As the nation-state system implodes and the old win/lose political system fails to stop politicians from plunging us toward environmental ecocide, how can we create People-Powered law above the nations that divide us?

Lets take a look at an example of People Power working.

American consumption of healthy Avocados was causing “thousands of acres of forest [to be] razed at a breakneck pace. Stolen water and drained aquifers. Abductions and killings.”(NYT) until the Forest Guardians stepped in.

Find out how these guardians turned it around!

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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.

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Catherine Cooley is a communication coach, trainer, conflict mediator, facilitator, speaker,

founder of Peaceabl, and a Certified Trainer through the Center for Nonviolent Communication. 

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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. 

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Catherine is a member of Rotary International E-Club of World Peace, and Mediators Beyond Borders International.

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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.

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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. 

"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.

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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.

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“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.

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Also see his proposed United Nations Global Resolution called “The Muscles of Peace Global Resolution” 

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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?

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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.

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Hawah also interviewed David Gallup of the World Citizen Government on his podcast The Everlutionary Podcast!

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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!

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.

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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