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Multifaceted Woman in the Arts, Business, and Charity.

A creative talent as a Writer, Journalist, Public Speaker, Screenwriter, Actress, and Filmmaker.

Creator of One Humanity One World (OHOW) Global Social
Movement and Co-Creator of One GOD One Religion (OGOR) Global Unification Movement.

Environmental Activist. An Intellectual Art Lover, Passionate about
Theology and World Cultures, with a life focus on the accumulation of wisdom from divine sources.
EXPERIENCE
Executive Director of KLYSTAR a US Public-Listed Charity dedicated to the unification of religion and science.
– since December 2018

Board of Directors of Museum of the Future Foundation a
United Nations (UN) registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with humanitarian mission goals to educate and promote Global Peace. – since November 2019
Member of Our Collective Global Alliance of Artists, Artisans and Activists. – since July 2019
Journalist Overseas Correspondent of Our Collective in the Wall Street News Agency. (October 2019 – February 2020)
Translator Master Scribe of the GOD Manuscripts authored by Dr.
Leong Ying into Spanish DIOS; and management of all other 7 foreign language translations.
Business Partner of Future Trends an International Corporation, managing companies worldwide in diverse industries. – since August 2020
Business Partner of KLYTEC a technical consulting company,
dedicated to the development of technologies for the betterment of humanity and the environment. – since January 2020
Creative Director of NFTiMart a corporation formed to provide an online marketplace to create and promote (NFT) – since March 2021
LANGUAGES
· Spanish (Mother Tongue)
· English (Professional Competence)
· Catalan (Fluent Competence)
· German (Basic Competence)

please find attached the OHOW Manifesto inpdf, you can also acquire a hard copy on amazon at this link: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Andrea-Wen/dp/B08BQVVRMV

Since you wanted to know more about OneHumanity One World (OHOW) I added the following links for your reference:

Speech on OHOW Peace EducationProject at the Global Technology Conference hosted by GPK FoundationAmerica, chaired by Honorable Sujata Koirala (Former Deputy Prime Ministerand Foreign Minister of Nepal): https://youtu.be/Dye_1swxM8c?t=274

Our Education Project Humanity ForPeace aims to raise $100,000,000 for 1 Million Solar Panel Tablets that weplan to donate to the underprivileged corners of the world where education isjust a dream. In OHOW We Believe in Education as a Human Rights and as thesolution to many of the world crises we are experiencing today.

OHOW has successfully organized over10 online conferences since it was founded at 2020, you can see some of ourimpressive supporters and speakers at this video of our firstanniversary: https://www.onehumanityoneworld.com/events

As an example of our remarkablesupporters; OHOW interview to Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Founder of The LaszloInstitute of New Paradigm Research and twice nominated for the Nobel PeacePrize in 2004 and 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnNHqxiOoo

PUBLICATIONS
2014 – ¿EL CHICO PERFECTO SÓLO EXISTE EN LOS LIBROS?
A Teenage Romance Comedy Novel (Spanish).

2018 – LA BÚSQUEDA (THE SEEKER) THESIS
Thesis of the unification of Science, Religion and Spirituality, Existentialism; introspection of the Human consciousness.
2019 – POÉTICA
Collection of Poems from 2013 – 2018 (Spanish)

2019 – DIOS
Spanish Translation of the GOD Manuscript by author Dr. Leong Ying
2019 – DIOS CUESTIONARIO
Spanish translation of GOD Questionnaire by author Dr. Leong Ying

2020 – OHOW MANIFESTO
One Humanity One World Global Social Movement Manifesto (English and Spanish)

CONTACT DETAILS
Phone: (+34) 678 197 952
email: andreawen.ohow@gmail.com andrea@klystar.com

IN THE ARTS
A multilingual Author, she published her first novel and first book of poems when she was only 13 years old and her first publications have accumulated more than 171 Kreads online. However, she has also written stories and poems since 6 years old. Her latest publication was the “O HOW Manifesto” in June 2020.

Actress from age of 16, she was educated at the Theater School of Girona El Galliner. Script writer and Director of three theatrical plays. Musician, Songwriter, plays the violin, piano and ukulele.
Independent Film maker and film Editor, currently Producing her first Documentary Film “The Man Who Met GOD” a true – life movie filmed inIstanbul, Turkey.

