Contact: Rivera Sun: rivera@paceebene.org

Sept 2, 2025

Over 5,300+ Actions Planned from Sept 21-Oct 2 to ‘End War, Poverty, Racism and Environmental Destruction’ as part of Campaign Nonviolence

Nationwide – Between September 21 and October 2, 2025, tens of thousands of people will participate in over 5,300+ nonviolent actions to protest violence, war, poverty, racism and environmental destruction as part of the 12^th annual Campaign Nonviolence Action Days.

Stretching between the International Day of Peace (Sept 21) to the International Day of Nonviolence (Oct 2), the annual effort rallies numerous national, international, and local groups to ‘build a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction’.

Amidst concerns about gun violence, mass shootings, political violence, climate crisis, rising authoritarianism, war and genocide, Campaign Nonviolence brings people together in solidarity to work for an end to violence in all its forms. Local groups work to dismantle direct, structural, and systemic forms of violence using the tools of active nonviolence. Each group takes action on a different aspect of the broad vision, addressing issues such as immigration, discrimination, environmental destruction, health, poverty and more.

Campaign Nonviolence organizers affirm and advance the many viable nonviolent alternatives that exist, such as community safety teams, conflict resolution skills, peacebuilding, demilitarization, racial justice, restorative practices, self care, sustainability, renewable energy, living wages, civil resistance, and much more.

For 2025, people are invited to join the theme of “practicing nonviolence toward self, others, world, and earth”. The campaign calls for a range of nonviolent actions, including self care and wellness (self), community safety teams and violence de-escalation trainings (others), protests and visibility actions (world), and divestment from fossil fuels and weapons (earth). Two additional calls invite people to bring anti-militarism and anti-war leaflets to International Day of Peace events and to hold nonviolence teach-ins on Oct 2, the International Day of Nonviolence.

Collaborating organizations include: Sandy Hook Promise, Nonviolent Peaceforce, 350.org USA/Make Billionaires Pay, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, SunDay, Cure Violence, World BEYOND War, International Cities of Peace, ICAN, DC Peace Team, Backbone Campaign, Global Silent Minute, World Cleanup Day, Unity Earth, Jared’s Heart of Success, Nonviolent Cities Project, Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action, We the World, L.O.V.E. Is the Answer, World Wellness Weekend, Pax Christi International, Pax Christi USA, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, United Religions Initiative, United4Peace, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, Pause the World For Peace, Pathways to Peace, and local Peace Day efforts like Peace Day Philly, Peace Week Delaware, and Arkansas Peace Week; and many more.

The annual action days highlight and uplift events such as:

– Move the Money Divestment Actions w/ 350.org’s Make Billionaires Pay & Draw the Line

– World Wellness Weekend’s thousands of self care and wellness events

– Cleanup actions in over 200 countries with World Cleanup Day

– Hundreds of schools breaking down social isolation and bullying with Start With Hello Week

– International actions to divest banks and governments from nuclear weapons with ICAN

– Dozens of global educational events to #CloseBases with World BEYOND War

– Creative teach-ins using Nonviolent History Coloring Pages in Princeton, NJ

– Pause the World For Peace’s Worldwide Silent Minute & Rally in Times Square, NYC

– A bold, imaginative community action festival called Resist-A-Palooza in Austin, TX

– A citywide pots-and-pans banging protest in Burlington, VT

– We Keep Us Safe – Fostering a Culture of Care gathering in Whatcom, WA

– Intergenerational peace walk in Milwaukee, MI

– A virtual summit and strategy plan for ending fossil fuel proliferation

– Silent vigil for ceasefire in New York City, NY

– Bystander intervention and Islamic Nonviolence training in Istanbul, Syria

– Community violence prevention teach-ins in Lilongwe, Malawi

– Over 100 peace education activities in Tamil Nadu, India

– 100-day mobilization for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

– Nonviolence and peacebuilding trainings for youth at schools in war zones in Cameroon

Through Campaign Nonviolence, historically separate movements are joining forces to tackle these many forms of violence and to build a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.

