Episodes
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Where is the Invisible Nation?
Vanessa Hope, award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and director of the acclaimed documentary Invisible Nation, for a timely and thought-provoking conversation about democracy, authoritarianism, Taiwan, China, and the future of freedom around the world. Vanessa recently published a powerful and...
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A Supreme Court for Earth!
Roger Abbiss is the founder of Occupy Earth, a global grassroots movement to establish a World Federation. He discovered The World Federalist Movement (WFM) while researching a political-thriller screenplay and is now a board member of WFM-Canada. Alarmed by the multiple existential risks that we...
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David Gershon on THE PEACE MOONSHOT -- An Upstream Strategy for a Fractured World
A special podcast in collaboration with Mega-Meeting and 2,700 other Podcasts promoting nonprofit causes around the world -- in a giant @Podcasthon David is the creator of The Rotary Peace Game, Peace on Earth by 2030 and the Empowerment Institute -- Center for Reinventing the Planet. He has...
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A peek into Garry Davis' book "My Country is The World"!
Check out Garry's exciting memoir - Chapters 1 and 2! (Chapters 3-9 covered as well on our @FutureWAVEFilms YouTube channel.) Buy the book at: worldcitizengov.org See the video and ask questions of future guests at: theworldismycountry.com/club Music by:...
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Could People Power have more Power than Politicians?
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...
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The Choose Love Movement - Founder Scarlett Lewis
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…
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Collaborative Communication with Catherine Cooley!
Catherine Cooley is a communication coach, trainer, conflict mediator, facilitator, speaker, founder of Peaceabl, and a Certified Trainer through the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She gives business teams and leaders who dread their workplace a reliable way to resolve differences…
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Special Podcast Short: Occupy back our cities with a Singing Revolution!
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...
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Fixing the Crises in Capitalism and Democracy - Dr. Shann Turnbull
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...
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A global anthem for harmony and peace - Maestro Diego Carneiro
Hiroshima Day August 6, 2025 Maestro Carneiro shares his mission to unite the world through music as a powerful tool to transform conflict and chaos into peace, growth and harmony. As a visionary social entrepreneur, a Celebrity Master cellist, Orchestra conductor and Rotary Peace Fellow, he has...
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Meet award-winning Writer John Viscount!
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…
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Could GREED Save the World???
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…
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In honor of President Carter - Carter School for Peace
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...
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Founding Mothers UNITE for a New World!
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. They are building a global...
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Meet the Founders of The Visioneers: Gerri Schwartz and Des Berghofer!
The Visioneers Project is alive with story, the original one written as a fantasy, now inspiring thousands of new, true stories of what people everywhere are doing to contribute towards a better future for all. Never has the world been more in need of such stories. Woven together as a Web of Good...
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Rivera Sun -- change-maker/protest novelist!
Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between and other novels. She is the editor of Nonviolence News. Her study guide to making change with nonviolent...
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Warheads to Windmills with author TIMMON WALLIS
His new book Warheads to Windmills says that to survive as a species we need to work together to solve the greatest problems facing us right now. Those include the climate crisis, the nuclear nightmare and the time-bomb of global inequality and injustice. He shows, in detail, how we can solve…
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Holomovement Holons: Disrupting divisiveness and strife through exponential collaboration.
In our movie "The World Is My Country", Garry Davis calls for creating a synergistic system of People-Powered governance that can enable humans to free ourselves from the scourge of war and oppression and recognize that we are already One! See https://worldservice.org/synhis.html and also...
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JUDITH DIMENT MBE: How Rotary can help Lead the World Into a Sustainable and Peaceful Future
Judith Diment is Dean of the Rotary Representatives to the United Nations and International Agencies leading a team of 30 Rotary “Ambassadors.” She led Rotary delegations to COP26, COP27 and COP28. Having worked in marketing and communications for over 30 years, including heading PR at the…
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HOLOMOVEMENT - Emanuel Kuntzelman and Laura Rose!
On Juneteenth we envision the next great leap in humanities emancipation -- a way to rise above the divisions and strife to come together as one! Laura and Emanuel show us how the Holomovement offers a fusion of science and spirit that can ignite the evolutionary impulse in us and cohere,...
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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...
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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 --...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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…
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Dr. Riane Eisler! Barbie & Ken -- in Partnership?
“Has a doll long criticized for perpetuating outdated gender norms and unrealistic body image become a feminist icon?” NPR asked; “The movie takes place largely in Barbieland, a candy-colored, women-centered utopia where Barbies hold the positions of power (all of the jobs, really, except for...
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Democracy Without Borders!
Andreas Bummel is founder and Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders. A leading expert and advocate for a world parliament, he has been leading the campaign for a Parliamentary Assembly at the UN, supported by more than 1,500 parliamentarians from over 100 countries. The “We The Peoples”...
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World Citizen Day July 27th!
Hear from Dr. Sheyda Jahanbani, the historian conducting research on Garry Davis for her book and the efforts to promote his inspiring World Citizen view around world! Listen to fun stories from people who knew him! See the video and ask questions of future guests at:...
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Does Maja Groff really know how to fix a broken world?
