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Order Out of Chaos: March 8, 2016
The Voices of Humanity project has launched with the election of four great messages. Voice of Humanity as One & Voice of Women Educating Young Girls Dear UN Women Executive Director Mlambo-Ngcuka, What happens when girls are educated? Many wonderful … Continue reading
UN Goals as a Scaffold for Local-to-Global Organizing
Voices of Humanity has launched. On March 8, 2016, we will send our crowd-sourced messages to Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women. Please sign up to participate at voh.c4c.intermix.org. Elevator Speech: The Voices of Humanity social media gives a … Continue reading
State of the Global Union by Peter Dumont, President of Star Alliance
STAR ALLIANCE™ FOUNDATION FOR ALL™ • Promoting Highest Civic Ideals • Good Will Values for All to Share • Since 1985 • Educating for Essential Principles of Sustainable, Fulfilling Society • Peace & Love P.O. Box 11125 • Berkeley • … Continue reading
Living in Parallel Universes By George Wolfe
Living in Parallel Universes By George Wolfe The Outer Banks of North Carolina is a precious environmental reserve. While vacationing there this past September, I had the rare opportunity to witness one of the remarkable marvels of nature. On the beach … Continue reading
Hanukkah, Assimilation and Our Inner Light by George Wolfe
Hanukkah, Assimilation and Our Inner Light by George Wolfe As someone who discovered two years ago that his father was Jewish and concealed his Jewish heritage to elude anti-Semitism, I now have a new appreciation of Hanukkah, the Jewish “Festival of … Continue reading
Latest Overview: How Voices of Humanity Can Underpin a Strategy for Human Unity
The Big Picture On the positive side, humanity is experiencing a welcome long range trend towards greater understanding, acceptance and even compassion. Literacy rates are going up. Living conditions are improving generally with proportionally more people being healthy and having … Continue reading
Mysteries of the Mind By George Wolfe
Mysteries of the Mind By George Wolfe When I was in high school, I met a student named Rick who had a peculiar savant ability. You could rapidly read to him a long list of two digit numbers to … Continue reading
Retirement: “To die but not to perish” By George Wolfe
Retirement: “To die but not to perish” By George Wolfe Retirement is about relationship. That’s what I’ve learned during the transition from controlling, narcissistic academic to “golden ager.” It is a time to let go of grudges and political battles … Continue reading
“Winning the Argument but Losing the Sale.” by George Wolfe
“Winning the Argument but Losing the Sale.” by George Wolfe Sigmund Freud and other psychological theorists have argued that social pressures force us to repress aggressive urges. Over time, this repression creates inner conflict until our aggressive tendencies are given an … Continue reading
Using the SDGs as a Framework for Local to Global Organizing – an example
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) has recently published an important “opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals”. See http://www.ijgo.org/article/S0020-7292%2815%2900590-1/fulltext. The article has been picked up and popularized by outlets as diverse as Mother … Continue reading