A new global organization was launched this week committed to finding progressive policy solutions for the problems of the 21st century and local attorney Julian Aguon is a founding member. 

Progressive International includes Aguon and a litany of notable international council members from around the world—including Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Prime Minister, Iceland), Yanis Varouakis (Member of Parliament, Greece), Raffael Correa (Former President, Ecuador), Hilda Heine (Former President, Marshall Islands), Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things), Noam Chomsky (Professor, MIT), Naomi Klein (Award-winning author of the Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything), among many others.

The organization is eyeing problems including climate change, accelerated threats to human rights, and the growing global disparity between rich and poor.

The council will convene for its inaugural Summit in September in Reykjavik, Iceland, hosted by the Prime Minister, to analyze the challenges of the 21st century and to set the strategic direction of the new planetary organization.

"I'm honored to be a part of this effort. It's time to build a global progressive front that looks to the bottom and elevates the perspectives of the most vulnerable, " Aguon said. "We need to lift up the voices of indigenous peoples in particular, who have inherited expansive imaginations, a capacity to resist despair through connection to collective memory, and the tools to effectively engage apparently intractable problems without losing clarity about the futures we need to build."