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Passport to Freedom - Will Reed's World citizen adventure!
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!
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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It’s 2050 - and amazingly the world works! Life on Earth is flourishing.
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
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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Want to know the hidden reasons for wars raging around the world and what we can do about it?
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.Followthepipelines.com
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.
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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Learn how to BAN THE BOMB with a Multimedia Event -- MOVIE SCREENING, MARCH & RALLY!
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
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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Susan Strickler, Director and Producer of "The Vow from Hiroshima"
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.
thevowfromhiroshima.com
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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How New Zealand shifted its government to reject nuclear weapons!
World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy -- Program Director Alyn Ware tells us how New Zealand shifted its government, through public pressure, to reject nuclear weapons!
Alyn Ware is one of the world’s most effective peace workers, who has led key initiatives for peace education and nuclear abolition in New Zealand and internationally over the past decades.
He helped draft the Peace Studies Guidelines that became part of the New Zealand school curriculum, initiated successful programmes in schools and thousands of classrooms throughout the country, and has served as an adviser to the NZ government and the United Nations on disarmament education.
He was active in the campaign that prohibited nuclear weapons in New Zealand, before serving as the World Court Project UN Coordinator which achieved a historic ruling from the World Court on the illegality of nuclear weapons.
Ware has led the efforts to implement the World Court’s decision, including drafting resolutions adopted by the UN, bringing together a group of experts to prepare a draft treaty on nuclear abolition which is now being promoted by the UN Secretary-General, and engaging parliamentarians around the world through Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
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