John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. He launched his first newspaper at Sydney High School and later completed a four year cadetship with Australian Consolidated Press. "It was one of the strictest language courses I know," he says. "Devised by a celebrated, literate editor, Brian Penton, the aim was economy of language and accuracy. It certainly taught me to admire writing that was spare, precise and free of cliches, that didn't retreat into the passive voice and used adjectives only when absolutely necessary. I have long since slipped that leash, but those early disciplines helped shape my journalism and writing and my understanding of moving and still pictures".



Like many of his Australian generation, Pilger and two colleagues left for Europe in the early 1960s. They set up an ill-fated freelance 'agency' in Italy (with the grand title of 'Interep') and quickly went broke. Arriving in London, Pilger freelanced, then joined Reuters, moving to the London Daily Mirror, Britain's biggest selling newspaper, which was then changing to a serious tabloid.



He became chief foreign correspondent and reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. Still in his twenties, he became the youngest journalist to receive Britain's highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year and was the first to win it twice. Moving to the United States, he reported the upheavals there in the late 1960s and 1970s. He marched with America's poor from Alabama to Washington, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was in the same room when Robert Kennedy, the presidential candidate, was assassinated in June 1968.



His work in South East Asia produced an iconic issue of the London Mirror, devoted almost entirely to his world exclusive dispatches from Cambodia in the aftermath of Pol Pot's reign. The combined impact of his Mirror reports and his subsequent documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, raised almost $50 million for the people of that stricken country. Similarly, his 1994 documentary and dispatches report from East Timor, where he travelled under cover, helped galvanise support for the East Timorese, then occupied by Indonesia.



In Britain, his four-year investigation on behalf of a group of children damaged at birth by the drug Thalidomide, and left out of the settlement with the drugs company, resulted in a special settlement.



His numerous documentaries on Australia, notably The Secret Country (1983), the bicentary trilogy The Last Dream (1988), Welcome to Australia (1999) and Utopia (2013) all celebrated and revealed much of his own country's 'forgotten past', especially its indigenous past and present.



He has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards, such as as the Royal Television Society's Best Documentary.



His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Il Manifesto (Italy). He writes a regular column for the New Statesman, London. In 2001, he curated a major exhibition at the London Barbican, Reporting the World: John Pilger's Eyewitness Photographers, a tribute to the great black-and-white photographers he has worked alongside. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigous Sophie Prize for '30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.' In 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.

DAVID LONGORIA

The Artist

2016 has seen the launch of David Longoria’s newest Dance (EDM) Instrumental single “ANGELS”. This record features David’s trumpet mastery using stylistic ideas from classical music, combined with the current dance sounds. The song started out with an improvised trumpet performance, after which an EDM track and production were added. The result is the unique, catchy and quite advanced dance production. The uplifting song is gathering momentum worldwide as it heats up dance floors and climbs the Billboard charts.

David just released his much anticipated GROUNDBREAKING Instrumental album “The Journey” with some of the very freshest new music ever created. The follow up single release is David’s tribute to the 30th Anniversary of Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie’s “We Are The World”. It’s a historic song called “WE ARE ONE” and features the combined performances of more than 600 recording artists from many genres of music as well as many races and cultures, all singing together in and about unity.

The new album is set in an EDM soundscape, where 12 songs written by David and in collaboration with with Remixer/Producer Robert Eibach feature the unique and groundbreaking contemporary Instrumental work of David’s trumpet and other great world class musicians.

The Backstory

DAVID LONGORIA was born at a very early age. He began singing along with his aunt Betty as she practiced her opera. It raised a few eyebrows as he was only 6 months old. He developed a love for music right away. He started playing the drums and moved to the clarinet. As a 9 year old, his fingers were not big enough to cover the keys. It was at the tender age of 10 he watched trumpet great AL HIRT perform on tv. “That moment I knew I wanted to play the trumpet”, says Longoria. “I immediately threw my clarinet down on the couch and said I HAVE to do that!” Growing up poor was a challenge when David decided to learn to play the trumpet. “I asked my parents how I could get a trumpet and they suggested I earn a little money and buy a used one. I found an old golden trumpet hanging in the window of Ben’s Loan in my little town. Dino, the owner was amused that I wanted to buy it with my $5 as a down payment, but he started a layaway for me and about a year and a half later that little beauty was mine, all mine. Sixty Five Dollars is hard to raise in a hurry when you’re ten and poor”, he remembers. “I loved and appreciated that trumpet so much for all the hard work it was to get.” David had the same trumpet gold plated and still plays it to this day.

