Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: Human Rights Around the World and At Home

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Human Rights Around the World and At Home

A FOUR PART SEMINAR SERIES ON:
A PERSONAL LOOK AT HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD AND AT HOME

Wed Oct 21, 7 pm, E. Library, Reid Castle, Speaker : Francis Ole Sakuda of the Masai people of Kenya in East Africa, "Human Rights in Africa with emphasis on Environment and Justice"

Wed Oct 28, Noon to 8 pm. Reid Castle. Human Rights Awareness Day. Plenaries, workshops and Keynote at 7:30pm, Fr Michael Lapsley of Capetown, So. Africa and Founder of the Institute for The Healing of Memories, S.A., "The Journey Towards Healing and Reconciliation") OPTIONAL

Wed Nov 4, 7 pm, French Parlor, Reid Castle. Speaker : Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Attorney and Director of the American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) and North America's Regional Representative to the UN's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
"Human Rights in the U.S.-The UN Declararion of Human Rights and the Struggles for Human Rights of Native Americans and other Indigenous Peoples"

Wed, Nov.11, 7 pm. Periodicals Room in the Library. Speaker: A Representative from SOA Watch (School of the Americas Watch) in Ft.Benning, Columbus, Ga. 'Human Rights in Latin America and the Role of the School of the Americas as a Training Ground for Death Squads"

Wed. Nov 18, 7 pm French Parlor, Reid Castle. Panel : Felice Gelman, educator, activist who recently visited Gaza ; and Yonatan Shapira, an Israeli formerly in the military, now with Combatants for Peace. "Human Rights in Israel and Palestine.Seeking a Road to Peace:
Special focus on Gaza and the UN's Goldstone report."

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A Seminar series of the Duchesne Center and the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action. Offered with a 4th credit option by the Duchesne Center

PLEASE REGISTER NOW! (DEADLINE -THIS TUES, OCTOBER 20TH!

contact Paolo at Duchesne 323-5186 or Connie at 323-7156

Web: www.ConnieHogarth.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.