Building Alternate Universes ... Oh, Yeah!

 

Becoming A Partner for a New Media

If one person can make a difference, what can 100 people accomplish? In 2003, The Peace Hour became an hour-long broadcast on KPFT in Houston, Texas. During that time, Host P.K. McCary started a broadcast for young people called Think Peace Radio. Young people under the age of 18, some as young as 12, created shows and learned non-violence through a developing broadcast curriculum. While the cost of doing radio and television is astronomical, the Internet is evening the playing field considerably. The dream for Think Peace Media and Communications Network is to build a 24-hour Internet station with programming that illustrates all the ways in which we think peace. Humor, news, and the arts are only a few of the ways in which we can rally the peacemakers and create shows that build cultures of peace, justice and healing for the children of the world. Join us and become a Think Peace 100 Partner today and help us grow.

Storytelling is an art and everyone should be given the opportunity to tell theirs.

 

THE VISION

To provide a voice to those underrepresented in areas of the world affected by conflict and disparities by providing the tools and access to those whose stories are missing from media narratives and whose stories would provide insight and clarity to others.

THE MISSION

To give grassroots groups and organizations addressing challenges such as limited access or lack of training, the tools and support to tell their stories through various media and communications outlets.

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THINK

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible,

and achieves the impossible.”

Anonymous

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OUR PROJECTS

1000Kalema.org: An exciting photo competition that celebrates the first annual World Interfaith Harmony Week and the International Day of Peace, both international UN-approved events to capture stories of faith and culture through brilliant imagery.
Broadcast Training/Youth and Organizations: With multiple years of broadcast experience with members of our organization, the training of young people is a priority of the work--grassroots training to strengthen communities.
Developing Podcast and Other Broadcast Programming: We are currently producing programming for Think Peace that includes two major programs and one in production at thinkpeaceradio.net. See goals for future programming.
Provide Equipment to Areas of Conflict and Disparity: Providing individuals and organizations with equipment to facilitate storytelling has been our work for the last six years, providing audio and visual equipment to youth, women and indigenous populations around the world.

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THINK

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into
action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 OUR GOALS

• Build a 24-hour Internet Station that includes a variety or programming committed to peace (an action word) and peacemaking.
• Continue to put equipment into the hands of grassroots communities around the world.
• Develop a more comprenhensive training program of nonviolence media.

OUR FUTURE

The future of media is a wide-open proposition. There are plenty of genres of programming--from comedy to drama, news to editorializing--but not all programming is committed to peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping. The genre of peace is relatively new, most of it considered boring or mundane. Think Peace wants a future of innovative programming, building the capacity of diverse communities to tell their stories, working collaboratively with other media outlets and creating strategies to increase awareness of independent media committed to social justice and peacekeeping movements. Out goal is to inspire others to open up their imagination in ways that creatively build cultures of peace, justice and healing.

Join us today!

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THINK

“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities.
Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into
positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”

Ralph Marston, The Daily Motivator

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