promoting war and violence, and how, in turn, we can be peaceful advocates for a world BEYOND war.
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UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF
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AN INTERACTIVE CONCERT & BROADCAST
IN CELEBRATION OF UN WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
@ One of New York City’s Largest Theaters 
The United Palace
A Magnificent Landmarked Urban Treasure
4140 Broadway at 175th Street in Manhattan New York City
Featuring Performances By
BELLA GAIA – an unprecedented NASA-powered immersive experience that blends live music, dance and large screen NASA imagery into a breathtaking planetary journey.PATO BANTON – a Grammy-nominated artist whose audiences become participants as the beat keeps them on their feet, and Pato delivers a message that is food for the mind and soul.
KRISTIN HOFFMANN – a Juilliard trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and recording artist with a transcendental ability to take audiences on a journey of deep awakening to Spirit.
AKIM FUNK BUDDHA – a Zimbabwe-born legendary urban performer known for his holistic approach to Hip Hop, rhyming, beat-boxing, mouth percussion, story-telling, Mongolian throat-singing, and martial arts.
MYSTIC VOICE – her soothing and meditative chanting stems from a deep spiritual connection to the ancient texts such as the Tao Te Ching, the Buddhist Sutras, the Sanskrit Vedas and the poetry of Rumi.
PLUS Appearances By indigenous leaders, diplomats, artists, scientists, peacemakers, interfaith and faith-based activists in an unprecedented celebration of our common humanity
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President Trump’s gag rule dismantles Title X, our nation’s only federal program for affordable sexual and reproductive health care. More than four million people with low incomes rely on this program, including 150,000 right here in NYC. Now, many of them won’t be allowed to get birth control, STD testing and treatment, and cancer screenings from health care providers like Planned Parenthood. Unite on the steps of City Hall on Monday, February 25th at 5 p.m. Elected officials, patients, and health care providers will be there to voice their fears, their outrage, and their resolve to inform and activate positive action to support reproductive rights and compassionate healthcare.
“The World Is My Country” Sat 4:45 is the amazing true story of World Citizen #1 Garry Davis. It is getting standing ovations at film festivals because finally here is a film with hope, introduced by Martin Sheen as “a roadmap to a better future.”
The Twelfth Annual New York Peace Film Festival (NYPFF) is a two-day festival co-hosted by The Peace & Justice Task Force of All Souls Unitarian Church screening
10 films: five full-length documentaries and 2 documentary shorts, 2 anime shorts, and In This Corner of the World, winner of the Japanese Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film. See www.NYpff.com. Director Arthur Kanegis is flying out from the West Coast for a Q & A following the showing of his film “The World is My Country”. Kanegis was the producer of the Paul Newman film “War Without Winners.”
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An evening of chants and songs to heal, inspire and empower.
Very few people can say that they have been a singing mermaid, a singing casket, and was literally “elevator music” when she was hired to sing and play piano in a moving elevator. Meet Karen Drucker.
Karen has recorded 15 CDs of her original inspirational music, and is the author of an inspirational book, “Let Go of the Shore: Stories and Songs That Set the Spirit Free.” Among her many accomplishments, she has been a professional comedienne, led her own band for corporate events, and has been the music director of New Thought Churches, as well as music director and “music weaver” for many spiritual conferences and retreats. Karen has been honored with an Honorary Doctorate of Music for her work within the Religious Science Community, and a “Grace Note” award for her work within the Unity Movement.
In following her passion, Karen sings, speaks and leads workshops at women’s retreats, mind-body & health conferences, and various churches around the country, as well as working with authors like Joan Borysenko, Alan Cohen, and many others.
Karen Drucker has been called “a master of communicating presence and spirituality through music.” She loves making music, making a difference, and touching hearts.
PURPOSE AND INTENTION
Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth, April 20-26 2019, will be a collaborative and participatory investigation into how we can steward a sustainable future on what has already become a radically changed planet Earth. We have travelled to this ‘new’ planet on a burst of carbon dioxide. A new planet requires new ways of living.
The conference will bring together eminent scientists, wisdom keepers, business people, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, young people and others, to envision and begin to inhabit our joint future. It will be an international, inter-generational and multi-disciplinary gathering. This is the principle of ‘the big tent‘, borrowed from party politics, whereby diverse viewpoints, backgrounds and interests (the ‘voices in the room’) are brought together to engage and dialogue.
Floor plan of the Universal Hall, the main conference venue, with
a symbolic representation of the diversity of ‘voices in the room.’
Through interactive, embodied and experiential means, participants will access intuitive, intelligent and innovative insights into how we will meet the demands of this new world. Each individual will be invited to invoke their ‘Legacy for the Earth.’ Our combined roles and commitment will represent a global mission of stewardship. Everyone will be part of this love story.
Participants will collaborate in exploring:
- The science and truth of climate change in language that we can all comprehend;
- Ways to embody our longing to connect with the Earth and hear Her voice;
- How we can build and rebuild communities as functional entities;
- Political, legal and social activism, and networking for social change;
- How do we nurture children and support youth to restore our environment;
- Soil restoration, organic food production and community-scale agriculture;
- Alternative energy sources and appropriate technologies;
- Biodiversity and the intrinsic preciousness of all species;
- Racism, misogyny and gender bias – how they deepen the environmental crisis;
- Contemporary and traditional resources to address the trauma of climate change;
- What can we learn from indigenous cultures, activists and wisdom keepers;
- Healthcare and the detoxification of environmental pollutants and toxins; and
- How to generate inspiration for a grassroots upsurge to reclaim our future.
THREE MAJOR ORIENTATIONS
Three major threads running though the conference will be:
- AWAKE: Facing the truths of climate change.
- CELEBRATE: Using the arts to express our love for the Earth and all life.
- ACT: Developing our response, locally and globally.
TEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF CCC19
These principles were received along with the guidance for the manifestation of CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS on November 8, 2016:
1. That the gathering be a grassroots representation of diverse global populations;
2. That the gathering be held at the Findhorn Foundation due to its origins and because it represents and embodies community and sustainability;
3. That indigenous environmental leaders be represented;
4. That youth play a significant role and that their voices be heard;
5. That all participants, both at the conference and online, be encouraged to connect, engage, contribute and network.
6. That everyone at the gathering have an opportunity to establish and cultivate a direct, intimate and personal relationship with Nature;
7. That the gathering be infused with art as one of the key celebrations of human creativity and resiliency;
8. That the outcome of the gathering be the creation of networks of innovation and communities of inspired action;
9. That these networks and community initiatives be seeded before the conference begins; and,
10. That they be effectively supported to grow and flourish after the conference ends, in order to accelerate the generation of sustainable, life-serving responses to climate change.
WHY THIS CONFERENCE IS UNIQUE
While words like ‘climate change’ and ‘sustainability’ are in the popular parlance, the truth about the magnitude of our environmental predicament is not well understood. This is in part because the language used to deliver the science is frequently infused with acronyms that deter engagement. This conference will translate scientific jargon into language that is accessible to anyone. In addition, we intend a celebratory response to climate change that emphasises human resilience and creativity, which is key to coping with the scientific reality. These two sides of the coin (environmental science and celebratory resilience) will be linked at every juncture of this gathering.
This conference will be led by some of the most knowledgeable and highly regarded voices of the climate change movement. The key contributors are recognised internationally for their expertise, their commanding presence, and their proven capacity to identify practical and optimistic strategies for sustainability action. Joining these voices with those of artists, healers, parents and youth has seldom been attempted in quite such a way.
YOUTH
We are planning (although it’s funding dependant), a separate youth programme that will run parallel to the conference. Youth aged 16 – 20 will form a contingent that will join with, and present to, the entire assembly. Their ideas will be woven into an action plan that is developed for follow through after the event. The intention will be to permeate schools and social media with viable options for surviving and thriving in a climate-changing world.
LIVE STREAMING
There will be live streaming from Findhorn of most of the conference programme (details to follow). Aside from individual subscriptions to the streaming, we are encouraging organisations (such as community groups, non-profits, institutions and companies) to subscribe to the streaming as a collective, or hub. Hubs will take the opportunity to do much more than just passively watch the streaming. We will encourage them to self-organise a mini-conference of their own, whereby they hold their own in-house discussion groups, panel sessions, workshops and so on. We envisage these hubs becoming cells of impassioned and empowered activists who sustain their climate activism into the future.
Interested in forming a hub? Please contact us or email: CCC19@findhorn.org.
WHY FINDHORN?
The Findhorn Foundation and Community are a renown ecovillage, spiritual community and learning centre (See blog post here). This conference comes at a time when the art of community building is badly needed. Findhorn famously demonstrates the potential of community to develop low-impact settlements and lifestyles. Further, Findhorn’s deep roots in the natural world and 50 years of ‘co-creation with the intelligence of nature’ makes it the perfect host for this event.
The central intention of Climate Change & Consciousness is to encourage the participants (including thousands watching by live-stream) to prioritise their love for the Earth, putting the environment first in order to steward for the children of the future. This epitomises the role that Findhorn has long played in raising consciousness for the good of the whole. This conference fulfils Findhorn’s essential purpose as a lighthouse beaming forth messages from Mother Nature.
The Universal Hall at Findhorn, the main conference venue.
PRESENTERS
ANGAANGAQ ANGAKKORSUAQ
Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is an Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder from far North Greenland. He is a shaman, healer, storyteller and bearer of the Qilaut (wind drum). Angaangaq has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on climate change, environmental and indigenous issues. His beliefs and practices are deeply rooted in the wisdom and traditions of his people. www.icewisdom.com
Quotes: “The greatest distance in the existence of Man is not from here to there nor from there to here. Nay, the greatest distance in the existence of Man is from his mind to his heart. Unless he conquers that distance he can never learn to soar like an eagle and realize his own immensity within.”
“The Ancient One’s say that One Day, when the World needs it most, the Sacred Fire will come home to the people on the Top of the World.”
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
Charles Eisenstein is an extremely popular philosopher, author and internationally renowned speaker and program facilitator. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics and most recently, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. His forthcoming book, to be released in 2018, addresses the impacts of climate change. www.charleseisenstein.net
Quotes: “Humanity is meant to join fully the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts towards the wellbeing and development of the whole.”
“Enlightenment is a group activity.”
“The path of service is a path of self-realization.”
“Our salvation must come from recovering a direct relationship to what is alive in front of us.”
POLLY HIGGINS
Polly Higgins is founder of Ecocide Law, the Earth Community Trust and co-founder of the Earth Law Alliance. She holds the Arne Naess Chair at Oslo University and won the 2016 Polarbröd‘s Utstickarpriset prize for Future Leadership. Ecologist Magazine have named her one of the top ten visionary thinkers in the world. www.pollyhiggins.com
Quotes: “The shift in consciousness required here is an espousal of our collective responsibility for the ecology of our planet. Once we have that shift we will have true social progress.”
“Without the wellbeing of the ecology of our planet, our wellbeing suffers.”
“Calls for public and environmental justice are about securing peaceful life for future generations, the aspiration for a better world. To me, this is the ultimate altruistic act; to give your life in service for a greater good. My rallying call is for life for all who inhabit this planet, not just humans. It can be your call too if you so choose. I ask you to join me.”
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 17 year old indigenous climate activist who has spoken at the Rio + 20 Summit and the UN. With beauty, flare and music he reachs out to youth to invite them to be advocates for the Earth. He received the Peace First Prize in 2015 and the Children’s Climate Prize in Sweden in 2016. www.earthguardians.org/
Quotes:“My generation faces a total systemic collapse on every level of our planet. Never before has there been such an intergenerational opportunity to shape the world we serve.”
