Scarlett Lewis founded the nonprofit Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement in honor of her son, Jesse, who was murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in December 2012.
Shortly after his death, Scarlett decided to be part of the solution to the issues that we’re seeing in our society — that also caused the tragedy — and turned it into an opportunity to build a culture of love, resilience, forgiveness, and connection in our communities at a time when it is needed the most.
Scarlett became a Character Social-Emotional Development Advocate to help children manage their emotions, feel connected, and have healthy, meaningful relationships.
She created the Choose Love For Schools program, a no cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation character and social emotional development (CSED) program that teaches children how to thoughtfully respond with love in any situation by using the Choose Love Formula (Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action), and offer ways for children to handle adversity, have courageous conversations, and to respond with love.
Because the world needs so much healing, Choose Love also offers programs beyond the classroom through additional free programs, programs for the home, communities, athletics, and the workplace, as well as multiple extension programs.
The Choose Love programs have been accessed in all 50 states and in 120 countries, reaching 3 million children.
Catherine Cooley is a communication coach, trainer, conflict mediator, facilitator, speaker,
founder of Peaceabl, and a Certified Trainer through the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
She gives business teams and leaders who dread their workplace a reliable way to resolve differences, restore trust and build an empathic culture. Her programs are based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a model used by organizations worldwide for elevating Emotional Intelligence, conflict resolution, team building, values alignment, and productive, psychologically safe cultures.
As a facilitator for the Alternative to Violence Project in a federal prison, she supported inmates in recognizing the importance of their feelings and their ability to express them. She co-created trust and psychological safety that allowed them to share meaningful experiences with inmates they normally would not ever interact with. They developed their capacities for active listening, empathy, nonviolent communication, collaborative problem solving, authentic self-expression, conflict transformation, leadership and community building.
Her Active Peace Circles (APC) Restorative Justice circle process helps communities repair conflicts with a needs-based, non-punitive approach that repairs relationships and addresses systemic issues.
Catherine is a member of Rotary International E-Club of World Peace, and Mediators Beyond Borders International.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania broke free from Soviet occupation and repelled invading Soviet tanks -- with a Singing Revolution!
Barbara Leger with her Resilience in a Rucksack and other programs helps students and teachers in Ukraine harness their Love Power to build resilience and courage to persevere despite Russian bombing.
In this short clip, she discusses her experiences in Estonia and brainstorms with Arthur about whether a Singing Revolution might be a way to empower people to occupy back US cities from military occupation.
Barbara founded GoldenPathOfPeace.org, Temenos and We Stand for the Future – organized to cultivate a possibility mindset in Ukraine.
Eight Billionaires possess as much wealth as half the world’s population. Dr. Shann Turnbull, who was selected by Garry Davis as his World Economics Commissioner, has a plan to cure the world's gross inequality.
Shann has proved how tax incentives can radically reduce inequality, so all voters obtain locally controlled eternal well-being dividends. Twice he has used tax incentives to raise millions of dollars from hundreds of investors in 15-year leases that funded publicly traded corporations.
Twice he has also created corporations with locally elected boards to introduce “Polycentric” self-governance described by Elinor Ostrom in her 2009 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Both innovations could win voter support from both sides of politics.
In 1976, the ultra-right stockbrokers’ journal in Australia published a review by Socialist Deputy Prime Minister of Australia of Shann’s 1975 book Democratising the Wealth of Nations. The United Nations published a summary of his book. This led to Shann being invited to explain stakeholder privatization in Prague in 1991/2 and Beijing in 1992.
He authored Australian Parliamentary reports on Aboriginal self-determination in 1977/8.
His 2001 PhD from Macquarie University created a methodology to establish the science of governance of any specie and introduced to social scientists the self-governing concept of Tensegrity.
He is a prolific author on using the self-governing practices of biota to purify, share and sustain localized capitalism.
Hiroshima Day August 6, 2025
Maestro Carneiro shares his mission to unite the world through music as a powerful tool to transform conflict and chaos into peace, growth and harmony.
As a visionary social entrepreneur, a Celebrity Master cellist, Orchestra conductor and Rotary Peace Fellow, he has integrated his skills and expertise to roll out several creative projects that are aimed at building global bridges between music and humanitarian action, spreading messages of peace, environmental & cultural preservation, prosperity through heart-centered mental well-being across the globe.
His “Instruments For Hope Campaign -- Concert Without Borders” helped stateless musicians around the world, and was featured on the BBC.
