There is something extraordinary about watching the world gather in the center of the world.

Every April 22, Earth Day transforms Times Square into a global green stage — a place where music, environmental awareness, and collective responsibility collide in the most powerful way. Under the leadership of producer and humanitarian Paul Sladkus, the flashing lights of Broadway become a beacon for sustainability, hope, and action.

Artists perform. Activists speak. Screens that usually sell products instead amplify purpose. In a place known for movement, Earth Day asks us to think about preservation — the air we breathe, the oceans we depend on, the planet we call home. It is celebration with conscience. Energy with intention.

And then, in September, something even more profound happens.

Pause for Peace.

Also orchestrated by Paul Sladkus in Times Square, this gathering shifts the frequency from environmental awareness to global unity. Inspired by the spirit of international peace initiatives, the event invites the world — quite literally — to stop for a moment. In the middle of honking taxis, tourist chatter, and digital billboards, thousands come together to breathe… reflect… and stand for harmony.

It is a rare and moving sight: Times Square in intentional stillness.

A symbolic heartbeat for humanity.

Music once again plays a central role — because music crosses borders faster than politics ever could. Performers lend their voices to messages of compassion, non-violence, and understanding. Peace ambassadors, community leaders, and artists stand shoulder to shoulder, reminding us that unity is not naïve — it is necessary.

Earth Day calls us to protect our planet.

Pause for Peace calls us to protect each other.

Together, these Times Square gatherings reflect Paul Sladkus’ belief that entertainment can be transformational. That stages can become platforms. That crowds can become communities.

In the very place where the world meets, he creates moments where the world listens.

And for a few luminous hours each year, Times Square doesn’t just shine.

It heals.

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Dear Friends and Members,

We are all one, mostly ALL living on Mother Earth in harmony, peace, love and pray in good health. Good News focuses on Upbeat, not Beat-up life and shares the Good in our wonderful world. Let’s focus, ALL TOGETHER on this reality, PRAY TOGETHER that those few who don’t live peacefully and nonviolently will see the light of LOVE and UNITE.

Here are two Good News Posts that reflect the Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. Our first is with two wonderful Chinese Children who sing, You Raise Me Up, in English, who for me made me cry from this talent and emotion.  Our Next Generations…(click on the words below the picture)

You Raise Me Up

Our other story is Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine recognizing Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month Celebrating Changemakers in the community.

Borough President of Manhattan

Mark Levine and other representatives

“Celebrating Changemakers,”

an Asian American

Pacific Islander Month Event

I am honored to add some Multicultural Background on our company, Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC. We were encouraged to start back in 1985, by the largest Chinese Media Company in America, the World Journal, to create a multicultural marketing, media rep and advertising company. I agreed, as my dream was to create Positive TV Programs for the World and by working with the multicultural communities I would have helped them and maybe they would put my TV shows into their country.  MBC initially started to represent all the Asian Media in America, as well as the European, which was my ancestry, and then later on the African, Hispanic/Latino and Middle Eastern America communicates. America the home of ALL, or as termed by Times Square, the Crossroads of the World.  

I learned through that media representation experience by working with the multicultural communities how similar we are, we all laugh, cry, hurt, care and much more… we are brothers and sisters HOMO-SAPIENS, YAY. FORWARD MOTION. ONE WORLD.

Good News Corporation, our nonprofit now focuses our efforts, and we need YOU and everyone you know to:

PAUSE THE WORLD FOR PEACE AT NOON ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2024. WE HOPE TO HAVE 8 BILLION PEOPLE JOIN IN, ALL THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS WOULDN’T HURT. WE ARE ONE. 

193 UN COUNTRIES ALREAD AGREED. PEACE MESSENGER RINGO STARR WILL VIRTUALLY REQUEST IT FROM TIMES SQUARE AT NOON AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A MAJOR PEACE DAY PARTY WORLDWIDE BROADCAST FOCUSING ON THE GOOD HAPPENING IN THE WORLD FOR PEACE AND MOTHER EARTH. 

22 YEARS GOOD NEWS CORPORATION (and 75 years on June 9^th for Paul) HAS BEEN FOCUSED & DEDICATED TO PEACE, DIGNITY AND EQUALITY ON A HEALTHY PLANET WITH OUR EVENTS…WE CONTINUE TO STRIVE FOR TOTAL LOVE, AND MORE LOVE, AS THAT IS THE ANSWER.

We also are in final edit of our movie Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE to be released this year.  www.woodstockforever.com.  

Please support our nonprofit, 501 C 3, Good News Corporation at http://goodnewsplanet.com/peacedayparty/peace-day-donations/

“All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal 

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

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual,

Founder, and our Good News and Peace Worldwide Team 

Milestone Broadcast Corporation

 www.goodnewsplanet.TV,  www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast 

Good News Corporation, 501 C 3, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org,

paul.sladkus1@gmail.com 

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact: 

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

PS – SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND MEMBERS: Looking for a vacation rental, SHORT TERM, in Montauk, here is our listing https://goodnewsplanet.com/montauk-manor-rental-suite-403-paul-sladkus/ call me. Paul 917 687 1790

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Thankfulness finds its full measure in generosity of presence, both through participation and witness. We sit at the table as part of every other person’s world while making our own world without will or effort, this is what is extraordinary and gifted, this is the essence of gratefulness, seeing to the heart of privilege. Thanksgiving happens when our sense of presence meets all other presences. Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention.”
I just wanted to say I am grateful for you!

