Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action: February 2012

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

WED, FEB 15 @ 7:15 PM >> Occupy Wall Street Panel

The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action Presents

A Panel Discussion
on Occupy Wall Street

Wednesday, February 15, 7:15 PM

East Library in the Castle

Manhattanville College

Panelists will include:

Richard Brodsky, former Assembly Member, Senior Fellow at Demos
Christa Calbos, Manhattanville student
Maggie Goff, Manhattanville Student
J.A. Myerson, activist with Occupy Wall Street, a columnist at Truthout and a field reporter for Citizen Radio. His forthcoming book, 2011: The Year of Democracy, Solidarity and Revolution, will be published by Left Legacy Press.
Nelini Stamp, organizer, Working Families Party and Occupy Wall Street activist

SPRING 2012 -- Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action Upcoming Events

February – Nonviolent civil disobedience training workshop (date and details to be announced)
Wednesday, February 15, 7:15 PM -- A Panel Discussion on Occupy Wall Street, with Richard Brodsky, Christa Calbos, J.A. Myerson, Maggie Goff and Nelini Stamp.

Tuesday, March 6th, 7:00 PM -- Fukushima Week -- Conference with First Responders from Japan, chaired by former County Executive Andy Spano. East Library in the Castle, Manhattanville College.

Friday, April 20, Earth Day -- Tree planting in remembrance of Wangari Matthai, for Earth Day with a program, cosponsored with Black Students Union. (details to be announced)

Tuesday, April 24th, 7:15 PM -- Seminar led by Father Michael Lapsley, Director of Institute for Healing of Memories. East Library in the Castle, Manhattanville College.

A Movement Without Demands?

A Movement Without Demands? | Possible Futures:

by Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean

The question of demands infused the initial weeks and months of Occupy Wall Street with the endless opening of desire. Nearly unbearable, the absence of demands concentrated interest, fear, expectation, and hope in the movement. What did they want? What could they want? Commentators have been nearly hysterical in their demand for demands: somebody has got to say what Occupy Wall Street wants! In part because of the excitement accumulating around the gap the movement opened up in the deadlocked US political scene—having done the impossible in creating a new political force it seemed as if the movement might even demand the impossible—many of those in and around Occupy Wall Street have also treated the absence of demands as a benefit, a strength. Commentators and protesters alike thus give the impression that the movement’s inability to agree upon demands and a shared political line is a conscious choice.

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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.