Global Citizen

Film on Haitian Art: In the Eye of the Spiral

Jim Luce | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Thought Leader, Eve Blouin, Film, Paul Haggis, Haitian Art, In the Eye of the Spiral, Blu Putnam, Robert Beevers, Mario Benjamin, Raynald Leconte, Haiti, Global Citizen, Stanford Luce, Isabel Hegner, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Dans L?Oeil De La Spirale, Frantz Zephirin, Rachel Nadjarian, Annie Lennox, Port-Au-Prince, International University Center Haiti, Art, International Development, Ram, Franketienne, Kaiama Glover, Oloffson Hotel, Haitian Cultural Foundation, Hcf, Vodou Rock Band, Impact News

We believe that the art of this nation can be the catalyst to begin a positive and expanding spiral for the people of Haiti. I believe in Haiti. I deeply admire its people and have great respect for its artists and intellectuals.

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Balinese Natural Birthing Center Threatened by Global Downturn

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women?S Issues, Aceh, Thought Leader, Direct Relief International, Birth Center, Robin Lim, Alisa Chazani., Women?S Health, Health, Bumi Sehat, Youth Center, New York City, Midwifery, Haiti, Child Birth, Tsunami, Haiti Earthquake, Indonesia, Stewardship Report, Balinese Maternity Clinic, Jim Luce, Postpartum Home Care, Port-Au-Prince, Bumi Sehat Bali Clinic, Global Citizen, Bali, Denpasar, World News

Mid-wife and clinic founder Robin Lim is a legend in the world of women's maternity health. I have heard of her from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to New-...

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Tadeusz Sudol: An Eye for the Roosevelt Island Tram

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thought Leader, Upper East Side, The Octagon, Gallery RIVAA, Architect, Roosevelt Island Tram - Past and Future, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, Sept. 11, Roosevelt Island, Artist, Spider-Man, Noguchi and Socrates Park, Queens, P.S. 1, Global Citizen, Tadeusz Sudol, Manhattan, Jim Luce, Tad Sudol, Roosevelt Island Visual Artists Association, Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt Island Tram, Roosevelt Island Historical Society, Arline Jacoby, Rivaa, Rioc, Photographe, Polish-Amercian, Arts News

Tadeusz Sudol is a renowned architect working with a prestigious Manhattan firm. He also presides over his local art gallery, RIVAA. Above and beyon...

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The Killing Fields and Indonesia's Relations with Cambodia Revisited

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasushi Akashi, Siemreap, Thailand, Jakarta, Ethiopia, United Nations, University of Texas, Suharto, Chinese, Norodom Sihanouk, Cold War, Queen Monineath, Benny Widyono, Killing Fields, Indonesia, U.N., Southeast Asia, Commandeur De L?ÓRdre Royal De Sahametrey, Roman Catholic, People?S Republic of Kampuchea, Angkor Wat, Phnom Phen, Hun Sen, Sihanouk, Dancing in Shadows, CNN HERO, Indonesian Consulate, Khmer Rouge, Kofi Annan, U.N. Peacekeeping, New York City, Thought Leader, Phymean Noun, Untac, U.N. Transitional Authority on Cambodia, Indonesian Chinese, Pol Pot, Siemreap Province, Connecticut, Sichan Siv, University of Indonesia, Cambodia, Global Citizen, Japan, Peoples Improvement Organization, Hong Lan Oei, Boutros Boutros Ghali, King Sihanouk, World News

I first met Benny Widyono at an Indonesian Consulate fete years ago. I knew upon meeting him that he had an extraordinary mind and knew Asia's south...

