Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: November 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

WED, NOV 18 >> Human Rights in Israel and Palestine... Seeking a Road to Peace

CONNIE HOGARTH CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION & GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP PROJECT of the DUCHESNE CENTER
MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, PURCHASE, NY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 2009 7:15pm
FRENCH PARLOR, REID CASTLE

4th Seminar: “A PERSONAL LOOK AT HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD AND AT HOME”

“Human Rights in Israel and Palestine… Seeking a Road to Peace “

Hear:

FELICE GELMAN, Activist for justice in Palestine, Member of WESPAC MiddleEast Committee, board member of The Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, and of the steering committee for The Gaza Freedom March. She recently made two trips to Gaza.

YONATAN SHAPIRA, Former Captain in the Israeli Air Force Reserves, one of the founders of Combatants for Peace—Israelis and Palestinians who oppose the war and support the Peace forces in each country. He is a “refusenik” and won’t fight, and is a human rights activist.

The community is welcome. For info: (914) 323-7156 or (914) 323-5186

VIDEO: Felice Gelman of WESPAC reports on what she saw in Gaza in the Code Pink delegations in late May and early June, 2009 that she helped organize. (Brecht Forum, 7/14/2009)

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.