“To me , Artist he proof that magic exists and artists are the magician with the power to make reality from the most
dream like ideas the imagination can dream up.”

AndreaWen.com

IN THE BUSINESS

Partner of Future Trends, an International Corporation, conducting business in various regions, diverse industries and with multiple formulas and modes of operation, have brought mega business projects to Future Trends Member Companies a BREG (Belgian Renewable Energy Group) and Messenger Bank among others.

Partner of KLYTEC, a technical consulting company, dedicated to the development of technologies for the betterment of humanity and the environment. Advisor and personal assistant of the board.

As an international Journalist, has work edas Our Collective Over seas Correspondent for the Wall Street News Agency.

Share holder and Creative Director of NFT iMart, a corporation formed to provide an online marketplace to create and promote Non – Fungible Token( N F T ) .

Designer of Logos, Publicity Materials and Presentational Pitch Decks. Content creator for social media and Youtube promotional videos for charities and private companies.

AndreaWen.com

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Amy Wu is an award-winning writer for the women’s ag and agtech movement.

She is the Creator & Chief Content Director of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in agtech. It has a mission of highlighting women in food, farming, and farmtech, especially women of color. From Farms to Incubators includes an award-winning documentary short that has been screened at SXSW, and a best-selling book “From Farms to Incubators: Women Revolutionizing How Our Food Is Grown” that was released in May 2021.

In 2020 Amy was named on Worth magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020 list of 50 Women Changing the World” list. She was also a recipient of the Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of Excellence. In 2021 she was named by Food Tank as one of “27 Inspiring Women Reshaping the Food System.”

Prior to starting From Farms to Incubators, Amy spent over two decades as an investigative reporter at media outlets including the USA Today Network where she reported on agriculture and agtech for The Salinas Californian.
She has a bachelor’s degree in history from New York University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Book Publication Date: May 4, 2021
Media Contact: Jaguar Bennett
Craven Street Books / Quill Driver Books
Publicity@QuillDriverBooks.com
(800) 345-4447

Inspiring business book “From Farms to Incubators” puts a spotlight on women leaders of the agricultural technology revolution
“You’ll never think about food and farms the same way again.”
—David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy

April 28 — Climate change, water shortages and an ever-growing global population are making the world’s food supply more precarious than ever, but a new generation of female entrepreneurs is using high technology to secure the future of agriculture, as documented in the new book “From Farms to Incubators: Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food Is Grown” (Craven Street Books, publication date May 4, 2021) by award-winning journalist Amy Wu.

Speaking of the inspiration for her new book, Wu noted, “‘From Farms to Incubators’ strives to document a time in history that captures an intersection when agriculture and technology and the workforce behind it began a shift that will be of value years, decades and generations from now.” “From Farms to Incubators” presents nearly 30 inspiring case studies of how women entrepreneurs from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds are meeting the challenge of feeding a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2050. The women profiled in “From Farms to Incubators” are leaders in using drones, artificial intelligence, sophisticated soil sensors, targeted microbes, data analytics, blockchain and robotics to transform agriculture into the growing field of agtech—the integration of agriculture and technology. “These women are trailblazers in the sectors of agriculture and technology that are traditionally male dominated. Their intelligence, knowledge, creativity and passion for tackling big-impact issues have led to tangible solutions that are helping growers be more successful in producing food for all of us,” said Wu. Agtech has become essential to farm profitability and securing a sustainable food supply, as more agribusiness firms seek out technological solutions to increase productivity and profitability. Women who care about community health, wellness and nutrition are turning toward agribusiness opportunities, and grower families are becoming more likely to pass their land to daughters interested in farming.

Each agribusiness leader profiled in “From Farms to Incubators” tells her own story of how she used agtech innovation to solve specific business problems and succeed. These business cases demonstrate the influence of female innovation, the new technologies applied to agribusiness problems, and the career opportunities young women can find in agribusiness. The women profiled speak frankly on the advantages and drawbacks of technological solutions to agriculture and offer lessons in making technology productive in real work. A must-read book for business leaders, policy makers, and everyone interested in tech innovation, “From Farms to Incubators” offers inspiring role models for young women, a thought-provoking glimpse into the future of food production, and a fascinating investigation of how women leaders are profitably disrupting the world’s oldest industry.

