Don Thornton - On Peace, Love & Unity

Healing The World By Way Of The Arts

Don Thornton — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:04:21 -0500

The Cultural, Visual & Performing Arts Are The Key To Reaching Our Urban Youth

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Create New Urban Construction Projects To Help Employ Urban Markets

Don Thornton — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:28:57 -0500

It's Time To Really Turn Up The Heat On Urban Economic Growth & Development

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The Urban Guardians Movement

Don Thornton — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:13:05 -0500

Let's Raise The Bar On Economic Development For Disadvantaged Urban Markets.

I would like to take a moment to commend Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, former President Bill Clinton and countless other conscious celebrities and philanthropic icons for their charitable work, unselfish commitment and their breathtaking generosity over the years. These are some of the great "Light Bearers" and our true "Urban Guardians" of the world as far as I'm concerned.

They have set incredible standards and have inspired the likes of Madonna, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Will & Jada Smith, Tyra Banks, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Jay-Z, Russell Simmons, P-Diddy and Usher among several other Celebrity Philanthropists. These are just a few of the world's true "Champions of Philanthropy" and perhaps some of the most visible. They also represent the Old and New School wave of increase in extreme giving and philanthropy that has swept the planet over the last decade in particular. The world really needs you right now so keep up the good work!

Anyone who has been paying close attention to the dramatic increase in charitable giving over the last year in particular would have to be amazed at the massive volume of dollar amounts that these incredible philanthropist have been able to commit to various global charities and foundations lately. It staggers the imagination.

Oprah Winfrey financed and just recently opened her $40,000,000 (40 million dollar) school in Africa back in December of 2006 with a beautiful gesture of love and compassion for the disadvantaged young souls of the Motherland. The maverick Sports & Entertainment industry legend Ted Turner pledged another $1 billion dollars to the United Nations Foundation, on top of his previous $1 billion he donated to the UN back in the late 90's. Former President Bill Clinton raised over $7.2 billion dollars for charity over a 3-day period during his annual Clinton Global Initiative.

If that's not enough, the number 1 and number 2 richest men in the world actually teamed up on a massive groundbreaking partnership when Warren Buffet donated over $30 billion dollars to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last year to be managed and appropriated by Bill & Melinda through their already epic multibillion dollar foundation. Bill & Melinda are right now literally giving away hundreds of millions of dollars each week!

These are absolutely staggering numbers by anybodies standards. All such illuminated souls must be commended for their generosity, social awareness and great sense of corporate responsibility. Personally, I can't say enough about people who operate at this level of consciousness and economic proficiency. My only desire as it pertains to such an elite anointed philanthropic circle, as the above referenced, is that I may one day be able to help them impact the World at some level of benefit to mankind as they all have and continue to do.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, I hope any of you who may be made aware of my humble works and my vision to benefit "Urban Youth at Risk" may consider taking a close look at my "Urban Guardians for at Risk Youth" movement as a possible consideration for your support. Forgive me for my shameless plug but you never know who just might read this article one day.

Although not yet a Global machine, I do plan to establish "Urban Guardian Partnerships" around the world as soon as we perfect the model here in the US over the next few years. It's going to take some hard work but it's worth the effort.

Since the concept of an "Urban Community" is not just unique to America alone, the need to favorably impact all Urban markets is a great Global responsibility for all of those who are in power to improve these difficult conditions. The reality of the "Urban Ghetto Factor" and the symptoms of all disadvantaged, impoverished Urban environments affect all cultures the world over. When you couple these factors with certain areas having to contend with being in the midst of various war-torn regions and infested havens for terrorists, we are talking about situations that are totally unacceptable for children in particular. We have no choice but to increase efforts to do all we can to rescue these innocent victims of man's lower dark nature the world over.

Back here in America, the US Ghettos with their drug dealers, gang bangers, drive-by shootings, academic dilemmas, health care issues and overall crime, not only costs us billions of tax payers dollars, but we have allowed our younger generation to suffer for lack of our total support.