“Every young person in the world has the potential to lead. There is nothing holding us back…Whether it is on the local level or it is about the entire world, we can take on the leadership role. We deserve a healthy environment to live in.“
“I have to do something with the sadness I feel about what is happening to my world. I am totally in love with this planet and it is falling apart. I have to use my voice and my passion to make a difference. I have to education, empower and inspire.”
BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben is a pioneer of the climate change movement, best-selling author, journalist, environmental activist and founder of 350.org, a global grassroots climate change movement. Bill has won the Gandhi and Thomas Merton Prizes. He is a Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. The Boston Globe calls him “America’s most important environmentalist.” www.billmckibben.com, www.350.org
Quotes: “We must step up the fight to keep climate change from getting even more powerfully out of control, and to protect those people most at risk, who are almost always those who have done the least to cause the problem.”
“We will build the architecture of the world that comes next. We will create the dispersed and localized societies that can survive the damage that we can no longer prevent. We still must live on the world we’ve created and we will do that lightly, carefully, and gracefully.”
JONATHON PORRITT
Jonathon Porritt CBE is founder and Director of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. He was co-chair of the British Green Party (1980-83); Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90); and Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005). Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. www.forumforthefuture.org
Quotes: “Imagine the good world we are going to be living in – massively improved by smart, clean technology, and committed to a much fairer, more sustainable model of economic growth.”
“Practically everything we need to fashion a sustainable world for nine billion people is either out there, on the drawing board or in the lab. And the pace of change is extraordinary, the wealth creating potential quite staggering.”
VANDANA SHIVA
Vandana Shiva PhD is a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, science policy advocate and author of 20 books. She has taken on what is likely one of the greatest challenges of climate change – feeding a growing population without further harming the Earth. Vandana was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. http://vandanashiva.com/
Quotes:“Soil teaches us how to be earth citizens.”
“We will either make a democratic transition from oil to soil or we will perish.”
“Soil is the metaphor of decentralized and deep democracy.”
“Living economies are grounded in the soil; literally and metaphorically. They are localized, which reduces our ecological footprint on the planet while enhancing our wellbeing. Economies rooted in the soil are centered on nature and people.”
“Earth democracy grows in the fertile soil shaped by the earth, the human imagination and human action.”
ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS
Margaret Elphinstone is one of Scotland’s foremost writers who has written extensively about the crises in which we now find ourselves. Margaret contributes to Dark Mountain, a British based project that seeks, through the arts, to elicit urgently needed myths that reflect our times. She is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies. www.margaretelphinstone.co.uk
Mumta Ito is founder of the charity Rights of Nature and the International Centre for Holistic Law. A former financial lawyer in the City of London, she was an adviser to governments, multi-national corporations and investment banks. She is now a public interest environmental attorney. She initiated the European Citizens Initiative to put the rights of nature on the legislative agenda of the EU. www.rightsofnature.eu
Deborah Jay Lewin is an energy worker disguised as a dance teacher. She is a senior practitioner in her field having trained with Gabrielle Roth in 1994 and as a co-founder of Open Floor International in 2014. Her knowledge of and respect for the wisdom of the body is incisive and contagious. Deborah is devoted to utilising embodied movement to harness creativity for the benefit of all beings and the Earth. www.vitalmoves.co.uk
Rachelle McCabe, concert pianist and Professor of Music at Oregon State University, enjoys an international career as an artist-teacher and as a solo recitalist and highly respected chamber musician. She has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and England, and has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, the CBC, and PBS television. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Stephanie Mines is a neuroscientist, psychologist and author of five books on the treatment of trauma and shock. Stephanie first went to Findhorn in 2011 when she was a keynote speaker at the Conscious Medicine Conference. She has returned every year since and has a strong love for the community and the place. Stephanie lives in Portland, Oregon and is married to environmental attorney Robert E. Yuhnke. www.Tara-Approach.org
Kathleen Dean Moore is a moral philosopher, nature writer, and veteran climate advocate best known for her ability to weave science, ideas, and emotions in her spoken-word performances and books. She is the author or co-editor of a dozen books, including Great Tide Rising, Moral Ground, and the newest, a novel, Piano Tide. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Dave Rock is a spoken word artist, storyteller and Authentic Speaking coach. He works with communities, co-creating rites of passage, ritual and celebration; and with stage performers and change makers to help them embody and express their message as a way of being. As a performer he finds ways to speak all voices and remember life into being whole again. www.speakingrocks.life
Joey Walters is the Founder of Awakening Feminine Leaders. Her work is a soulful, authentic pathway to allow feminine leadership to emerge. She is gifted in inviting the power of ritual to accompany her gentle, clear and focused leadership. Joey is completing her first book based on her successful international series “A Call to Stand.” She lives close to nature in the woodlands of Scotland with her partner and two wee sons. www.awakeningfeminineleaders.com
Robert E. Yuhnke has been an environmental attorney and policy consultant for forty-five years. He co-authored the Clean Air Act in the US and has worked tirelessly for its enforcement. His ability to explain the science behind climate change and how communities must respond to survive and thrive will add significantly to this conference. Robert lives in Portland Oregon and is married to Stephanie Mines. bob.yuhnke@prodigy.net
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth!
Listen to Inspirational Talks with Spiritual, Interfaith, Indigenous and Environmental Leaders, Experience Live Music Performances, Guided Meditations, Qigong and more! Plus a
Special Tribute to Grandmother Lygia DeCastro
There will be Vendors (including Healthy Food & Drinks), Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants. There will also be inter-active participation throughout the day! Opening Ceremony and Procession with the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team!
All Are Welcome! We Are One!
“Every day is Earth Day where Peace Within Brings Peace on Earth ” – ReAwakennd
Planet Heart
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with WE, The World (fiscal sponsor), World Yoga Community and
@ The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology
presents
12th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration Community’s Annual WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION AND BENEFIT 2019
“Awakening Humanity’s Consciousness as One,
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing our Heart”
Save the Date!
SUNDAY APRIL 21, 2019
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM
4 West 43rd Street, Social Hall
New York, NY 10036 – Near 5th Ave.
Cost: $15 (advance) or $20 cash only at door.
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld.Org,
Call: 212-222-5432
Meet your Presenters:
MC HOST – Mitchell Jay Rabin, International speaker/Workshop Leader, Holistic Coach and Host/Producer of A Better World Radio and TV A Better World Radio & TV – http://abetterworld.tv/
Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center – http://www.fabiencousteauolc.org/
QUEEN MOTHER DR. DELOIS BLAKELY
Goodwill Ambassador To Africa, Community Mayor Of Harlem
Celebrating 50 Years as a Global Humanitarian and working with the UN and around the world – http://newfuturefoundation.org/
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, the World, The WE Campaign and 11 Days of Global Unity – https://we.net/
Rev. Susana Bastarrica
Founder/Organizer, The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology – http://www.vigil4peace.org/
Dileepkumar Thankappan internationally known as Avadhuta H. H. Jagat Guru Dileepji Maharaj (Spiritual Name) and otherwise known as “Guruji” is a world renowned Yogi , Founder and President of World Yoga Community and International Gurukula Community International Gurukula Community;
on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://guruji.us
Rev. Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki – Author, President/Founder, Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York
Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh Wisdom Keeper – https://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
Visionaries David Giller and Helene Abrams are Founders of Think Positive World, a movement to accelerate positive change and greater well-being in cities and communities worldwide
Kathryn Davis, Host of Heart Of Mind Radio (on WBAI and The Progressive Radio Network), facilitator of Meditation and Relaxation Techniques; a Master Teacher of Qigong Form; an Energy-Vibrational Healer – http://kathryn.one/
Sah D’Simone – Author|Transformational Coach|Meditation Teacher
http://sahdsimone.com/
Jodi Serota – Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, META Center New York- https://www.jodiserota.com/
Susana Koehler- Founder and CEO of Sustainable Global Network(SGN), Ambassador For Peace; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://sustainableglobalnetwork.org/
Andrew Kaen (ReAwakennd)
Executive Producer and Founder/Organizer of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Vibrational Sound Healer/Channel/Poet/Singer-Soulwriter/Ambassador For Peace, on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://www.planetheart.org/
Lisa Roma – Singer-Songwriter, vocalist, songpoet, musician and composer, writer, publisher, and visionary – Creative Women’s Network http://www.creativewomensnetwork.com/
RoseMary Wereley and Dainah Wereley – Will be performing some wonderful Indigenous Traditional Songs, and in Ceremony
lead us all to connect, celebrate, and sing in Unity and Love.
Kevin Nathaniel is a visionary musician who, with voice and ancient Afrikan instruments, channels sound as a universal healing force – he will lead us in inter-active ceremony with sound, celebration, Unity & Love – http://kevinnathaniel.com/
Shiang-Jiun Chen, Ed.D. Columbia University is an educator, photographer, singer, songwriter and dancer; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://peacekiteproject.wixsite.com/site1
Christine Marie – iMov – “Conscious Pop” Healing and Recording Artist, Healer and Mentor – https://soundcloud.com/christinemarieakaimov
Marsha-Ramdask Silvestri – multi-disciplined artist, writer, yogi and dancer, creator of Pure Life Planet , on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://purelifeplanet.com/
Portions of the Proceeds support We, The World (www.we.net)
All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to make a larger donation, and help support us, please do!
The Vigil For Peace and Ecology will return to Central Park Bandshell Sunday, Sept 15 from 9AM-5PM
We are pleased to have the Vigil Team part of this year’s festivities!
This event and Planet Heart/We the World is a co-sponsor of the Vigil and a part of 11 Days of Global Unity
For Volunteer Opportunies and to be a Vendor, contact us at EarthDay@WeTheWorld.org or call Andrew Kaen at 646-765-7890.
CoSponsor/Partners: A Better World Radio and TV, Inner Realm Magazine, Creations Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio with Kathryn Davis, Good News Planet, Hugg-A-Planet (Peacetoys.org), WBAI, Talking Alternatives Radio, Cafecito Break Podcast, One Love Rising Radio with Heidi Little,Global Kindness Going Viral/Spirituality Gone Wild with Karen Palmer, Age of New Beginnings with Ellen Pellegrino, FIONS, and more.
What if everything you knew about reality is about to be transformed?
What if, instead of experiencing consciousness at different levels of self-awareness, you understand that consciousness is what we and the whole world are?
What if science finally catches up with universal spiritual truths to provide scientifically-based evidence of the unified nature of the whole world?
What if you’re about to be presented with more compelling confirmation that we’re microcosmic co-creators of our Universe, that evolves as a coherent entity?
You are.
Join Dr. Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author, for an afternoon that explores a scientific revolution that connects me to we, and everyone. Increasing evidence across many fields of research from cosmology and physics to biology and social studies are reconciling with spiritual experiences and ‘supernormal’ phenomena, such as telepathy, remote viewing and synchronicities, to show that we are interconnected and interdependent.
Instead of the apparent separation of the manifest world, we invite you to understand, experience and embody the unified reality of this wholeworld-view. This transformational shift invites you to celebrate and value your individual uniqueness and our collective diversity. It empowers us to live, love and evolve together in our universal oneness.
Join us to harness our communal wisdom to transform our current global emergency into the emergence of our conscious evolution.
Music will be provided by Kristin Hoffmann, a Julliard trained singer-songwriter-musician with extraordinary artistic range. Her music has been heard on major record labels, film and television, and she has performed throughout the world, collaborating with musical luminaries on projects ranging from individual albums to grand symphonic productions.
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A FREE Community Prayer Portal CALL ~ Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth with Jyoti ~ July 31st @ 5pm PST
Dear Community and Relatives,
We would like to invite you to our Center for Sacred Studies Prayer Portal call on July 31, 2019, 5 pm PST.
Margin will be hosting the Prayer Portal call this month with our Center for Sacred Studies Grandmother Elder Jyoti. This will be the eighth of twelve calls that have been scheduled once a month on the last Wednesday of the month. These calls include different facilitators each time so that we can offer a diverse dialogue.
