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"Let nothing be done to harm the children"
 - Native American teaching

Our children are growing up in a world much different than previous
generations have experienced:  metal detectors, guns, and drugs in schools;
music messages that popularize drugs and suicide (Green Day, Pearl Jam,
Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails), hatred and self-loathing (White Zombie), misogyny
(Snoop Doggy Dog), and mass murderers (Guns & Roses); MTV videos that
position parents as oppressors, drugs as a substitute for passion, sex before
intimacy, and hopelessness and depression as fashionable; video games that
glamorize the maiming and killing of people;  news casts that paint
horrifying pictures of a world filled with murders, deaths, and tragedies;
movies that glorify violence and television shows that popularize
dysfunctional families.  According to the latest U.S. census 68,000,000 of
our young people between the ages of 5 and 25 are subject to the effects of
negative media and entertainment. 

In a time when our children could be exploring the boundaries of their
innocence and dreaming the dreams of their futures, many of them, see their
most positive option as being dead.

It is time to change these trends.

In order to promote hope,  empower our young people,  and facilitate this
change, we are producing The World Music Festival in the summer of 1996.  A
LIVE AID-like global telecast will feature a select group of musicians who
have the intent to create and perform music from an emotional and spiritual
model that mirrors a state of self-actualization.  Invited artists will
include: Jon Anderson (YES), Phil Collins, Enya, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel,
Kitaro, Loreena McKennitt, Mike Oldfield, Carlos Santana, The Moody Blues,
Yanni, Vangelis, Andreas Vollenweider, among others. 

Because of the Law of Sympathetic Vibration, when this type of music is
experienced through the ears and intuitively, the mind of the listener
resonates correspondingly.  Therefore, the event serves as a vehicle to shift
collective consciousness from the predominate negative and cynical mind set
into a more heart centered and hope inspired state.  This state of
consciousness is required in order to heal our societal dysfunction's and the
violence that now ravages our country.

We have just completed filming a fundraising and promotional video for the
Festival.  It includes the following people who are committed to The World
Music Festival: Mike Mitchell - Executive producer of LIVE AID; Jon Anderson
- lead singer of YES; Edward Asner; Casey Kasem; Martin Sheen; Robert Stack;
Jack Canfield - #1 national best selling author of Chicken Soup For The Soul;
John Vasconcellos - California Legislator who founded the CA Task Force on
Self-esteem; Barbara De Angelis - national best selling author of Real
Moments; Dr. Deepak Chopra - national best selling author; Dr. Dean Ornish -
physician to President Clinton and national best selling holistic author;
Arun Gandhi - grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; John Robbins - environmentalist and
national best selling author of Diet For A New America; and Gary Zukav -
national best selling author of Seat of the Soul.   

Send your tax-deductible financial support today and help make this vision a
reality.  $5-10: contributor; $25 member; $50-100 executive member

The 1996 World Music Festival, a Humanity Federation production
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The World Music Festival
"Empowering Our Youth"

A Presidential Perspective on Our Youth

"We have to have a change in behavior and attitude and feelings among young
people.  We have to find a way to help young people think in a hopeful
way..." - President Bill Clinton 4/19/94, MTV interview special

Festival Endorsements

"The World Music Festival will promote an empowering message of hope and love
that is needed to heal our society and inspire our nation's future leaders."
- Morgan Freeman, Oscar nominated actor - "The Shawshank Redemption."

"I believe that music has profound effects on human consciousness, and
therefore support The World Music Festival with its aim of spreading positive
influences through music." - Prof. Brian D. Josephson, Nobel Prize winning
quantum physicist

"This event serves as an important vehicle to inspire the spirit of love that
is required in order to heal our society, nurture harmony, and promote
greater personal and social responsibility." - Marianne Williamson, national
best selling author of Return to Love.

"This promising convocation is especially timely as we seek to make the
1990's a decade of urgently needed healing - for ourselves, our communities,
and our planet!" - California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, Chairman Ways
and Means and Founder of the CA Task Force on Self-esteem.

"This Festival will literally bring millions together in harmony." - Casey
Kasem, nationally acclaimed radio and TV host.

"This event serves as an important vehicle to inspire the spirit of hope and
promote peace around the planet."  - Jon Anderson, lead singer for the group
YES.

