East Timor’s long transition to democracy
Over the last ten years I have had the opportunity to travel to East Timor on five different occasions, to have made many friends there, and to have worked on a fairly regular basis with José...
View Articlephotos: Desmond Tutu photo shoot
On March 12, Archbishop Desmond Tutu shot a video spot for thecommunity.com’s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall. Come with us to Kalamazoo, Michigan to spend an...
View Articlephotos: The Dalai Lama PSA shoot
On May 18 thecommunity.com met up with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a video shoot for thecommunity.com’s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall...
View Articlevideo: George Clooney on Sudan
George Clooney talks to TheCommunity.com’s Youth Ambassador Larissa Peltola about what kids can do to help the people of Darfur. Filmed at the Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, of which...
View ArticleWho signed the Desmond Tutu letter
The letter from Desmond Tutu to the Dalai Lama was originally published for signature in 2010. After we reached 10,000 signatures, the letter was closed and delivered. We re-opened the letter recently...
View ArticleRobert De Niro joins human rights campaign
We are delighted to announce that Robert De Niro, considered by many to be the greatest actor of our generation, has added his voice to TheCommunity.com’s campaign to raise awareness on the Universal...
View ArticleRon Howard joins human rights campaign
Academy Award winning producer and director Ron Howard has stepped forward to lend his voice to TheCommunity.com’s campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On January 18, 2013, we shot...
View ArticleBono and Mikhail Gorbachev: What’s so hard about Peace?
A clip from the Bono interview with former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, on the challenges he faced, the choices he made, and what he would do differently today. For TheCommunity.com’s...
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View ArticleElBaradei Joins Ad Board for Human Rights Campaign
Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, and a former Presidential candidate in Egypt, has joined the Advisory Board for TheCommunity.com’s campaign to raise...
View ArticleIrwin Redlener: Surviving a Nuclear Attack
I first ran across Irwin Redlener after Hurricane Katrina, when he and Paul Simon (yes THAT Paul Simon) had outfitted large RVs and turned them into “mobile medical clinics”. Irwin and Paul co-founded...
View ArticleOscar Arias: To stem the child migrant crisis, first stop poverty and violence
The conflict between the Cuba-allied Sandinistas and the US-funded Contras left upwards of 30-50,000 dead, 600,000 homeless, and devastated economies in Central America. The conflict was brought to a...
View ArticleU.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms
Programs are underway under the Obama administration to modernize the US’s aging nuclear arsenal and build a new generation of weapon carriers, at a price tag of up to a trillion dollars. According to...
View ArticleEmma Watson’s UN Speech on Feminism
Actress Emma Watson gives a heartfelt talk to the UN General Assembly on why she is a feminist, and the world has acquired negative connotations, and how gender stereotypes men as much as they do...
View ArticleXanana Gusmao: Ebola is not just West Africa’s crisis
When Timor-Leste (East Timor) suffered under the brutal Indonesian occupation from 1974 – 1999, Xanana Gusmao was the leader of the guerrilla independence forces in the island’s mountains. When the...
View ArticleExclusive: Gorbachev on Today’s Security Threats
An interview with former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev MW: Mr. Gorbachev, we seem to be experiencing another arms buildup, and military expenditures at levels similar to...
View ArticleThe Voices of Inclusion and Peace: Missing from the Conversation?
by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Wald The twentieth century was the century of overwhelming force. Two World Wars were won and lost on the basis of who had the first machine guns, who had the...
View ArticleHouthi militants storm home of Nobel Peace Laureate
Houthi militants stormed the home of Yemeni activist and Nobel peace prize winner Tawakkol Karman in Sanaa yesterday, shortly after the insurgency group signed a peace agreement with the government,...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu: Climate Change is the Global Enemy
Writing for The Guardian, On the eve of the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu argues that tactics used against firms who did business with South Africa must now be applied to fossil fuels to prevent...
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