Influential people helping to bring about positive chane

[Timreh]

I am interested to know the names of some influential people either celebrities, politicians, media, business or sport who have either had an awakening and changed their path, or are instrumental in bringing about change in our world.

Who are some of these people and how are they helping?

[fractal being]

Thanks for the concept SA,

Here you have Jim Carrey describing his awakening. I'm not sure how he's helping though, apart from the fact he's admitting it publicly.
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[Poly Hedra]

There is a lot of speculation about Michael jackson. Here are two videos. One is Latoya talking about the conspiracy. The other video is Michael trying to plead with his audience but nobody has a clue what he was talking about. Its quite sad.

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[WhiteFeather]

Jon Anderson Lead Singer - Yes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBDdtUEjlW4

[Timreh]

Regina Meredith has utilised her years of experience as a news anchor and reporter by forming Conscious Media Network which I think is doing an awesome job.
Jesse Ventura seems to like to blow the whistle and is not backward about being forward when it comes to corruption, oppression and lies

Interesting interview with Robbie Williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKKcH-4xy4A

We can't forget John Lennon

[MargueriteBee]

Oprah should be on the list.

[Timreh]

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Barbra Streisand..


The Streisand Foundation (http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/streisand-foundation)

Each year, The Streisand Foundation contributes to a wide variety of causes. The following list represents some of these non-profit organizations. Please select each link for more detailed information and a website address where available.
Foundation Guidelines (http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/guidelines)

The Streisand Foundation
2800 28th Street
Suite 105
Santa Monica, CA 90405


Natural Resources Defense Council (http://www.nrdc.org/)
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (http://www.acslaw.org/)
Institute for America's Future (http://www.ourfuture.org/)
Human Rights Campaign (http://www.hrc.org/)
Center for Public Integrity (http://www.iwatchnews.org/)
City Year (http://www.cityyear.org/default_ektid22283.aspx)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/)
Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/)


Natural Resources Defense Council (http://www.nrdc.org/)
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-727-2700

The purpose of the Natural Resources Defense Council is to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. They work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - and to defend endangered natural places. NRDC strives to protect nature in way that advances the long-term welfare of present and future generations. They work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment and they seek to break down the disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.




American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (http://www.acslaw.org/)
1333 H St, NW
11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-393-6181

The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals. They have organized student chapters on law school campuses across the country, fostering a new generation of progressive leaders. ACS's mission is to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, equality, and access to justice enjoy their rightful place in American law.





Institute for America's Future (http://www.ourfuture.org/)
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 205
Washington, DC 20036
202-955-5665

The purpose of the Institute for America's Future is to elaborate the message, policy initiatives, and critiques essential to a progressive economic and social agenda. The Institute sponsors research, probes public opinion, and devotes extensive effort in reaching out to activists and concerned citizens through the public media - print, electronic, the internet, etc. Current projects include work on saving Social Security, public investment in areas vital to the economy like education, research, and development, the environment, the debate on the global economy, and the challenge to the flat tax.




Human Rights Campaign (http://www.pfaw.org/)
2000 M Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-467-4999

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay and lesbian advocacy organization, with more than 560,000 members. The HRC Foundation envisions an America where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community. The HRC Foundation operates FamilyNet - offering LGBT families the latest news and information about parenting, aging, the law, schools, work and other issues. The foundation's WorkNet project is a national source of information and advocacy around workplace policies and laws surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, the National Coming Out Project, also part of the HRC Foundation, encourages every LGBT individual to educate America by living their lives honestly.





Center for Public Integrity (http://www.iwatchnews.org/)
910 17th Street, NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
202-466-1300

The Center for Public Integrity was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis, following a successful 11-year career in journalism and network television news. The Center for Public Integrity was established to provide the products of its investigations and analyses by talented, responsible journalists to the American public. Through this vehicle, the Center seeks to educate, enable, and empower people to make informed decisions with respect to the conduct of their daily lives, to hold government accountable and, ultimately, to make democracy successful by living within the truth.




City Year (http://www.cityyear.org/default_ektid22283.aspx)
287 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
617-927-2500

City Year unites a corps of diverse young people, ages 17-24, for a year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. These young leaders make a commitment to give back to their community--as tutors, mentors, and role models to under privileged and disadvantaged youth in the country's most impoverished communities. They work in schools and at after-school programs, transforming the kids and the neighborhoods they serve.




Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/)
1110 Vermont Ave. NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
202-973-4800

Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and advocate. For more than 90 years, they have worked to improve women's health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.




Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/)
350 Fifth Avenue
34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
212-290-4700

Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, they give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.

[Fred Steeves]

[B]Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/)
1110 Vermont Ave. NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
202-973-4800

Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and advocate. For more than 90 years, they have worked to improve women's health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.


