We go beyond mere invitation to implore you to include art and culture as an integral component of the United Nations' 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. In so doing, the United Nations will literally and metaphorically mount a global loud speaker, permanently affixed to its vast multi-lateral stage to create a resounding call to action that further supports, empowers, and deservedly honors the role arts and culture play in binding together our human family, mortally wounded and deeply fractured by conflict and war (please see the entire petition).