Kosta Makreas

International networker & creative artist for peace.

Born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana in 1953, he went on to earn his B.A. in Computer Science from Indiana University.

As a young man Kosta became fascinated with the mysteries of the Universe – teaching himself astrology, meditation, astronomy and reading widely about extraterrestrial UFOs, comparative religion, spirituality, Atlantis, and many other metaphysical topics.

Kosta has enjoyed a broad and successful career as a software consultant to many Silicon Valley companies.

He currently resides in San Bruno, CA with his wife Hollis Polk and is the father of two adult children.

His life-long quest to satisfy his deep interest in world peace & positive planetary transformation compels him to create & sponsor projects that empower others.

“Envision A New America”, “Friends of Kucinich International”, “The Great Invocation Video Project”, “The Disclosure Project Prayer/Meditation Group”, “Spirit of Goodwill” and “The Global CE-5 ET Contact” Initiative, are some of the incredible projects he’s helped manifest from ideas to powerful realities.

Kosta believes that we are living in a unique, challenging, and wonderful point in history as we transition to a new mode of enlightened and spiritual living where planetary peace reigns between Humanity and all life forms on and off Earth.

His passion drives his dedication to doing his part to establish peace, goodwill & right human relations on Earth by providing this site and community to build the CE-5 Initiative. He invites you into this joyful activist community.

Michael Levy is a world leader on the philosophy of truth and wisdom. His 14 inspirational books have never been marketed for Levy feels authentic works will eventually find their place in humanity by word of mouth. His lack of education makes his philosophy unique in a modern world, where everything is analyzed and sophisticated by experts until all true meaning drains away. His works do not follow any past or present philosophers.

 

Many experts may use erroneous intellectual reasoning and faulty egotistical logic to explain answers that cannot be lived by natural people. At this point in time, schools and universities teach people to read and write to a good standard. However, they do not teach wisdom to the students, on how to apply their learning for the benefit of all humanity, not just for a select few.

 

Michael is an international radio host, a mystical poet, business and finance philosopher and wellness/healthy living speaker on cruise ships, radio, TV and seminars. Psychiatry . His works can be found on numerous websites throughout the world.

 

He currently writes for Seekingalpha.com a leading financial website and possitivehealth.com the UK’s leading alternative heath magazine

 

Michael Levy - Professional Optimist

Not for Sale

Morning Star Gali has been deeply involved with the cultural, political and spiritual activities of her nation and urban Indian communities in the San Francisco Bay Area from a very early age. She grew up listening to stories of injustice, and attended demonstrations and marches while still in a stroller.

Gali was a teenager when her father became the first full-time Native prison chaplain hired by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In that role, he provided cultural and spiritual support for, and advocated on behalf of, incarcerated Indigenous people in California prisons. She grew up knowing about the incarceration of her father, and was present at many of his presentations and his educational events for “Native Americans against the death penalty.”

Now, Gali is making it her mission to shed light on a little-known problem: the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. Native Americans have never been accurately accounted for in the criminal justice system, nor in other governmental records. The Bureau of Justice did not keep data on Native Americans until 2006, and the fact that there are more than 50 non-federally recognized tribes in California skews the data-collecting process in prisons. Additionally, Native Americans as a category are often considered “statistically insignificant” by researchers; therefore, data related to Native American behind bars is often nonexistent. Data that is available show that the Native American inmate population in California jumped from 145 per 100,000 Native Americans in 1980 to 767 per 100,000 in 2000. In addition, according to a 2014 report by CDCR, recidivism rates are highest among Native Americans.

Gali will document the crisis of mass incarceration among Native Americans in the state. Using her extensive network, organizing and community-based and engaged research background, she will mobilize Native nations, incarcerated Native Americans and their families, allies and policy leaders to address and shift the tide of over-incarceration and human rights violations within corrections institutions. She also aims to build solidarity and power among Indigenous Peoples throughout California, enabling them to restore sovereign rights and to heal, care for and resolve differences among their people on their own terms and by their own tribal governments.

“The first prisons for Native peoples were reservations and boarding schools,” Gali said. “State sponsored extermination policies against Native communities are continually carried out today within the U.S. prison system. My vision is to decriminalize Indian Country and Tribal Nations.”

Gali’s work is groundbreaking, and can lead to a significant shift in narrative and policies for Native Americans in California As part of her Leading Edge fellowship, she will:

• Track, document and publicize accurate information about the number of Native American adults and youth incarcerated in California’s criminal justice system.
• Organize community-engaged research and writing projects about the root causes of incarceration in her community, including elevating the stories of those incarcerated in collaboration with those individuals and families.
• Support and defend the rights of Native Americans in the prison system to engage in ceremonial practices in prisons.
• Work with tribal leaders to assert full sovereignty by bringing tribal citizens into the tribal court system and offer culturally rooted post-incarceration support.

A member of the Ajumawi band of the Pit River Tribe in Northeastern California, Gali currently works as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pit River Tribe. Prior to returning to her ancestral homelands and working for her tribe, she served as a volunteer and advocate on behalf of Indigenous incarcerated tribal members in California and worked with a number of Indigenous-led grassroots organizations in the Bay Area for over a decade.

Hailed as a leader in the Native American community, Gali leads large-scale actions and assists with organizing Native cultural, spiritual, academic, and political gatherings throughout the state. She has been the lead organizer since 2006 for the now prominent “Thanks-taking” sunrise ceremony at Alcatraz, an annual commemoration of the 1969-1971 occupation by Native activists of the island within the ancestral territories of the Ohlone people. The sunrise ceremony, coordinated by the International Indian Treaty Council is now is attended by over 5,000 people each year.