Hi SoulAppreciation, I'll leave the rest be, but just had to point out to any who may not know that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, had her roots firmly entrenched in good old fashioned Eugenics. http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt (http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt)

Not much has changed in the last 90-100 years, except the term Eugenics, and the associated propaganda. After WW2, the term Eugenics became a no no, and those involved had to more cleverly conceal their "ideals".

[ulli]

Jon Anderson Lead Singer - Yes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBDdtUEjlW4

No, no, no, no!!!!
Unless a person can live peacefully with their neighbors
they should refrain from trying to change the world.
But then again, maybe he is now a changed man.
Maybe he just wasn't there yet in 1991.

[Timreh]

[B]Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/)
1110 Vermont Ave. NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
202-973-4800

Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and advocate. For more than 90 years, they have worked to improve women's health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.


Hi SoulAppreciation, I'll leave the rest be, but just had to point out to any who may not know that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, had her roots firmly entrenched in good old fashioned Eugenics. http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt (http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt)

Not much has changed in the last 90-100 years, except the term Eugenics, and the associated propaganda. After WW2, the term Eugenics became a no no, and those involved had to more cleverly conceal their "ideals".


Hmmm.. now that is interesting!

Thanks Fred for pointing that out

[GCS1103]

[B]Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/)
1110 Vermont Ave. NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
202-973-4800

Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and advocate. For more than 90 years, they have worked to improve women's health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.


Hi SoulAppreciation, I'll leave the rest be, but just had to point out to any who may not know that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, had her roots firmly entrenched in good old fashioned Eugenics. http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt (http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt)

Not much has changed in the last 90-100 years, except the term Eugenics, and the associated propaganda. After WW2, the term Eugenics became a no no, and those involved had to more cleverly conceal their "ideals".

Let's add Bill Gates, Sr. who headed Planned Parenthood for a time, and is a great proponent of Eugenics. He passed this on to his son.

[mountain_jim]

http://media.salon.com/2011/09/GlennGreenwald_writer.jpg

I nominate Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer and scholar who started a little personal blog, Unclaimed Territory in 2005, within which he diligently exposed the corruption and corrupt reasoning in the WMD Bush lead-up to the war in Iraq via the Plame affair, the repeated violation of our rights and the 2-tiered system of justice, one for elites , one for the rest of us, later excoriated Obama for changing his position on Immunity for Telecom lawbreaking re NSA spying, etc., and has continually shown how Obama has become worse than Bush by institutionalizing all the elite-lawbreaking (torture, war-crimes, bankster-fraud, NSA crimes, Justice Dept crimes) and by authorizing killing citizens without anyrights or proof of guilt, on sayso of Executive branch, wheras Bush just locked them up and tortured them in secret prisons.



Glenn Greenwald (email: GGreenwald@salon.com) is a former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and is the author of three New York Times Bestselling books: two on the Bush administration's executive power and foreign policy abuses, and his latest book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, an indictment of America's two-tiered system of justice. Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative work on the arrest and oppressive detention of Bradley Manning.



His books and lectures are excellent. By the strength of his research, arguments, and writings, he was hired by Salon and became a world-figure and lecturer, awakening many to the corruption in the US system of government.

I was one of his earliest blog readers in 2005



Greenwald started his blog Unclaimed Territory in October 2005, focusing initially on the investigation pertaining to the Plame affair, the CIA leak grand jury investigation, and the federal indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Two months later, when the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance controversy became news, he began to focus primarily on that issue. In January 2006 Greenwald attracted national media attention after he wrote in Unclaimed Territory that U.S. Senator Mike DeWine had proposed an easier standard for domestic eavesdropping by federal agents in 2002 but that the administration had declined any interest in the legislation and advised him that it would probably be unconstitutional, a direct contradiction of much of the later rationale for the NSA warrantless domestic spying program once it was known


He writes here:

http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

Edit (from wikipedia)



In February 2007, Greenwald became a contributing writer at Salon.com, and the new column and blog superseded Unclaimed Territory, though Salon.com prominently features hyperlinks to it in Greenwald's dedicated biographical section.[41][42]

[edit] Joe Klein

In his Salon.com column of November 21, 2007, Greenwald documented factual errors in a national column written by Joe Klein in Time magazine.[43][44][45] In response to such criticism, Time subsequently added an intended clarification (or quasi-retraction) in an online version of Klein's disputed column — "In the original version of this story, Joe Klein wrote that the House Democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow a court review of individual foreign surveillance targets. Republicans believe the bill can be interpreted that way, but Democrats don't." — but Greenwald observed that the text of the legislation does not require court review of individual targets, and Time's response repeating "what each side says" disregards that point.[46][47] Pertaining to this controversy, Time published letters from U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and others in its later issues of the magazine.[48][49]