We are hoping to hold a focus of the Now!
What is happening and what can be our response?
How is this walk a prayer in motion for unity and peace?
What is the shadow that has been brought out in our collective for healing?
How can we stay fully present as we follow the guidance of prophecy that comes to guide us through these times?
Witness the many Divine channels that are intervening now to help us.
Our call this month is “Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth” – Please join us as Jyoti our Grandma Elder, Founding member of Kayumari with her husband Russell Park; one of the Founding members of the Center for Sacred Studies; Founder of the Fountain Project and Spiritual Grandma for our Global Community Village, shares with us on July 31st about her pilgrimage trip across the UK starting at the north shore and extended across the UK to the south shore, aligning and restoring the Michael and Mary lines. Along these lines, she attended the KIVA gathering and the Glastonbury Festival. She then went onto Peru, participating in meetings and ceremonies with elders of the Quechua Peoples. Her final stopping point was in Colombia in meetings and ceremony with the Mamos. She brings back messages and shares the collaborative actions that are following the direction of the Eagle/Condor Prophecy.
Jyoti writes:
‘Dear Relatives and Community,
I am traveling in a spiritual pilgrimage for almost 6 weeks which will take me across England and into Peru and Colombia. Shortly after I return, we will have our call. So much is challenging us in this turning time. Mother Earth has a clear focus on where she is taking us. Listen carefully to her messages. They may come in your dreams. In your experiences with Nature. Through your intuition and visions. Gather this as I travel, so that we can all share what we have received. And through that collaborative sharing, we will glimpse at what she is revealing.
Off on my pony!!!
Talk to you soon.’
Jyoti
We look forward to being on the call together!
Please read on to see how to join us!!
See you there!!!
With blessings of love and peace,
Jyoti, Darlene and the Staff of the Center for Sacred Studies
We invite you to come together on the FREE Teleconference Call
Wednesday, July 31st at 5:00 pm PST
Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth
OR REGISTER BELOW
These offerings are medicine for these times.
It is now time to unify our diversity as One People for One Earth.
If you have any questions, please email us at
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Meditation and Prayer Gathering for World Peace on Hiroshima Day
August 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
This is a simple call for a gathering of spiritually-minded persons dedicated to world peace. Please join us, to make peaceful compassionate steps to help heal our wounded world. Walk together one step at a time mindfully. Let us cultivate peaceful minds and hearts within, and work harmoniously with our fellow beings on earth.
The event includes A-bomb panels, experiencing a walking mindful meditation, Origami, Tanabata tree of wishes, music, prayer and readings.
May Peace Prevail On Earth International
Nagasaki Peace Pals Art Awards by artist
Join us in a one minute SYNCHRONIZED GLOBAL MEDITATION
WATCH THE LIVE Broadcast HERE
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wppc
Our friends at the URI – United Religious Initiatives
invite you to recite The Nuclear Prayer on Hiroshima Day
as a call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
Join 791 URI Community Circle in 98 countries
in a call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
Learn more about The Nuclear Prayer and the
Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons URI Cooperation Circle.
www.TheNuclearPrayer.org
May Peace Prevail On Earth
AUG 7
Disarm Hate: Gun Violence Prevention Vigil & Dialogue
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DISARM HATE: A CALL TO ACTION
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL & COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION
WED, AUGUST 7, 2019, 7pm – Doylestown, PA
In the wake of the mass shootings this past weekend that left 30 dead and many injured, we ache for the victims, their families and the entire community. As we mourn, we also rise up to take a stand against hate and all forms of gun violence. The clear connection between hate and the access to firearms must be addressed by our elected officials
Please join us this Wednesday, August 7, at 7 pm on the steps of the former Courthouse (55 E Court St, Doylestown) for a candlelight vigil followed by a slow procession to Salem United Church for a Community Dialogue. (186 E Court St, Doylestown)
Please bring your own candle.
Co-sponsors include: Orange Wave, Temple Judea, The Peace Center, Rise Up Doylestown, Bucks Students Demand Action, Heeding God’s Call, The Rainbow Room, Salem United Church & CeaseFire PA.
For more information, contact thepeacecenter.org or call 215-750-7220.
The Convergence
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In a world inevitably going global and multicultural, what becomes of religions and spirituality? What becomes of activism towards real global change? In THE CONVERGENCE, global Interspiritual pioneer and scientist Dr. Kurt Johnson joins interfaith leaders Ben Bowler of Australia and Doug King of America in engaging women and men who are inspiring leaders and change agents around our world. Spiritual and cultural leaders, sacred and secular activists, scientists, artists, writers, economists, politicians and even shamans join in this discussion of a world trying to wake up and grow up. What is at stake and what are the technologies and cosmologies creating a world that can work for everyone? If you are concerned for our world’s future and sincere about your commitments to bold and world-serving ideas, you’ll want to tune in to The Convergence on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel.
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Episode Description
VoiceAmerica presents this Evergreen Special detailing major 2019 and 2020 global events upcoming from UNITY EARTH partners Standing for Peace Campaign, Road to 2020 Events, and Caravan of Unity across America. The five sections of the Special spotlight, now and for months to come: United Nations mandated global holiday events like the International Day of Yoga and the International Day of Peace, the vision and work of Light on Light Magazine and VoiceAmerica in covering all these events, UNITY EARTH and its partners month to month activities and initiatives 2019-2020, and the roles of partner groups like Transformation365, We, the World, URI, UNIFY, EcoPeace and The Evolutionary Leaders. Featured are global leaders from the UN, UNITY EARTH, Light on Light Magazine, Transformation365, We, and The Evolutionary Leaders. Lets share this Special, ongoing, as a resource and PR instrument pointing toward all of these global events and gathering a global constituency for their success!
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Ambassador K. Nagaraj Naidu
His Excellency Ambassador K. Nagaraj Naidu is a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service representing the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York. He holds a Master’s Degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School. His extensive background includes being a fluent Chinese speaker and having previously served in China on four separate postings. More recently, he was the National Coordinator for establishing the International Solar Alliance in India. Significantly, Ambassador Naidu is a long-standing yoga practioner. Reaching back to a tender age, he was exposed to his grandfather rising early to teach yoga classes. As part of the 5th Anniversary of World Yoga Day in June, he moderated a high level panel in New York in the UN Secretariat on the theme of climate change and climate action.
Gayatri Naraine
Since 1980 Gayatri Naraine has served as the representative of the Brahma Kumaris at the United Nations in New York. She is a spiritual educator, writer, and speaker. She is currently the vice chair of the International Day of Yoga Committee. Gayatri’s focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals. She helped in the development of a concept paper entitled Enhancing Human Flourishing Within the 2030 Development Agenda: The Spirituality of Global Transformation. This was the result of a 3-year dialogue held with UNFPA. As a design team member for the Call-of-the-Time Dialogues, a global leadership dialogue, she has spent the last 20 years exploring “experiments in silence,” the transformational depth of contemplative silence and its impact on the world. She serves on the Board of the Kosmos Journal. Gayatri was born in Guyana and currently lives in New York City, USA. Contact Gayatri.naraine@us.brahmakumaris.org
Ben Bowler & Deborah Moldow
Ben Bowler, Executive Director of UNITY EARTH and Deborah Moldow, UE Creative Consultant discuss the vision of UNITY EARTH and its Road to 2020 and Caravan of Unity across America. Ben and Deborah are leaders of a team projecting inspiring global events from 2019 – 2020 and beyond. The Road to 2020 to date has touched all five continents with major intercultural and musical events. (https://unity.earth/roadto2020/). In 2019 events in India and The Holy Land will join the list. The New York Convergence and UNITY Earth Liftoff Celebration and concert are first steps toward “the Caravan of Unity across America” which, in 2020, will features events across America culminating in major celebrations in New York City for the International Day of Peace (Sept. 21). Ben and Deborah will help anchor a “Coalition for the Road to 2020” organized regionally to create participations in these inspiring events. The Leadership Conference, February. 1 will begin that process (contact adam@unity.earth).
Rick Ulfik
Rick Ulfik is Founder of We, the World, We.net and The 11 Days of Global Unity which for many years has been directing major events around the major international holidays of the United Nations. Rick is a founder/leader of We.net, FIONS and other New York City transformational organizations. He works with leaders of United Nations Committees and fellow members of the Evolutionary Leaders network co-sponsoring New York and UN international event programs. We, the World and their “Eleven Ways to Change the World” are central to the plans for 2019 and 2020 for The Road to 2020 and the Caravan of Unity across America. Rick is also a leader in Marshall Rosenberg Nonviolent Communication initiatives as well as an award-winning composer and musician. Rick co-produces Visual Voices on the Dish Network available in 15 million homes. Producing short films as well, Rick organizes and promotes scores of events and other better world activities, large and small, every year. See www.We.net.
Denise Scotto and Adam Collett
Denise Scotto, Esq., and Adam Collett join us, respectively, as Chairperson of the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations, and as Creative Director for UNITY EARTH. Denise is Guest Editor of Light on Light Magazine’s annual issues on the International Day of Yoga and hosts the IDY discussion on this broadcast. Adam, a strategist, designer, media and event producer dedicated to making a positive impact in the world by combining innovative solutions with a deep knowledge of cultural diversity, joins Ben Bowler and Rick Ulfik in the discussions of these global activities on this broadcast. Denise is an attorney at law and policy advisor who has held leadership roles in professional bar organizations and has organized numerous events at UN fora. Adam, with 20 years of experience in design and technology, event production, not-for-profit management, cultural projects, youth programs and more, implements cutting-edge solutions for NGOs and social enterprises.
Karuna and Kurt Johnson
Karuna is founder of www.lightonkundalini.com and a leader in the international Yoga and spiritual practice communities. She is also Host Editor of Light on Light Magazine and a host of The Convergence Series on VoiceAmerica. Dr. Kurt Johnson is the Series Host for The Convergence on VoiceAmerica and Contributions Editor for Light on Light Magazine. Light on Light has produced two annual special issues on The International Day of Yoga with the IDY Committee at the United Nations also featured in this broadcast and will publish a special issue in August 2019 reflecting this VoiceAmerica Special,see https://www.facebook.com/ lightonlightmagazine Karuna and Kurt are co-developing Light on Light with Managing Editor Shannon Winters (below) and also preparing a lifestyle book, manual and lifestyle Teacher Training program with Karuna for 2019. Light on Light magazine and Kurt’s Interspiritual Network are both partners of UNITY EARTH. See www.unity.earth.
Rev. Diane Berke and Jeff Genung
Part of Tranformation365, Rev. Diane Berke is the founder of The One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. Jeff Genung is co-founder and President of Contemplative Life.org and, with Rev. Berke, a leader in the interspiritual movement. One Spirit and Contemplative Life have both co-sponsored various events with UNITY EARTH and Contemplative Life is a UNITY EARTH Partner. An author and international speaker, Diane is a recipient of the Houston Smith Interfaith Educator Award and numerous other recognitions. Contemplative Life and Transformation365 create a digital hub that connects people and communities with transformative practices. Contemplative Life.org’s prodigious website hosts hundreds of spiritual teachers and practice traditions, as do the famed interfaith education programs at One Spirit Interfaith.org. Recently Jeff has also partnered with Prosocial.world along with Dr. Kurt Johnson of the Interspiritual Network and UNITY EARTH.
