Dear Friends and Members, 

Voting is over, so now let’s pray we don’t have to hear the best and worst from many and only see Good News from all the candidates. Congratulations to ALL, we have:

FREEDOM TO VOTE, AND FREEDOM IS PEACE.

The Good News is that there are many truly doing public service, and we praise and thank them in Peace and Love. Forward Motion.

We have some local New York City Good News Political stories to share:

The first is the Giving Back Foundation honoring Mira Nair, the Mother of Zohran Mamdani, and a great filmmaker. Zohran grew up seeing the power of her films and also the wisdom of his dad, a Political Science Professor. Here is an Award given to Mira in 2013 by friends at the Giving Back Foundation. Also, here is my interview with Mira and others at the IAAC Indian Awards, also in 2013, in which she discusses Peace.

NOTE: Good News Corporation, a Nonprofit, was created in 2002 by Milestone Broadcast Corporation Founder, Paul Sladkus, who founded a Multicultural Marketing & Media Representative Agency in 1985 and has a long-standing relationship with over 130 ethnic communities worldwide.

The Giving Back Foundation

Newsletter

IAAC Honours Three Iconic

Indo-Americans in Literature,

Film & Medicine – Salman

Rushdie, Mira Nair &

Dr. Manjula Bansal –

At 15th Anniversary Gala

I had the experience this year of speaking about two candidates I know and believe in, and I learned a great deal from handing out flyers. I suggest that everyone get some experience with our voting system and candidates, as it can build your respect for our FREEDOM TO VOTE.

PS- I was also the President of my Sleepy Hollow High School Senior Class, so every reunion I have the opportunity to be involved and share some great times, he he!

Here are three interviews that Good News has the honor to share with you. The first is one of the founders of the Working Families Party; the second is our new president of the Manhattan Borough, Brad Holyman-Sigal, talking about FREEDOM, during the celebration victory party, during an interview with the Gay City News that I also recorded and asked short questions. The last was with our friend and Earth and Peace Day Partner, the current Manhattan Borough President, Mark Levine, when he was interviewed on Spectrum TV about becoming the Comptroller of New York City and his stance for overseeing the finances for our NYC Administration for the best for ALL living in New York City.

Working Families Party History

with Jeff Gold, a Founder

Brad Hoylman-Sigal,

Manhattan Borough President

Elect After Party speaks about

FREEDOM for all, including the

LGBTQ Community

Mark Levine NYC Comptroller

Elect speaks about working with

new administration-

Congratulations Mark

Once again, we share our International Day of Peace Success. Please take a look at our Press Release, which includes:

A. One-hour Special Being Edited

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2026 Earth & Water Day

Marketing Benefits 4/22/2026

and Peace Day Weekend

9/18,19, 20, 21

4 Million+ Impressions &

Viewers and LIVE Times

Square Attendees at the UN

International Day of Peace

2025 & NYC Climate Week

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September 19, 20, 21

Times Square International Day

of Peace and NYC Climate Week

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Times Square International Day

of Peace and NYC Climate Week

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Times Square International Day

of Peace and NYC Climate Week

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in Times Square Part 3

Times Square International Day

of Peace and NYC Climate Week

Concert Pause the World for

Peace/Good News Broadcast

Woodstock Forever

Part 4

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Please share with your community all our Good News.

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With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth,  For Information Contact: 

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Jane Goodall only wants one thing

When I caught up with Jane Goodall in 2019, she was calling on consumers and businesses to make responsible choices and protect the natural world.

Now she is telling people something much more simple: vote.

The celebrated primatologist thinks governments around the globe are not working hard enough to combat climate change. And in a year when more than 40 countries — including the United States, India and South Africa — will be electing their leaders, Goodall is telling anyone who will listen that the health of Earth itself is on the ballot.

“Half of the population of the planet is going to be voting,” she said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. “This year could be the most consequential voting year in terms of the fate of our planet.”

As my colleague Manuela Andreoni wrote last week, the leaders elected this year will face consequential choices on energy policy, deforestation and emissions reductions. In the United States, Republicans are planning to undo environmental regulations if former president Donald J. Trump wins re-election. In Mexico, the favorite to win the presidency in June is Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who is now mayor of Mexico City and has vowed to take action to reduce emissions.

Goodall noted that the outcomes of national elections can have profound and immediate impacts. She pointed to Brazil, where two years ago, voters ousted the far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, and brought back President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Overnight, Lula abandoned Bolsonaro’s laissez faire approach to environmental regulation and redoubled efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Similar swings in policy will reverberate around the world as people go to the polls in the months to come, Goodall said: “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.”

‘The wealthy are being hit’

Goodall refrained from endorsing specific candidates.

But she believes that as extreme weather batters every corner of the globe, more voters were coming to understand that climate policies matter.