“I want to see our families back in balance with each other,” Gali said. “I want healing restored in our community. I want to bring our incarcerated brothers and sisters back home and for them to know they’re needed back in our tribal communities.”

Morning Star Gali is deeply involved with the protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota.  Her organization - the International Indian Council Treaty - has been trying to bring attention to the abuses and excessive violence by the National Guard and police against protestors there and elicited a response from the United Nations in this statement released below by the IICT:

Statement on “Excessive Force” at Standing Rock from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly Nov. 15th 2016

Allen McNair a published writer of short and epic poetry who has illustrated his work in marker art and acrylics.  I have written and published a major work, I Dream of A'maresh, through CreateSpace and AuthorHouse.  I have contributed my earliest written work to Thresholds' literary magazine, The Musing Place and the Chicago Writing Alliance publication, Journal of Ordinary Thought.  In 1990, straight out of Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor's degree, I lost my job and became homeless.  Much of my early writing of poetry was inspired by this shocking experience of losing my housing.  I am now enrolled in the Maharishi University of Management Master's degree program in Vedic Science, the theoretical basis for Transcendental Meditation.  I now live on my own in a one-bedroom apartment with my cat, a Siamese Yellow-Tail, Butterscotch.

Geoff Baker is a Sports enterprise and investigative reporter for The Seattle Times who writes a column on sports business.

KERRI ANNE LEBLANG

Kerri Anne LeBlang is a singer/songwriter and raw, roostsy and soulful messenger.  She has performed since she was 6 years old, singing, dancing, and acting and has been writing and recording music over the last 8 years, inspired by her participation at Agape International Center diving deep into its teachings and making meditation a part of her life. She has channeled such songs as “Anything Is Possible” “Let It Out’ and “Becoming Me.”

She has been nominated through the Los Angeles Music Awards for song of the year “Anything Is Possible” and has performed for the troops in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and has also recorded inspirational dance music and her song “Welcome To Your Life” is being mixed by DJ Terris of Athens Greece, she has recorded at Inter scope Records and has performed at The Agape International Spiritual Center you can click on live streaming Oct 27th and you can hear her most recent web radio interview on The Spirit Connection talking about her launching the Gift of Songs website, channeling high vibrational songs to help raise consciousness on the planet from weddings to corporate songs and she has partnered with and performed for Jessie’s Place Nov 7th in Pacific Pallisades to help raise funds for their community center in Rwanda Africa to support the survivors of Genocide.

Kerri is currently bi-coastal and working on her debut full-length album release 2011. She has original, high-vibrational inspirational songs available on a promo CD for sale – don’t miss your transportation to transformation! She has been told her music can transcend the drive on the 405!

PAUL PADGETT

Paul Padgett has spent his professional career working in photography, videography, and music, but his other major production is saving the world through environmentalism and philanthropy. His work as a musician, composer, and producer led him to found his non­profit Rockers 4 Wildlife that was conceptualized while working with Slash from Guns n’ Roses at the Wildlife Way Station. Paul and Rockers 4 Wildlife work hard to be a voice for the voiceless animals of the world both domestically and abroad by participating in emergency rescues and by planning and implementing solutions for environmental issues.

After a tumultuous childhood, Paul rose like a phoenix to apply himself and become an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Despite living in a rocky and sometimes abusive household, as a small child he started creating a neighborhood landscaping business as well as working a paper route. At 18, he got his contractor’s license and focused on using his skills to rebuild cities after tornados, fires, floods, hurricanes, and more.

Paul moved his family from Oklahoma to California in 2003 to continue producing in the entertainment industry and to build homes in Beverly Hills and Hollywood affected by the Northridge Earthquake. Since then his interest in humanitarian and environmental efforts has only grown; he tends a 51⁄4 acre Hass avocado ranch supplying Baja Fresh, Chipotle, and Rubio’s with fresh, affordable, organic produce, works with the Air Force Civil Air Patrol 59t h Squadron out of Hemet, California as a search and rescue and disaster relief pilot, has saved 11 lives as an emergency first responder diver, supports people fighting prescription and illicit drug abuse, and produces documentary films about humanitarian and environmental issues.

Paul currently has multiple film projects in motion right now. His f ilm Mission Earth is culminating after over ten years of studying, filming, and aligning solutions to save the human race and the other wonderful creatures of Earth and is slated for release late 2017. Paul is also in principal filming right no w on C himp Village for the Wildlife Way Station, where they’re creating the first habitat of its kind for chimps.

Along with doing research on the coral reefs and kelp forests, Paul’s primary work in the oceans is out of cage studies with great white, tiger, bull, and reef sharks. He recently completed a two year project planting 157,000 coral reefs in Key Largo to provide oxygen to the planet. He also participates in massive undertaking efforts to remove trash from the oceans including clean up of Catalina Harbor, which nets five tons of trash build up per year.

He also has a flair for the arts; for four decades he has worked as a professional photographer and has produced music for legends like the Gap Band, Wayman Tisdale, Cameo, Kool & the Gang, Gladys Knight, and more and makes an effort to donate proceeds from his art sales to saving the environment and helping raise money for groups like Mi Casa, St. Jude Hospitals, Wildlife Way Station, and the Sea Shepherd.

Paul says he has become successful from always staying focused, being extremely motivated, and being around great mentors, emphasizing the importance of efficiency and follow through. Word, integrity ands a handshake are the mantra this country boy will follow to the grave!