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Subject: Upcoming Connecticut Peace & Justice Events
American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: Nov 6 2007
. Nov 9-20: Be our Guest: a contemporary look at immigration
. Nov 13: Migration a Global Challenge
. Nov 10: Women & Peacebuilding Conference
. Host the Cost of War Exhibit in Your Community
Nov 9-20: Be our Guest: a contemporary look at immigration
Be our guest: A contemporary look at immigration" will open on Friday Nov 9th at Trinity College's Broad Street Gallery in Hartford. Marella Zacarias will exhibit her paintings/installation that are a reaction to the Raids on immigrant workers. Also David Bacon, a nationally recognized photo-journalist will be showing his photographs. David's articles and pictures are always at the vanguard of the immigrant rights movement and many of us use them as an inspiration for our work.
David Bacon will also give a talk at the Gallows bookstore at Trinity College at 4:30 pm on the same day. (Nov 9th)
Broad Street Gallery
Trinity College
1283 Broad Street
Hartford, CT
Be our Guest:
A contemporary look at immigration
November 9- 20, 2007
Opening reception
November 9, 6:30- 10pm
Art by David Bacon
and Marela Zacarias
Gallery Hours
For appointment call 978-549-6509
Or e-mail charlie.fuentes at trincoll.edu
www.marela.org
Nov 10: Women & Peacebuilding Conference
Women and Peacebuilding Conference
November 10, 2007 8 AM-5 PM
University of Hartford Gengras Student Union
Registration begins at 8am and event runs until 5 PM
Contacts:
Donn Weinholtz, University of Hartford
weinholtz at hartford.edu 860-768-4186
Mary Lee Morrison, Director Pax Educare, Inc.,
the Connecticut Center for Peace Education
paxeducare at comcast.net 860-231-0445
Conference web site: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/peaceconf/
"Building Peace: Women Making a Difference" will focus on women's leadership in peace and conflict resolution initiatives locally, regionally, and internationally. The target audience will be educators, students, community activists and interested others, both men and women. Students with student IDs are free. $30 registration fee at the door. This major conference is funded by a grant from the Women's Education and Leadership Fund (WELF), a legacy fund of the Hartford College for Women, and will be held at the University of Hartford on November 10, 2007. The aims of the event are to:
1) Highlight the roles women are playing in leading peace and conflict resolution at the local, regional, national and international levels.
2) Build collaborative, working relationships among conference participants that will help move forward women's peace building initiatives.
3) Illustrate that peacemaking is a real option for average people, as well as for the exceptionally talented.
4) Develop participants' peacemaking skills for individual action and successful group initiatives through interactive workshops.
Pax Educare, Inc., the Connecticut Center for Peace Education, located in Hartford, CT, is a co-sponsor. Pax Educare is a resource center whose mission is the promotion of the research, study and teaching of peace. Several other groups have joined in as affiliates.
The day will feature an international plenary panel of prominent women peacemakers, morning and afternoon workshops, a theatrical performance by HartBeat Ensemble, resources and will include lunch. During the conference a Lifetime Achievement award will be given to New England resident Elise Boulding, sociologist and former Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association, whose work in the area of women and peace has been groundbreaking.
Workshops will feature local, grass-roots skill-building and processes designed to empower participants to work toward peace and social change, as well as showcase women's peacemaking internationally. Topics will include: the media and peace and social change, community organizing, global sustainability, peace and communities of color, art and peace, youth and peace, and empowering individuals for social change.
http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/peaceconf/
Host the Cost of War Exhibit in Your Community
AFSC Connecticut is pleased to announce a new community organizing tool to help raise awareness about the cost of the U.S. war in Iraq.
One day of the war in Iraq costs $720 million. How would you spend it?
About the Cost of War Project
The Iraq war has certainly been costly in terms of lives lost, with thousands of U.S. military personnel dead, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed. Also, the economic costs are far greater than most people imagine, with more than $1 trillion tax dollars spent in the first four years of the war.
One trillion dollars equals $720 million spent each day, or $500,000 per minute. The taxpayer money spent on the war is displacing millions of Iraqis and destroying their hospitals and schools instead of supporting health care, education and housing for people in our own communities.
The American Friends Service Committee is launching a national project to highlight the economic cost of the war and demand that Congress shift war funding to support human needs here and real solutions in Iraq.
AFSC Connecticut has a set of the Cost of War banners. If you are interested in having the display come to your community in Connecticut email or call David Amdur at 860-523-1534 or send email to connecticut at afsc.org
www.afsc.org/cost
Nov 13: Migration a Global Challenge
Symposium Migration: A Global Challenge
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Saint Joseph College
Crystal Room, Mercy Hall
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117 (Directions over)
9:00 a.m.
Registration and Coffee
9:20 a.m.
Keynote Address
"THE WALL: IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME?"
Gaye Moorhead, RSM - currently serving as President of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of Rochester, N.Y. She is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School and a member of the New York State Bar. For over a decade she represented children in family court proceedings in New York and more recently, immigrants in deportation proceedings in El Paso. She was coordinator of the Mercy Migrant Education Ministry, a mobile school and health and social services ministry, serving primary aged Hispanic migrant children and their families in Florida and Ohio (1993-2001).
Immigrant Stories
Panel
Michael Boyle, Immigration Attorney, Law Offices of Michael Boyle, North Haven
Father James Manship, Pastor, Saint Rose of Lima Church, Elm City Congregations Organized (ECCO), New Haven
Maureen Moriarty, Office of Congressman John B. Larson, Hartford
Tara Parrish, Lead Community Organizer, Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART)
Thomas Phillip, CEO, Capital Workforce Partners, Hartford
Action Steps
Myra Oliver, Executive Director, The International Institute of Connecticut, Bridgeport
Co-Sponsors: Collaborative Center for Justice; Office of International Studies and Programs Saint Joseph College; Hartford Public Library.
American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Area Office
56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860.523.1534
Fax: 860.523.1705
Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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