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Franketienne: Haiti's First Nobel Laureate - Hopefully

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marcel Duret, French, Voodoo, Unesco, Mario Benjamin, Emmelie Prophete, The Trap, Environmental Disaster, Literature, Sado-Masochism, Andre Breton, Gran Makout, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia, Memoire D'encrier, Jim Luce, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, CUNY Graduate Center, Chaos Theory, Haitian-Americans, Abstract Work, Tragic Clown, Thought Leader, Apocalypse, Baron Samedi, Artist for Peace, Surrealism, Carlton University, Rachel Douglas, Japan, Papa Doc, Cultural Area Studies, Vodou Pantheon, Nobel Prize, Noble Laureate, Ile en Ile, Thomas Spear, Brooklyn Public Library, University of Liverpool, Earthquake, Poetry, Kaiama L. Glover, Intellectual, Giulietta Masina, Kabuki, Creole, Galaxie Chaos-Babel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, City College of New York, Author, Seanna Sumalee Oakle, Stewardship Report, Evens Anozine, Jlsr, Marie Coron, Port-Au-Prince, Vodou Priest, University of Nebraska, Baby Doc, Luce Index, Emmanuel Duogene, Duvalier Regime, University of Maryland, Alvina Ruprecht, Stanford L. Luce, Lewdness, Beatrice Coron, Artist, Death, Alessandra Benedicty, Haiti, New York City, France, Columbia University, Caribbean, Franck Etienne, Playwright, Painter, Global Citizen, Flowers of Insomnia, Mary Cobb Wittrock, January 12, Musician, Guede, Franketienne, Melovivi, Wordplay, Scatologu, Arts News

As a cultural area studies graduate, seldom do I feel over my head culturally. Standing in the home of possibly the next Nobel Prize recipient for Li...

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Film Shown at U.N. Donor Conference on Collapse of Haiti's Presidential Palace

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undp, Syria, White House, French, Thirty-Five Long Seconds: Haiti?S Deadly Earthquake, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Canada, China, Paris, U.S. Secretary of State, Towards a New Future in Haiti, Indonesia, Haitian School of Law, Palmyra, Ban Ki-Moon, Helen Clark, Port-Au-Prince, Haitian Presidential Palace, Gonaives, Bill Clinton, Thought Leader, Elisabeth Delatour Préval, Rene Preval, Morgan Freeman, Washington D.C., Mario L. Delatour, European Union, Ecole D?Architecture, Amistad Films, Brazil, U.N. Donor Conference, Haiti, New York, France, Film Producer, Tsunami, Place L?Ouverture, Cap Haitian, Haitian Interim Commission for Reconstruction, Haitian Government, U.N. Development Programme, Overpopulation, U.N. Special Envoy for Haiti, Global Citizen, Hillary Clinton, India, Jacmel, Spain, World News

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The film "Thirty-Five Long Seconds: Haiti's Deadly Earthquake" was screened recently as part of the recent Donor's Conference ...

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Soulstrip: A Short Book Review

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literary News, Lulu Publishing, Book of Poetry, Emily Dickinson, Global Citizen, Daniela Hoeche, Kahlil Gibran, Maya Angelou, Poetry, Soulstrip, Books News

Soulstrip is for the global citizen whose dream is about connectedness and a healthy respect for all shades of humanity.

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A Muslim Voice of Reason Against Israeli Actions: Ibrahim Ramey

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Muslim American Society, United Nations, Holocaust Denial, Riverside Church, Nuclear-Free Zone, Civil Rights, Climate Crisis Coalition, Muslim, Gaza, Global Citizen, Tanzania, Norfolk, New England, Millennium Hotel, Human Rights, Ibrahim Ramey, Temple of Understanding, Africa, Memorial Day, Congressional Black Caucus, Washington DC, Palestine, Barack Obama, Japan, New York City, Free Gaza Flotilla, Thought Leader, Martin Luther King, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Cairo, Ibrahim Abdil-Mu?Id Ramey, U.S.A., National Press Club, Nyack, Mid-East, Israel, World News

I first met Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey after he delivered the plenary speech about Dr. Martin Luther King and the linkage between Dr. King's movement a...