Discover how you can contribute to “Paths to Peace,” his new composition of unity and peace, from the Amazon to the Nile.
"Paths to Peace" will blend nature’s voice with folk, classical, and cinematic soundscapes that have enriched Diego's Path from his travel and performance in over 45+ countries, bringing the world closer through music.
It is more than music — it’s a call to action, a prayer for our planet, and a message of peace the world needs now.
Scheduled to premiere at Rotary’s Peace Centers in 2025, this work aims to become a lasting anthem for global harmony.
John Viscount is a screenwriter, producer, director, composer, author, branding specialist, and global peacebuilder.
His film “Admissions”, stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award winner James Cromwell and addresses the Middle East conflict and the power of forgiveness to heal interpersonal and international conflicts.
“Admissions” has now won over 30 International Awards, and has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, German, Arabic, Farsi, and Spanish, and broadcast to 80 million homes worldwide. The film continues to screen in important venues around the globe including The Parliament of World Religions, The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and The Rotary Global Peace Conference.
His new film on cyberbullying, “The Principle”, starring 4-time Grammy nominee, Mickey Guyton, premiered Summer, 2024 at The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change’s “Be Love Day” celebration.
He also founded The Peace Entertainment Project (PEPSTAR.org), a new non-profit that offers fiscal sponsorship and mentoring to uplifting filmmakers and content creators who address global challenges, inspire hearts and minds, and “promote the kind in humankind.”
John is also co-founder of PeaceNow.com, a non-profit that creates platforms for strengthening the global Culture of Peace and is gathering ONE BILLION signatures in support of the establishment of cabinet-level Ministries & Departments of Peace in governments worldwide.
Also see his proposed United Nations Global Resolution called “The Muscles of Peace Global Resolution”
Meet Hawah Kasat -- who gave a startling TEDx talk on How Greed Could Save the World.
What??? Isn’t greed what’s destroying the world?
In a world that is crumbling between our fingers, is it possible that traditional non-profits are actually distracting us from solving the underlying problems that make them needed in the first place?
Hawah invites us to reflect more deeply on whether we are spending our time and energy effectively. What if we fundamentally rethink what nonprofits and businesses look like? What if we start with the premise that helping a few struggling people when millions are suffering is not good enough? What if we get more greedy and stop being content with anything less than lasting, systems-level change?
Hawah has dedicated his life to teaching about solutions to violence and ways to peace.
He is Founder of “One Common Unity,” a non-profit that inspires a culture of non-violence through music, arts, and education.
Author of 4 books, he produced 4 documentary films (including the acclaimed “Fly By Light”), 2 musical CDs, and is the creator/editor of “The Poetry of Yoga” book anthology featuring Grammy award-winning musicians and master yoga teachers.
In 2019, Hawah was the recipient of Georgetown University’s “Legacy of a Dream” award honoring an inspirational emerging leader whose work embodies the values and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hawah also interviewed David Gallup of the World Citizen Government on his podcast The Everlutionary Podcast!
In honor of President Carter’s lifetime of Peacebuilding -- a special Podcast with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick honors President Carter's lifetime of Peacebuilding on the People-Powered-Planet Podcast hosted by Arthur Kanegis. Kanegis then interviews the school's educators of a new generation of Peace-Builders. “The Carters were trailblazers in peacebuilding and justice,” said Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of the Carter School. “We are furthering the Carter legacy in conflict resolution through our research and practice. His insight, passion, and love for peace will remain our inspiration in educating future peacemakers.”“For decades, the Carters tirelessly walked in the shoes of the people they strived to empower, transforming countless lives in the process,” says Charles Davidson, head of the Rotary-Carter School Collaboration for Peace. “We teach our students to identify the underlying causes of conflict and equip them with the cutting-edge theory and practical skills to put their knowledge into action, whether that be at the local, national, or global level.”Ozuem Esiri Onyebolise co-hosted the podcast with the Rotary Districts & Clubs Joint International Online Mega-Meeting Platform -which he founded. Ozuem noted that the program attracted Peacebuilders from 84 Countries and 264 Rotary districts!--- See the video and ask questions of future guests at: theworldismycountry.com/club Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: theworldismycountry.com Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: theworldismycountry.com/endorse
Men, women and all genders meet Laura George who is helping to spearhead the Founding Mothers Movement, determined to transition humanity from Patriarchy to Partnership!
