Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: April 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

4/29 THURSDAY > Annual Peace Concert!!

Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action Presents:

ANNUAL PEACE CONCERT
THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH 7:15PM

PIUS X THEATER IN THE MUSIC BUILDING

(NEXT TO BROWNSON)

Performing will be:

Dan Einbender and David Bernz

Great Folk Musicians and Songwriters

Manhattanville’s Percussion Ensemble

and readings of PEACE POETRY!

Everyone invited…..community welcome…
For info: call the Center at 914 323-7156

SUN, 5/2 > Take a Peace Train to NYC

SUNDAY, May 2 Rally and March for Peace & Human Needs in NYC, starting at 2 PM

Join with thousands from around the world for an International Day of Action, in connection with the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference taking place at the United Nations. Bring your posters, your drums, your children and your neighbors to say to the world and the leaders who will come to the UN :

• We want a Nuclear Free Future!
• Fund Human Needs, Not War!
• End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!
• Protect the planet instead of destroying it with war and nuclear proliferation!

Download Westchester May 2 Flyer
Download Westchester Peace Train Schedule

Hop on a Metro North Train and plan to arrive before 2:00 PM. Meet at Grand Central Main Lobby at 1:50 PM and/or assemble with Westchester contingent at 38th Street and 7th Avenue

Please RSVP on Evite or Facebook so we’ll know if you’re coming.

Sunday, May 2 Events Schedule

1:30 PM               Assembly (7th Ave + South of 41st Street)
2:00 – 3:30 PM    Rally
3:30 PM               March across 42nd Street to the United Nations
4:00 – 6:00 PM    International Peace & Music Festival in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

Many other events are taking place in connection with the NPT Treaty review conference, including:

International Conference For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World
April 30 – May 1, 2010

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Address International Conference at Riverside Church

On the eve of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address the “For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World” International Conference at the Riverside Church.

The UN Secretary-General’s participation in the international conference reflects the urgency and importance of the engagement of grassroots peace and disarmament movements in the drive to eliminate nuclear weapons. Ban is urging the nuclear powers to take immediate steps to fulfill their NPT disarmament obligation, and has put forward a “Five Point Plan” calling on them to begin their promised ‘good faith negotiations’ for nuclear weapons abolition.

Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027-5788

More info at: http://www.peaceandjusticenow.org/
and http://www.nowarwestchester.org/

Contact: Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: (914) 323-7156

Saturday, April 24, 2010

4/12 Vigil for Peace

Photos from 4/12 Vigil for Peace, sponsored by the Center.

Thanks to all who participated and helped organize this event!!

Photo Credit: Andrew Courtney.

Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse in White Plains

Connie Hogarth with Manhattanville Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action students and leaders for the Fall -- Mustafa Ahmed (Iraqi Student Project student), Patricia Thomas (Jamaica), and Daerak Lee (Guatemala) -- with Pat Humphries and Sandy O of Emma's Revolution (musical group) at the Clearwater Walkabout Coffeehouse on 4.10.10 at Memorial United Methodist Church in White Plains, NY.

Photo credit: Andrew Courtney

Sunday, April 11, 2010

END THE WAR VIGIL ON MANHATTANVILLE CAMPUS!

The students at the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action are holding a Peace Vigil…

Monday April 12^th, at 6:30pm…starting in front

of the cafeteria entrance to Benziger.

Please join , and if possible, make a sign, and bring a candle . But in any case, just join us to say:

NO MORE WAR…END THIS ENDLESS WAR…IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ!

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER….WAR IS NEVER THE ANSWER…….

THE HUMAN COST: AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF WAR-- OVER 4,000 AMERICAN DEATHS

AND UNTOLD IRAQI AND AFHANI PEOPLE

THE COST: OVER $3 TRILLION---THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON JOBS, HEALTHCARE,

SCHOOLS AND A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT AND ENDING GLOBAL WARMING

IT’S TIME TO END THIS WAR AND THE U.S. OCCUPATION NOW!

Friday, April 2, 2010

FW: Howard Zinn Flyer.docx Hogarth Center showing 4.7.2010

CONNIE HOGARTH CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION

Presents a film showing:

A Tribute To A People’s Antiwar Historian

“You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train”

Ophir Room, Reid Castle

Manhattanville College,

Purchase,NY

Wed. April 7^th 2010, 7:15pm

For info: call (914) 323-7156

The life and times of Howard Zinn: the historian, activist, and author

of several classics, including “A People’s History of the United States”. Archival footage and commentary by friends, colleagues and Zinn himself.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

FW: THIS WILL BE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CONCERT! DON'T MISS IT AND SAVE THE DATE! XXCONNIE

THIS WILL BE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CONCERT! DON’T MISS IT AND ORDER TICKETS NOW!! XXXCONNIE

The Klezmatics, Work o’ the Weavers,

Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman Perform in

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine: The Guthrie Legacy Concert

At The Tarrytown Music Hall

Saturday, April 24^th at 8:00 PM

New York, NY — Legends of folk and klezmer music will perform at Kisses Sweeter Than Wine: The Guthrie Legacy Concert. A benefit concert for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and The Sloop Woody Guthrie, the concert takes place on Saturday April 24^th at 8:00 PM at the Tarrytown Music Hall.

The Klezmatics, Work o’ the Weavers, Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman will pay tribute to trailblazing American singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie and others that followed in his wake with musical performances throughout the evening. Actor/singer Rob Tepper will perform a scene from “When the Curfew Blows,” his one-man-show about Guthrie’s life and times and Toronto’s Theresa Tova will join Frank London for some contemporary Yiddish jazz. Tickets are $85, $65 and $45 and available at tickets.tarrytownmusichall.org .

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The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action

The Manhattanville College Departments of Sociology and Political Science work closely with the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, which is located in the Gallery of Founder’s Hall.

The Center’s mission is to help the next generation of college-educated activists acquire, in the course of their undergraduate training, the practical skills and knowledge necessary for work in some field of social change. Recently retired after 23 years as Executive Director of the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), Connie Hogarth is recognized throughout the metropolitan area and the nation as a leading activist in various struggles for peace and justice.

The Center runs a lecture series and a mentoring program, supports student research and publishes a student-edited journal devoted to social change, helps locate internships and employment, and runs workshops in public speaking, the use of computers, fund raising, media access and organizing.

About Connie Hogarth

CONNIE HOGARTH

Director, Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at Manhattanville College
Founding Member and Steering Committee Member, Climate Crisis Coalition

Connie Hogarth is a lifetime peace, justice, anti-nuclear and environmental activist. As co-founder and executive director of Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC) for 23 years (she has been executive director emerita since 1996), she was actively organizing for the shut-down of Indian Point nuclear power plants. Ms. Hogarth is a current member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), and continues to work for the shut-down of Indian Point. In 1998, Manhattanville College established the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, which Ms. Hogarth now directs, dedicated to training students to move from academics to social activism. She is a founding member and serves on the steering committee of the Climate Crisis Coalition in Lenox, MA. She has been active in the local NAACP, the Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance, Lower Hudson Valley Civil Liberties Union and the Beacon Sloop Club. She serves as a committee person on the Fishkill Democratic Committee and is a member of the Dutchess County Democratic Committee.