About Amy Wu:
Amy Wu is an award-winning agtech journalist and the producer/director of the documentary film “From Farms to Incubators,” which has been presented at SXSW and Techonomy. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today and Time magazine. In 2019 Wu was named one of Food Tank’s “15 Inspiring Women Leading the AgTech Sector,” and in 2020 Wu was named to Worth magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020 list of 50 Women Changing the World” list.

Book Details:
Title: From Farms to Incubators: Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food Is Grown
Author: Amy Wu
Publisher: Craven Street Books, an imprint of Linden Publishing
Publication Date: May 4, 2021
Price: $24.95 US
Category: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business
ISBN 978-1-61035-575-9
8″ x 10″ trade paperback, 230 pages, 300 full color photos, index.
Available from bookstores, online booksellers and Craven Street Books (1-800-345-4447, CravenStreetBooks.com).
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Links:

https://civileats.com/2021/06/08/210609-summer-reading-list-review-roundup-food-agriculture-bittman-pollan-baszile-penniman-estabrook/

https://www.amazon.com/Farms-Incubators-Women-Innovators-Revolutionizing/dp/161035575X

https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/2021-food-summer-reading-list/

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Ata Servati – Creator of the Love International Film Festival in Santa Monica speaks to Good News. Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE will appear at the festival. Go to http://loveinternationalfilmfestival.com/

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A Mystical Journey into the Beauty & Awe of Life,
And the Daily Power of Transcendence Through Surprise!
From Will Arntz, the Creator of What The Bleep?!

What is surprise in your life but an instant opportunity for transformation? A moment that can send you ascending into joy and wonder or spiraling into deep thought and life-changing new awareness.

An eye-catching beautiful and whimsical book The (not so)
Little Book of Surprises brings that home in-of course-surprising ways! A mystical journey into consciousness, an exploration of what touches our hearts, a glimmering reflection on nature and our selves, and plea for becoming our better angels are just some of the touchstones in store for readers as they experience the poetic exquisiteness of this gem.

This rumination on surprise comes courtesy of William Arntz, the creator and producer who surprised, confounded and delighted with his remarkable film What the Bleep Do We Know!? Now he teams with his wife, internationally renowned spiritual teacher and poet Deirdre Hade and award-winning photographer Endre Balogh to create something else quite special.

The (not so) Little Book of Surprises is anchored with Hade’s visionary and lyrical poetry skipping lightly about over the stunning images curated by Balogh. Each breathtaking page creates an emotional resonance with the reader…using surprise as the doorway to transformation and transcendence. The images in the book are part eye candy/part soul candy. They pile on a sensory experience that mounts the sense of surprise page by page.

All of the book’s creators began life in different fields-Arntz as a laser physicist working on “Star Wars” high energy lasers; Hade as a ballet dancer and choreographer, Balogh continues as an internationally regarded concert violinist. And through life’s mystery and surprise, they emerged as something else entirely, which makes them imminently qualified to bring forth a meditation in print on the gifts of surprise. For more information please visit: www.BookOfSurprises.com

Since her early years in Memphis, Tennessee, Deirdre Hade has been an artist and a visionary, writing poetry and conversing with the mystical worlds. As a ballet dancer and choreographer recognized by Robert Joffery, she performed throughout the country and founded the dance ensemble, “Celebrations to the Sacred.” At sixteen, when her mother was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, Deirdre discovered the healing power of light, enabling her mother to live thirteen years longer than expected. As the founder of Radiance Healing and Meditation, Deirdre has guided people worldwide, teaching them to harness their own inner wisdom and healing potential. She is currently writing her story of life as a modern day mystic.

William Arntz started his professional career as a research laser physicist, working on “Star Wars” high energy lasers. He then moved on to software, writing “AutoSys”-an automated job control system currently in use by most Fortune 500 companies. He sold that company, retired, but then decided to make a film: creating, producing and directing What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, an exploration of spirituality, quantum physics, neurology and outrageous possibilities. The film and the companion book, with editions in over twenty languages, were international hits.

Endre Baloghis an internationally known concert violinist, having performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and eminent musicians Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Horowitz and André Watts. He is also a sought- after photographic artist. The Professional Photographers of California named him “Number Two” among the “Top Ten Photographers” and he is one of only thirty five photographers worldwide to achieve “Diamond” status in the 2015 Professional Photographers of America International Competition.