"This event serves as an important vehicle to inspire the spirit of hope and
healing as well as peace." - Dean Ornish, M.D., President Clinton's
physician, national best selling author of Reversing Heart Disease, also
featured in Bill Moyers series "Healing and the Mind."  

"I see the Festival as an endeavor that is designed to assist in bringing the
consciousness of the sacred into our interactions with each other and with
the Earth, and in my opinion, this is what we need the most." - Gary Zukav,
national best selling author of Seat of the Soul.

"Assemblyman John Vasconcellos shared the position paper with me about the
Festival.  I love it.  I got goose bumps.  It is so right. ... I'd love to be
connected and involved with what you are doing." - Jack Canfield, national #1
best selling author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and internationally
recognized self-esteem expert.

"This event has the potential to play a major role in bringing peace to our
troubled world.  Music that uplifts our spirits can bond us to one another,
to the Earth, and lend strength to our healing purpose." - John Robbins,
internationally renown environmentalist and Pulitzer prize nominated author
of Diet For A New America.

"The Festival organizers are on target for recognizing the power that music
communicates to us beyond the confines of language and intellect, in an
inspirational and spiritually sympathetic way." - Mark Magidson, Producer of
the movie "BARAKA."


The Humanity Federation

The Humanity Federation (a registered not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization)
is producing The World Music Festival as an annual event specifically to
empower our nation's young people, end violence, and implement programs that
will reduce teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, and homelessness.  

The Board of Directors
Lee Abrams - Radio programming legend, creator of the AOR format         
Jack Calmes- Founder of ShowCo - the world's largest concert production
company 
Vince Darago - Global broadcast expert (LIVE AID, the Global Forum II)
Elizabeth Esperson - Executive director of Thanksgiving Square  
Mary Houston - International radio broadcasting producer (Global Forum II)
Sheila Lendman - Foundation for Global Broadcasting 
Linda Livingston -  Director of Film/TV Relations for BMI
Allen McReynolds - Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Jacqueline Miller - Initiator of  the National legislation on Self-esteem 
Lisbeth Peterson - Recognized figure in global peace efforts
Steve Robertson - Founder and President of the Humanity Federation 
Michael Schwager - International public relations expert

The Board of Trustees
Jon Anderson - Legendary lead vocalist for the group YES
Martin Gray - Author and internationally renowned Holocaust survivor 
Dr.George Gerbner - The World's leading authority on media violence
Prof. Brain D. Josephson - Nobel prize winning quantum physicist
Dr. Dean Ornish - President Bill Clinton's physician and national best
selling holistic author  
John Robbins - National best selling author and internationally recognized
environmentalist 
John Vasconcellos - California legislator, founder of the CA. self-esteem
movement

The Board of Advisors
Peter Baumann - Founder and President of Private Music
Jack Canfield -  self-esteem expert and national #1 best selling author of
Chicken Soup for the Soul 
Vivian Castleberry - Founder of the 1st International Womens Peace Conference
Suzanne Ciani - Pianist and Composer , a premier talent on the Private Music
label 
Jeramy Hale - Co-founder of Sugo Records
Molly Hale - Part of the ownership team of Sugo Records
Steven Halpern - Considered one of the top researchers and composers in the
arena of music and healing
Michael Jones - Pianist and Composer, a premier talent of the Narada Record
label
Casey Kasem - Radio and TV legend, popular for his musical countdowns
Doug Kruschke - International business and marketing consultant
Mark Magidson - Internationally acclaimed producer of the movie BARAKA
Andrew Mecca -  Director of the CA. Drug & Alcohol Abuse Prevention programs
Babatunde Olatunji - African musician, considered one of the World's greatest
percussionist
Anne Robinson - Co-founder and CEO of Windham Hill Records
Howard Sapper - Co-owner of Global Pacific Records
Neil Sapper - Co-owner of Global Pacific Records
Irving Sarnoff - President of Friends of the United Nations
Dan Selene - Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Higher Octave Music
Rolland Smith - 30 year broadcast veteran and anchor for LIVE-AID 
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi - Astrophysicist and researcher on galactic radiation
Jim Tuverson - International telecast and broadcast coordinator for LIVE-AID
Howard Zuckerman - Executive in charge of Production for LIVE-AID
Gary Zukav - National best selling author of "Seat of the Soul" 
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