Create The Change
Our purpose is to maximize social change on a global scale
to create cultures of peace and environmental well-being
for a world that works for all.
We hope you will join us in this endeavor!
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Major
Accomplishments of We, The World in 2004
Major
Accomplishments of We, The World in 2003 and earlier
Essay by the Founder about We, The World
Special Notices
We, The Worldıs Change Agent Network (We
CAN!) takes action to shift societal priorities, policies and
consciousness for a better world. Your participation is key to promoting
and expanding these efforts. Please join us!
Members are making a difference in the following areas:
Campaign to End Poverty/Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs
William Schulz - Executive Director of Amnesty
International USA
Nana Osei Boakye Yiadom II (Apeadu) - Queenmother/chief
of Aburi, Ghana. Her work involves assistance and advocacy for refugee women
and children in Africa
Pamela Kraft - Founder of Tribal Link, an NGO that addresses
indigenous peoples issues worldwide
Sally Fisher - Activist; author; producer of V-Day 2001
at Madison Square Garden; Founder of Intersect
Thom Hartmann - Author, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
and Unequal Protection: The Rise of Coporate Dominance and the theft of
Human Rights
Angaangaq Lyberth - Elder - 4 Worlds International Elder's
Council, Eskimo [Inuit]
Premilla Dixit - Coordinator, Womens International League
for Peace and Freedom New York Metro Corporate Campaign
Charmaine Crockett - Human rights advocate and writer;
Contributing Editor to Lapis Magazine
Audre-y - Co-founder and Chair, Achee which is creating
the Achee Light Center in the West African Republic of Benin, and is supporting
a school in Akim Anyinase village in Ghana
Valerie Gordon - 2001 Programme Coordinator, Regional Family
Planning Initiative, Grenada; former Executive Officer, Grenada Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Collaboration to Protect the Biosphere
Dr. Jane Goodall DBE - Founder of the Jane Goodall
Institute and UN Messenger of Peace<
Jan Roberts - National Coordinator for Earth Charter Community
Summits, USA; Founder and President of the Institute for Ethics and Meaning,
Tampa Florida
Joel Kupferman - Executive Director of the New York Environmental
Law and Justice Project
Virginia Sanchez - Founder, Seeds of Self-Reliance, fostering
U.S.-Mexico partnerships in rural Mexican communities on endangered ecosystems
Earl James - Board member, Campaign for UN Reform, Development
Director, New Mexico Environmental Law Center; President, USA for UNESCO
Robert Blake - Co-Founder, BeingKind Animal Sanctuary
Coalition for a Culture of Peace
Daniel Ellsberg - Author, released the Pentagon
Papers during the Viet Nam war
Alice Slater - Member of the Executive Committee of the
Middle Powers Initiative for nuclear abolition, Lawyers Alliance for World
Security (LAWS) and President of Global Resources Action Center for the Environment
(GRACE)
Jonathan Granoff - President, Global Security Institute;
UN Rep and VP of Lawyers Alliance for World Security, VP of NGO Cmte on Disarmament;
Board member, Lawyers Cmte on Nuclear Policy, the Middle Powers Initiative;
Co-Chair, American Bar Association Cmte on Arms Control; attorney; author
Molly Klopot - Chair, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom New York Metro; one of the Raging Grannies
Robert Alan Silverstein - Director, People For Peace; Co-Director,
One Day In Peace
Anne Zanes - VP of Communications Coordination Committee
of the UN; Representative of Peace Links; Co-Chair of the UN Human Rights
Caucus
Ellen Raider - Co-Founder of The International Center for
Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Selma Brackman - Executive Director, War & Peace Foundation
Alliance to Build Communities of Empowerment (Women, Youth, Indigenous
Peoples, etc.)
Ben Quinto - Director of Global Youth Action Network
Joan Beisel - Director of United Youth International
Reverend Paul Mayer - Co-founder of the international youth
leadership program Children of War
Tamara Weiss - New York Community Outreach Director, Youth
Venture
Nina L. Meyerhof, Ed.D.- President, Children of the Earth,
Inc.
Green Business for a Green Planet
Terrence J. Mollner - Board of Trustees, Calvert
Social Investment Fund
Coop America - The Green Pages listing 1000s of socially
responsible businesses
Campaign for Public Interest Media and the Arts
Celeste Holm - Academy Award winning actress; Founder
and President, Arts Horizons providing opportunities for youth in the arts
Lorin Hollander - Internationally acclaimed concert pianist
and conductor; arts/community outreach advocate; youth mentor trainer; and
lecturer on human consciousness and creativity, transpersonal psychology,
transformational education and mentoring, spiritual and personal growth, and
integral health.