Kate Sheehan Roach and Sr. Mary Friedland
Sr. Mary Friedland and Kate Sheehan Roach join us from Transformation365. Mary Friedland is Coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris activities in Chicago and the Midwest. A Raja Yogi of more than 30 years, she teaches courses in meditation and everyday spirituality. She enjoys applying spiritual principles to life’s knotty problems and sharing what she has learned with others. Kate Sheehan Roach served as founding editor of Contemplative Journal, and as managing editor of the Spirituality Channel at Patheos.com. She is now Director of Content for ContemplativeLife.org and as a founding member of the Transformation365.org core team. Kate works alongside some of today’s great spiritual and religious teachers as editor/agent, podcast host, moderator, and program director. She is a certified Centering Prayer facilitator and serves on the North America Leadership Council for the United Religions Initiative. She lives on the edge of Philadelphia. Contact: katesheehanroach@gmail.com.
Shannon Winters and Yanni Maniates
Shannon Winters in the Managing Editor of Light on Light Magazine and Yanni Maniates is Global Projects Director for UNITY EARTH. Light on Light is dedicated to spiritual practice and inspired lifestyle and Yanni has been working with Contemplative Life.org and other leaders in the UNITY EARTH Network creating spiritual practice programs to accompany UNITY EARTH’s events. The program developed by Yanni, Jeff Genung of Contemplative Life and Rev. Diane Berke of America’s largest interfaith seminary, One Spirit in New York City is called “Transformation 365” and its programs can be found at http://www.tranfomation365.org. Shannon has also been Managing Editor of UNITY EARTH’s Convergence Magazine which, along with Light on Light, publishes special issues on the amazing activities across the networks featured in this broadcast. Shannon has also just completed a spiritual autobiography, The Gospel of Wisdom, documenting her journey from religious fundamentalism to interspirituality.
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STAND UP FOR HUMANITY! 2019
1225 R Street NW | Washington, DC, 20009 | 202-543-1414
Stand Up For Humanity! is a movement promoting and supporting a world that works for all. It is about embracing those qualities that serve the Highest and Best of our Humanity. We are here to help each other connect and act from our universal and common good; and to raise the consciousness and vibrations on the planet, and within our nation, to one of inclusion, peace, and harmony. And to demonstrate that even one small act taken by an individual can make a difference and contribute to the positive uplifting of humanity.
THE EVENT
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 6pm, let’s gather, millions strong at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, to “Stand Up For Humanity”. Featuring dynamic speakers and fantastic music! We are calling all people willing to raise the consciousness within our nation and the world!
Hosted by Unity of Washington, DC – Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter, Senior Minister
1225 R Street NW – Washington, DC 20009 – 202-543-1414
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The Nature of Unity
Unity is a religious movement that began over a century ago. In the 1880’s Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, co-founders of Unity, began to work with some new ideas that they had found about life. Charles had a withered leg; Myrtle had tuberculosis. But in a short time, Myrtle was healed and Charles’ health was so much improved that other people, seeing the changes in them, were drawn to them to find out how they, too, could change.
The Fillmores had no thought of starting a new religion; they just wanted to help themselves and others who turned to them for help. In 1889 they began to publish a little magazine called Modern Thought, which a few years later they renamed Unity. In this magazine, they presented the ideas that had helped them heal themselves and find peace and strength. These ideas are simple. They are centered around two basic propositions:
One ~ God is Good.
Two ~ God is available, in fact, God is in you.
If God is good, God’s will is good. It is impossible to believe that a good God — a God who is love and intelligence — could have made you in any other way except to be healthy, happy, prosperous, loved and loving, courageous and strong. If you are not healthy and happy, it can only be because you have separated yourself from God in mind — the only place you can separate yourself from God and God’s good. You have only to reunite in mind with God, and your life is certain to be full and fulfilling. You do this best by getting still and realizing your oneness with God. Every thought, negative or positive, comes one at time to the door of your conscious mind; there you let it in or turn it away. To have a good life, you have to learn to say no to the negative thoughts which deny your oneness with god’s good and say yes to the positive thoughts which affirm your oneness with God’s good.
Perhaps this is an oversimplification of Unity teachings, but these are the essential elements.
Unity is not a proselytizing religion. We are happy to have you call yourself a Unity student and join a Unity group. But we are also happy when we can help you be a better Methodist, a better Catholic, a better whatever you are.
Unity began as an open-ended religion, and we pray it always will be. May we always be seekers after Truth rather than people who feel that they have found all the Truth and must form an exclusive little circle to preserve it.
Unity is the religion of the written word, and Unity School of Christianity is the organization that has carried that written word around the world. Unity has grown almost entirely because individuals who have been helped by its ideas have told others who need help about it. Unity has always been a warm and loving way of life, sensitive to people’s needs, God-centered but human-hearted. This is Unity.
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Calling All Volunteers – “Stand Up for Humanity”
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
In November of 2017, Unity of Washington, DC kicked-off our Stand Up for Humanity Movement on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We are excited to share that we have planned another gathering at the Memorial on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Additional information will be forthcoming, however in the interim we are seeking volunteers to assist with the execution of the event. There will be a variety of opportunities to serve on sub-committees prior to the event, as well as onsite. If you are interested in volunteering sign-up TODAY!
AREI Inc. | PO Box 7784 | Aspen, CO 81612
970.930.8002 | info@areday.net
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The mission of the American Renewable Energy Institute (AREI), is to advance the rapid implementation of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the speed and scale necessary to provide solutions of both the environmental and economic crises currently facing humankind and the planet.
AREI, Inc. is a registered 501(c)3 public charity not-for-profit corporation.
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AREDAY
America’s premier renewable energy summit is a deep immersion into topics designed to precipitate an historic and necessary transition to an environmentally and economically sound future.
Speakers and attendees include world leaders from both the public and private sectors in science, finance, investment, government and diverse technology development and deployment. We will cover Solar, Wind, Biofuels, Geothermal and other trail-blazing approaches to sustainability.
AREI presents the 16th Annual AREDAY Summit
“The Politics of Change: Creating the New Hydrogen-Carbon Economy”
DATE: August 14-17, 2019
LOCATION: Viceroy Snowmass
130 Wood Rd, Snowmass Village, CO 81615
REGISTRATION: Registration is now open. Click here to register.
Full passes include entry to receptions, concert, expo and Impact Film. Passes available for students and locals, non-profit and small business.
Additional Community Programming:
- IMPACT FILM
Click here for more information.
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Startup Green
Startup Green is a two-day accelerator platform for cleantech entrepreneurs, providing professional one on one mentorship, access to investors, and the opportunity to present at the 2017 AREDAY Summit.
Startup Green, now in its third year, is an essential program of the American Renewable Energy Institute initiated to strategically utilize our 1,000+ alumni network. Top leaders have been gathering at the AREDAY Summit for 13 years. The Startup Green program opens this network to startups creating an environment that facilitates introductions, fosters relationships and provides knowledge essential to kick start companies and grow the low carbon economy.
Startup Green Programming
Five to ten teams, will be carefully selected to convene in Aspen/Snowmass, June 19-21st, for three full days of programming vital to taking a clean technology business to the next level. This will include classroom-style sessions and one-on-one mentorship meetings specific to company needs. Topics will include, but are not limited to, business refinement, industry, market, and sales analysis, access to the mentors networks, strategies for approaching venture capitalists, perfecting the “art of a pitch” and advice on intellectual property and patent law.
All companies will have the opportunity to present the night of June 20th at the Startup Green Evening Showcase. On June 21st, entrepreneurs will attend the AREDAY Summit and the top 3 businesses will present on the AREDAY Summit main stage.
Click here for more information.
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ACELI
Since 2004, American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) has been bringing top leaders and educators together to promote the rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency strategies via demonstrations, presentations and dialogue. Each year, AREDAY has hosted nationally and internationally renowned speakers and attracted attendees from across the globe – resulting in unique, powerful cross-sector collaborations and a call to action around the issue of climate change. In 2012 AREDAY became a project of the newly formed not-for-profit, American Renewable Energy Institute, Inc. (AREI). The development of the American Climate and Energy Literacy Initiative (ACELI) moves the AREDAY Summit beyond a yearly conference in order to build clean energy job training and public education on climate change solutions.
The ACELI Mission
“To accelerate the partnership between industry, community colleges and public education to create core curriculum, both online and classroom, that results in the implementation of jobs in the clean technology sector.”
We recognize the urgent need to prepare for global change, as a result of the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere that is impacting ecosystems, economies, and energy use. ACELI is positioned uniquely to respond to the urgent need and will serve as a public-private collaboration to foster resiliency and sustainable practices in connected communities across the country. ACELI projects and curriculum will enhance existing programs and initiatives, fostering synergistic activities and opportunities between educational and industry partners. We are creating and implementing publicly accredited programming for community colleges and K-12 public schools with a turn-key model that adheres to national core standards.
ACELI educational programming is being developed and will be available in four different formats:
- Public Education Curriculum of accredited coursework offered through various Community Colleges
- A series of Speakers Programs offered throughout the year both for public attendance, in K-12 and Community College Classrooms
- Junior Climate Ambassadors K-12 Classroom Projects and Programs to promote climate and energy literacy while advancing science and math standards. Online curriculum development, including an interactive platform for students to share and collaborate on projects.
- AREDAY Video library archive of prominent Keynotes, Panel Discussions, and Power Point Presentations of nationally recognized experts and business leaders in the Renewable Energy and Sustainability fields from the AREDAY Summit programs.
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RENEW
The newest program of AREI, RENEW is the retrofit of the built environment to a carbon neutral or net zero standard, moving toward the ultimate goal of carbon or net positive buildings. With approximately 120 million residential homes and 60 billion square feet of commercial real estate constituting the greatest national use of fossil energy, RENEW is designed to reduce energy use while increasing economic savings.
“There is more money to be made in saving energy than producing it.”– Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.
RENEW creates awareness of climate change solutions through net zero retrofitting projects in critical areas of high energy consumption. From resort communities, like Snowmass Village, Colorado, to retrofits in urban areas such as Detroit, Chicago, and Denver, the goal of RENEW is to stimulate job creation in renewable and energy efficiency sectors, while creating measurably reduced energy use in each retrofit. Demonstration projects will include local, regional, and national educational outreach and awareness campaigns, policy initiatives based on a project overview, as well as a tandem effort of on-site job training with our educational branch, The AmericanACELI.
RENEW’s pilot project, began in Jan 2013, at the Goodwin residence, in Snowmass Village, CO. This home is typical of high energy use homes in the Aspen and Snowmass area, and represents a real energy consumption issue in the Roaring Fork Valley. While this home is a year round residence, many like it are vacant for many months of the year, yet require heating and cooling even when unoccupied. Through a coordinated effort with local energy contractors, trades, and renewable energy experts, our team redesigned the energy systems of this home, implemented air sealing and weatherization of the building shell, and added renewable energy after significant energy efficiency measures were taken. As a result of these improvements, this project is reaching its NET ZERO goal.
NET ZERO: A building produces as much energy as it uses, bringing it to a carbon neutral operating level.
CARBON/NET POSITIVE: A building produces more clean energy that it uses, delivering clean energy back to the grid.
The further goals of RENEW are to recommend policy and initiatives on both local and regional levels that will support the overall vision of the RENEW program.
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Sustainability News & Entertainment™
“We are all in this together!” Hosted by Diana Dehm. We are crossing the nation, and heading around the globe to bring each of you to the table to tell your story on how you have made a green difference. This is all in an effort to share information we can learn from, and create a global collective for a sustainable planet – One shared idea, one solution, one conversation, and one laugh at time!
Our goal is to bring awareness around the new green economy, and drive improvement towards social and environmental impact on the planet. Diana believes “People are the heart of driving change” and that your innovative voices, ideas, and solutions will drive the green difference. We are turning up the volume and putting a voice behind green consumer products, green partnerships, sustainable technologies, renewable energy options, green jobs and so much more, with a focus on our next generation. You will walk away with a better understanding of opportunities, risks, choices, and the tools for making a green difference on the planet
“If we can walk on the moon, we CAN create a global collective for a sustainable planet”.
