We have five Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on the Global Good Neighbor theme that are being aired around the nation. If you would like to spread the word about Global Good Neighbor in your corner of the world, we’ll send you a CD with the PSAs so you can contact your local radio station (find radio station info here) directly (it always helps to have a local connection), or we can send the PSAs to the radio station ourselves; just provide us with the necessary information (on our PSA form) and we'll do the rest. Remember, the more people who hear about Global Good Neighbor, the better chance we have to change the course of U.S. foreign policy!
Click on the links below to listen to the PSAs or right click and choose "save as" to download them to your computer.
Text Versions
What in the World
What in the world are we doing? Our foreign policy seems to be creating more problems than it's solving. We feel less secure and our future well-being is less certain. What in the world should we be doing? In the 1930s President Roosevelt, with bipartisan support, decided our foreign policy should be guided by good neighbor principles—mutual respect and freedom from fear—not global domination and war-mongering. What can you do? If you believe the United States can be a global good neighbor once again, in our world and in our children's world, then let's work together to make that happen. Go to www.globalgoodneighbor.org.
Golden Rule (60 seconds)
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Simple. Very simple. Mutual respect and understanding. The Golden Rule is the right one for our churches and our communities. Should Golden Rule values of mutual respect and cooperation guide our foreign policy? FDR thought so and he won respect from the entire world for U.S. leadership with his good neighbor policies. If you think the United States can be a global good neighbor once again, then let's work together to make that happen. Go to www.globalgoodneighbor.org.
Golden Rule (30 seconds)
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Simple. Very simple. Mutual respect and understanding. Should those Golden Rule values guide our foreign policy? If you think that the United States can be a global good neighbor once again, then let's work together to make that happen. Go to www.globalgoodneighbor.org.
Fear Itself
Are you afraid? Very afraid—of terrorism, global warming, rising energy costs, the forces of globalization? But the politics of fear only make us more afraid. President Franklin Roosevelt rejected the politics of fear. He changed the course of foreign policy by launching the good neighbor policy of mutual respect among nations. He rallied the country with his vision of a world free of fear, want, and tyranny. If you believe the United States should once again be a global good neighbor, if you believe mutual respect and freedom from fear should once again guide U.S. foreign policy, then let's work together. Go to www.globalgoodneighbor.org.
Making Sense
Could America return to a values-based foreign policy? One based on mutual respect, freedom from fear, and good neighbor principles? We did once when FDR was president. We can reclaim FDR's good neighbor policy. Good neighbor practices make our global neighborhood a safer, friendly, healthier place. If that makes sense to you, go to www.globalgoodneighbor.org.
Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's vision of international relations guided by "mutual respect" and cooperation, the IRC’s Global Good Neighbor Initiative is reclaiming this legacy by promoting dialogue and action aimed at forging a new animating vision for foreign policy in our time:
A Global Good Neighbor Ethic for International Relations
http://ggn.irc-online.org/
For media inquiries, email media@irc-online.org or call (505) 388-0208.