“When climate change began to make itself known, it was Bangladesh and the poorer countries that were suffering,” she said. “Now the wealthy are being hit. The industrialized countries are being hit where it hurts them economically.”

In the United States alone last year, there were 28 storms, wildfires or other disasters that each cost at least $1 billion or more in damages, my colleague Christopher Flavelle reported this month.

“There are floods in New York, floods in Britain, floods in several parts of Europe, unprecedented heat waves killing people in France,” Goodall told me. “It has changed.”

Yet in what is expected to be a tight race between President Biden and Trump, climate is not one of the dominant issues of the campaign. Inasmuch as it is a factor, it is often invoked by activists who believe the Biden administration is not doing enough to curb emissions, or by Trump with promises to expand oil and gas drilling.

Goodall also expressed hope that companies could do more to reduce emissions. Just as voters might respond to climate crises at the polls, she said corporations might begin funneling their lobbying dollars toward candidates who prioritized climate issues.

“I’m hoping that because companies are being hit economically, some of them will think, ‘Well, we better put a bit more money into the right politicians,’” she said.

‘An all of the above moment’

Goodall, who turns 90 in a few months, was in Davos talking up her efforts to educate young people about the plight of the natural world — and to bend the ear of the policymakers and C.E.O.s who sought her out for selfies.

Elections, she said, matter to the degree that they help preserve the natural world.

“The ecosystem is this tapestry of interconnected plants and animals, and each single one has a role to play,” she said. “When a species becomes extinct, it’s like pulling a thread. And if enough threads are pulled, the tapestry hangs in tatters. The ecosystem will collapse.”

Goodall, who spent decades living in the jungle studying chimpanzees, is not dogmatic in her approach to fighting climate change.

“We need the technology,” she said. “We need transfer to renewable energy. We need to stop subsidizing fossil fuel companies. We must think about human population with its cattle. It’s an all-of-the-above moment.”

But she said those policies will only be enacted by leaders who appreciate the gravity of the crises facing planet Earth.

“We’ve got to get the message out there for people to understand, and then they’ll vote in the right way,” she said. “Then they’ll understand how important it is for their children, and their children’s children.”

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Good morning, I hope you had a great weekend. For those of you who attended the Black/Latino/Asian Caucus Weekend, I hope it was productive. It was great to see all of you.

This is my last outreach to you as we are finalizing enrollment for class this week – class begins on Saturday. It’s a wonderful and exciting time as you know in politics as we prepare for primaries and elections later this year.

I am reaching out to you to see if you or anyone in your circle would be interested in taking advantage of the opportunity to engage in the invaluable training we offer. We have a few seats left and we appreciate you sharing this information with mentors/mentees/Community organizers and mover/shakers folks in your circles who would benefit by learning to hone their “raw” skills and apply themselves to advancing their communities/constituents.

The cost of the class is $700 which I like to think as a “game changer” to free yourself of limitations and labels. The world of politics is elusive and challenging at times but for the veterans among us – it’s a vocation that never gets old or boring. You just need ambition, Fire in your belly and a working brain – yes, just that simple! For the $700 you receive:

• Quality instruction for 13 Weeks at CUNY, School of Professional Studies in a State-of-the art classroom

• Quality instruction by Professor William Allen, an established CUNY Professor of Political Science, highly achieved former Board of Elections staffer, Political Strategist, Founder of a Political Club, former Candidate who has both won and lost who is an EXPERT on Petitions!

• Quality coaching in each class from a political operative with a combined 30-Year experience in government and campaigning. Campaign experience is both Democratic and Republican.

• A class Teaching Associate to help you smoothly connect and navigate your class experience and networking opportunities with both speakers and alumni

• The opportunity to author, present and have your Campaign Master Plan critiqued

• A professional assessment of your “goal” viability whether you want to be a candidate or campaign manager.

• and more.

We are proud of our achievements and tangibility of how this class and opportunity for women has grown since our first class in 2015 (note: We are pleased to recognize below in the flyer – new Council members Diana Ayala and Carlina Rivera who are graduates of that 2015 class). All of this is to say that “Running for Public Office” is a process. It does not happen without a plan, support and personal dedication. All that is required is that you take the first step by:

• sending me your 1 page (or less) essay on What position you are interested in (Candidate and what office or if you want to be a Campaign Manager) and why you want to run.

• once accepted, you simply pay your tuition and take “responsibility” for properly exploring your goal.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email me back. Also on Saturday 2/24, the class will be off to a great start with “guest cameos” of women who are “Running for Office”! If you are serious about achieving your goals in a year or two this could be you – a candidate who is Running for Office! Thank you for your consideration and referral. Indeed you are my village and it really does take one to get women to where we need to be in the eco-system at all levels. Have a super day!

Sincerely,

Sharon

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