Richard Nares lost his son in 2000 to a battle with cancer, and along the way met dozens of families with children fighting a similar fight – families that didn’t have the means &/or the support to regularly get their children to treatment centers; single moms forced to take leave from jobs without pay, kids […]
Despite free primary education being mandated 10 years ago by the Kenyan government, educating girls is still not a priority for the rural Maasai culture. According to the Kenyan government, only 11% of Maasai girls in Kenya finish primary school. In addition, even though the practices of genital mutilation and child marriage are now illegal […]
Released in 2000, “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” is an adventure comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film’s story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. It follows the tale of three verbally proficient yet […]
Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe is an American-Irish-Palestinian citizen, a peace activist, and a former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran. By his own admission, he was discharged from the U.S. Marines because he “spoke out openly about abuse of power by my ‘superiors,’ and as a consequence I paid a heavy price. I realized that […]
Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. Considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Paine authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and was a primary source of inspiration for the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from […]
Francisco ‘Pancho’ Ramos Stierle is a Mexican-born full-time community activist and humanitarian. Known for his easy smile and kind heart, Pancho’s mission is “to live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity.” He became a known figure of the Occupy movement after being arrested* while meditating during the dismantling of the Occupy Oakland Camp […]
Padma Shri Jadav Payeng is an Indian (Mishing tribe) environmental activist, who over the course of several decades planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra – single-handedly transforming the once-barren piece of land into a lush forest reserve. The forest, called Molai Forest, now encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres […]
Peace Artist (born Neal Yasami) is an American artist, gymnastics coach, musician, humanitarian, and peace activist. After years of seeking meaning in his own life – after years of wondering what it was that he could do to make the world a more peaceful place, Peace (as he is often called) decided to give up […]
Peace Pilgrim was a woman who walked thousands of miles for Peace, penniless and home-free. And she did so FOR 28 YEARS (from 1953 to 1981) — sleeping only where offered shelter and eating only when offered food; always gently sharing the message of radical Kindness; of forgiving our enemies, of caring for strangers, of […]
John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist (now based in the United Kingdom, where he won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award in both 1967 and 1978) and documentary film maker who has long been a strong critic American, Australian and British foreign policies; all of which he (quite correctly) considers to be driven primarily […]
Born in December of 1963, Brad Pitt is an outstanding American actor — starring in, among other films, “A River Runs Through It”, “Legends of the Fall”, “Seven”, “12 Monkeys”, “Seven Years in Tibet”, “Fight Club”, “Spy Game”, “Babel”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “Moneyball”, and “The Tree of Life”. He is also an […]
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