Those looking to participate can sign-up on their website here: https://paceebene.org/action-days

Campaign Nonviolence was launched September 2014 with 230 nonviolent actions in every state in the nation. In 2024, over 5000 actions took place across the United States and around the world. It is coordinated by Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, a 36-year-old nonprofit that promotes nonviolence. More than 5,337 actions and events are planned for 2025 with more expected to be added in the lead-up to Sept 21.

FOR INFORMATION ON THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN, CONTACT RIVERA SUN AT rivera@paceebene.org WEBSITE: www.campaignnonviolence.org.

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Based on the Book “Dorothy Of Oz” By Roger Stanton Baum

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is a 3D-animated musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. A continuation of one of the world’s most popular and beloved fairy tales, Legends of Oz finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) waking to post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser the owl (Oliver Platt), Marshal Mallow (Hugh Dancy), China Princess (Megan Hilty) and Tugg the tugboat (Patrick Stewart) join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colorful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald City. Set to the tunes of Academy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Bryan Adams, Legends of Oz marks a charming, family-friendly return to the Oz franchise.

Directed By:       Daniel St. Pierre and Will Finn

Written By:        Randi Barnes and Adam Balsam

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

TeamOz@ID-PR.com

Running time: 93 minutes                                                                                                                                      Rated: PG

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MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM opens in select theaters on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29^th

Nationwide on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25^th

**For interview interest with Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Justin Chadwick (director) and Anant Singh (producer), please contact Heather Secrist, Heather.Secrist@weinsteinco.com **

PRESS SCREENINGS:

Thursday, November 21^st  at 6pm in Magno Screening Room

Monday, November 25^th at 6pm in Dolby 24

Magno Screening Room – 729 Seventh Avenue (b/t 48^th and 49^th Streets)

Dolby 24 – 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 28^th Floor

PLEASE RSVP TO:

Heather Secrist | heather.secrist@weinsteinco.com

Based on the 1994 autobiography of the same name, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM chronicles the inspirational life of Nelson Mandela as an international icon and one of the world’s most revered leaders. Directed by Justin Chadwick (THE FIRST GRADER, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) and adapted by Academy Award® nominated screenwriter William Nicholson (SHADOWLANDS, GLADIATOR, LES MISERABLES), the film spans Mandela’s exceptional life journey from his early years as a herd boy in South Africa’s rural Cape region, to his days as a lawyer and Apartheid resistance leader, and on to his twenty-seven years spent in Robben Island prison before becoming the nation’s first democratically elected President. Acclaimed actor Idris Elba (THE WIRE, LUTHER, PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR) stars, with Naomie Harris (THE FIRST GRADER, SKYFALL) playing the role of his wife Winnie Mandela, with whom he shared a passionate and troubled love affair that endured over decades. A stellar South African supporting cast is headlined by Tony Kgoroge (INVICTUS), Riaad Moosa(MATERIAL), Fana Mokoena (World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher), Jamie Bartlett (Beyond Borders), Deon Lotz (SKOONHEID, SLEEPER’S WAKE), Simo Mogwaza (DISTRICT 9), Terry Pheto (TSOTSI), Thapelo Mokoena (NOTHING FOR MAHALA), and Praise Singer and Poet of the Nation, Zolani Mkiva.

Directed by Justin Chadwick

Written by William Nicholson

Produced by Anant Singh

Runtime: 146 minutes

Watch the trailer:

http://mandelafilm.com/

Press Materials:

http://www.twcpublicity.com

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Club 101: 101 Park Avenue (@ 40th Street) in New York City

Dr. Lori Sokol, Founder & Publisher, Sokol Media Inc.

Lori Sokol, Ph.D., Founder & Publisher of Work Life Matters, announced that all honorees will be profiled in the annual special awards issue of Work Life. Matters Magazine to be published nationwide in December 2012. Companies include: Campbell Soup Company, Credit Suisse, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLC, Discovery Communications, Eli Lilly and Co., ESPN, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Microsoft, NBCUniversal, New York Life, Orbitz Worldwide, Unilever among Top Companies named by Work Life Matters Magazine for their Pioneering Leadership in LGBT Equality.

•                                         Loreen Arbus, Philanthropist/Producer/Disability Rights Activist and first woman to head up programming at a major U.S. television network.