[edit] Anthrax reporting

In August 2008, following the apparent suicide of terror suspect Bruce Ivins, Greenwald wrote a series of long entries, detailing the evidence that there has been a cover-up by individuals in the US government and ABC News in the 2001 anthrax attacks, calling for "a full-scale Congressional hearing or even an external Commission of the type that investigated the 9/11 attacks – endowed with full subpoena power – to examine all of the unresolved issues here."[50] Greenwald also expressed interest in the identity of the individual who allegedly told ABC News' Brian Ross falsely in 2001 that the anthrax contained bentonite and falsely linking the anthrax attack to Saddam Hussein and argued that the broadcasting of this claim by ABC News was instrumental in guiding the US media and public opinion towards war with Iraq; subsequently, according to Dan Gillmor, who prominently cites and links to Greenwald in an article published in the guardian.co.uk, Brian Ross refused to divulge the identity of the individual who purportedly misled him.[51]

[edit] John O. Brennan

After U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's victory in November 2008, the media reported that former CIA official John O. Brennan, who had served as Senator Obama's top intelligence adviser during his 2008 election campaign, was the leading candidate to be named by Obama as either the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) or the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI).[52] In a lengthy essay published in Salon.com, Greenwald argued that Brennan had supported many controversial detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration, including "enhanced interrogation tactics" and extraordinary rendition.[53] Other notable writers such as Andrew Sullivan credited Greenwald's Salon.com essay as the impetus for their opposition to Brennan's nomination.[54] On November 24, Brennan wrote a letter to President-elect Obama withdrawing his name from consideration for any top intelligence posts, citing "strong criticism in some quarters."[54] Media reports and other political pundits cited the "firestorm in liberal blogs" as the cause of Brennan's withdrawal.[55][56]

[edit] Bradley Manning

On December 15, 2010, Greenwald wrote of the detention conditions in which U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, was being held. Based on interviews with Manning's visitors and officials at the Marine brig where he was being held, Greenwald reported that the Army Private was being held "under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture": specifically, that he "has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions."[57]

Greenwald's reporting ultimately led to a formal investigation by the U.N. high official on torture,[58] denunciations by Amnesty International,[59] and the resignation of State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley after he publicly criticized Manning's detention conditions.[60] Since then, Greenwald has been a strong supporter of Manning. He calls Manning "a whistle-blower acting with the noblest of motives", and "a national hero similar to Daniel Ellsberg."[61]

Hacking of security company HBGary's email servers by Anonymous revealed that as a result of his advocacy on behalf of Manning and WikiLeaks, Greenwald has been targeted in "[a] bizarre plan" — outlined in a report by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies — "saying that his 'level of support' for WikiLeaks 'needs to be disrupted.'"[62] The report "was developed following a request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm that represents Bank of America, as well as others", and claims that "[w]ithout the support of people like Glenn wikileaks would fold."[62]

Greenwald said his "initial reaction to all of this was to scoff at its absurdity. . . . But after learning a lot more over the last couple of days, I now take this more seriously -- not in terms of my involvement but the broader implications this story highlights."[63] Salon.com editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman wrote:


We have no reason not to take the report seriously. As a result, I've asked both Hunton and Williams and Bank of America to explain any role they played and address whether HB Gary (or any of the firms) were being paid, or promised payment, for its development. . . . As bumbling as this whole saga sounds — Internet security firm can't keep its shadowy dirty tricks campaign from being hacked — what's outlined in these sets of proposals, as Glenn points out, "quite possibly constitutes serious crimes." And as it relates to Glenn and the others, it constitutes an unconscionable attempt to silence journalists doing their jobs.[62]

[edit] Books

Greenwald's first book, How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok, published by Working Assets, in 2006, was a New York Times bestseller[64] and ranked number one on Amazon.com both before its publication due to pre-orders based on attention from other bloggers and for several days after its release, ending its first week at number 293.[65]

A Tragic Legacy, his second book, aims to examine the presidency of George W. Bush "with an emphasis on his personality traits and beliefs that drove the presidency (along with an emphasis on how and why those personality traits have led to a presidency that has failed to historic proportions)."[66] Published in hardback by Crown, a division of Random House, on June 26, 2007, and later reprinted in a paperback edition by Three Rivers Press on April 8, 2008, it also appeared on "The New York Times Best Seller List" after its original release and was ranked number one for a day on Amazon.com's "Non-Fiction Best Seller List", before becoming number two the next day, also due to heavy "discussions and promotions by blogs – a campaign catalyzed by Jane Hamsher [at FireDogLake]", according to Greenwald.[67]

His third book, entitled Great American Hypocrites, was published by Random House in April 2008, the same month that Three Rivers Press reissued A Tragic Legacy in paperback.[68]

His fourth book, entitled With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. Metropolitan Books (Div. of Henry Holt and Company), 2011