Featured Blog Posts – June 2009 Archive (10)

This Week’s Top 9+ Giving & Social Media News

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ~ Pericles

So on this #FollowFriday, I decided to pull together this week’s latest news on giving and social media. It feels as though every week there is more innovation and excitement going on around giving, philanthropy, change and social media. Here is my latest attempt to pick the best and most interesting news of the week. Enjoy and please share with me other news and… Continue

Added by Pilar Stella on June 26, 2009 at 5:56pm — 2 Comments

Show Solidarity With The Iranian People

(For more information please check this post on PeaceJam.org)

PeaceJam VISTA Pantea Beigi has a lot of reasons to be interested in what's happening in Iran right now - having family over there is a major one of them. She was born in Iran and moved to the USA in her teens, where she graduated college and has worked in many fields, two of which… Continue

Added by Dawn Engle on June 26, 2009 at 1:55am — No Comments

CHINA Photography show of Stephanie Seymour in Italy - TV filming the show

Just in case you are in town (Castiglione del Lago, Perugia, Italy - a town on Trasimeno Lake) please come to my show Incontri ravviCINAti, which starts on Saturday at 4pm.

I will feature more than 80 photographs of the people I stopped in shops, on the streets, on work sites, to smile - a wonderful experience, both of us curious of the other, and willing to share the moment together with the snap of my camera.

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Added by Stephanie on June 18, 2009 at 7:30am — 6 Comments

SKIN UK CHARITY PREMIERE!

I am pleased to announce the UK Charity Premiere of SKIN, to benefit FilmAid (www.filmaid.org) - a charity which brings wonderful films to war-torn regions of the world, providing a few hours of respite from their daily struggles. They also train people to make their own films and document their experiences.

I believe this film and charity align themselves perfectly with the aims of i-peace, and hope you will do your utmost to promote this event. Tickets are currently on sale through… Continue

Added by Anthony Fabian on June 15, 2009 at 6:59pm — 8 Comments

The Music Of Poligraf : Stonecutter

(“Quarryman” by Gustave Courbet)

"Stonecutter" is intended as an anthem to perseverance and is based on the following quote by Jacob August Riis…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 15, 2009 at 1:50am — 2 Comments

Love is the spring that moves the world

Give me a nation that believes in love and you will see the happiness in the face of the earth, said Gandhi Love warms hearts and makes great Friendships born, and it involves feelings arise unforgettable novels, full of ties of affection. e is still that a person is for us different from others, makes it certain days and some places become lovely in our imagination.

Only through love can do with that many people are happy around us.

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Added by Clicia Pavan on June 15, 2009 at 1:30am — 26 Comments

What do you choose? Memoirs of Celebrate Your Life, Chicago

It has been three days since I left the amazing Celebrate Your Life Event http://www.celebrateyourlife.org in Chicago. As I departed I left an old piece of me there and brought with me a new amazing spirit, a spirit more full of love, joy and light than ever before. I am changed and now choose to…

“Shine like the sun for I am radiant beam of unlimited potential” Shayne Traviss

My journey to Celebrate Your Life Chicago began several… Continue

Added by Shayne Traviss on June 11, 2009 at 2:29am — 1 Comment

WHO INSPIRES YOU?

Hello iPeace! As one of my first fans you must understand how special you are to me. I've been practicing and struggling for years and I really respect the fact that you love the music without even knowing me. That makes you have a special ear and eye and I want you to know that you are welcome ALWAYS on my tours as the front row seat. Just mention the iPeace network. (now for the tour..haha_ ) I'll keep you posted!

On another note,

My hero Stevie Wonder might be at my… Continue

Added by Porscha Parker on June 8, 2009 at 10:30pm — 20 Comments

President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt

I have felt the need to give more information about this subject to create more of a balance. I have drawn form the resources of the people who have posted here. This is part of a Comment by Hillary Adrian Hitt. This is an interview, conducted by Bill… Continue

Added by Brian Morin on June 8, 2009 at 3:00am — 41 Comments

New PeaceJam Site Online!

The wait is over! PeaceJam’s new site is online and active, eagerly waiting for you to come register an account and start participating! The new website will unite youth, PeaceJammers and Adults around the globe with Nobel Peace Laureates as we all work together to change the world. This community takes on the Global Call to Action issued by the 10 Nobel Peace Laureates of the PeaceJam board to complete 1 billion service projects by 2018. The Laureates are leading the movement, working… Continue

Added by Dawn Engle on June 1, 2009 at 10:13pm — 1 Comment