What’s the magic of surprise? Notes’ Arntz in the foreword: “The ‘You’ before is different from the ‘You’ Afterwards.” And in The (not so) Little Book of Surprises there are 100+ pages of wonderment and surprise-an invitation to be very different when one closes the last page of the book. Potential topics of discussion:
• The Power of Surprise in one’s life
• How to keep life fresh and juicy in surprising ways
• Mastering the art of being surprising to the world
• Making surprise the gateway to your heart

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Flip2BFit fitness board game creator, Heather Parisi kicks off fundraising campaign for Fitness for Africa

Flip2BFit creator, Heather Parisi, armed with her one-of-a-kind fitness boardgame is launching a crowdfunding campaign (donations can be made to:  http://igg.me/at/FitnessForAfrica-PearlofHope) to bring permanent schools and facilities to children grades K1 through K3 in Uganda, Africa while spreading education about fitness and nutrition. Profits from every sale of Flip2BFit fitness board game as well as donations made through an online campaign will go towards helping Fitness for Africa—a New York based non-profit that believes in battling obesity in the states and malnutrition in Africa—bring health, nutrition, education and a higher quality of life to the people of Uganda and their children.

After overcoming serious injury and attributing her recovery to physical activity and healthy lifestyle, Founder, Heather Parisi knew she had to share the joy of health and fitness with others.  Determined to teach people everywhere that an active and healthy lifestyle is possible no matter age, income or geographic location, Parisi set out to educate people about what health options they have and what the decisions are to make…Flip2BFit was born.  With a deep belief that today’s obesity epidemic is linked with malnutrition around the globe, Flip2BFit along with Fitness For Africa has set their scopes on bridging and targeting these problems through fun, creative and easy solutions that anyone can enjoy and participate in.

Getting its start in a part of the world that desperately needs it, Flip2BFit is already a huge hit among Ugandan school children. Flip2BFit has delivered a fun and exciting way to encourage healthy lifestyles at many of the schools there.  In fact, since introducing the game, Ugandan school children have demonstrated improved grades, a growth in self-esteem, better sleep, stronger muscles, greater focus and more.  Even the Ugandan adults that have participated report a positive impact having experienced less aches and pains and better sleep. Now Parisi, through her Not for Profit Fitness for Africa is seeking funding to help keep her school up and running and to move out of the temporary bamboo structure into permanent structures so that the school is recognized by the Ugandan Ministry of Education.

Donations and Flip2BFit proceeds will not only change lives but transform an entire community.  With a little help from YOU, Parisi’s Ugandan school, Pearl of Hope, can become a permanent place for learning and growing.  Everyone who donates or purchases Flip2BFit during the campaign will not only contribute to helping acquire land titles and permission to stay, but to education in healthy eating, physical activity, academics, understanding nutrition and eating options, living with family bonds, knowing and understanding finances, understanding healthy gardening and much much more.  For a community ravaged by wars, the horrific corruption of Idi Amin and Joseph Kony, and over 60,000 kidnapped children forced to be soldiers, something as simple as a solid and fixed building of education, health and bonding is an important element in healing and moving towards a brighter future.

There are so many ways to help! Just $15 helps make 100 bricks for future improvement and construction of Pearl of Hope School.  A donation of $50 ensures a child is fed all 3 terms of the school year and receives balanced meals every day and a $250 donation funds the professional at Pearl of Hope who impart the knowledge needed to make healthy lifestyle choices and change.  With every $50 donation, givers will receive an “A Healthy Life Starts Here” t-shirt and their name on the website; $250 donations receive a copy of the innovative fitness game, BAKARI and their name commemorated on a Pearl of Hope Founder plaque to be mounted at the site. You CAN make a difference in the lives of others. Get to IndieGoGo and show you care!

Donations can be made to:  http://igg.me/at/FitnessForAfrica-PearlofHope

For more information visit Flip2BFit.com, FitnessForAfrica.org or contact Chelsea@chicblvd.com.

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2014 American Spirit Awards

Monday, June 2, 2014
6pm-8pm

Monday, June 2 we are thrilled to host our second annual American Spirit Awards.  This elegant evening will honor several deserving individuals who have made a notable contribution to our great country in the past year.