I just think it's time to systematically impact the world with a brand new army of "Peace, Love & Unity" under the banner of the "Urban Guardians for at Risk Youth" movement and simply raise the economic bar to help support those programs that are in the trenches making a difference while we still can. If we only had just 1% of the current 500 billion dollar military budget thats been spent on an ill-advised war in the middle east, imagine what type of impact we could make on improving the global condition.

That’s why I’m spearheading a new initiative to raise one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) to officially join the "Army of Reason" and help make dynamic changes for the better. Together we can raise the bar along with my dedicated colleagues, friends and associates nationwide to Co-create a brand new chapter in the humanities on behalf of all "Youth at Risk" the world over. It's time for a new movement. Who's with me?

Please visit our website at: www.UrbanGuardians.org for further details with regard to this brand new youth movement plan. Also, feel free to e-mail me at donthornton@sbcglobal.net to discuss our hundred million dollar initiative and our long-term plans to impact the US and beyond.

Please make any comments below and I will respond as soon as possible to all serious inquiries. Looking forward to Co-creating history!

Take Care & God Bless!

Don

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Let's Help Support All Efforts To Stamp Out AIDS!

Don Thornton — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:23 -0500

With The AIDS Pandemic Still A Massive Problem, What More Can We Do To Help?

Don't you find it a bit frustrating that in this incredible age of extreme science, advanced technology and medical sophistication that we have not yet come up with a total cure for HIV/AIDS? Don't you sometimes feel that with all the AIDS Awareness movements, the billions of dollars being spent on AIDS research, education and treatment along with all the free condoms, seminars and workshops, that we should be making a much bigger impact on eliminating AIDS than we have?

Everybody knows by now that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is a deadly, near apocalyptic disease that truly confronts mankind at the very core of our ability to exist. We have now reached a time in the evolution of mankind when it is safe to say that the very act of creating life has now become a real gamble of "Life or Death". The very act of pro-creation has now become a deadly game of Russian Roulettes!

What other creature in nature is at such a high level of risk purely from performing the act of procreating itself? Could there be some underlying spiritual message surrounding this deadly disease? Could this be a possible curse that mankind has earned because of his abstract and sometimes profane sexual behavior? Could God be simply trying to tell mankind something about our lifestyles and behavior but we refuse to listen to the greater message? I don't have the answer but I do have a lot of questions because I still want to help defeat any enemy of life.

Back in November of 1993 in South Central LA, in California, I founded my first tax-exempt, non-profit "Human Crisis Organization" called "Don't Give Up! Incorporated" to address several human dilemmas. That following month on Wednesday, December 1, 1993, on World AIDS Day, the US Postal AIDS Awareness Stamp went on sale.

As a straight male African-American I was always concerned about AIDS especially when so many of my people of color were suddenly becoming infected at an alarming rate. When one of my Board Member's son was diagnosed with full-blown AIDS, I created the "Signs of Life Project in Support of Children with AIDS" as a project of my Don't Give Up! charity.

I negotiated a partnership with the US Postal Service who then authorized my non-profit, permission to use their AIDS Awareness Stamp as a part of my proposed "Let's Stamp Out AIDS!" campaign slogan. It amazed me that the US postal Service could have that beautiful Red Ribbon, AIDS Awareness Stamp with no slogan or battle cry attached to the stamp for such a formidable enemy as AIDS.

Needless to say, my slogan was very well received and was the battle cry for several years of AIDS Awareness Promotions in partnership with the US postal Service throughout the middle and late 90's up and down the West Coast. See an example of my movement HERE.

We produced AIDS Awareness Concerts, Fashion Shows, Harbor Cruises for Children with AIDS and a Walkathon at Hollywood Park in an effort to help spread the message. I tried to make the concept a National Campaign but could never get the proper funding to take it nationwide. When we were close to negotiating sponsorship at a much higher level, the US Postal Service suddenly discontinued the AIDS Awareness Stamp. Although discontinuing the stamp had nothing to do directly with us, it did however directly affect our ability to sustain our "Let's Stamp Out AIDS!" movement by 1997. I officially discontinued my AIDS Awareness projects back in 1998 after permanently moving back home to Akron, Ohio.

