Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing March 2025

TRENDS in Global Grassroots Organizing March – May 2025 is your essential guide to global grassroots movements for peace, sustainability, and transformation. Published by We, The World, and founded by Rick Ulfik, this issue is designed to inspire, inform, and involve millions more people in creating a better world.
This edition highlights work aligned with We, The World’s 11 Campaigns for Change, a “comprehensive blueprint for global transformation”. It features urgent commentary from founder Rick Ulfik, including insights on:
- The record-breaking “MLK – Manifesting The Dream” event, which saw over 20,000 volunteer participants in community service.
- An alarming national crisis in the USA with global consequences, marked by human rights violations, constitutional infractions, and threats to public services, fueled by “Lies and Hate Speech”.
- A bold proposal for urgent collective action: The WE Power Campaign. This non-partisan strategy aims to engage millions of people through a major media ad campaign and coordinated efforts from social justice and environmental groups to address and reverse the current crisis, fostering a “WE Consciousness” Culture prioritizing the Common Good, Peace, Justice, Dignity, and Respect for ALL.
Inside, you’ll find diverse articles covering critical themes, including:
- Environment: Addressing extreme weather in Africa, Earth Day’s call for global environmentalism and local action, and South Africa’s energy crisis.
- Economic Justice: Exploring the Solidarity Economy as a post-capitalist framework prioritizing people and planet over profit, with examples like worker-owned cooperatives and public banks.
- Health: Practical tips for healthy lifestyle changes and a critical look at women’s health and gender equality in India.
- Peace & Inner Transformation: Cultivating mediation skills in children, the essential link between inner and outer peace, and practices for allowing miracles.
- Global Peace YES: Introducing a new non-profit aiming to make peace the “operating principle” globally by gathering 1 billion “YES” votes and promoting daily peace practices.
Discover compelling authors and activists, including Robert Levine, editor of Trends Magazine and host of the “Welcome to WE! Show,” which features interviews with the magazine’s most compelling authors. Learn about organizations like St. Mark’s Church, actively embodying Dr. King’s vision of the Beloved Community through service.
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- Submit your own Trend Reports: Share transformative work for social change at Trends@We.net.
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- Cast your vote for Global Peace: Visit GlobalPeaceYes.org.
This issue offers a mega-dose of optimism and connects you to unique and inspiring Change Agents working for a better world.
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