The Common Good 2014 American Spirit Awards: This dynamic evening will feature extraordinary individuals who have gone above and beyond to participate in our democracy and help change the world we live in for the better. To sign up early or for more information, on the 2014 American Spirit Awards please call 212.599.7040.

OUR 2014 HONOREES:

Activism In The Arts:  Arnon Milchan, respected and prolific film producer, for his part in bringing the critically acclaimed “12 Years a Slave” to the screen.  The film provides an honest and unflinching portrayal of the ugly truth about slavery in America and has helped reinvigorate discussion of human dignity and equality in our country.  Milchan, Chairman of New Regency Productions, has made many films that have garnered both critical and commercial success, including Noah, Pretty Woman, Once Upon a Time in America, JFK, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Natural Born Killers, Fight Club, War of the Roses, A Time to Kill, Under Siege, Love & Other Drugs.

Citizen Activism:   Jose Antonio Vargas, a leading activist on the issue of immigration reform and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, for his efforts to show the face of immigrants as hard-working, responsible and very American — even without the proper paperwork.  Vargas won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Virginia Tech shootings, but soon after, he bravely chose to reveal his own status as an undocumented immigrant, risking deportation to help put a human face on immigration reform.  Vargas has since established his non-profit Define American and has been featured on the cover of Time Magazine.

ABOUT ARNON MILCHAN

ARNON MILCHAN (Executive Producer) is widely renowned as one of the most prolific and successful independent film producers of the past 25 years, with over 100 feature films to his credit.  Born in Israel, Milchan was educated at the University of Geneva.  His first business venture was transforming his father’s modest business into one of his country’s largest agro-chemical companies.  This early achievement was a harbinger of Milchan’s now-legendary reputation in the international marketplace as a keen businessman.

Soon, Milchan began to underwrite projects in areas that had always held a special interest for him – film, television and theater.  Early projects include Roman Polanski’s theater production of “Amadeus,” “Dizengoff 99,” “La Menace,” “The Medusa Touch” and the mini-series “Masada.”  By the end of the 1980s, Milchan had produced such films as Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy,” Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” and Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.”

After the huge successes of “Pretty Woman” and “The War of the Roses,” Milchan founded New Regency Productions and went on to produce a string of successful films including “J.F.K,” “Sommersby,” “A Time to Kill,” “Free Willy,” “The Client,” “Tin Cup,” “Under Siege,” “L.A. Confidential,” “The Devil’s Advocate,” “The Negotiator,” “City of Angels,” “Entrapment,” “Fight Club,” “Big Momma’s House,” “Don’t Say a Word,” “Daredevil,” “Man on Fire,” “Guess Who,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Big Momma’s House 2,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “The Fountain,” “Mirrors,” “Jumper,” “What Happens in Vegas,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “Love and Other Drugs,” “Big Momma’s House 3,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,”  “In Time,.” the critically acclaimed “12 Years a Slave and  the epic” Noah directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Russell Crowe.

Upcoming films include “True Story,” starring Jonah Hill and James Franco, “Gone Girl” directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, “Birdman” directed by Alejandro Inarritu, starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Andrea Riseborough and Ed Norton, and “Pyongyang,” directed by Gore Verbinski.

Along the way, Milchan brought on board two powerful investors and partners who share his vision: Nine Network and Twentieth Century Fox.  Fox distributes Regency movies in all media worldwide, except in international pay and free television where Milchan has taken advantage of the growing television and new media marketplace. Milchan also successfully diversified his company’s activities within the sphere of entertainment, most specifically in the realm of television through Regency Television (“Malcolm in the Middle,” “The Bernie Mac Show” and “Windfall”) and sports where the company was at one time the largest shareholder of PUMA, the worldwide athletic apparel and shoe conglomerate based in Germany, which was later sold after a successful re-branding of the brand in 2003.  In addition, Regency has acquired the worldwide television rights to Women’s Tennis Association Tournaments from 1999 through 2012 and has licensed  these  rights to  Pan European Broadcaster Eurosport  S.A. Regency owns a large stake in the Israeli Network, a television station brought to the United States via a satellite distribution agreement with Echostar and Regency also acquired a large stake in Channel 10, one of only two commercial broadcast stations in Israel.

