For our Music Vision Week, we highlight select songs by Michael Jackson, John Lennon, and Bob Marley for their uplifting hopeful visions for our world.
George Lakey (b. 1937)
George Lakey is a peace trainer and activist who founded Training for Change, an organization that trains leaders and groups in strategic nonviolent action.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Dorothy Day was a pacifist activist and journalist who co-founded The Catholic Worker. She was a vocal nonviolent activist during several American wars.
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Frederick Douglass was an iconic abolitionist speaker, writer and activist who was born a slave, but claimed his own freedom and then worked to end slavery.
Roger Williams (1603-1684)
Roger Williams a visionary early-American who advocated for religious liberty and separation of church and state. He founded Rhode Island in 1636 as a pure democracy.
Comadres (Committee of the Mothers)
COMADRES is an organization in El Salvador of relatives of those who had been imprisoned, “disappeared” or killed in the Salvadoran Civil War.
Gustavo Parajón (1935-2011)
Gustavo Parajón was a renown medical aid worker, mediator, peace advocate, and pastor in Nicaragua, most notibly during the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566)
Former slave owner Bartolomé de las Casas became a defender of rights for indigenous American peoples during the severe oppression of Spanish colonial rule.
Óscar Arias Sánchez (b. 1940)
During his time as president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias acted as a mediator between war-torn Central American countries, ending the various conflicts.
Wilson Thiongo Gathungu
Wilson Gathungu is a Kenyan peacemaker who works to resolve inter-tribal violence in Kenya through peace-building and reconciliation training programs.