The Premiere is Monday, December 10, 2012.

Each $25 donation you make to the tax-deductible non-profit Everyone Matters gives you one chance to win the two tickets to the gala evening.  If you submit 10 donations of $25 – you get ten chances.

AND WE REALLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT – to create the important new projects in schools and online already underway to CHANGE THINKING – to JUDGE OTHERS LESS and SEE THE HUMANITY IN EVERYONE.

Hugh Jackman is an Honorary Ambassador of Everyone Matters, the global campaign with the message to “see the humanity in everyone, judge others less, and emphasize that everyone has the right to be who they are, without shame, apology or attack.”

“Les Miserables” is the upcoming film version of the award-winning hit musical based on the Victor Hugo novel, and features popular songs like ”I Dreamed a Dream” and “One Day More.”

Director by Tom Hooper, (“The King’s Speech”), “Les Miserables” stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks and Sacha Baron Cohen.

The highly-anticipated “Les Miserables” will unveil for you and a guest at the  premiere at prestigious Ziegfield Theatre on West 54th Street, near Central Park – attended by cast members including Hugh Jackman.

Immediately following the film, the invited guests – including you – will walk a block to West 53rd Street, and the private, exclusive post-film party at the Museum of Modern Art.

You will see the movie two weeks before it opens in the U.S.  (Two movie tickets alone costs more than $25!)

Please donate as much as you can - and we welcome any amount – to support our awareness and call-to-action campaign online and in schools.

The important, life-changing projects include the “Letting Go of Judgment Tree” – where participants privately write on paper leaves names they’ve been called – or called others – which are then collected and posted on a 9 foot paper tree in a public space, accompanied by ceremony; the “24-Hour Challenge to Not Judge” – taking place on schools around the country, where students commit to not calling names, and taking other positive actions; the “I Am!” photos of affirmation, online and in schools – where people globally affirm aspects of themselves, as a pride in identity.

Help make a difference in making this world more accepting for ALL OF US – and encourage NEW THINKING for both kids and adults that EVERYONE has the right to be who they are!

Buy your chance here.

“We stand in defense of white people all over the country,” said a skinhead sporting a swastika.

“We’re dressed like clowns and you’re the ones who look funny,” said a protester. “We want to meet hate with love.”

PS: the clowns won!

Join Everyone Matters. Watch the video, by clicking on the photo!

Bravo to UPS – And our partner GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) – for affirming that Everyone Matters.

Next Monday, University of Nebraska at Lincoln holds their EVERYONE MATTERS Day. They’ll be doing a twitterfall … taking “I Am!” photos … video recording station … serving Qdoba restaurant burritos … social justice displays.

Says UNM’s Greg Golden: “We are looking forward to 24 hours of judgement free living!”

Send a message to University of Nebraska-Lincoln supporting their campus “Don’t Judge” campaign.

Mr. Craig is a longtime humanitarian advocate, and wrote his personal statement as an expression of his own values: “Compassion and empathy are a measure of our humanity.”

Please join us in both congratulating Mr. Craig for his success with “Skyfall,” and telling him how much you value his humanitarianism and his personal statement penned for Everyone Matters.  We will forward your messages directly to him.

He joins celebrity supporters Sir Paul McCartney, His Holiness the Dalai Lama,  Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Brokaw, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Natalie Portman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dame Judi Dench.

Chris has also gained national recognition as a passionate and vocal advocate on behalf of same sex marriage – affirming that everyone should have equal rights.

Along with the listed public figures, Chris has penned a personal statement of equality and inclusiveness:   “Empathy is the core of humanity, and our greatest achievement as a human being.”

Everyone Matters is a big-tent awareness and call-to-action campaign bringing together leading public figures and organizations under a joint-banner message to judge others less, see the humanity in everyone, and emphasize that everyone has the right to be exactly who they are.  The organizational partners include Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Special Olympics, National Organization of Women, UN Women National Committee United States, NAACP, GLAAD, Trevor Project, Human Rights Campaign, Association of American People with Disabilities, Association of American Colleges and Universities, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Equality Now, National Hispanic Media Coalition, MTV/ Thin Line Anti-Bullying Campaign, National Partnership for Women & Families, Asian American Justice Center, Network National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, Student Affairs Administrators, ACPA.

The public participates both online, and in schools, with such projects as the “Letting Go of Judgment Tree”; “The 24-hour challenge to not judge”;  “I Am!” photos of pride of identity; and an upcoming Short Film Competition, not yet announced.

The ever-feisty Scott is growing a moustache to raise funds for all forms of MD.

Can he match Burt Reynolds??   He’s gonna try!

Here’s the link

Abraham Lincoln, 1861