ABOUT JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and the founder of Define American, a campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration.

In June 2011, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant, stunning media and political circles and attracting worldwide coverage. A year later, he appeared on the cover of TIME magazine internationally with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a follow-up cover story. Since then, he has testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform, and written and directed Documented, a documentary film on his undocumented experience. It world premiered in June 2013 as the centerpiece of the AFIDOCS film festival in Washington, D.C.

He was a senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the Technology andCollege sections. Prior to that, he covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS in the nation’s capital, and the 2008 presidential campaign for the Washington Post, and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Virginia Tech massacre. In 2007, Politico named him one of 50 Politicos to Watch. His 2006 series on HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C. inspired a feature-length documentary — The Other City — which he co-produced and wrote. It world premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on Showtime. In 2010, he wrote an exclusive profile of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker.

The media’s evolution, and the breakdown of barriers between print and broadcast journalism, has guided his nearly 13-year reporting career. He’s written for daily newspapers (Philadelphia Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle) and national magazines (The Atlantic, Rolling Stone) and has appeared on several national and international television and radio programs, including Nightline,The O’Reilly Factor, and The Colbert Report. On HuffPost, he created the blog Technology as Anthropology, which focuses on tech’s impact on people and how we behave.

He taught a class on “Storytelling 2.0” at Georgetown University and served on the advisory board for the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, housed at American University. A very proud alumnus of Mountain View High School (‘00) and San Francisco State University (‘04), he loves jazz, hip-hop and anything by Gershwin, and worships at the altars of Altman, Almodovar, Didion, Baldwin and Orwell.

He dreamed of one day living in Manhattan after he saw Woody Allen’s version of it. He currently resides in Manhattan.

ABOUT THE COMMON GOOD

MISSION

The Common Good is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that strives to inspire broad participation in our democracy through the free exchange of ideas and civil dialogue and seeks to find ways to bridge the growing divisions that threaten our nation. We are dedicated to finding common ground and, through forums and initiatives, encourage the civic engagement so essential for a thriving democracy.

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What Are We Up To?

We trade rancorous tirades for civil arguments. We bring together leading (and often opposing) activists for informal discussions, not lectures. Equally important, we create campaigns and initiatives to encourage vigorous participation in our democracy. We’re out to bridge the chasm that divides the nation’s extremes. And we’re reaching out to ‘the great middle’ of the nation—to those who often make the difference in elections.

Isn’t That Already Happening? No.

These days, such discussion has too often been replaced by emotion and anger—just the environment that demagogues and hate- mongers thrive in. The Common Good goes beyond the shrill discussions of the 24- hour news cycle, and protects the truth from being hijacked by partisanship. We cannot afford to wait for the next crisis in energy, national security, debt overload or job depletion. Everyone can do their part – and we will bring together people of good will and good common sense to do theirs.

What Motivates Us?

For the first time in the history of our nation, our children face a future that may be bleaker than our own. That’s why we’ll work to whip up public interest on the hot topics of the day and inspire citizens to get engaged, come together and move the country forward.

GOALS

• Educate and empower members on issues of public importance.
• Encourage reasoned national debate and support the free exchange of ideas.
• Promote active participation in the democratic process and empower individual to “make a difference”.
• Ensure freedom of press and speech.
• Support tolerance for differing points of view.
• Seek new ideas.
• Encourage solutions to problems by finding common ground.
• Challenge our leaders and hold them accountable.

HISTORY

In 1988 a group of entertainment and business professionals banded together to form Show Coalition, an entertainment network to inform, connect and involve those affiliated with the entertainment industry into political affairs and public policy. Entertainment executives, writers, directors, producers, actors, agents, and others in the community joined together for informational forums, conferences and initiatives in Los Angeles and Washington, DC. Show Coalition has been credited with playing a critical role in creating the Hollywood/Washington nexus of entertainment activism during that community’s most politically active years.

The Common Good was formally organized in New York City in 2007. As with Show Coalition, TCG hosts a variety of forums for thought leaders from across the political spectrum. It has created strategic alliances with other organizations and brought a steady stream of exciting speakers and has created The American Spirit Awards to honor those who make a difference in public affairs and civic life. The Common Good seeks to focus on increasing citizen participation in the political process and what can each do to help move our country forward.

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