Peter Gabel - Associate Editor, Tikkun Magazine, Director,
The Institute for Spirituality and Politics, New College of California
Michael Gosney - Digital media pioneer; Founder, Digital
Be-In; Director, Paradox Conference at Arcosanti
Gillian Wright - Chief executive, Global Vision Network,
U.K.
Jack Urbont - Emmy Award composer, "Lorne Greene's New
Wilderness"; Distributor, "Endangered Wildlife Collection" educational toys
Jody Gray - Music Producer, "Earth Voice"
Peter H. Rosen - founder; Visionary Artists Resources Including
Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media) and Creativity Cafe; a "New School
for the Next Millennium"
Alliance for Personal and Societal Health
Economics, Governance, Education
Dr. Riane Eisler - Author, Chalice and the
Blade, Co-founder and President, Center for Partnership Studies
Hazel Henderson - Author, Beyond Globalization;
world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated columnist,
consultant on sustainable development, board member of Worldwatch Institute
and the Calvert Social Investment Fund; the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life
Indicators have been used as an alternative to the GNP.
Tim Seldin - President, International Montessori Council;
Chair, Montessori Foundation
Corinne McLaughlin - Co-founder of the Center for Visionary
Leadership in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Spiritual Politics: Changing
the World from the Inside Out
Rob Wheeler - Coordinator of the Global Peoples Assembly
Anne Hemenway - Coordinator of The National Committee
for an Effective Congress, Program Consultant at The NY Open Center and an
editorial committee member of LAPIS Magazine.
Terrence J. Mollner - Board of Trustees, Calvert Social
Investment Fund
Kathia Castro Laszlo - Co-Executive Director, Syntony
Quest, empowering evolutionary learning communities as vehicles to co-create
sustainable futures
Barclay Palmer - Visionary Educator; Board Chair, Center
for Partnership Studies
Dr. Delois Blakely - Community Mayor of Harlem; President
of The New Future Foundation
Brian D'Agostino, Ph.D. - Research Associate, Center on
Violence and Human Survival, CUNY; Humanities Preparatory Academy, New York
City Board of Education
Bill Levis - Chief Financial Officer, Center for Partnership
Studies
Values, Ethics And Spirit
Dr. Ervin Laszlo - Founder of the Club of Budapest
and the Planetary Ethics Alliance; noted author whose latest book is Macroshift
Robert Thurman - Co-Founder and President of Tibet House;
renowned Buddhist Scholar, he is the first western Tibetan Buddhist monk
Gerry Eitner - Founder/President, The Masters Group;
North American Peace Rep. for United Religions Initiative; Co-Founder, Global
Mothers, U.S. Committee for Earth Charter
Paul Ray - Co-author of The Cultural Creatives
Deborah Moldow - Director, World Peace Prayer Society
The Very Reverend James Parks ("Dean") Morton - former
Dean of St. John the Divine and current president of The Interfaith Center
of New York
Ashok Gangadean - Co-Founder and Director, Global Dialogue
Institute; Co-Convenor, World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality
Carol Gilio - Conflict Resolution Coordinator for all
Queens High Schools, New York City
Rabbi Michael Feinberg - Executive Director, New York
City Labor-Religion Coalition
Josette Allan - Former director, World Goodwill, USA
Mark LeVine, Ph.D. - Co-Founder of the Foundation For
Ethics & Meaning, Contributing Editor, Tikkun Magazine and Asst. Professor
of History, University of California, Irvine
Bonnie Locke - Philadelphia Coordinator, UN Gandhi-King
Season For Nonviolence; founder, Peace Wave
Carol Hansen Grey - Executive Director of Women of Vision
and Action.
Nazir Ahmad - President, GivingWorks (serving the non-profit
and philanthropic communities)
Eleanor Wasson - Recipient of the Physicians for Social
Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award 2000; Executive Board Member, EarthSave
International; Founder, International Association for Volunteer Effort; Member,
Los Angeles Committee on the Status of Women
Personal Health
Patch Adams, MD - Executive Director, Gesundheit
Institute
Gary Tomchuk - President, Awareness Marketing; Board
Member, Ctr for Advancement in Cancer Education
Martha Crampton - Founder and Director, Canadian Institute
of Psychosynthesis
Dr. Nitamo Montecucco - President, Villaggio Globale (Association
for Science, Art and Consciousness); Professor, University of Milan Centro
di Medicina Olistica e Psicosomatica
Don Schmall - Vice President, Consumers Health Freedom
Coalition