Their mission is to build a world that works for ALL – by shifting the paradigm and ending War.
They are building a global coalition powerful enough to inspire Evolutionary Change -- by synergizing global groups and world citizens who are ready to collaborate, coordinate, and commit to a structured social movement.
Rev. Laura George, JD is Executive Director of The Oracle Institute, an educational charity and think-tank working at the nexus between religion, politics, human rights, and conscious evolution. The institute operates a publishing house, and spirituality school.
Laura authored the award-winning Oracle Trilogy: The Truth, The Love, and The Light, and she serves as lead minister at Oracle Temple headquartered at the Peace Pentagon in Independence, VA.
Laura also is a trustee at World Constitution & Parliament Assoc., a steward at EarthWise Centre, a branch leader at Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle.
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--- See the video and ask questions of future guests at: theworldismycountry.com/club Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: theworldismycountry.com Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: theworldismycountry.com/endorse
The Visioneers Project is alive with story, the original one written as a fantasy, now inspiring thousands of new, true stories of what people everywhere are doing to contribute towards a better future for all. Never has the world been more in need of such stories. Woven together as a Web of Good Work, they are the antidote to the fog of negativity that depresses the creativity and goodness of our human potential. www.thevisioneers.ca Join us as we interview Desmond and Gerri about their Visioneers International Network, their Virtual Exposition of inspiring stories, and the opportunity for you to fire up your own imaginations to make real-life contributions to the wonderful world waiting to be born. Their new Pax Humana video, broadcast to the world on Hubcast Media Network, calls for us to go beyond the illusion of the sense of separation to the wisdom of unity. It is a proclamation of a Golden Peace in which children are born in safety and embraced by love, where they are nourished by education to grow up as global citizens in rich and diverse cultures celebrating peaceful coexistence through collaboration and service.
Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice.
She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between and other novels. She is the editor of Nonviolence News. Her study guide to making change with nonviolent action is used by activist groups across the country. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace Voice, and have appeared in journals nationwide.
Rivera attended the James Lawson Institute in 2014 and facilitates workshops in strategy for nonviolent change across the country and internationally.
Between 2012-2017, she co-hosted nationally two syndicated radio programs on civil resistance strategies and campaigns.
Rivera is the program coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence.
In all of her work, she connects the dots between the issues, shares solutionary ideas, and inspires people to step up to the challenge of being a part of the story of change in our times.
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His new book Warheads to Windmills says that to survive as a species we need to work together to solve the greatest problems facing us right now. Those include the climate crisis, the nuclear nightmare and the time-bomb of global inequality and injustice.
He shows, in detail, how we can solve each of these life-threatening emergencies!
Dr. Timmon Wallis is Executive Director of NuclearBan.US and coordinator of the national Warheads to Windmills Coalition.
He is truly a Solutionary -- with a BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies. His earlier book, Disarming the Nuclear Argument, contributed to the negotiations which led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons -- which earned ICAN its Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
In our movie "The World Is My Country", Garry Davis calls for creating a synergistic system of People-Powered governance that can enable humans to free ourselves from the scourge of war and oppression and recognize that we are already One! See https://worldservice.org/synhis.html and also Smart-gov.net
The Holomovement has a similar aim, so in this action session we will learn about Holons from Emannuel Kuntzelman, Mariko Pitts and Yasmine El Baggari -- and then take action -- working to syntegrate and create a Holon together!
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Judith Diment is Dean of the Rotary Representatives to the United Nations and International Agencies leading a team of 30 Rotary “Ambassadors.”
She led Rotary delegations to COP26, COP27 and COP28.
Having worked in marketing and communications for over 30 years, including heading PR at the Natural History Museum in London, she also volunteers for many organizations and charities in Great Britain and around the world.
A recipient of the Rotary Service Above Self Award, she served as President of Windsor St George Rotary Club and was District Governor of Rotary District 1090. Elected a Councillor for Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, she was also awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire by HM Queen Elizabeth for services to charity.
Co-Hosted with the Rotary Districts & Clubs International Online Mega-Meeting Exchange Platform!
On Juneteenth we envision the next great leap in humanities emancipation -- a way to rise above the divisions and strife to come together as one!
Laura and Emanuel show us how the Holomovement offers a fusion of science and spirit that can ignite the evolutionary impulse in us and cohere, catalyze and synergize like-minded organizations and movements into a grand collaborative effort to address the world’s challenges.