•                                        Jonathan D. Lovitz, former Host of Logo/MTV’s hit series “Set Up Squad”/actor/activist.

•                                        Margot Bingham, Star of “In Between Men” and the new face of Revlon.

•                                        Nick Mathews, Star of “In Between Men”

•                                        Lauren LoGiudice, Star of the film “When Harry Tries to Marry”

•                                       Timothy Mandala, star of the Vin Diesel series “The Ropes”

•                                        Nick Ayler, DJ/Actor/Model

•                                        Rob Sedgwick – actor “Damages” “Law & Order”

•                                        Annmaria Mazzini Sedgwick – Noted choreographer and former star dancer of The  Paul Taylor Company

•                                        Camilla Barungi of “Project Runway” fame/entrepreneur/activist

•                                        Josh Folan, star of the new films “What Would Bear Do?” & “All God’s Creatures”

•                                        Javier Gomez, noted photo journalist & activist

•                                       Sebastian La Cause, star of the hit series “Hustling” & acclaimed Broadway star.

•                                       Jessica Press, star of the hit series “Hustling”

•                                        Mike Ruiz, of “The A-List: New York” fame & acclaimed photographer/activist

•                                        Matt Anctil – Broadway star of “La Cage Aux Folles”

•                                        Victoria Milne – Director, Creative Services (Creatvie Director) at Department of Design & Construction, New York City

•                                       Stacey Tisdale – Correspondent PBS “Need To Know”

•                                        Cheryl Wills – Award Winning Anchor NY1 News Television

ABOUT WORK LIFE MATTERS MAGAZINE:

Work Life Matters Magazine is a national business publication that provides news and analysis about the corporate, public and social issues inherent in the quest for achieving effective work life balance on behalf of our nation’s workforce. Published since 2002, the publication annually pays tribute to companies that serve as leaders in their respective fields by providing innovative and effective work/life balance programs and policies for their employees. www.lorisokolphd.com

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Tow hundred and fifty students were selected as scholarship finalists from a field of more than 2,100 semifinalists (and 87,000 + original applicants) by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation based on academic excellence, school, and community extracurricular activities. The 250 high school seniors were selected from 26,000 high schools nationwide to compete for the cash scholarships from the Coca-Cola Scolars Foundation. On April 12, the finalists traveled to Atlanta, the headquarters for The Coca-Cola Company, to compete for 50 four-year college scholarships of $20,00 and 200 four-year scholarships of $10,000. Over the four-day period, the finalists interviewed with a National Selection Committee, toured Atlanta landmarks, went to an Atlanta Braves game, met with formere Coca-Cola Scholars, and participated in a range of activities including a community service project. Additionally, the 2007 Class of Coca-Cola Scholars will be recognized at a banquet hosted by Coca-Cola, educators, local dignitaries, and friends of the Scholars Foundation.

The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation is one of the most recognized and respected corporate-sponsored scholarships in America. The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation was created in 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola and to establish a legacy for the education of tomorrows leader through college scholarships. With the Class of 2007 Scholars, more than 3,750 young scholars nationwide have benefited from $32 million that the Coca-Cola Scholarship Foundation has provided. Natasha is one of the top students in her senior class at the School of the Future, a small high school in the heart of New York City. There she has received numerous academic awards for her literary talent, but is best known for her young entrepreneurial skills.

When Natasha wanted an after school job when she was 14, she was turned away because she was too young. Undeterred, she started her own business, BliNg-BliNg Discount Fashion Jewelry and sells affordable, trendy accessories at street fairs and college campuses. Her entrepreneurial skills have landed her the 2005 Girls Going Places award, the Merrill Lynch Growing Up CEO award and also a 2007 Horatio Alger Scholarship. She took her skills with jewelry and created The Pearl Project to benefit Dress for Success, and organization that helps women back into the work force. For the Pearl Project, she sold 5,000 necklaces to raise $35,000 for Dress for Success. With the 2007 class of Scholars, The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation will have awarded $32 -Million-dollars in scholarships. If you or someone you know is interested in being a Coca Cola Scholar you can find out more by logging on to: http://www.coca-colascholars.org

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