When I started the "Let's Stamp Out AIDS!" campaign back in the early 90's, there were a little over 20 million HIV/AIDS cases worldwide. It's been almost 10 years ago since the US Postal Service discontinued the original AIDS Awareness stamp at which time the number of HIV/AIDS cases had grown up to over 30 million by 1997. It is now at a staggering 40 million known cases worldwide! How many cases are unlisted? What's it going to be up to by the year 2020? Where is the anger, the passion and the fury to battle this disease? We need to really turn up the marketing heat!

STAMPAIDS 2020 is a play on the word STAMPEDE which takes the concept of "Stamp Out AIDS" a step further. It is an original concept I concieved in California and have been planning to fully develop for several years now. I want to help Co-create a much more aggressive mindset with a major mass media approach in dealing with the AIDS crisis. Basically it would be a very intense Public Service Announcement Campaign coupled with an annual Live Concert Series designed to put even greater emphasis on "AIDS Awareness", "Safe Sex" and "Youth Abstinence". I plan to re-partner up with the US Postal Service as a proposed Communications Sponsor.

The TV / PSA commercials would target the younger global audiences in combination with the Music Concerts and would include "A-List" celebrity participation. E-mail me at donthornton@sbcglobal.net if you would like to help me Co-create such a project. The goal is to help "Stamp Out AIDS" by the year 2020. Are you interested?

The Global Fund and the United Nations have recently teamed up with a very ambitious collaboration to help raise money and AIDS awareness with their own version of a US postal campaign interestingly enough entitled the “Stamp Out AIDS Partnership”. Visit their websites for more information on how you can participate at;

Although I would like to think that my original “Let’s Stamp Out AIDS” concept and AIDS Awareness ideas somehow made their way into the US Postal, Global Fund and United Nations "Think Tanks", I actually had nothing to do with this new UN/Global Fund campaign directly. Nevertheless, I do emphatically commend them all on stepping up to the plate and wholeheartedly encourage the general public to support their campaign.

All having been said, I would still love to see the US Postal Service reinstate the original Red Ribbon AIDS Awareness Stamp. This time however, I think it would have a much greater impact on the market place with stronger sales potential by using my original slogan, "Let's Stamp Out AIDS!" battle cry attached to the stamp, as shown above. Low sales is what took the stamp off the market in the first place. Reinstating it now in thease days and time, with my original slogan will make it much more marketable now than ever before. What do you think?

In closing, what more can we do as a human family to dramatically increase all AIDS Awareness movements and help eventually "Stamp Out AIDS" altogether? Please give me some feedback on this very important issue.

Stay In The Light!

“Don”

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Let's Help Save The Women & Promote World Peace, Love & Unity

Don Thornton — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:07:41 -0500

Think It's Time To Pay Attention To What Women Have To Say About World Peace?

As a fine artist and graphic designer, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most gifted, conscious and productive women in the world. All of these warm souls I have worked with have either started their own non-profits and/or are totally committed to some type of charity or foundation. All of them want World Peace and all of them are well aware of the fact that war is nothing more that an over the top male testosterone fueled form of politically sanctioned and federally funded group madness.

They also know that women are not the authors of war but are usually sucked up into the madness of war and conflict along with the children because mankind feels it's their patriotic duty to accept the madness as unavoidable and necessary in order to bring peace. Only men can deduce that you must make war, usurp kingdoms, kill and destroy another culture in order to make peace and preserve life.

I have learned that women can't believe that mankind has the ability to convince himself that war, death and murder is totally acceptable to God as long as we are fighting for freedom, land, diamonds, gold, oil or any convenient, trumped up charges to control another culture or it's resources.

Whether it's on the streets of Baghdad or the streets of Compton, any excuse will do for man to do battle. Apparently men just love the thrill of the fight and conflict as a way of expressing his validity, his courage and his masculine potency. I guess the Super Bowl, the World Series and the NBA Playoffs are not enough to satisfy our thirst for conflict.