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Roshan: Cell Phone Company Helping to Change Afghanistan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, GSM Cellular Service Provider, Monaco Telecom International, Canada, Indian Descent, Branding, Street Children, William Inganga, South Africa, Dari, Jim Luce, Entrepreneurialism, Kabul, Women, Thought Leader, Jobs, Microfinance, Sustainable Development, Girls, Pashto, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, Narcotics Trade, Aga Khan, Aga Khan Development Network, Roshan Telecom Development Company, Taliban, Global Citizen, Afghanistan, Karim Khoja, Roshan, Teliasonera, Akfed, World News

Upon meeting Karim Khoja, C.E.O. of the Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd., also known as Roshan, Afghanistan's largest cell provider, I kne...

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Happy Birthday Twitter

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Citizen, Culture, Twitter Powerhouse, 140 Characters, Social Networking, Twitter Anniversary Twitter History, Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Twitter News, Evan Williams, Twitter Birthday, Biz Stone, Technology News

Twitter has been a bridge to amazing cultures, a platform for innovation, and an empowering vision of what it means to be a global citizen.

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pakistan, Salaam Bombay!, Punjabi, Sundaram Tagore, Hindus, Mira Nair, Sesame Street India, Indian Diaspora, Oiww, Bengali, Sikhs, Indian Consulate New York, Mumbai, Indian Classical Music, Aroon Shivdasani, Christians, New York Philharmonic, Jeffrey Sachs, Iona College, Indian Independence, Slumdog Millionaire, Barack Obama, Spanglish, U.S.S.R., Parsis, British, Danny Boyle, Amelia, Upper East Side, M.F.Husain, Broadway, Mahatma Gandhi, Ravi Shankar, Cold War, Hindi, 1947, Vishakha Desai, Indra Nooyi, Global Citizen, Doris Day, Isheeta Ganguly, Telugu, North America, Earth Institute, Salman Rushdie, Manvendra Singh Gohil, Indian-Americans, Urdu, Harold and Kumar, Buddhists, United States, Asia Society, Non-Aligned Nations, Queens, Indo-American Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, Royal House of Rajpipla, India Unveiled, Daily Kos, Thought Leader, Tamil, Mississippi Masala, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Haitian Earthquake Relief, Muslims, Nuclear Weapon State, Baha'is, Bollywood, Zubin Mehta, Orphans International Worldwide, Sanjay Gupta, Jains, Gujarati, Indo-Americans, New York News

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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Japan's PIKADON Project & Hiroshima Yes! Campaign in New York City

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Nuclear Proliferation, Hpgrp Gallery, United Nations, Nuclear Explosion, Seitaro Kuroda, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshima, Yumi Tanaka, Nagasaki, Webster Hall, Manhattan, Global Citizen, Jim Luce, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Mayors for Peace, Count Down to Peace, Tadatoshi Akiba, Tokyo, Japanese Art, Atomic Energy, White Light/ Black Rain, East Village, Live Painting, Alliance for Peacebuilding, September 11, New York Peace Film Festival, Hiroshima?Nagasaki Protocol, Hiroshima Yes! Campaign, Japan, New York City, Thought Leader, Tadao Ando, Keiko Tsuyama, Atomic Bomb, Steven Okazaki, Buckminster Fuller, PIKADON Project, World Peace Gala Chicago, Taku Nishimae, Toshinori Kondo, Nuclear Weapons, World Trade Center, Global Citizenship Award, World War II, Orphans International Worldwide, New York News

Manhattan said "Yes!" to a non-nuclear world last week as famed Japanese artist Seitaro Kuroda (video) and the Hiroshima Yes! Campaign kicked off "The...

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Jules Verne's Kip Brothers Translated into English after 100 Years

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

The book, a crime drama, celebrates the fraternal bonds of brotherhood, written shortly after the death of Verne's brother and best friend, a French sailor.

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Obama is an Expat's Dream Come True: The Son of a Global Citizen

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama's Mother, Microcredit, Hillary, Poverty Alleviation, World Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Texas, Bush Era, Obama, American, Global Citizen, Social Business, Un, Future Generations, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News

Obama's mother gave a precious gift to her son, the life of both an Americanand that of human being who feels at home in many different cultures, allowing to see the similarities between us all.

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