Peace, War, & Indifference

Summary:

One-hour, newscast compatible program that examines the possibilities of peace in our world today by looking at excerpts from important presidential speeches by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan alongside the words of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Chilean poet Gonzalo Millan and musicians from around the globe.

Website:

http://www.worldtourmusic.com

Additional Credits and Funding:

Andrew Reissiger - host, engineer, producer

Timely on:

December: Peace and the New Year

Tones:

Contemplative, Inspiring, Political

Language:

English

Description:

Open up a newspaper, flip on the tv, turn your computer on ? and the heard of elephants in the room is aggression, violence, and war.? Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, East Timor, Kosovo, Bali, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, and the United States of America?to name just a few. Join me Andrew Reissiger on this edition of World Tour as we listen to the words of some of our past presidents. We?ll hear the speeches of Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ and Reagan alongside the words of Nelson Mandela and MLK, poets and musicians and perhaps we might learn something of the possibilities of peace.
This was an excercise for me as a producer to create a narrative about peace, war, and indifference using only the words of others over the course of the past ~50 years...seeing as how violence appears to persist in this globalized and interdependent world.

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