The Global Challenges foundation thinks so - awarding her a prize in their multi-million dollar contest for the best new models of global governance -- to avert disaster and put humanity on a path toward a bright sustainable future. She is a Hague-based international lawyer working on…
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Make Films That Transform the World - Jon Fitzgerald
Jon Fitzgerald, Founder & CEO of Cause Pictures, is one of the Co-founders of the Slamdance Film Festival and author of Filmmaking for Change: Make Films That Transform the World. Recognizing that film is more than just entertainment, it is a tool to engage and inspire audiences to take action…
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RED CROSS EVENT with Joanne Dufour! Learn about International Humanitarian Law
Armed conflicts are ongoing around the world. At times it may seem that there are no rules in war. However, there are and they make a difference. "Even War Has Rules" is a dynamic discussion on international humanitarian law (IHL) and how it governs armed conflict. By the end of the hour,...
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May 25th Celebrate World Citizen Action Day! Learn the history and all about the important work of the World Citizen Government!
See the video and ask questions of future guests at: theworldismycountry.com/club Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis:...
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STORYPOWER - the key to effective social change with Liz Mangual and Bob Kanegis
Bob and Liz run Story Connection, working in New Mexico with Native American Pueblo schools - and traveling the world telling stories -- that celebrate the intersection of myth, family and culture. Come hear how stories mold society and shape behavior -- and why stories are more powerful tools…
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Medea Benjamin makes sense of the war in Ukraine!
With humanity poised at 90 seconds to doomsday, and growing risks of nuclear war breaking out with Russia, China & North Korea, we will be chatting with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, about her new book "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict". Nobel...
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The MOVEMENT and the “MADMAN” on PBS! Hear from the Producers and David Hartsough!
The MOVEMENT and the “MADMAN” shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — caused President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including his threat to use nuclear weapons.…
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Women taking a stand against Nuclear War
Watch the National Women's Conference To Prevent Nuclear War Coretta Scott King, Joanne Woodward, Dr. Helen Caldicott and other leading women came together in a high-profile nuclear war prevention conference organized by our Future WAVE board member Charolett Baker who was the Special Projects...
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Conflict Resolution and Becoming Bullyproof - Arthur Kanegis
BULLYPROOF is a life-skills program Arthur Kanegis developed to make conflict resolution fun and memorable. It uses ten animal characters to teach more powerful tools than intimidation or violence for getting what you really want and need in life. B.U.L.L.Y. is Bustout Bear, Understanding…
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The Alchemy of Peace - Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing
Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing is a prolific author, speaker, and international lawyer with 20 years of experience in public and private legal practice. She is the founding director of The Center for Peace and Global Governance (cpgg.org), a virtual think tank and online forum that pools and proposes...
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Nonviolent National Defense! - Glen Anderson
TV host Glen Anderson strives tirelessly for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and a wide variety of progressive political issues. His cable TV show focuses on changing to a truly peaceful foreign policy, creating social justice and economic justice in many ways, and promoting nonviolence at…
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“What if Grandpa had been killed in Vietnam? I wouldn’t exist! Frank Kroncke
“What if Grandpa had been killed in Vietnam? We wouldn’t exist!” Thousands of kids and grandkids owe their lives to Frank Kroncke, who with the Minnesota 8 "liberated" most of Minnesota’s draft files. “My wife and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary” Joe wrote. We have two sons who…
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Nonviolence in Ukraine! - John Reuwer
John Reuwer is a board member of World BEYOND War and serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility. A retired emergency physician and former adjunct professor of conflict resolution at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, Dr. Reuwer has studied, taught...
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A heartfelt trip to Vietnam - Dennis Aftergut
Dennis Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor named “Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine for his pioneering work in litigation that was a stepping-stone toward same-sex marriage equality. Working now with Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Dennis writes and co-writes opinion…
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Build a Solartopia? - Harvey Wasserman
Can we shake our world off the path toward extinction and instead build a Solartopia? Harvey Wasserman is an author, radio host and activist working to bend the arc of history toward peace, love & understanding…plus justice. (See Solartopia.org) Solartopia, No Nukes, election protection, people’s...
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UBUNTU KNOWS NO BORDERS - Eric Sirotkin
What if the key to our future lies in our past? Realizing that law as a “battle” was actually a weak force not serving his clients needs so much as perpetuating the “war machine of litigation,” Eric Sirotkin shifted his legal skills into honing Gandhi’s “weapon of the strong.” He discovered that...
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”The Third Harmony” - Michael Nagler
Michael Nagler, President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence, argues that nonviolence–not just as a tactic but as a way of being–is the only way to unite deeply divided people and enable progressive movements and leaders of all stripes to fulfil their promise and potential. See the video and ask...
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Don’t Bank on the Bomb! - Susi Snyder
Susi Snyder coordinates the Don’t Bank on the Bomb project and works with Nobel-Prize winner ICAN to engage the financial sector in moving us away from nuclear war. She contributed to the books A World Free from Nuclear Weapons, Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation and…
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Two Earth Heros! Star Trek/”The Day After” Director Nicholas Meyer and Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
Watch Nicholas Meyer, Director of "THE DAY AFTER" (see TRAILER), which had the largest audience of any made-for-television movie before or since! In the midst of the cold war nuclear arms race, it shook people to the core - 100 million Americans and 200 million Russians! It convinced US and…
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Did a movie save the world? The answer will stun you... Director Jeff Daniels
Our special guest is Jeff Daniels, the award-winning producer/director of "Television Event"! Did a movie save the world? The answer will stun you... To Watch "TELEVISION EVENT" CLICK HERE! "The Day After" (ABC-1983) is the most-watched TV movie ever, dramatizing the chilling aftermath of a…
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What’s better than a Domination System? Partnership! - Dr. Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is recipient of the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award (earlier given to the Dalai Lama) and she is internationally known for her ground-breaking contributions as a systems scientist, historian and futurist. Learn of the exciting advances in Eisler's work since “The...
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