Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: February 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

SPRING ’09 SEMINAR SERIES

CELEBRATING THE CONNIE HOGARTH CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY!

HOGARTH CENTER SPRING ’09 SEMINAR SERIES: 8 PROGRAMS ( 2 CREDITS) -- WHAT ARE THE GREATEST CHALLENGES FOR US, THE PEOPLE, AND FOR PRES.OBAMA?

Thurs,Feb 12th 7:15pm - Keeping the pressure on: Change starts at the grassroots (demonstrations, rallies, letter writing, lobbying, seminars and education and Insuring a free and unembedded media) AMY GOODMAN,producer of Democracy Now! and LESLIE CAGAN of UFPJ-United for Peace and Justice

Thurs, Feb 19th 7:15pm - Reversing Climate Change: Locally and globally: PROF.NICHOLAS ROBINSON, Pace Envtal Law Center. CECIL CORBIN-MARK (WE ACT)West Harlem Environmental Action (invited). SHABAZZ JACKSON, Greenway,Inc. (Zero Waste)

Thurs, Feb 26th 7:15pm - Shifting to a Sustainable Economy—Green Jobs,Carbon Tax; Alternative energy public works programs: TOM STOKES, Climate Crisis Coalition and EZRA SMALL ,Climate Crisis Coalition Youth organizer. MANNAJO GREENE, Hudson River Clearwater Environmental Director

Thurs, March 5th 7:15pm- Health Care for All! Building support for HR 676, National Universal Health Care legislation: DR CATHEY FALVO, Physicians for Social Responsibility (invited).MARK DUNLEA, Exec Dir.NYState Hunger Action Network and Health Care activist(invited)

Thurs, March 19 7:15 pm - To be Announced.

Thurs,March 26th 7:15pm - Ending the Wars—Iraq and Afghanistan. Working for Peace-Israel and Palestine.The Role of the UN. BEN CHITTY, Veterans for Peace (invited); PHYLLIS BENNIS, Institute for Policy Studies Fellow.

Thurs,April 2nd 7:15pm - Democratizing Elections: public funding for candidates; permanent registration; national Weekend Election Day -- HARVEY WASSERMAN, Free Press, activist and writer. AMY LITTLE, former campaign manager,Cong John Hall and Obama organizer

Thurs, April 16th 7:15pm - Justice: Reconstituting our Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (torture; habeus corpus, gender politics and justice). Rep.from Center for Constitutional Rts (invited); FRIDA BERRIGAN,Guantanamo campaign (invited); BRENDAN FAY, Gay Rights activist and writer.

Cosponsored by Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action and Global Citizenship/Duchesne Center

ALL SEMINARS WILL BE HELD IN REID CASTLE
ON MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE CAMPUS, PURCHASE, NY

For info: email hogarthcenter [at] mville.edu or (914)323-7156 or (845) 838 2415

Students! Call or Email to Register!
Community is Invited!

Thursday, April 30th , 7:15: Center’s Annual Peace Concert!

Pat Humphries and Sandy O (Emma’s Revolution)
Vinie Burrows, activist and actor

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.