Couldn’t we keep a lot more people alive if we just started to listen to what more women have to say about avoiding war, avoiding deadly conflict and building real peace? It would be a heck of a lot cheaper to finance real peace initiatives than to continue financing an ill-advised war that’s already cost the US a half a trillion dollars, 3,600 US lives with numbers still climbing and no real exit strategy in sight.

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed unanimously on October 31st, 2000. Resolution (S/RES/1325) is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and women's contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace.

When the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed back in 2000, it was designed to take a much more comprehensive approach to involving Women in the "World Peace Building Process". It was created as a much more powerful vehicle to actively position Women into real stations of power on behalf of dealing with a real "World Peace Process". It is now 2007 and October 31st, 2007 will be the seventh anniversary. What happened?

There was a lot of media hype and big fanfare surrounding UN Resolution 1325 as if mankind somehow finally realized that Women do not start wars, they do not sustain wars nor do they support the net results of a war that causes the senseless deaths and loss of their biological sons and daughters. Women have known for ages that all Wars, Killing, Death, Bombing and Destruction have always been men's work 99.9% of the time.

Women don't start wars, men do. So whatever really happened to the purpose of UN Resolution 1325? Was it just a placebo resolution designed to pacify the Jane Fonda's and other outspoken female anti-war leaders? Was it just a big publicity campaign with no real bite designed to create the illusion of a real peace initiative?

Is it time for mankind the world over to wake up and finally accept the fact that women are much more adept at the "Art of Peace" while men are still much more adept and still pride themselves at being the masters of the "Art of War"? Are women just simply better at getting along with other life forms in general? Do women actually hold the key to world peace but man is just too stubborn and arrogant to compromise his position of power and control?

Clearly most Women have somehow mastered the ability to coexist without having to kill or mortally wound their neighbors to prove some ridiculous point inspired by anger, greed, fear, envy or lust. Couldn’t the men learn a thing or two from the women?

Let's not forget that just about every warlord's favorite cause for war usually involves some gross misinterpretation of just about all of the great world religions and spiritual doctrines. Nobody abstracts and profanes Holy Scriptures and sacred doctrines more than mankind does when he tries to justify or validate his reasoning to declare war and his commitment to win a war at all cost. Do you think from the beginning of civilization that man has had it all wrong all along and women just may be the ones who have it all right when it comes to cohabitating in peace?

Is it time to simply listen to the women of the world and follow their lead? Especially since they are much better at this World Peace thing than men are. What do you really think? What does your higher consciousness tell you at this very moment?

I have been working for several years on "Non-Political" Peace related projects and would love to hear from anybody else who is also trying to help build Peace. Let me know your personal thoughts and views about women's roles in "World Peace Building" efforts in particular. Also please visit our www.WomensWorldPeace.com website and make any suggestions or ideas you may have regarding the web site and the topic of PEACE.

Stay In The Light & Don't Forget, "Women & Children First!"

Don

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The Youth Of The World Need Us.

Don Thornton — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:58:12 -0600

We Must Increase Our Efforts To Help Save The Children & Secure All Youth At Risk

It does not take being a nulear scientist to determine that the youth of the world today...

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My Philosophy On Life

Don Thornton — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:10:53 -0600

What Are Your Personal Philosophies On God, Life, Women & Children?

One of my primary philosophies in life has to deal with each of us being responsible for making our own selves worthy of God's love and support. Something like the old esoteric saying of, "Physician Heal Thyself" but much closer to something like, "Soul Be Thyself Worthy Of God". In essence, being worthy to me means to simply promote "Peace, Love & Unity" as a sure way to "Eternal Life" as opposed to promoting "War, Hate & Chaos" during this brief and sometimes very dark earth experience.

In other words, my philosophy is that; "Conflict is unacceptable to God and we must Co-Create a World of Peace, Love & Unity in order to justify a reason why God should sustain our existence".

There are several philosophies and sayings that stand out in my mind. Some are ancient; some are original from my own imagination. Here are a few that I really like and have attempted to align with:

(1) Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Others Do Unto You.

