Unity Foundation's
"Positive
Spin"
Television Show presents
positive, innovative and solution oriented news
from around the world. |
The program's host, Bill McCarthy,
introduces segments on local and national concerns. UN and Foreign
Affairs correspondent Kim Weichel introduces segments
covering International issues. The international portion of the
program has included special presentations on the UN and interviews
with participants in the State of the World Forum.
Segments of the show focus upon
such topics as:
- Solutions to local,
national, and international problems;
- Programs and projects
to build sustainable communities;
- Youthful perspectives
on creating a better world;
- Innovative voices in
the performing and visual arts;
- Positive uses of new
communications technology.
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"Positive Spin" airs nationally on FreeSpeechTV
on the DISH Satellite Network, approximately 10 times each month.
The show also airs on cable stations in the San Francisco Bay
Area, Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago. Public Service Announcements
promoting non-profit organizations that work to create positive
social change in the world. The show's goal is to provide global
audiences with a media forum for people and organizations who
offer positive, upbeat news stories and constructive, innovative
programs for creating a better world. We plan to accomplish this
goal by reaching out around the world through the Internet; building
alliances with prominent people in the media who have a positive
programming focus; and collaborating with other positive media
vehicles to create a Positive News Network.
Past
Guests on Positive Spin
include political leaders
from all over the world,
social activists, performers, writers and artists:
Hafsat Abiola, Founder
of K.I.N.D.
David Alderdice, Lord Mayor of Belfast
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Sandy Bleifer, Artist, Hiroshima Nagasaki Exhibit
Dr. Noel Brown, President of Friends of the UN and
former Head of UN Environmental Program
Willie L. Brown Jr., Mayor of the City of San Francisco
General Lee Butler, former Head of US Nuclear Forces
Richard Butler, Director of UN Weapons Inspectors in Iraq
Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland and former Governor of California
Chung Ngai Chinese Dance Troupe
Walter Cronkite, prominent News Anchorman
Zlata Filipovic, author of Zlata's Diary - A Child's Life in
Sarajevo
Dr. Jane Goodall, Environmentalist
Richard Goldman, Founder, the Goldman Environmental Prize
John Handy, Jazz Musician
Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America
Miki Jacevic, Bosnian Youth Leader
Ron Jones, Pulitzer Prize Nominee Poet
David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Linda McCartney's "1960s" Photography Exhibit
Janice Mirikitani, Poet
Rosa Montoya's Bailes Flamencos Dance Company
Steve Mokwena, CEO Youth Commission of South Africa
Dr. Wally N'Dow, Co-Chairman of State of the World Forum
Nancy Pelosi, California Congresswoman
Daniel Sheehan, President of Natural Law Policy Institute
Jorge Santana, Latin Guitarist
Narada Michael Walden, Musician and Record Producer
Dennis Weaver, Actor and Environmental Activist
Reverend Cecil Williams, Pastor of Glide Memorial Church
Marianne Williamson, Author
Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host, TV Producer and Actress |
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