Global Vision for Peace "Dove of Peace" pin makes major statement at Academy Awards Ceremony

Hollywood March 4, 2004 - โ € "Multiple Academy Award-winner โ € โ € œLord of the Rings director Peter Jackson was joined by fellow film artists wearing the Global Vision for Peace โ € โ € œDove of Peace pin at Sunday's Academy Awards Ceremony. The Sporting โ € โ € œDove of Peace pin just above the โ € โ € œLord Of The Rings pin on his lapel, the award-winning director stated, โ € œThe Oscars bring us together from around the world, many in the way the UN does and I salute the UN โ € also hold a light for peace and show their support for the UN by wearing the โ € โ € œDove of Peace pin at the 2004 Academy Awards were Sir Ben Kingsley, Annie Lennox, Chris Cooper, Jim Sheridan, Benicio del Toro, Haskell Wexler, Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole, Frances Fisher and Thomas Newman. For the second consecutive year, the director of the Oscar-winning Best Picture showed support for the peace by wearing the โ € โ € œDove of Peace pin. Director Rob Marshall, who won the Oscar for Best Film and wore the pin last year, was followed this year by director Peter Jackson, who have the home of the Oscar for Best Film and also carried the โ € โ € œDove of Peace pin to the Awards. Last month, during a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York City, Global Vision for Peace launch of Artists UN to sign artists from all disciplines, as statesmen and women, collectively support the vision and the power of the United Nations and global peacekeeping and humanitarian organization. Since last month, artists and spiritual leaders from across the creative spectrum is suitable their voices to Artists for the UN, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Robert Altman, Deepak Chopra, Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Alan Cumming, Illeana Douglas, Donna Karan, Yoko Ono, Kurt Vonnegut, Marianne Williamson, Jessica Lange, Chris Cooper, Anjelica Huston, Michael York, Robert Graham and Henry Dunay, who designed pin inspired by Picasso's legendary peace doves. Actress Drew Barrymore joined Global Vision for Peace co-founder Xorin Balbes and Heathcliff Rothman at the Artists for the UN launch at UN headquarters. It was spelled as the inaugural Friend of the UN, an honorary, unofficial designation arranged in cooperation with the UN Barrymore spoke about the role of artists within the culture. Besides former UN Deputy Secretary-General Gillian Sorensen talked about the mission of the United Nations. Artists for the UN recognizes and honors the role of artists within a society as embodied by the philosophy of the author Mordecai Richler: โ € œBe an honest testimony of your time. โ € Artists play a unique role in the culture: to beacons of consciousness to transcend politics and partisanship, holding a mirror independently for their time โ € "the illusions, ideals and ideas. Global Vision for Peace and Artists for the UN artists will learn about the enormous global reach of the UN, to develop projects in various media to support UN initiatives to promote and invite artists to participate enrolled. Global Vision for Peace is co-financing and co-sponsoring a film documentary, โ € œAngels of Africa, โ € on a group of AIDS orphan children in Uganda who tour America every two years as a musical performing group, which both money for the orphanage and the visibility for the devastating crisis of AIDS, but offers an uplifting message of hope and possibilities. The documentary will complement the UN coordinated global AIDS outreach. GVP is hosting a performance by the children in March when they tour in Los Angeles, and GVP has approached the UN revelation about the documentary on the UN on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004.