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“This book presents her special connection with the Lord. Many events are uplifting moments that she believes to be miracles or direct communication from Jesus.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“The number seven is believed to be God’s perfect number, representing completion. Mary Johnson believes that being the seventh daughter in her family has given her special connection to the divine.”
–BlueInk Review

Can Miracles Really Happen? Can Faith Really Guide Our Lives? Is There A Higher Power?

Mary Alicia Guillory-Johnson can attest, unequivocally a yes to all of the above. The minister, counselor, and former local TV host shares her personal stories and insights in a unique new book, Mary the Seventh Girl: Extraordinary Miracles in an Ordinary Life.

Mary, a mother of three full-grown children, has spent three decades teaching religious education, including 10 as a religious education director. For 35 years she has been a lecturer and a Eucharistic Minister. She was certified as a licensed counselor from the University of Texas, is board certified in anger management (CAI), and is certified in domestic violence and death and loss. For four years, Mary hosted a TV show on Houston Public Access called Alicia’s Eyes, which put a spotlight on positive events involving students K-12. Mary practices her faith – Catholicism – in Houston, Texas.

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Remembering Samuel Pisar, Holocaust Survivor, Special Envoy for Holocaust Education by Judith Pisar
“In Memoriam Hungarian Composers,
Victims of Holocaust”
A Concert by world-renowned musicians,
Professors and students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest)
Violin: Vilmos Szabadi
Cello: Eszter Karasszon
Piano: Mariann Marczi
Lajos Delej: Scherzo Béla Bartók-Tivadar Országh: Hungarian Folksongs Imre Sárossi: Pastorale Zoltán Kodály: Transylvanian Lament György Justus: Jazz suite – Waltz, Tango Béla Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs Ferenc Vecsey: Valse triste György Justus: Elegiaque
A Talk by Ágnes Kőry, Director of the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (London)

Judith Pisar has devoted her career to building cultural bridges across the Atlantic. As President of Arts France-USA, an organization committed to cultural exchange between the two countries, she regularly produces concerts and festivals of American music in Paris – including tributes to Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Broadway, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Prior to that she served for 17 years as Chairman of the American Center of Paris, the avant-garde meeting place for French and American artists. In that capacity she selected Frank Gehry to design a new building in 1988 – one of his first in Europe. Described by Philip Johnson as “America’s Cultural Czarina in Europe,” she has also served on the French Ministry of Culture’s Conseil Supérieur du Mécénat, on the board of the Régine Chopinot Ballet and as a founding signatory of the World Charter against Cancer. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Music at the Brooklyn Academy, Executive Director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and founded The Composer Speaks, a lecture bureau which brought some of the greatest composers of the 20th Century — Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Luciano Berio and others — to cities and universities throughout the United States. She is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor and a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Performers
Vilmos Szabadi (violin)
Mr. Szabadi is Hungary’s foremost violinist, a regular soloist and frequent guest artist in the most prestigious concert halls around the world. Vilmos Szabadi studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest where on receiving his diploma, he became the youngest ever to join the Professors’ team. His career as an international Concert violinist took off when he played Bartók 2nd Violin Concerto during the Bartók Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The success of this Concert, led to invitations from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as well. Mr. Szabadi was also among the privileged musicians invited by HRH Prince Charles to perform at the celebration in honor of Sir Georg Solti’s 80th birthday held at the Buckingham Palace in 1992. In 1993 the prestigious “Franz Liszt” prize has been awarded to Vilmos Szabadi by the Hungarian Government. In 1995 he also appeared on the Stradivarius series, played the Strad violin owned by Spanish Royalty in Madrid. Mr. Szabadi is a recent double prize winner of the renowned MIDEM Festival in Cannes, France. He plays a cremonese Laurentius STORIONI instrument dated 1778.

Mariann Marczi (piano)
Mariann Marczi started playing piano at the age of four and now she holds a PhD from Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest, where she is a Professor. Ms. Marczi is a winner of many national and international awards, scholarships and piano competitions. She performed almost in every country in Europe, and she is also a frequent guest artist at many music festivals, such as the Bartók Festival; Prague-Wien-Budapest Festival etc. Her repertoire includes a wide range of works from early Baroque to contemporary music. Ms. Marczi turns with particular attention towards the works of J. S. Bach, Béla Bartók and György Kurtág. Since 2012 she is also a member of the World Piano Teachers Association and she often participates as lecturer at international conferences, such as the World Piano Conference (Novi Sad, Serbia) and the London International Piano Symposium.
Eszter Karasszon (cello)
Eszter Karasszon is a young Hungarian cellist, student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest. She is already a winner of many national and international awards, such as the Dohnányi Chamber Competition (2013) and the VI. David Popper Competition (2015). In 2010 she has been granted a scholarship giving her the possibility to participate in a master class of Indiana String Academy to Janos Starker. Ms. Karasszon has not only performed in Hungary but in many European countries and in the United States as well.
Ágnes Kőry (talk)
Hungarian-born Ágnes Kőry is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy of Music London (DipRAM) and University of London (MPhil). An ex-professional cellist, she focuses on research into a variety of fields (which include baroque string instruments, composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, Holocaust history ). Ágnes Kőry presented her papers on musicological conferences (University of Edinburgh, University of London, University of Manchester, Institute of Musicology Budapest) . She is an author of many musicological journals such as the Galpin Society Journal, Studia Musicologica, Early Music, The Consort, Ethnomusicological Forum and Parlando. Ágnes Kőry’s scholarly papers are also published on a variety of scholarly websites in the United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and Israel. Ágnes Kőry is a regular contributor to classical music websites. Ágnes Kőry leads the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (London), where specialized musicianship training coexists with comprehensive music education

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