They co-created the Fundacion por el Futuro, Purpose Earth and Greenheart International.
We explore how entrepreneurs, futurists, philanthropists and activists for social transformation can empower our collaborative efforts to build a People-Powered Planet.
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In Celebration of World Citizen Action Week -- the 76th anniversary of when Garry Davis became a World Citizen -- we’ll discuss Will Reed’s future memoir, PINBALLED, the story of a free-thinking, nonconformist's lifelong fight for what always eluded him – a place to live and call home. A soldier during the bloodiest part of the Vietnam War in 1968, Will returned to Vietnam as an independent journalist – exchanging his combat boots for pen, paper, and a camera. Determined to expose the graft and human rights abuses he had witnessed, his investigation landed him in a rat-infested Vietnamese prison. “Being in a dank, fetid South Vietnamese jail, held without charges, all I could think of was getting out”, Will says in his memoir. “Hours after my release, outraged by my own government’s treatment of me and its contempt for the Vietnamese people, I renounced my U.S. citizenship.” Facing further incarceration, he fled overland through Khmer Rouge-controlled Cambodia before sneaking into Thailand where he was jailed for illegal entry. “As I pleaded unsuccessfully for asylum, my unusual case became a cause célèbre – attracting international press attention and letters from supporters worldwide.” Finally, with the help of World Citizen Garry Davis, he was delivered a World passport in jail and was eventually granted asylum in France. Today, he is retired and living in Paris. Check out his INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN!
How did we get from the terrible 2020s to here?
Suzanne Taylor created an essay contest to answer that question and people shifted from being overwhelmed by doom and gloom to excitement about humanity’s future! Join us in talking with Suzanne about the wealth of ideas generated by her contest -- and where we can go from here.
Suzanne was a painter and an actress – her many TV credits include The Dick Van Dyke Show (she played Van Dyke’s secretary in the feature film, Divorce American Style), I Dream of Jeannie, and My Favorite Martian.
In the 1970s, she turned all her attention to the world problematique. She’s made wonderful contributions since then, including two feature documentaries about crop circles: What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery and CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth, as well as doing 36 episodes of The Cosmic Fuel Pump, for “how I get sane in a crazy world,” on local Los Angeles TV.
On her current platform, NOW WHAT?, where the essay contest came from, she is urging a massive coalition of we-the-people to become the force we could be.
Suzanne’s website: https://SUESpeaks.org
Suzanne’s mailing list: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/about
Hear investigative journalist, art historian, attorney and author Charlotte Dennett who wrote Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil.
Charlotte tell us about her quest to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of her father, American’s first Master Spy in the Middle East -- and about her disturbing discovery of the role of oil and pipelines in the Gaza and Ukraine wars.
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She is also the author of numerous Huffington Post and
CounterPunch articles including the best articles on
"Television Event" & "The World is My Country" and many more.
Activist, Filmmaker, retired Art Historian and Educator Jean Stevens talks about her activism and how to alert folks of the danger of nuclear weapons using a multimedia event. Learn how you can screen "Television Event" as well! EVENT EXAMPLE: Schedule for Sunday February 25th in Albuquerque NM 1:00 PM: Only $5 at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE Albuquerque NM "Television Event" a riveting documentary about the world-changing 1983 TV movie “The Day After” that profoundly impacted then US President Reagan, nuclear policies, helped end the cold war, and led to a huge reduction in the nuclear arsenal. See the trailer and more info. at theworldismycountry.com/nuclear 2:50 PM: We will march four blocks, from the Guild Cinema to Triangle Substation Park 3:00 PM: Rally against nuclear weapons in Triangle Substation Park, 2901 Central Ave NE We will gather to share ideas about how we can change public opinion the way the movie did and bring about the abolition of nuclear weapons. Featuring music by Eileen O’Shaughnessy, Paul Pino, and the Raging Grannies! Plus more surprise guests! See footage of the event on Jean Stevens' YouTube Channel
BUILDING A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS - ONLINE FORUM
Susan has been a successful director and producer of network soap operas. Directing over 750 hour-long episodes for shows like The Young and the Restless, Guiding Light, and Another World during her 22-year career, she has won both the Daytime Emmy Award and the Director’s Guild of America Award. As a Quaker and a feminist, Susan is passionate about bringing Setsuko’s inspiring story to as many people as possible. "The Vow From Hiroshima" is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship with a second generation survivor, Mitchie Takeuchi.
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