– Diana Dehm,Sustainability News & Entertainment for the Planet™ Host.
Stay tuned for more information and please visit sustainabilitynewsandentertainment.com.
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2019 Summit Agenda
The Summit will include Keynotes, Panels, Armchair Conversations, IMPACTFILM, Networking Sessions and Concert
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
August 14-17, 2019
Agenda subject to change.
AREDAY SUMMIT 2019 – 16th Annual Event
“The Politics of Change: Creating the New Hydrogen-Carbon Economy”
Wednesday, August 14th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
| 5:00 pm | Pre-Registration Open Until 6:00pm |
| 6:00 pm | Networking Welcome Reception Appetizers and Cash Bar Hosted by AREI Welcoming Remarks Chip Comins and Sally Ranney AREI |
| 7:00 pm | Opening Keynote Address 2020: The Most Important Political Year in History Gen. Wesley Clark Wesley Clark and Associates |
| 7:15 pm | Keynote Address Framing the Hydrogen Carbon Economy: Opportunities and Hurdles to Going to Scale Ellen Stechel Lightworks ASU |
| 7:45 pm | Keynote Address The HERO Breakthrough Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems Q & A |
| 8:30 pm | Keynote Address Hydrogen Aircraft for Poaching Surveillance Skipper Darlington Africa ASAP |
| 8:45 pm | Keynote Address The Hydrogen Moonshot Kunal Sood NOVUS |
| 9:00 pm | IMPACTFILM The Hydrogen Age Narrated by Leonard Nimoy |
| 10:00 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Thursday, August 15th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Burning Up The Biosphere: Will New Energy Technologies Save Us?
Host for the Morning: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
| 7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder |
| 8:15 am | Keynote Address Bring Back the Wolf: Bring Back the Balance Delia Malone RMWP |
| 8:30 am | Keynote Address The HERO Breakthrough Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems |
| 8:45 am | Keynote Address The Hydrogen Space: An Update Mary-Rose de Valladares International Energy Agency |
| 9:00 am | Panel Discussion Accelerating the Transition to ZERO Carbon Moderator: Brian Goldstein Energy Independence Now Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems Mary-Rose de Valladares International Energy Agency Ellen Stechel Lightworks ASU |
| 9:45 am | Keynote Address Energy Economies: What Does 100% Renewable Look Like? Lori Smith Schell Empowered Energy |
| 10:00 am | Panel Discussion Blue Hydrogen: Profit from Capturing Methane Emissions Moderator: Wiley Rhodes One Step In Foundation Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute Alice Madden Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources |
| 10:45 am | Keynote Address PCs, iPhones and Hydrogen Ed Davis Blue Earth, Inc. |
| 11:00 am | Keynote Address Where the Currents and Tides are Taking Us Jim Dehlsen Aquantis |
| 11:15 am | Keynote Address What Does it Really Take to be Energy Independent? Brian Goldstein Energy Independence Now |
| 11:30 am | Panel Discussion The Big Leap Over Fossil Fuels: Renewables In the Developing World Moderator: Tom King Borincana Foundation Inc. Luka Powanga, Ph.D Energy Africa Conference Colonel William Wyatt United States Army Steven Conger P4P |
| 12:00 pm | Armchair Conversation It Will be Done! 100% Renewable by 2045 Melissa Miyashiro Blue Planet Foundation Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation |
| 12:15 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
| 12:30 pm | Lucheon Keynote Address New Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute |
| 1:15 pm | Luncheon Keynote Concludes |
Afternoon Session: New Energy Economies: Security for Our Life Support Systems
Host for the Afternoon: Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics
| 1:30 pm | Keynote Address What We Think About When We Think About Global Warming Per Espen Stoknes Centre for Green Growth at the Norwegian Business School |
| 2:00 pm | Keynote Address Beyond Coal and Other Game Changing Campaigns Michael Brune Sierra Club |
| 2:15 pm | Keynote Address Recovering Wildlife in Crisis and Repairing Natural Systems Collin O’Mara National Wildlife Federation |
| 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion Alarms, Alliances & Acceleration of Solutions Sally Ranney AREI Chip Comins AREI Michael Brune Sierra Club Collin O’Mara National Wildlife Federation Bruce Stein National Wildlife Foundation |
| 3:00 pm |
Armchair Conversation Carbon Pricing = Taxes or Dividends Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Ryan Costello Americans for Carbon Dividends Jonah Kurman-Faber Climate XChange |
| 3:30 pm |
Keynote Address Economically Sustainable Carbon Capture Brent Constantz Blue Planet Ltd |
| 4:15 pm | Armchair Conversation Utilities Must Take the Lead Moderator: Dave Munk Holy Cross Energy Bryan Hannegan Holy Cross Energy Jon Goldin-Dubois Western Resource Advocates |
| 4:45 pm | Panel Discussion Large-Scale Efficiencies in the Built Environment Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Juan Grobler Fridgwise Brian Black ProStar Energy Solutions Heidi VanGenderen University of CO Boulder |
| 5:15 pm |
Keynote Address Quantifying the Cost of Adaptation Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics |
| 5:30 pm |
Armchair Conversation Adaption: Efficiency & Supply Chains James Goudreau Novartis Business Services Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics |
| 5:45 pm | Closing Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
| 6:30 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet and Cash Bar Sponsored by Ted Turner, Ocean Elder and Turner Enterprises, Inc. |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Passion In Action Capt. Paul Watson Sea Shepherd |
| 7:30 pm | Keynote Address Video Revolutionary Ocean Project Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest Fortescue Metals Flourishing Oceans and Minderoo Foundation |
| 7:45 pm | Keynote Address Turning Passion into Purpose: Mobilizing the Adventure Sports Community in 2020 Mario Molina Protect Our Winters |
| 8:00 pm | Keynote Address Ocean Health: Strategic Solutions for Governments and Society Doug Woodring Ocean Recovery Alliance |
| 8:15 pm | Keynote Address Source Points: Solutions to Plastic Pollution Improve the Planet Dianna Cohen Plastic Pollution Coalition With Video – Don’t Throw It Away By Keb’Mo’ with Taj Mahal |
| 8:30 pm | Armchair Conversation The Blue Heart George Cummings Mission Blue Project Partner Melody Saunders Brenna Reef Life Restoration and Foundation |
| 8:45 pm | IMPACTFILM Watson Intro and Q & A with Captain Paul Watson Sea Shepherd |
| 10:30 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Friday, August 16th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Sustainable Finance and Business – A New Lens
Host for the Morning: Bud Wilson Deep Nature Journeys
| 7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder |
| 8:30 am | Opening Keynote Address Breaking the Mold Maggie Cutts Prime |
| 8:45 am | Panel Discussion Innovative Finance Powering Solution Moderator: David Levine American Sustainable Business Council Robert Levin Emerging Star Capital LLC Maggie Cutts Prime Sandra Kwak 10 Power |
| 9:30 am | Panel Discussion Accelerating the Transition to ZERO Carbon Moderator: Bill Brandt ASU Lightworks Klaus Lackner Center for Negative Carbon Emissions Ellen Stechel ASU Lightworks Cheryl Martin Harwich Partners |
| 10:15 am | Armchair Conversation Reinvested Divestment: Can It Help Achieve Climate Stability? Moderator: Timothy Wirth United Nations Foundation Thomas Van Dyck SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Ellen Dorsey Wallace Global Fund |
| 10:45 am | Panel Discussion Block Chain: Creative Finance for Good Moderator: Hanieh Sadat Genesys One Capital Ben Goertzel Singularity NET Christian Shearer Regen Network |
| 11:15 am | Panel Discussion Climate Philanthropy Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Trammell Crow EarthX John “Spike” Buckley Earth’s Call Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation John Powers Alliance Center |
| 12:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Impact Investing: Real or Imagined? Moderator: Inge Relph Global Choices Julie Muraco TBLI Group Holdings B.V. Rachel Payne FEM.Inc |
| 12:30 pm | Armchair Conversation New Green Banking and Sustainable Finance Sally Ranney AREI Ilmi Granoff Climate Works |
| 12:45 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
| 1:00 pm | Luncheon Keynote A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life Hunter Lovins Natural Capitalism Solutions |
| 1:30 pm | Luncheon Keynote Concludes |
Afternoon Session: INNOVATION and POLITICS of CHANGE
Host for the Afternoon: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
| 1:45 pm | Keynote Address Where the Votes Are Gene Karpinski League of Conservation Voters |
| 2:00 pm | Keynote Address 2 Trillion Trees? No Problem Tom Chi Google X |
| 2:15 pm | Keynote Address Innovative Collaborations and Strategies for Waste Stan Emert Green EnviroTech Holdings |
| 2:30 pm | Keynote Address The Blixt Breakthrough Charlotta Holmquist Blixt |
| 2:45 pm | Panel Discussion Entrepreneurs Leading Innovation Moderator: Frank Rukavina Sustainable Innovations Operative, LLC Gail Levy HFactor Water Dan Powers CO Labs Charles Erdman Ideas by Nature Brenna West Ethique |
| 3:30 pm |
IMPACTFILM – Trailer Point of No Return Noel Dockstader Far West Films |
| 3:45 pm |
Panel Discussion Wind Energy: 100 Gigawatts and Counting! Moderator: Larry Flowers G4 Wind Susan Innis Invenergy Edward Zaelke McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| 4:15 pm |
Keynote Address Politics of Change Bill Becker Presidential Climate Action Plan |
| 4:30 pm |
Keynote Address The New Green Deal Demond Drummer New Consensus |
| 4:45 pm |
Armchair Conversation In the Disguise of Democracy Moderator: Timothy Wirth United Nations Foundation David Orr Oberlin College Jena Griswold Secretary of State, CO |
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Panel Discussion Digital Democracy: Reinventing Politics with the Iowa Caucus Moderator: Inge Relph Global Choices Tracy Vasaturo Traces Consulting Merlin Yockstick Blue Planet Village Sen. Jack Hatch Former Iowa State Senator and Hatch Development Group Joe Conte The Strategy Agency |
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Keynote Address Climate and Social Justice Brad Markell AFL-CIO |
| 6:00 pm |
Panel Discussion The Teddy Roosevelt Factor: Conservatives are Conservationists Moderator: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Foundation Colin Finnegan CRES Benjamin Backer American Conservation Coalition Captain Robin Tyner Deploy/US |
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Closing Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Special Guest Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
| 7:00 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet & Cash Bar Sponsored by World Ethics and Leadership Foundation and Cambridge Global Conversations |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Candidate |
| 8:15 pm | Q & A |
| 8:30 pm | Armchair Conversation Greening the Bridge to China: The G-2 Moderator Chip Comins AREI Daniel Fung Cambridge Global Conversations Bill Mundell IKM |
| 8:45 pm | IMPACTFILM Better Angels Q & A |
| 10:15 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Saturday, August 17th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Science + Nature-Based Solutions = Sustainability
Host for the Morning: Bud Wilson Deep Nature Journeys
| 7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder Rev. Jane Quiat Methodist Minister |
| 8:30 am | Opening Keynote Address The World’s Water: Status, Challenges, Solutions Peter Gleick Pacific Institute |
| 8:45 am | Panel Discussion What Does Water Resiliency Look Like in a Changing Climate? Moderator: Peter Gleick Pacific Institute Ravé Mehta Water Ledger Jerry Mallett Colorado Headwaters |
| 9:15 am | Panel Discussion Enough is Enough: Cleaning Up Compton’s Water Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Riggs Eckelberry OriginClear, Inc. Fred Martin Compton Kidz Club Cederic Cebbalos Former LA Lake |
| 9:45 am | Armchair Conversation Can Science Lead the Way in Biodiversity and Climate Policy? Michelle Wyman National Council for Science and the Environment Tiina Kurvits EcoSystem Management. Grid Arendal |
| 10:15 am | Armchair Conversation Sustainable Land Use Planning John McBride Sopris Foundation Harry Teague Teague Architects |
| 10:30 am | Keynote Address Community Supported Agricultural and Resilient Living Eden Vardy Farm Collaborative |
| 10:45 am | Panel Discussion Go Smart Go Safe Go Sustainable: Regenerative Agriculture Moderator: Eden Vardy Farm Collaborative Jerome Ostentowski Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute Bobby Gill Savory Institute |
| 11:15 am | Panel Discussion In Wildness is the Preservation of the World Moderator: Amy Lewis WILD Foundation Vance Martin WILD Foundation Eli Weiss WildiZe Foundation Eric Schmidt Wildlife Protection Strategies James Brundige Nature Needs Half and First Light Films |
| 12:00 pm | Keynote Address Big Win for Biodiversity: The Bonobo Peace Forest Sally Jewell Coxe Bonobo Conservation Initiative |
| 12:15 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
| 12:30 pm | Luncheon Armchair Discussion Ethics of Climate Change: Cambridge Global Conversations Moderator: Sally Ranney AREI Marjorie Layden World Ethics and Leadership Foundation Daniel Fung Cambridge Global Conversations |
| 1:00 pm | Luncheon Armchair Discussion Concludes |
Afternoon Session: Rising Up! The Urgency is Now!
