Topic: World Harmony; Creating a Non-Violent World

Question: How can you be a peacemaker? What will you do to promote harmony in the world?

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FEMME: Women Healing the World

Tuesday 6:30pm April 30th

Dial 1-209-255-1000. When asked for access code dial 941297# and say your name and join the conversation! At the end, you just hang up the phone.

Bgaughenmu@aol.com

When: April 28th 3pm

Where: Marjorie Luke Theater 721 E Cota St.

Fee: $10 for adults, $5 for students

For more information, please refer to the FEMME PDF.

United Nations Association USA, Santa Barbara & Tri-County Chapter presents World Premier of FEMME: Women Healing the World.

DATE: Sunday April 28 TIME:  3:00pm, Doors open at 2:00 (Musical Prelude by Kirstin Candy and Rey Villalobos)

LOCATION: Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 Cota Street, Santa Barbara Junior High FREE parking

TICKETS: Contact Barbara Muller at 805-968-8567

Sunday, April 28^th the UNA-USA proudly present  “Femme: Women Healing the World,  a feature length documentary that shares how the most important and influential women, as well as the unsung, heroic women around the world are transforming and healing our planet from the more than 50 countries visited. Meet them where they are making a difference, through religion, spirituality, science, history, politics, philosophy and entertainment. It’s an invitation to elevate our thinking and change our code of behavior with each other.  How our energies both male and female are complementary and how we can balance these energies with a sense of spirituality.”

“One conversation at a time, explores the relationship that these leading women have with their own personal vision for healing the world. They share intimately, how they deal with the fact that they are women and face the adversities and limitations that have been imposed upon them by a male dominated society. How they overcome the day to day difficulties and clichés rampant in societies all over the world. We then see how their vision and or ‘business plans’ for a new world are in many cases, already in motion and NOW being felt at every level of our society.

In Femme, we explore what our responsibilities to our world are and how we can express them in our daily lives. This is our challenge as human beings as we hear in the interviews with Sharon Stone, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Riane Eisler, Gloria Steinem, local women Marilyn Tam, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and many more. We want to help this planet and all of it people experience their true potential through allowing women to express and realize their natural birthright.”

Emmanuel Itier, producer, director and Sharon Stone featured in Femme. Both are available for an interview. Please phone 805 968 8567 and ask for Barbara

Emmanuel is the projects director and producer. He has been a world journalist and filmmaker for many years. http://www.WonderlandEntGroup.com The support team for Femme, includes Sharon Stone as our Executive Producer.

Femme: Women Healing the World

http://vimeo.com/37475570

Sponsors: Dr. Elizabeth Ingalls, Dr. Patricia Bragg, Bill Allaway and Roseanne Reid

Promo: Follow this link 

Jean Shinoda Bolen: Follow this link

For Immediate Release:

Contact Barbara Muller, UNA President 805-958-8567, or IPhone 805-680-9445   Bgaughenmu@aol.com

Bob Orr, the current UN Assistant-Secretary-General for policy coordination and strategic planning, and a Santa Barbara native spoke to our UNA board in January. Orr challenged us for grass root, UNA solutions to issues like climate change, migration and global gun violence. Barney Brantingham, reported in the Independent  “Orr pointed out that more than a billion people go to bed hungry every night. In a world with messes everywhere, the most impossible problems seem to land at the United Nations doorstep.” Now it is our turn to see what our UNA can do to make a difference and face the challenges Orr presented.

Picture on the left: Santa Barbara & Tri-Country UNA president Barbara Muller and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations Bob Orr pose for a picture after Orr’s presentation.

Join the local UNA chapter and other members of the community Friday, February 8 at 7:30 to attend a lecture given by Dennis Kucinich, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Dennis Kucinich is a passionate and articulate leader for peace and disarmament. He was a strong advocate in Congress to establish a U.S. Department of Peace, and was a leader in the efforts to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lecture will be held at the Lobero Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara and is open to the public. The lecture is entitled “Restoring Hope for America’s Future through Developing a Culture of Peace.” The event is sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. More information is provided on the Dennis Kucinich flyer. Admission is FREE.

One of the most popular quotes of our time is Gandhi’s admonition to “Be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Most of us who are drawn to the United Nations and the United Nations Association wish to see peace in the world.  When we think about peace, however, there is a tendency to think on a national or global level.  We want war to stop.  We want violence to end.

A few months ago, I realized that in order to “be the peace,” I needed to think smaller … much smaller.  Peace needed to include my community, my friends and family, and my own life and self.  I needed to eat, breathe and live peace.

When I did a “peace scan” of my life, I realized that a major area of “non-peace” for me was with food and my body.  After a life-time of struggling with the issue of weight, I had stair-stepped my way into a more normal range but still had not found peace.  I was in a cold-war with food and a state of armed conflict with my body.  It was time to declare peace.

For me, peace begins with forgiveness … I needed to forgive the tantalizing allure of chocolate every bit as much as I did the people in my life who fell short of perfect.  I needed to forgive my body its humanness even as much as I needed to forgive the lost spirit in Newtown who created such unimaginable horror.

Being peace is not just about feeling peaceful towards those who are kind and peaceful, it’s also about the greater challenge of feeling peaceful towards the mosquitos that bite us, the neighbors who irritate us, and our bodies when they disappoint us.

Because I learn by putting my thoughts and feelings into writing and art, I created The JOY Weigh as a daily practice of peace and joy with my closest friend and adversary … my mind/body/spirit self.  Slowly, step-by-step, I am becoming more peaceful.

Peace begins with me … and it begins with you.  With whom or what do you need to declare peace?

Joyce Wycoff, writer, artist, student of life.  You’re invited to join me on The JOY Weigh:  http://thejoyweigh.blogspot.com

Please join the Santa Barbara & Tri Counties U.N. Chapter for the annual U.N. Day taking place on October 20th 2012. This year’s event will be focusing on the issue of international human trafficking and slavery. Cynthia Davis, the director and executive producer of The Fight to Forgive, will be speaking about this horrific issue that affects millions each year, followed by the showing of her film. The event will be held at Santa Barbara City College at the Administrative Building on the East Campus and will run from 9 AM-1 PM. Registration will begin at 9 AM and the speaker will begin at 10 AM. Please come and support your local UNA Chapter and help us raise awareness about international human trafficking and slavery!

For more information have a look at the U.N. Day flyer.