The Salvation Army offered music lessons to build their local brass band so David joined the band and learned to play there. They loaned him a horn to play as he proved he was a wiling and able student. “I played every Sunday at the church and it really taught me how to play and to be dedicated. I practiced every day of my childhood in my front yard. There are still a few neighbors I want to apologize to”, he says. He discovered such great players as Dizzy Gillespie, Herb Alpert, Miles Davis, Arturo Sandoval Maurice Andre and Maynard Ferguson. “Each of these players brought something different to the table. I was inspired to learn from all of them”, he recounts. “Playing for Dizzy Gillespie was an eye-opener for me, David says. “One time I played a jazz solo and Dizzy said to me ‘I really dug your solo’ to which I said ‘nah… I can play better than that’. Dizzy was offended and said ‘Don’t EVER insult me like that! When someone says they dug your solo just shut up and say thank you. Otherwise you are telling them they have bad taste’. I never made that mistake again!” He went on to play the trumpet for many other artists including Foreigner, Buddy Rich, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye.

When he was 17 he put together his first original music which was released as a contemporary jazz album titled MONTAGE. He featured amazing talents WALT WAGNER on piano, GRANT REEVES, sax and more musicians that he convinced to join his debut project. Releasing it on his own, he learned to distribute and promote the record even without the backing of established labels. He sold several thousand copies across the US and Canada before moving to Los Angeles to continue his career. It was there that he performed at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Disneyland and many other places. He played his trumpet on hundreds of commercials, TV shows and movie soundtracks as a studio musician. In the evenings David donned a tuxedo and played “casuals”, the term musicians call gigs at weddings, birthday parties, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, and just about anywhere else you can imagine.

One thing led to another and eventually David found himself performing as a recording artist in Europe and the USA. Enjoying this even more than playing Bar Mitzvahs, David did his best to forget the melody to Hava Nagila and instead wrote many songs and performed them across Europe and more recently the USA. Combining Latin styles, dance styles and Jazz, David found he could create a unique blend that was understandable, memorable and still had a beat you could dance to.

In 2012 David released his instrumental dance pop single Zoon Baloomba which immediately climbed the US Billboard Charts to #21. It made history as the first Instrumental song to become a national hit on this chart since Herb Alpert did it with his hit “RISE” in 1979.

In 2014 David Longoria released his TV Special Baila! to PBS & Public TV Stations across America. The 60 minute HD Special was taped in front of a live audience in Southern California with a complete band, singers, many dancers and guest stars. The show can also be viewed online in it’s entirety at pbsspecials.org .

In 2014 and 2015 the TV Special was broadcast across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America on Commercial TV Stations. David released his album Baila! which featured dance hits Zoon Baloomba, Reflection, So Cool! and Deeper Love (featuring dance diva Cece Peniston) as well as contemporary jazz songs Loving Life (featuring Chris Standring), Sunset (featuring Marc Antoine) and A Castle In Spain (featuring Ottmar Liebert).

APRIL DIAMOND

April Diamond is a Pop EDM recording artist from Los Angeles. California. Her current single “Lose Control” is heating up dance clubs and rhythmic radio stations across the US.

April grew up singing in church. She learned to combine passionate gospel styles with the disciplines of classical music. It is this powerful blend that made her an in-demand recording singer as she sang on myriads of pop and dance records. She was influenced early on by the likes of Gospel greats such as Andrae Crouch, R&B singers like Aretha Franklin, and pop singers like Celine Dion. The rhythmic strength of the soulful songs gave April the hunger for heartfelt music of all styles.

The release of her current dance pop hit LOSE CONTROL has been blowing up in dance clubs and on dance radio everywhere. Several remixes are now playing in hundreds of clubs and young America is celebrating her “let loose” Lose Control anthem.

April is featured in the TV Special “Baila!” starring David Longoria on PBS/Public TV Stations across America. She performs several songs with David and also takes the stage as the star for her own single releases.

April studied vocal Performance at Azusa Pacific University. She has performed and directed musicals, recitals, professional concerts and television shows. She has become well known in show choir circles for her development of “Glee-ified”, a critically acclaimed live version of the concept made famous by the hit TV show Glee. She devotes a large portion of her schedule to training and directing new musical artists as a vocal coach. This success led to her creation of the new website for singers letthevoiceout.com.

This year April will be performing many more shows in Clubs across America as well as in concerts as well as a featured guest artist in the concert series “The Journey- David Longoria featuring We Are One”. In the arena concerts and TV appearances, she is directing choirs across America in addition to performing herself

JOHNNY ROCK PAGE

My name is My Johnny Rock Page and I am a believer, a family man, an entrepreneur and a MotoAmerica Superbike racer.  Overcoming age adversity, and qualifying in 2007 for the elite grid by one tenth of second changed my life. I became a Pro Superbike racer at the age of 38 after winning Daytona 18 years prior and I was now racing with America’s top Superbike motorcycle racers. I suddenly found myself living the dream by becoming the Man on the poster.