Host for the Afternoon: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
| 1:15 pm | Keynote Address and Trailer WeRiseUP Kate Maloney WeRiseUP |
| 1:30 pm | Keynote Address Beware: Do Not Ignore the Next Generation’s Voice Julia Olson Our Children’s Trust Armchair Conversation Moderator: Julia Olson Our Children’s Trust Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future |
| 2:00 pm | Keynote Address Y On Earth Aaron Perry Y On Earth |
| 2:15 pm |
IMPACTFILM – Trailer Youth Unstoppable Slater Jewell-Kemper Youth Unstoppable |
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Panel Discussion Youth Eco-Warriors Take On Climate Justice Moderator: Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation Alec Loorz Circle of Fire Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future Slater Jewell-Kemper Unstoppable Youth (Skype) |
| 3:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Millennials Moving the Needle Katie Hoffman NEXUS Sandra Kwak 10 Power Matt Myers EarthX |
| 3:20 pm | Armchair Conversation Incognita Incognitum: Moving Towards Solutions in the Climate Crisis Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Musician and Author Tom Chi Google X |
| 3:45 pm | Keynote Address EarthX: Bridging the Divide Tony Keane EarthX |
| 4:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Captain Planet: 1.5 Million Kids Later Leesa Carter-Jones Captain Planet Foundation Charles Orgbon Captain Planet Foundation |
| 4:15 pm | Panel Discussion Films Open Your Mind and Change Your Heart Moderator: Daniel Shaw Author and Catto Shaw Foundation Beverly Camhe Beverly Camhe Productions Kate Brooks The Last Animals Michael Cain EarthxFilm Jean-Francois Cavelier True Media Company Rex Wong fliqsmedia |
| 5:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Nexus: Next Gens’ Conservative Case For Clean Energy Aaron Berger Asymmetrical Solutions Sarah Hunt Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy |
| 5:15 pm | Keynote Address Consequences of the Apocalyptic Myth Andrew Scott Open Mind Project |
| 5:30 pm | Keynote Address A Time for HEROs Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems |
| 5:45 pm | Closing Conversation Generation to Generation Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
| 6:30 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet & Cash Bar |
| 7:15 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Flourish or Perish: Time for a Progressive Reality Jonathan Granoff Global Security |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner Armchair Conversation The Nature of Consciousness: How Do We Accelerate the Shift Needed Lawrence Ford Conscious Capital Sally Ranney AREI |
| 7:45 pm | Panel Discussion Practical Wisdom: Indigenous Knowledge Guides the Way ‘Home’ Moderator: Lawrence Ford Conscious Capital Osprey Orielle Lake Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network Anita Sanchez Pachamama Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future |
| 8:15 pm | AREI AREDAY Awards Ceremony |
| 8:30 pm | Concert Valle Musico & Aponi Kai Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians |
| 10:00 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Agenda subject to change.
Any questions please contact us.
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Viceroy Snowmass
130 Wood Road
Standard Mail: PO Box 6985
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
Guestroom Reservations:
877.235.7577
Phone: 970.923.8000
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
With interior design by Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston International—renowned for his luxurious approach to ecologically conscious design—and its all-season pool café, bar and terrace created by tastemaker Kelly Wearstler, Viceroy Snowmass reveals such unexpected Rocky Mountain details as reclaimed timber, textural stone and embossed metals, all while embracing sustainably minded, next-generation building standards that earned Viceroy for inclusion among the nation’s rare LEED®* Gold certified resorts.
*Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
To Book a Room:
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
For room reservations, please contact the Viceroy Snowmass Hotel at 877.235.7577 and reference the AREDAY Summit for special rates, or reserve online (CLICK HERE) using group code: AREDAY (with code type “Promotion”). A limited number of rooms are available with special rates. Our room block always sells out, so make sure to reserve your room ASAP. There is also a Pre-Pay option available to help save even more, but must book before July 15thand this has a no cancellations policy.
Also, if you are flying into Denver and looking to rideshare to the Summit visit our carpool page: https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/g7ah0u
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AREDAY Pass Options:
- Full AREDAY Summit – $1,250
- Government AREDAY Pass – $850
- Nonprofit and NGO AREDAY Pass – $750
- Student AREDAY Pass – $450
- Single Day AREDAY Pass – $400
- AREDAY Speaker Pass – $250
- AREDAY Locals Pass (ID Verification) – $350
- AREDAY Media Pass (Credentials Required) – Contact kristen@areinstitute.net for information.
The Peace Center
102 W Maple Ave
Langhorne, PA 19047-2820
215-750-7220
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Don’t miss the 3rd and final workshop of the Summer Training Institute at The Peace Center: Restorative Justice in Education, a 3-day (cumulative) workshop led by Barbara Simmons and Gayle Evans. This training is ideal for teachers, administrators, teacher’s aides, and anyone who works with youth in an environment in which there may be conflict.
Reclaim Your Voice, Reclaim Your Time as WE, The World spreads Peace and Love and Unity. Hear the We, The World song and the story of its creative song weavers’ collaboration. livestream MNN.org . tune in to the 28 minute show where Rick, Heidi and Andrew promote WE and Heidi sings our song; scheduled to air on MNN2 channels:
Spectrum 56 RCN 83 FIOS 34 and livestream, click on MNN2 at http://www.mnn.org the following dates/times:
August 12 at 2:30 pm Eastern
August 14 at 5 pm Eastern
August 18 at 7 pm Eastern
Sociocracy for non-profits and associations
Tue, Aug 20, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Description
Many non-profits run themselves with traditional hierarchies. This is not only often ineffective but power-over structures also run counter the mission of equality and empowerment for everyone.
Sociocracy is an option for those non-profits that want to give both staff, board and core volunteers more voice, strengthen the connection, increase transparency and lessen micro-management. Over the past years, sociocracy has found its way into several non-profits in the United States and world-wide, and it has long turned into tried-and-tested governance system.
This short introduction introduces the basic ideas and highlights the advantages in particular for non-profits as well as the challenges. There will be opportunities for questions – see how sociocracy would apply to your unique organization.
Presenter Jerry Koch-Gonzalez has founded and been a board member of several non-profits (Institute for Community Economics, Class Action, United for a Fair Economy, National Coalition Building Institute, Institute For Peaceable Communities). Jerry has supported many organizations as a consultant for diversity, governance and communication, and he is co-author of the 2018 sociocracy handbook – Many Voices One Song – our Sociocracy manual.
See the event in all time zones.
This event will be offered on zoom.
You will receive the access link after registration.
Sociocracy for non-profits and associations
Tue, Aug 20, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sociocracy-for-non-profits-and-associations-tickets-64139351527?mc_cid=c67ea722f4&mc_eid=684c02f70f
Every two minutes a woman dies from complications in pregnancy or childbirth, and millions around the world are denied the choice of if and when they want to have children.
UNFPA Supplies supports over 20 million women and girls worldwide with family planning services, contraception, and vital maternal medicines, and since 2007 they have saved over 1.1 millions lives.
Without additional support, their vital work — and the safety of over 20 million women and girls — will be at risk. Call on world leaders to step up for women and girls by pledging new funds this year.
Thank you so much,
Annabelle Roberts
17 September 2019 – Opening of the General Assembly regular session | 24 September 2019 – Opening of the general debate.
Sign the petition telling world leaders — including the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany — to pledge new funds to UNFPA Supplies and protect women’s lives everywhere. We’ll be handing your signatures over to decision makers this September at the United Nations General Assembly, so add your name now!
FOR SAMA
TUESDAY, September 10, 2019
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Konover Auditorium
Dodd Center
University of Connecticut
FREE ADMISSION
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Human Rights Institute
Huskies for Human Rights
Middle East Studies
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
Light a Virtual Candle
Unity World Day of Prayer is a global event.
We invite you to light a virtual candle
to represent your light shining in prayer.
How Can You Participate in World Day of Prayer?We invite all to submit a prayer request and light a virtual candle. You can join for the events at Unity Village or other Unity centers. Follow our hashtag #WDOP2019 and join us at the Unity Facebook page to connect with our reflection questions and watch live events. Sign up for Unity4Today to receive email updates and announcements. What Is World Day of Prayer?Held annually on the second Thursday in September, World Day of Prayer unites Unity and draws in New Thought partner communities for a 24-hour period of prayer practice. In prayer, we dissolve our personal borders as we realize God within us, around us—an active source of life, love, and wisdom
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World Day of Prayer 2019—Invitation
Guiding Prayer
Breathing in to prayer, I am in awe of the unbound spirit, the infinite presence within and around me. God is vitality in my breath, beauty in the natural world, strength in my determination, and compassion in my acts of service. I recognize God in the spaciousness of the universe as well as in my limitless dreams.
Let me set my sight beyond where I have seen before, into the vast reality of divine power and presence. Let me draw upon divine power and presence in order to fulfill my great potential.
In the harmony of prayer, my heart beats to the rhythm of God. The pulse of infinite life moves me, nourishes me, and empowers me to give life to my dreams.
Unity Worldwide Ministries
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9/13/19 – UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace (Anniversary Observance)
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern Time via Livestream @ webtv.un.org
9/14/19 – First Annual Culture of Peace Youth Movement Launch
All day youth-led intergenerational program in NYC
9:00 am – 9:00 pm ET at the Church of the Covenant, 310 E. 42nd Street, near the UN
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Event: Empowered Youth Transforming Humanity:
Photography Exhibition & Videos
Picture 16©, is the most recent exhibition by 21 year-old Canadian award-winning photographer/filmmaker/author & social entrepreneur, Kasha Sequoia Slavner. The 16-piece exhibition is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #16, Peace, Justice and Strong institutions. As a young global leader and traveling peace ambassador, Kasha explores the intersectionality of goal 16, what we can learn from each other’s stories, and how peace informs the actions we take in our own lives, communities and the world at large.
About the photographer/filmmaker:
Kasha is a Gen-Z filmmaker/photographer/writer, passionate global youth leader & social justice advocate. At 14 she founded the The Global Sunrise Project – a youth-led social enterprise that creates positive impact media. She uses her storytelling platform to inspire youth to become civically engaged and conducts educational outreach with screenings & workshops. Her feature documentary, The Sunrise Storyteller, has screened at 60+ international film festivals and won 28 awards, including the Ron Kovic Peace Prize and Women Transforming Media Award.
