Future WAVE, Inc.

Please contribute to collaborating on creating the Rotary E-Club of World Peace (D-5330) booth at the Rotary International Convention. See an excerpt from our working draft above.

Donate to help out booth stand out and attract new members!

The planning committee includes Barbara Muller, Elaine Park, Barbara Leger, Mari Clarke, David Newman, Richard Denton, Stephen Crozier, Francis Jeffries, Tom Schneider and Arthur Kanegis, who is providing Future Wave, his nonprofit 501(c)(3) to manage donations - so your contribution can be tax-deductible. Let's build awareness of our club and our fabulous member projects.

If you'd like to see our exciting plans email ArthurKanegis at gmail with the word "BOOTH" in the subject line.

Thrilled to have you Pitch in!

Thanks to your donations for Molly's 80th Birthday, we began transforming this hull into a fun schoolyard climb-on. It will be painted with bright, fun scenes from La Mision Beach area and modified to make to make it a safe playground attraction to bring joy to children for decades ahead!

Along side the boat will be a plaque recognizing the many volunteers who've helped elevate local education. The BECA committee helped transform our area from one without a high school, where kids barely got through 6th grade -- to a community with a thriving "prepa" and over 100 University graduates! Doctors, dentists, social workers, artists, chefs and teachers tell us they fondly remember their first Santa toy -- and their chance to have an education. We have the highest percentage of high-school graduates in the state -- and have become a magnet for families seeking educational opportunities for their children.

Contribute $ 100 or more and your name will be added to the plaque!

We're taking donations through Future Wave, our nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization so your contribution can be tax-deductible! This is the same nonprofit we used to raise funds for the Santa project.

With your help Santa Arthur was able to give thousands of kids toys each year. For 20 years kids were awed by having Santa come to them!

Your donations will first be used to finish decorating the boat, preparing a safe playground site and transporting it to the local school. Then all the rest of the funds will go to enabling even more children to get scholarships!

Please spread joy to children while promoting education!

Warmly,

Arthur Kanegis

How do you start transforming a hull into playground equipment? See:

https://youtu.be/47uZn5MwvJQ?si=hzy7WnTKRBxpGUS0

And then:

Thank you so much Ralph Anaya for painting a scene -- and to Lupe Gonzales for preparing the boat!.

In a world plunging toward ecological and nuclear extinction, can a new story save us?

It did once before. In 1983 the US and USSR were racing toward a nuclear war because of the story we were being told - that we had to fight the “evil empire” and could beat them with nuclear bombs. Then President Reagan watched the ABC movie The Day After -- and discovered the real story - nuclear war spells global suicide.

Shaken, like 100 million American viewers -- and 200 million Russian -- Reagan turned from threatening nuclear-war to negotiating treaties to reduce nuclear weapons! The world proceeded to cut nuclear weapons drastically.

But now, once again, the world is embroiled in conflicting stories driving us into wars and a massive new build-up of nuclear weapons.

Another new story is desperately needed -- to wake us and shake us -- so they don’t bake us!

That’s why we turned our attention temporarily to promoting a new film about The Day After, called Television Event, which is just such a crucially-needed warning. Moreover, it is the inspiring, empowering story of how a few individuals with determination and guts changed the world!

Thanks to our generous donors, Melanie and Arthur were able to take on the role of Impact Producers. We sparked a widely publicized grand premiere and reunion of the courageous team that managed to get The Day After on TV back in 1983.

Watch Video

Joining with Nobel Prize winner ICAN and The Rotary Action Group for Peace, we also took Television Event to the United Nations -- where we promoted it at a meeting of the nations that ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Now in force as international law, the TPNW prohibits assisting, encouraging or inducing anyone to develop, test, produce, manufacture, transfer, possess, stockpile, use, threaten to use, or allow to be stationed on their territory -- any nuclear weapons.

We see Television Event as a powerful tool to get more nations to sign -- and get movements mobilized to start enforcing it.

That’s where you come in. Now you have the chance to join this effort by helping us promote Television Event through PBS broadcasts coast-to-coast!

We already have the commitment to upload it to the PBS network -- but a big effort is needed to get many stations to broadcast it and viewers to watch.

To get the effort rolling, a generous donor has pledged to match the next $10,000 donated.

Please donate whatever you can now to help us quickly reach that goal -- and double your impact!

Donate now, the future will thank you!