(2) What Goes Around, Comes Around.

(3) If You Contribute To The Master's Plan, You Become Necessary To The Plan.

(4) The Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few.

(5) Its Impossible That I'm Possible, But Since God Is All In All, I Am That I Am.

My personal Mantra, Slogan and Battle Cry that will stay with me as long as I live is; "Women & Children First!" There are none more important to mankind and to our future than our woman and children, of all cultures, all races and all colors. Man must simply stop, (just stop) being so preoccupied with his quest for power, domination, ego, vanity and wealth and learn how to simply put "Women & Children First" in order to be worthy of God's true love, his full sustenance and total ENDORSEMENT.

We are all sons and daughters of the most high. We are all divine extensions of God's perfect imagination and we all originate from the exact same point of creation at the very core of God's imagination. We all share the exact same life force that animated Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammad and all the great world redeemers and Avatars of the past. The Holy Spirit that we all share continues to animate them in their current spiritual form and animates us in ours.

The only difference is that these great Avatars along with the Angels have simply graduated from God's various schools of divinity and earned their places in the heavenly spheres. Peace, Love & Unity are the tickets to Paradise. We just need to make use of them as 3 sure fired paths directly into the kingdom. War, Hate & Chaos are the polar opposites of Peace, Love & Unity and will take us to another state of existence that is the polar opposite of Paradise.

I thought I would ask everybody what are your personal views, mantras, credos and philosophies on life in general? What are your standard philosophies as they pertain to God and his divinity? What are your standard philosophies and views as they pertain to Women, Men, Children and Life in general?

Let me know your general thoughts, theories and catch phrases as they relate to any one of these categories and I will respond as soon as possible. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments!

Peace, Love & Unity!

"Don"

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Welcome To My Web Blog!

Don Thornton — Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:54:51 -0600

Hello My Kindred Friends, Family & All Conscious Souls The Entire World Over!

Welcome to my official personal "Web Blog". I hope you enjoy my writings, my personal thoughts and my basic ideas on life. I'm going to really take some serious time to try and post the most interesting comments about my views on "World Peace Building" and any positive new ideas and updates I can make regarding my charitable works, my future plans, my personal life journey and my philosophical thoughts on God, Life and our responsibility to respect and fully appreciate one another as human beings.

I hope you may take some time out to communicate with me and share your unique vision and your perception of your life's journey as well. Although my overall devoted mission in life is to "Help Build World Peace, Love & Unity", we can still talk about anything and everything that is of interest or of any great relevance to you.

My background in life has been mostly a kaleidoscope of Charitable Work, Fine Arts, Marketing and Graphic Design. I love my Mom, my Sisters, my entire family, my friends, basketball, good humor, intelligent women, artistic women and most of all I love God. My eternal slogan and personal Mantra I will promote for the rest of my life is; "Women & Children First!" That's it. Mine is a very simple and uncomplicated mission. That's all that really matters to me as I have matured, become wiser and grown spiritually within.

My total philosophy and the whole purpose of my life's mission are to serve God just by putting "Women & Children First". When all of mankind can finally learn that simple truth, and can finally live up to it's great potential, there will be no desire nor any need to promote "War, Hate & Conflict". There is only room to promote "Peace, Love & Unity" when you put "Women & Children First".

All of my kindred brothers the world over need to simply connect with your higher nature, disarm your mind, put down your material weapons and endorse this simple path to an "Earthly Kingdom of Peace". Along the way, you will lose your "Ego". We all need to recognize that this is not the only path but it is definitely one sure path that is ultimately a very reliable ticket to Paradise.

In these dark, negative, days and times of "War, Hate & Chaos, brought to life by "Ego, Fear, Vanity & Greed", you need to trust my word and "Put Women & Children First" on your priority list. Do this from this point forward and you will never go wrong. That's the absolute bottom line.

Thanks for checking out my Blog! I hope to hear from you very soon and very often in the near future!

Let's All Stay Focused, Stay Positive & Stay In The Light!

"Don"

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