She is the first recipient of the Kim Phuc Youth Peace Award. Most recently this committed changemaker became a Diana Award Holder, for sustaining positive social change in the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. She is an 7x UN Youth Delegate with The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and an accredited expert for the Women’s Media Center. In addition, Kasha tours with a 32 piece photography exhibition “Travels into the Heart”. At 17 Kasha published her first 200+ page book of photography “Reflections of the Sunrise Storyteller – A Journey into the Heart as a Global Citizen”. She’s a frequent public speaker, has been commissioned by National Geographic Learning, and a contributor to Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, and several publications.
In cooperation with the WE-Energime-Global Cooperation Turtle Island International Civil Society Organization and in support of peaceful interfaith dialogue, especially in light of Laudato Si, the recent message from Pope Francis on “Care for Mother Earth”, Drawdown Markham will be assisting Global Cooperation Day (GCD, New Zealand) to Celebrate the 800 year Anniversary (in 2019) of the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al Kamil in the year 1219 by planting a *Commemorative Tree of Peace* on a property in the East end of Markham (Locust Hill) on Sunday, September 15th.
This event is being done in support of the DD Markham CCAH Collaborative Exchange Project (CEP) and the “Spark for Humanity” project by We Are Mother Earth! (WAME) and GTI Enterprises (cooperative corporation), and for the eventual establishment of our “Go Local” Campaign for community resilience and adaptation, supported by our local Drawdown Markham Interfaith Neighborhood and Business Collaborative (which is part of the EncounterCanada collaborative, which is intended “to localize the Sustainable Development Goals to build ‘Climate Smart’ safe and sustainable communities and cities, pursuant to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction”).
World Peace Card Meditations
Wednesday, September 18, 7:30pm
(based on local time in your time zone)
International Center for Reiki Training <reiki@reiki.org
You are invited to take part in the next World Peace Card Meditation. Please mark your calendar and forward this email to all your friends.
Thanks for Your Help!
Because so many of you forwarded this email to your friends, there have been almost 396,800 downloads of the World Peace Cards. This is a tremendous increase in the number of people using the cards. So far the total number of World Peace Card sets downloaded, received from our free offer and from our magazine has been nearly 440,000! I hope you have been using your peace cards as their use brings blessings to the world as well as to you.
The next World Peace Card group meditation have been scheduled for Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30pm. This is local time in your time zone. This method has been chosen because of the special effect it produces. As people meditate in each successive time zone the energy builds like a wave which gets stronger and stronger as it circles the planet. Because of the higher dimensional nature of consciousness, the energy of peace will be transmitted for a full 24 hours and continue long after this.
Reports from those who took part in the previous meditations indicate many had powerful spiritual experiences. As they united with those taking part in the meditation a feeling of peace developed within that stayed with each for a long time. Some saw beautiful golden light surrounding the planet and others felt that a web of fear was dissipating and being replaced with trust in others and for our future. All those who have received the cards are being asked to meditate on world peace at this time. By taking part in this group meditation, you’ll be joining thousands of people who will be using the cards to bring peace to the world. By joining together, the affect we have will be greatly multiplied. This powerful experience and will help shift the vibration of our wonderful planet into a higher state of consciousness. As you use the cards to meditate on world peace, you will be a beacon through which peace will spread around the planet which will have a positive uplifting effect on all people. Please set aside this time to meditate with the cards. The suggested meditation period is 15 minutes, but of course you can meditate longer if you’d like to. The technique I’d like you to use is based on allowing yourself to be a beacon of peace. The World Peace Cards hold the vibration of the World Peace Grids which have been placed at spiritually significant locations and are relay stations for higher consciousness. By simply opening to their energy, you’ll become a channel for their love and peace which will flow through you to all the people on Earth. To do this, hold the cards in your hands or place them in front of you. Then simply meditate on peace. We are entering a new era. Our entire planet including all the people and living things are moving into a place where it will be much easier to solve our problems and to create peace, prosperity and happiness for everyone. The World Peace Card meditation will quicken this process, making it easier for people to experience this new quality of higher consciousness and will provide great benefit for all people. Since this benefit will be flowing through you out to everyone on the planet, you’ll be blessed by this experience as well. Many have received the cards in the mail or in the Reiki News Magazine while others have downloaded them from our web site. If you would like additional copies of the cards, please download them using this link and print as many copies as you can use. Please feel free to give them to your friends. Also, forward this email to anyone you feel would like to take part in the meditation.
World Peace Card Download
Additional World Peace Cards – https://www.reiki.org/WPCM.
Note: This is a larger file and it may take several
minutes for it to open, so please be patient.
When printing the cards from this file, print page 2 first, then place this page in your printer and print the image of the peace grids on the back.
New Reiki Grid – Send Reiki to Others
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We also have a new image of the World Peace Crystal Grid that can be used for a Reiki Grid. By using it for your Reiki Grid you’ll be tapping into the energy of all the peace grids and this will add to the energy that is sent to all those whose names or photos you place in the grid making the Reiki more effective and adding wonderful feelings of peace and harmony. And each time you charge your grid, you’ll be charging the peace grids for world peace! With this system you’ll use 12 crystals around the outside – placing 1 crystal over each of the crystals in the photo plus 1 crystal in the center and 1 as your master crystal for a total of 14 crystals. The additional crystals will also hold and transmit more energy. Also, remember you can place your goals into the grid as well. I suggest printing it on glossy photo paper if you have it or you could get some at your office supply store. You’ll need to trim the one side of the grid after it’s printed. https://www.reiki.org/ Read the story of the World Peace Grids This is a pdf file of an article that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Reiki News Magazine. It describes the World Peace Crystal Grid program, and the adventures William experienced placing them at the North and South Pole and in Jerusalem. The article contains lots of pictures Thank you for taking part in this group meditation. Sincerely, |
The Grandmothers are getting ready to travel to New York next month to celebrate the Grandmothers Wisdom book launch and then we will travel to upstate New York for a historical event at Menla, LIFT THE EARTH, where we will be joined by other spiritual leaders.
Are you being called to action to support Mother Earth and world peace? Many have requested guidance on how to respond to the chaotic state of the world. Join us in traditional dialogue, ceremonies and circles, and participate in indigenous wisdom on these topics.
In love and peace,
Grandmother Mona Polacca
Book Launch
September 18, 2019
Tibet House US, New York, NY
Our much-anticipated book promises to be a ground-breaking portrayal of traditional spiritual women in history and will be an inspiration for all. These stories are ageless wisdom of earth-based cultures that can benefit all people in today’s climate of disconnection.
Please join the Grandmothers and special guests in New York City for the book launch of Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation.
Tickets are selling fast!
September 18, 2019
4:00 – 7:30 pm
Tibet House
22 West 15th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Nena Thurman and other special guests for the book launch of“Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”.
The Earth is our loving grandmother. For all time, Cheyenne storytellers, generation after generation, have repeated this belief with both their minds and their hearts. As they say, The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, created the universe and all life with power so vast it defies human imagination. Entirely with the force of thought, the four powerful spirit beings came into existence to witness creation and to eventually safeguard and shelter all life, especially human beings. Next came the water of life, the fire and light of the sun, the infinite sky air, and compassionate Earth. The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, contemplated creation and thought the Earth to be the most beautiful of all, then declared that the Earth be known as our grandmother.
Grandmother Earth is also, more commonly, referred to as Mother Earth. Indeed, she is first woman, first mother, first teacher, oldest mother, and oldest grandmother. The Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers whose magnificent lives are encapsulated in the work of this book represent Earth’s titanic spirit, power, beauty, and love. Individually and collectively, they are rooted in the Earth and carry her wisdom as a perpetual trust. They are committed to sustaining their Earth home and to educating and defending the hearts of all the world’s children.
Please join us in celebrating the manifestation of “Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”, life and the continuation of this movement of peace, spiritual activism, honoring Mother Earth and future generations.
Seating is first-come, first-served.
Reception and book signing to follow. To join the signing line, we ask that you please purchase a copy of the book available at the event.
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Kasha from The Global Sunrise Project is Speaking about Climate Action for Peace at the UN’s Student Observance of International Peace Day.
Celebration with words and music – Sir Mark Rylance, Jude Law, Emilie Sandé, Jack Savoretti among others. Discussion panel on Peace.
Ashland Global Peace Conference
Sat, Sep 21, 2019 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM PDT
David Wick at info@ashlandcpc.org, 541-552-1061
The World Peace Flame in Ashland is firing the imaginations of Peace Leaders from Middle School students, Ashland City Leaders to Oregon Legislators. Ashland is catching the attention of the global community. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, and Founder of the Global Movement of the Culture of Peace, is coming to Ashland to learn first-hand how Ashland Culture of Peace Commission partners with the city, local non-profits and others to transform the city with the vision of a Culture of Peace. The Ashland Global Peace Conference will give local residents the opportunity to learn more about why Ashland is deserving of the global community’s attention by highlighting how our state and local leaders are inspired to work hard to create a culture of peace for their constituents. The views of creating a culture of Peace from the global, national, state, city, community, interpersonal and personal levels will be explored.
Come to the conference and be inspired by city and state leaders’ personal commitment to cultivating a culture of peace in Oregon and be empowered with your own commitment to peace.
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Early Bird Pricing ends 8/31
while we are together, and beyond.
Peace is not an idea, it is a practice.
Thank you.
A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR ALL
A community-wide movement dedicated to transforming our attitudes, behaviors and institutions into ones that foster harmonious relationships with each other and the natural world.
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Brings heart and compassion to conversations, decision-making, and systems.
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Recognizes the inherent value of each person, the diversity within community.
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Invites everyone’s participation, relying on the natural gifts of each community member.
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Encourages mutual respect so that all residents and visitors feel safe, heard, and empowered.
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Establishes trust through holding all persons responsible for their actions.
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Employs compassionate listening to air feelings, viewpoints, and concerns.
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Discovers solutions through collaborative exploration.
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Emphasizes the universal values of kindness, generosity, love and beauty, caring and curiosity.
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Seeks larger truths and broader perspectives to better comprehend local and world affairs.
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Values and nurtures all of life, honoring the environment and promoting humanity’s balanced place in the web of existence.
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Creates an emerging, evolving, living model for thriving together as fellow humans.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, until recently the Senior Special Advisor to the UN General Assembly President, has devoted many years as an inspirational champion for sustainable peace and development and ardently advancing the cause of the global movement for the culture of peace that has energized civil society all over the world.
As a career diplomat, Permanent Representative to United Nations, President of the UN Security Council, President of UNICEF Board, UN Under-Secretary-General, and recipient of the U Thant Peace Award, UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace, Spirit of the UN Award and University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor’s Medal for Global Leadership for Peace, Ambassador Chowdhury has a wealth of experience in the critical issues of our time – peace, sustainable development, and human rights.
Ambassador Chowdhury’s legacy and leadership in advancing the best interest of the global community are boldly imprinted in his pioneering initiatives at the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 for adoption of the landmark Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace and in 1998 for the proclamation of the “International Decade for Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010)”.
He served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York from 1996 to 2001 and as the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, responsible for the most vulnerable countries of the world from 2002 to 2007.
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“I was impressed by their work in developing Ashland as a City of Peace, thereby evolving and inspiring at the same time a practical and workable model that other cities and civil society entities can learn from. I along with GMCoP encourage and support this brilliant endeavor by ACPC. My co-activists at the United Nations who interacted with ACPC leaders have particularly welcomed it.”
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury,
Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations,
Founder of the Global Movement for The Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
Ashland Global Peace Conference
“You Are The Flame”
Practical Applications of the Culture of Peace
September 21st, 2019 • Ashland Hills Hotel,
Ashland, Oregon
Whereas: On March 17, 2015, the Ashland Mayor and City Council proclaimed support for a Culture of Peace Community.
