Richie Havens,
Kevin Sanders,
Richard Savage
RICHIE HAVENS
Singer, Songwriter,
Performer,
Artist. Richie Havens is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, always soulful, singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the
Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960's.
It's a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the
Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in
1969, to the
Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993-coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock
Anniversary celebration, "
A Day In The Garden", in
1999.
Kevin Sanders
Kevin has spent his professional life in international broadcasting and journalism reporting in TV, radio, newspapers and magazines on politics, culture, science and finance. As
Fox TV News commentator he presents progressive perspectives on world affairs. As anchor and founding parliamentary bureau chief of the Nine
TV Network in
Australia, Sanders was described by the country's leading political commentator,
Alan Reid as "
One of the few journalists who can recognize instantly the true political dynamics of any situation, whether it be a
Georgetown cocktail party or an African Kraal."
His hosting of the live
CNN coverage of the
NASA shuttle missions won the
Space Club Press Award, an honor shared over the years by
Edward R. Murrow and
Walter Cronkite. Sanders' CNN reports on alternative energy sources won the
National Engineers' Award for
Broadcasting Excellence. A later series of articles he wrote on the subject for
Science Digest - including the first report on a new energy producing metal,
Nitinol - were translated and republished by
Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports.
His widely republished
1990 article "A
Beginner's Guide to the BNL-BCCI
Bank Scandal" was chosen by
Project Censored as one of the top twenty stories of the year. It was later selected by
Utne Reader Magazine as one of the top ten stories of the past ten years. Sanders' cover story for
Whole Earth Review, "Age of
Transparency" on the political implications of earth observation satellites was later anthologized with essays by
William James,
John F. Kennedy and
Arthur C. Clark in the book, Securing
Our Planet. Sanders has also written for
The Nation,
Futurist,
Current,
Horizons,
Penthouse, Politiks, and newspapers and journals in
USA,
Europe,
Japan and
Australia.
As critic and commentator on
ABC TV news in
New York he often sparked controversy.
Martin Scorcese once threatened to sue Sanders for his review of
Taxi Driver. (However
Scorcese later cast Sanders as the
Duke in the film
Age of Innocence.) In
1977 Sanders produced and hosted a widely transcribed and republished a discussion on The Year
2000 with
Margaret Mead,
Herman Khan and
William Irwin Thompson. In
1986 Sanders wrote and produced the
Peabody nominated
Footsteps of
Giants, the first documentary for the newly established
Fox Network - a one hour
25th anniversary
TV special on the first
American in space, for which he wrote the
US President's introductory speech.
The program was highly praised by the
New York Times and is available on
Pacific Video
In
1996 Sanders was the only journalist to cover the entire proceedings of the
World Court hearings in the
Hague on the legality of nuclear weapons. He later wrote, produced and hosted the Globalvision documentary on the hearings,
The People vs
The Bomb shown on
PBS in New York and on national
TV in Canada and Australia. In
1998 at
Cambridge University in
Britain he was the only journalist to cover the proceedings of The
Planetary Interest conference.
Sanders has become increasingly active in
NGO broadcast outreach at the
United Nation. In
1997 as Chairman of the
Earth Society Foundation, founded by Margaret Mead, Sanders hosted the first ever live webcast from the
United Nations of the Earth Day
Peace Bell Ceremony. At the ceremony Sanders proposed creating a
C-Span of the UN - a continuing project. At the UN in
2003 Sanders produced and hosted a day-long international webcast forum on
World Opinion: A New Superpower with a keynote address by
Denis Kucinich.
Later Sanders hosted a follow-up day-long conference on
The Future of the UN at
Seton Hall University with a keynote address from Walter Cronkite
. The program can be seen online at: www.wfa.org/setonhall/index
.html. As UN media representative for the London-based Oneworld
Radio network of more than a thousand radio stations, Sanders provides a daily program, World Opinion to review international editorial commentary. The programs can be heard online at:
http://radio.oneworld.net/mediamanage/search
- published: 18 Jul 2008
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