Director/Producer of “The World Is My Country” about the amazing adventures of World Citizen # 1 Garry Davis which will be featured on PBS, starting April 2021. Prior to producing this feature-length documentary, he produced – a TV documentary on nuclear war, “War Without Winners” narrated by Paul Newman and filmed by Haskell Wexler Arthur is President of Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. He is a member of the RotaryeclubofWorldPeace.org. Watch his Salute To Rotary created for the film at: TheWorldIsMyCountry.com/rotary
In the 1983 ABC TV special “The Day After” Kanegis researched nuclear war bomb-damage effects and produced a PSA with Paul Newman that ABC affiliates ran after the show. The show had the largest TV audience of any made-for-TV ever — over 100 million in the US and over 200 million in Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan credits it with convincing him that nuclear war was unwinnable, leading to his negotiating and signing arms-limitation agreements with the Soviet Union.
Arthur started his career with the American Friend’s Service Committee where he co-produced “The Automated Airwar’ “The Post-War War” and other materials that were effectively used in the movement to end the Vietnam War.Arthur is now the host for a weekly Podcast program, People Powered Planet, which can be viewed at PeoplePoweredPlanet.com