Whereas: On May 16, 2017, Ashland joined the International Cities of Peace and “…the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of Ashland, do proclaim that the City of Ashland, Oregon, is a City of Peace in perpetuity and encourage city and community leaders to work with concerned citizens to develop policies and procedures that promote a culture of peace in our region.”
Whereas: The 20th anniversary of the adoption of the landmark UN “Culture of Peace” Resolution is being observed by the UN on 13 September 2019, at this year’s Eighth annual High-Level Forum on The Culture of Peace at the UN headquarters. On 13 September 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by consensus and without reservation, its resolution A/RES/53/243 on the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace.
Whereas: This historic norm-setting document is considered as one of the most significant legacies of the United Nations that would endure generations and manifests very significantly that the culture of peace is a process of individual, collective and institutional transformation. ‘Transformation’ is of the most essential relevance in its implementation.
Whereas: Bearing in mind the broader dimension and potential impact of the Culture of Peace, OPGA (President of the United Nations General Assembly) chose this year’s theme to be “The Culture of Peace: Empowering and Transforming Humanity.” Their concept notes states that: “In the light of the importance of the Culture of Peace and its potential for responding to the global challenges facing mankind, the 20th Observance should be central to the pivotal discussions and commitments expected at the General Assembly in September.”
Whereas: To manifest their own commitment to the culture of peace, various activities have been initiated by civil society organizations in different parts of the world. A unique mind-body spirit Culture of Peace event is planned separately as a contribution by Pathways to Peace to the 20th anniversary observance on Saturday, 14 September – titled On, By and For Youth in New York. The Ashland Culture of Peace Commission is co-planning this incredible day-long event that honors, positions, and empowers youth as peacebuilders. Students from Ashland OR will participate.
Whereas: The Ashland Culture of Peace Commission installed the World Peace Flame in Ashland, Oregon and on September 21, 2018 established the World Peace Flame Monument through an international acclaimed lighting ceremony. Students from the Ashland Middle School have embraced the opportunity to be the World Peace Flame, Flame Keepers.
Whereas: Ashland and Southern Oregon are becoming more known nationally and internationally as a hub embracing a Culture of Peace and developing a model which can benefit other communities. This activity will further raise this profile, brand our region, and attract visitors to experience, learn, and enjoy.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission initiates:
Ashland Global Peace Conference
“You Are The Flame”
Practical Applications of the Culture of Peace
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Ashland is catching the attention of the global community.
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, and Founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, is coming to Ashland to learn first-hand how ACPC partners with the city, local nonprofits and others to help transform the city after the March 11, 2019 presentation at the United Nations. The Ashland Global Peace Conference will also allow residents to learn more about why Ashland is deserving of the global community’s attention by highlighting how our state and local leaders are working hard to create a culture of peace for their constituents.
How did this happen?
On March 11, 2019 Irene Kai and David Wick were invited to the United Nations to make a presentation about the progress we have made developing a Culture of Peace in Ashland. We also presented the stunning story about bringing the World Peace Flame from Wales to Ashland which now stands as an iconic monument of peace locally and internationally. We then were invited to a private meeting with Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, the Founder of the Global Movement for The Culture of Peace and Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. Ambassador Chowdhury was so deeply inspired by what he heard of these activities that he requested to come to Ashland to experience these leading peacebuilding activities himself. We therefore have planned the Ashland Global Peace Conference around his coming to Ashland where he will be our keynote speaker.
Taking active steps to co-create a Culture of Peace is vital within the United States as well as internationally. You are invited to attend and participate in the Ashland Global Peace Conference, September 21, 2019 in Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is the Home of the World Peace Flame and the conference theme is “You Are The Flame”, Practical Applications of the Culture of Peace. This is an exceptional experience of a city co-creating a Culture of Peace.
The program planned for this special conference highlights the global, national, state, city/community, personal/interpersonal levels of personal commitment and peacebuilding action each person represents.
This conference is one of a kind and will be promoted in southern Oregon, Oregon, nationally, and internationally. The conference will be live streamed internationally.
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“I would like to encourage you to seriously consider the invitation from the city of Ashland’s Culture of Peace Commission to attend their unique Global Peace Conference in Ashland, Oregon, on September 21. 2019.
The Peace Commission has brought the World Peace Flame from Wales to Ashland where it serves as inspiration to stand for peace in the world and do all we can at the local level to promote world peace. I visited the flame this April and was honored to meet members of the Peace Commission and learn about their valuable efforts.”
US Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon
“I extend my whole-hearted encouragement to ACPC in its efforts in creating this local-to-global and global-to-local pathway for advancing the culture of peace.”
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury
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The full day program includes lunch.
Program
Welcome – John Stromberg, Mayor, City of Ashland
Introduction of the World Peace Flame in Ashland – Irene Kai, Ashland Culture of Peace Commission
Keynote Speaker – Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. Founder of the Global Movement of the Culture of Peace
Dr. David Yang – Vice President, Center for applied Conflict Transformation. United States Institute of Peace
Flame Keeper of the World Peace Flame in Ashland – Finley Taylor, Flame Keeper from the Ashland Middle School
——-Break——-
Oregon State Panel –
Jeff Golden – Oregon State Senator
Pam Marsh – Oregon State Representative
Ashland City Panel –
Rich Rosenthal – Ashland City Councilor
Tighe O’Meara – Ashland Chief of Police
Sandra Slattery – Executive Director, Ashland Chamber of Commerce
Kelly Raymond – Superintendent, Ashland School District
——-Lunch——-
Creating infrastructures for Peace in all nations – Dr. Saul Arbess, Director, Canadian Peace Initiative and Co-Founder and Director, Global Alliance For Ministries and Infrastructure For Peace
Rogue Valley Community Panel –
Sheila Clough – CEO, Asante Ashland Community Hospital
Steven Saslow – CEO and Publisher, Rosebud Media
Linda Schott – President, Southern Oregon University
Dee Anne Everson – Executive Director, United Way of Jackson County
David Zaslow – Rabbi, Interfaith Community
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Be The Flame – Thriving Leadership Academy – Will Wilkinson and Chris Harding – A summary of the key points of the conference, followed by an invitation to participants to apply what they’ve learned, and specific action steps to integrate it all.
Light the World Peace Flame Candle and
Read the invocation inspired by the World Peace Flame
——-Concludes and network——-
Accommodations:
Ashland Hills Hotels and Suites at 2525 Ashland Street, Ashland, OR 97520
(Event name: Ashland Global Peace Conference)
Standard King rooms $149
Queen-Queen rooms $159
Premium King rooms $159
Standard King Suites $169
Double-Double Suites $169
To enjoy discounted guest room rates please contact our conference host hotel – Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites at 541-482-8310 and ask for the Ashland Global Peace Conference group rates.
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Find your adventure…
Surrounded by not only the culturally rich Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland also features a variety of natural wonders, including Crater Lake National Park.
——-Theater and Music——-
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF)
15 South Pioneer St, Ashland, OR 97520
(800) 219-8161
Monday – Friday, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm.
Performance times vary.
Group Sales (866) 545-6337 Monday – Friday, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm.
Oregon Cabaret Theatre
241 Hargadine St, Ashland, OR, 97520
(541) 488-2902
Monday – Wednesday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Closed Sunday
Between productions 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Britt Music and Art Festival
PO Box 1124, Medford, OR 97501
(800) 882-7488
——-Family——-
ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum
1500 E Main St, Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 482-6767
Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Emigrant Lake Water Slide
5505 Highway 66, Ashland , OR 97520
(541) 774-8183
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, closed 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
——-Outdoor Adventures——-
Rafting
Mountain Biking
Cycling
Hiking
Fly Fishing
Golf
Crater Lake
Want to help make this Global Peace Conference possible? Want to provide people the opportunity to be inspired by this personal/local/global event? Want to illuminate the local community as well as communities and people around the world?
Sponsor today!
If you are interested in sponsoring any aspect of the Ashland Global Peace Conference, please contact David Wick at info@ashlandcpc.org, 541-552-1061
The Peace Fair of Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Dedicated to promoting harmony in the home,
the community,
the environment,
and the world
Saturday, September 21, 2019
at Buckingham Friends Meeting & Buckingham Friends School
The Peace Fair provides a comfortable family-friendly atmosphere in which adults and children can learn about how others promote peaceful relations in their organizations and their own lives. The Fair is nonsectarian and nonpartisan, and seeks to attract people of all beliefs from all walks of life.
- Dozens of information tables from organizations with peace-related messages and missions
- Non-competitive Fun for Children: human-powered Peace Train, Fish Pond, Beanbag Toss, face painting and more
- Family-friendly live musical entertainment, including EcoMan, Tookany Creek, and River Drivers
- Food including hamburgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers
- Crafts by local artisans
- Gently used book sale
Contact Us:
For more information, please e-mail peacefair.org@gmail.com or call Peter Ray, Peace Fair coordinator, at 215-794-2708.
Peace Lanterns Festival 2019
September 21, 2019
2:00-8:30pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Long Island City 11011
Our next peace event that Heiwa Peace & Reconciliation Foundation is co-sponsoring will be annual Peace Lanterns Festival on Saturday, September 21 (UN International Day of Peace!!!) from 2pm – 8:30pm. It will be held at Gantry Plaza State Park in LIC, NY (along with East River, across the River from the United Nations) – Center Blvd & 49th Ave., LIC.
Schedule of Peace Lanterns Festival:
-Free Public Event. Donations are welcome. –
2:00 – 6:00pm Lantern Decorating, Origami, Face Painting, Henna Tattoos, Seedball Making, and African Dance.
2:30 – 5:30pm “Meditate NYC” – Public Meditation Day
Practice mindfulness and calming under the guidance of revered teachers from Buddhist and other traditions from across the globe.
3:00 – 6:00pm Public Paddling, organized by HarborLAB
6:15pm – 7:30pm Speakers and Interfaith Prayers for Peace
Music by Heiwa Peace Band
7:30 – 8:30pm Floating Peace Lanterns
108 lanterns with your words and images of peace and set them afloat with the setting sun.
Peace Lanterns Festival is co-sponsored by the HaborLAB, the Heiwa Peace Reconciliation Foundation of New York and the Buddhist Council of New York, in partnership with the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, the Interfaith Center of New York, the Interfaith Center of USA, the Newtown Creek Group, the NY de Volunteers, the Origami Therapy Association, the Sikh Cultural Society, the TF Cornerstone, and the World Yoga Community.
A Celebration of Diversity and A Feast for Peace
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Sponsored by STOP: Scottsdale Together Overcoming Prejudice
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This is a community potluck to meet your neighbors.
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Saturday, September 21, 2019, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, the International Day of Peace
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Held at: Mountainview Community Center Multipurpose Room, 8625 E. Mountainview Road, Scottsdale, AZ. Space is limited to 150 people so please sign up on Sign Up Genius at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a4da4ab2fab9-acelebration
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Everyone is welcome. Bring a dish to share to celebrate your personal diversity. Beverages will be provided. Vegan, nut free and vegetarian options will be provided.
This event is in response to a recent hate crime in McDowell Mountain Ranch in North Scottsdale. Lisa Sprout, an oncologist who lives in McDowell Mountain Ranch, said “The community we live in talks about how tolerant we are…but in this gated community, we have hate crimes.” A photo was posted to a front door which appears to depict a scene from the civil rights movement, with white protesters holding a sign that says in all caps: “GO BACK TO AFRICA NEGROES.” In response, a grass roots community effort sprung up called STOP.
STOP is a group of concerned neighbors who believe positive change comes about through respect, understanding, education, awareness, engagement and strength in numbers. We seek to solidify Scottsdale as a safe and welcoming city for all.
Contact Lisa Sproat at sproatsaysno@gmail.com with questions.
