Before the GM Street Team took off for Africa this summer, we made a quick stop up to Big Bear Lake to work with our friends at the Agpape Youth Group. Taking place in September, Agape holds their annual Youth Summit where teens and pre-teens stay for a few days taking place in team building...

Talk about synergy with GOOD Media… c3 visionLAB promotes art and media as a driving force in the distinguishing of our future potential. GoodMakers gives a huge salute to their philosophy, efforts, community and...

PERSON TO PERSON… …POCKET TO POCKET FACEBOOK’S BETTER HALF – KIVA.ORG   With what seems like the whole world gradually going broke, we – the ‘regular, little people,’ the vanishing middle class, the ‘commoners’ – have certainly...

THE PRICE OF YOUTH (Artwork: Fin DAC/Ben Slow in London) Every day, I hear a different theory about death. Another new idea about our imminent implosion. Successive and expanding insistences of our explosion. Mysterious trucks trolling down freeways, bearing banners with blood red words...

5:38am Return to Los Angeles after 7 weeks abroad. 7 weeks in Africa: (Artwork: ’3 Kings’ by Agents of Change) HABITS OF INGRATITUDE “The pilot would like to notify the cabin that we are now prepared for landing,” says the carefully manicured voice of the overhead...

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. —...

14 year old girl living and studying at an orphan’s center in Nairobi, Kenya… a genius… an angel… a warrior… a woman “We youths have something to tell the community, but nobody listens to us. There is nobody to give attention that we need to be given. We...

FRESH LIVE ART INSTALLATION FROM LUZINTERRUPTUS SHOWN AT THE DOCKVILLE FESTIVAL IN HAMBURG “This is our last intervention “Radioactive Control”. It was created for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering...

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WHY JUST ASK THE DONKEY IN ME TO SPEAK TO THE DONKEY IN YOU, WHEN I HAVE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS AND BRILLIANT COLORED BIRDS INSIDE THAT ARE ALL LONGING TO SAY SOMETHING WONDERFUL AND EXCITING TO YOUR HEART? -hafiz MY FIFTH WEEK IN AFRICA… I finally understand the first...

Dear America,   I’m sorry. I’m sorry I blamed you for my restlessness, for my seemingly endless dissatisfaction. I’m sorry I called you a liar. Maybe it was actually your blood thirsty cousin, Capitalism, who made me feel I was never good enough. Or your bitchy older sister,...

I get my hair braided out by three women in a closet sized salon in Buru Buru. They laugh hysterically at my Muzungu hair. They braid for hours, four hours, five hours. It is a talent, they say. They are proud people. We dance with the children. They write their own songs. They ask always...

(“I WILL NOT BE SILENT” – a campaign posted throughout Kibera) I stand outside the orphanage school in utter astonishment – these children are brilliant. Though many of them do not know from where or why they may have come or if they shall ever make any step further...

FIRST NIGHT IN AFRICA: The air is thick and sweet. it reminds me of warm, sugared bread I’d eat as a child with my great-grandmother, her Samoan tongue twisted around the hilarity of English words as she heated rolls in breadpans, telling me stories of ‘the old world.’...

MY HUFFINGTON POST ARTICLE: “ADDRESSING ADOLESCENT SUICIDE” “There is no more important test of a nation’s place in history than the condition of its children.” -Tom...

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A FILM ABOUT ACTION… “Torpedoing the tired cliches of the environmental movement, Just Do It introduces you to a powerful cast of mischievous and inspiring characters who put their bodies in the way; they super-glue themselves to bank trading floors, blockade factories and attack...

After watching this video, all you will have to say is – FINALLY. FINALLY, a fight for redistribution of finances in America. FINALLY, protection for homeowners. FINALLY,  a system that cares for the consumer. That cares for you. That cares for US. If you’re not registered to...

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Hot off the streets of Berlin – the world capital for crazy, collaborative art installations – QRadio, what cyber center WoosterCollective.com calls ‘an audio-visual-interactive pasteup project.’ Check it… 5 tapes thus far and more on the way. Pretty legit...

On the intro track to his 1999 album, ‘Black on Both Sides’ Mos Def spits wit through his luxuriously hoarse voice, addressing the coming millennium. “Many things have changed,” he says, “many things have not… Mainly us.” The line always sent an...

THE ONLY WAY TO RISE IS TO BEGIN BY REACHING       Art by Dan...

Welcome to a new segment I decided to start …right now. ‘World Citizen Celebrities’ promotes talented people using consciousness to enhance creativity, using creativity to create world consciousness. So! First guest? A gratitude to Ms. Beyonce Knowles for her empowering...

Art found on a truck in Los Angeles,...

WE ARE NOT ALONE, BUT MUST STAND ON OUR OWN.   Art by Patrick...

I am pleased to introduce to you one of the loveliest women I’ve had the pleasure of meeting – Soiya Gecaga. Born to a fortunate family, Soiya was given great education and opportunity, love and affection, but always taught to work hard and consider human capability with...

ACKNOWLEDGING THE TUNNEL ALLOWS FOR LIGHT   * art by (one of my brilliant students!) Jordan McCracken...

(street art by JR) First, A poem to remind you of what you already know… SPEECH TO THE YOUNG by Gwendolyn Brooks Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You...

I spent many moments criticizing our modern age of technology-obsessed society. It’s going to ruin the youth of our country! I griped. What I should have asked instead? How can technology revolutionize the youth of our country?   Sugata Mitra, an educational scientist, has blown me...

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