Arts – The Mobilized News Network

September 13, 2026

Arts and activism: Perfect together.

October 10, 2025 Creative Director

Re-imagining media and the arts as a public service: Michael Masucci, co-director of the pioneering media arts collective EZTV, offers an extraordinary chance to explore the […]

How Music Unites Us: Farm Aid at 40

September 23, 2025 Creative Director

Willie Nelson: “We’ve stood with our partners all these years to give farmers — the hardest working people in America — the support they […]

Rock and roll transformed for the children’s pallette…

June 4, 2025 Creative Director

“Staying true to my heart gives me a constant continuum of a life well-lived. It chooses me.” Composer/Singer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer Ray Andersen, was a full time band […]

Does too much technology stifle Creativity?

June 1, 2025 Creative Director

It was a day unlike any other day. But this day was different. We were glued to our television sets. Black and White. Only three […]

Passion Points and the Art of Creation

December 20, 2024 Creative Director

Howard Bloom has been called the next lineage of seminal thinkers and includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller. He’s been called the next […]

Thank you, Roger Corman

May 12, 2024 Creative Director

Honoring a friend to millions. By Steven Jay, Creative Director, Mobilized NEWs There are greats amongst us who had the courage to take a chance […]

Global Village at the Ground Up Music Festival

January 29, 2024 Creative Director

Global Village heads back to Miami Beach for another program in our festival series featuring concert performances from the innovative and eclectic Ground Up Music […]

Veterans for Peace: Remembering Artist and Activist Tom Lewis

January 26, 2024 Creative Director

Veterans for Peace:VFP member Paul Gingrich shares his memories of Tom Lewis – artist, peace activist and one of the Catonsville 9 and his […]

Superstar Producer Ezrin: We’re All Activists

December 31, 2023 Creative Director

Bob Ezrin is a legendary music producer that worked with some of the most influential musicians in modern history, including Andrea Bocelli, Pink Floyd, Deep […]

Change the System & Change the Outcome

What if our crises are not separate problems? Food insecurity. Energy insecurity. War. Climate disruption. Inequality. Loss of biodiversity. Political dysfunction. Resource depletion. Broken public-health systems. Media built around outrage, distraction and consumption. We tend [...]
What if democracy didn't end at the voting booth?
What if democracy didn’t end when we left the voting booth?

From power over people and nature to shared stewardship with people and nature. Who is government supposed to serve? From governing over people and nature to governing with people — within the limits of a [...]
If finance is supposed to serve society, then success cannot be measured only by how much money money makes—it must also be measured by what that money enables people and communities to build.
What if money worked for us?

From extractive finance to ethical finance. Main Street. Not Wall Street. We work. We earn. We save. We deposit our money. Then something happens that most of us rarely think about: Our money goes to [...]
What if the mark of innovation wasn't how quickly we replace something—but how long we can keep making it better?
Built to Last: Our future isn’t disposable

What if things were built to last? From planned replacement to durability, repair, upgrade and reuse. Something breaks. We throw it away. Something slows down. We replace it. The battery dies. Buy another one. The [...]
FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO PUBLIC MOBILITY.
From Public Transportation to Public Mobility

Why have we designed society so that millions of people must privately purchase an expensive machine simply to participate in daily life? The alternative is mobility as a universal public service. What if we [...]
From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity.
WHO OWNS WHAT THE WORLD IS MADE OF?

From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity. We mine it. Cut it. Pump it. Process it. Ship it halfway around the world. Turn it into products. Use those products. Throw [...]
shift from a supply chain to a supply web.
Bring Food Power Home

The big idea: The future of food should not be reduced to “buy local.” It should be about who owns the farms, processing, logistics, technology, intellectual property, data and purchasing power that determine what a community eats. [...]

What if democracy didn't end at the voting booth?

If finance is supposed to serve society, then success cannot be measured only by how much money money makes—it must also be measured by what that money enables people and communities to build.

What if the mark of innovation wasn't how quickly we replace something—but how long we can keep making it better?

FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO PUBLIC MOBILITY.

From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity.

shift from a supply chain to a supply web.