People-Powered Planet Podcast

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 deeply personal essay:  "Four Generations, Three Chinas, One Taiwan : My Family's War Story and the Boome...

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 face and the inability of our current systems and institutions to adequately address them, he is w...

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 dedicated his life to empowering humanity to believe we can create the world of our dreams and is designi...

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: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Gr...

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 healthy Avocados was causing “thousands of acres of forest [to be] razed at a breakneck pace. Stole...

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 — that also caused the tragedy — and turned it into an opportunity to build a culture of love, resili...

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, restore trust and build an empathic culture. Her programs are based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a mo...

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 persevere despite Russian bombing.     In this short clip, she discusses her experiences in Estonia a...

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 obtain locally controlled eternal well-being dividends. Twice he has used tax incentives to raise milli...

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 integrated his skills and expertise to roll out several creative projects that are aimed at buildin...

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 and international conflicts. ​ “Admissions” has now won over 30 International Awards, and has been t...

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 that make them needed in the first place?     Hawah invites us to reflect more deeply on whether...

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 People-Powered-Planet Podcast hosted by Arthur Kanegis. Kanegis then interviews the school's educators of a ne...

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 coalition powerful enough to inspire Evolutionary Change -- by synergizing global groups and world citi...

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 Work, they are the antidote to the fog of negativity that depresses the creativity and goodness of our...

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 action is used by activist groups across the country. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace V...

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 each of these life-threatening emergencies!   Dr. Timmon Wallis is Executive Director of NuclearBan....

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 Smart-gov.net    The Holomovement has a similar aim, so in this action session we will learn about Holons fr...

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 Natural History Museum in London, she also volunteers for many organizations and charities in Great Brita...

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, catalyze and synergize like-minded organizations and movements into a grand collaborative effort to address...

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 during the bloodiest part of the Vietnam War in 1968, Will returned to Vietnam as an independent journa...

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 -- and where we can go from here. Suzanne was a painter and an actress – her many TV credits include The...

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 father, American’s first Master Spy in the Middle East -- and about her disturbing discovery of the ro...

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 1:00 PM: Only $5 at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave NE Albuquerque NM "Television Event" a riveting...

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.   As a Quaker and a feminist, Susan is passionate about bringing Setsuko’s inspiring story to as many...