Women Up International - Co-Founders / Co-Owners:

• Kaelen Revense
• Becky Norwood
• Amy Ballon

Women Up International fuels inspiration, ignites hearts, and sparks inner-healing that radiates out to our world. Our mission is to be a catalyst for unprecedented vibrant living despite past victimization and trauma in our lives.

Our Million Women Message Movement unites women who are determined to make a positive global impact by breaking the cycle of abuse and victimization, standing up for those who cannot stand for themselves, and empowering each other to love, forgive, heal and vibrantly thrive.

Our members are women making a conscious choice to take back and own their power, fall in love with who they are authentically, live intentionally and be a force for change in our world.

Through Women Up International, they enjoy the ability to speak up, stand up, find their own truth and command their inner power sparking a life time of empowering experiences and a sisterhood of support. 

CONTACT:

@WomenUpInternational

support@womenupinternational.com

Biography

I started in music at a young age, my grandfather had a gospel group so I started learning to play and sing around 3 years old. I grew up in Geneva, Alabama which is a small town but many good people. We grew up swimming in rivers and running through the woods and riding bikes around town. None of us had much money so the simple things in life were our escape. I continued my music by being in the band in school, I was a drummer. I became one of the best snare drummers in the state of Alabama and later the country when I was in high school. I played piano all my life but never in a competition setting, more as a hobby really. I grew up on a chicken farm in right outside of Geneva in a little community called Coffee Springs. My step father grew up there and took over the farm and well my days were interesting as a child to say the least. After high school I joined the Army. I was in the army from 2004-2012. I deployed 3 times as an Infantry Noncommissioned Officer. I toured 2 times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. I lost many friends to the war and gained a family as well.

I have a little boy, Christian Williams, he is my everything and the reason I am doing what I do. I want to build a life for my son and give him the tools he needs in life to succeed. He is my motivation and my purpose.

I write my music based on real life experiences. I feel that artists of lost touch of what it means to write from the heart. I want to touch people in a way that they can actually relate to on so many different levels. I write about mistakes I made in life and what it has cost me, I write about being in the war and losing brothers and I try to put people in my shoes and let them see who I am. I think people enjoy an artist more when they know his or her past, present and future. I want them to hear a song and say, wow; he just described my life perfectly. Hearing people say they love my music because it’s honest and speaks volume about not only my life but theirs as well means more to me than anything. I hope to stand in front of thousands one day and tell stories in a song that make people cry, laugh, make them happy or even a song they can give to someone as an apology but they just can't say the words themselves.

RALPH RING is one of the surviving members of a team of technicians and scientists who worked for the legendary inventor, Otis T Carr.  Ralph worked directly on Carr’s team, which developed an anti-gravity spacecraft based upon direct tutoring from Nikolai Tesla. 

Their continuing endeavor is to re-introduce a better and safer form of transportation and habitation.  Ring's website, Blue Star Enterprise is dedicated to bringing about a more peaceful, expedient and affordable way of life through the use of Alternative Energy.”

Carr learned many secrets from Tesla, and much has been lost to time, but Ralph Ring and members here now, through this website are re-discovering the secrets from Carr’s own mysterious writings, and his patented drawings.

Carr was ultimately shut down by the US government, who asserted that Carr was attempting to overthrow the monetary system.  “Cease and desist your operations… We’re terminating your project due to the threats it poses to the international monetary system.”

MARSHA RING is a minister and teacher on higher consciousness, and is the gentle and loving spiritual partner and wife to Ralph Ring.  Together they make an unbeatable team!

I'm the Miracle Mama. I’ve been a spiritual teacher now for over 30 years. As a gifted empath, intuitive, energy healer, coach, mentor, and Miracles Consultant, I can accurately pinpoint the hidden issues holding you back from your perfect life. To that end, I have developed a powerful Miracle Activation Technology© that empowers you to access miraculous breakthroughs to greater confidence, alignment, financial success, emotional freedom, peace of mind, and more harmonious relationships.

I’m executive producer and host of Having It ALL Radio on the globally syndicated BBS Network. Lively and engaging, Having it ALL Radio explores all manner of health, wealth, relationship and spiritually related topics with top experts. It placed #1 on iTunes New and Noteworthy in 2015.

Also in 2015, after the devastation of Hurricane Matthew, I founded the Haiti Community Project to rebuild Haiti one house at a time. We are using local resources and community labor, restoring community pride, resilience, and self esteem. Learn more at HaitiCommunityProject.org.

An international speaker, and TV Happiness Coach, I’ve been featured on several television networks across the US, including FOX, NBC, CBS, and WEYW 19, Key West.

I have co-authored two international Best Selling books, “Start Right Marketing” and “Conversations That Make a Difference.”