Ted Glick: The Clean Energy Revolution
All Souls Church Reidy Friendship Hall
Tuesday, March 4 7:00 p.m.
Ted
Glick, who has been a progressive social activist since the late 1960s,
became a climate activist in the summer of 2003 after the extreme heat
wave in Western Europe aroused him to the ongoing danger of such
extreme climate events (droughts, monsoons, etc.) to the earth and our way of life. He is a co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition and a
coordinator for the U.S. Climate Emergency Council; his twice-monthly
column, "Future Hope" is available at: http://www.ippn.org. His talk
was sponsored by the All Souls Peace Task Force, and he was introduced
by Lawrene Groobart.
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Monthly Film Series Event: "God Grew Tired of Us" (2007)
Sunday, February 24, 1:00 p.m.
Review by Phoebe Hoss
The
documentary God Grew Tired of Us was presented by the All Souls Peace
Task Force. This film, made by Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker and
narrated by Nicole Kidman, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the
Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It recounts the
moving story of three of the Lost Boys of Sudan who came to the United
States, and is based on the book of that name written by one of the
Lost Boys, John Bul Dau, with Michael S. Sweeney.
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The Human Face of Iran
January 27, 2008
Review by Phoebe Hoss
At 1:00 p.m., in Reidy Friendship Hall, the Peace Task Force
hosted a slide show in continuation of the effort to enhance our
understanding of Iran and its culture. This event was presented
by Ann and Ahmad Shirazi, who had appeared two weeks before in
connection with the film Children of Heaven, and Ellie Ommani.
Mr. Shirazi is a film editor who grew up in Iran. He came
to the United States in the early 1960s and is the only one of his
family of 150 to 200 members to come here. Ann Shirazi has worked
as a social worker and is now a full-time peace activist. Ms
Ommani and her husband, Ardeshir, who was unable to attend, are both
retired school teachers and founded the American-Iranian Friendship
Committee, whose mission is to promote "trust, mutual understanding,
and peace between Americans, on one hand, and Iranians living in Iran
and abroad, on the other."
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Human Trafficing Talk by Beatrice Fernando
November 11, 2007
Review by Phoebe Hoss
Human trafficking is the crime of coercing
people, via physical force or false promises of jobs or marriage, to
work as slaves – either at labor or for sexual purposes –
within a country or across international borders. Today human
trafficking enslaves some 27 million people around the world; moreover,
by depriving them of their human rights, it may subject them to rape,
injury, even death.
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Ann Wright Talks About Her Forthcoming Book
"Dissent: Voices of Conscience"
October 23, 2007
Review by Phoebe Hoss
"Peace cannot be made through occupation." This
is the forthright statement Ann Wright reported making recently to Ryan
Crocker, our present ambassador to Iraq.
Ms Wright -- a distinguished career diplomat and retired colonel in the
U.S. army -- resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service on March 19,
2003, in protest over the Bush administration's policies at home and
abroad. Her second appearance at All Souls on the evening of October 23
was sponsored by our Peace Task Force, Resistance Cinema, and Action of
Justice of Community Church of New York.
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The Oaxaca Political Crisis And The Roots Of Migration
October 16, 2007
Review by Phoebe Hoss
On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, in All Souls
Reidy Hall, Miguel Ángel Vásquez de la Rosa spoke on how
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, has further
impoverished the people of Mexico and, thereby, increased migration to
the United States. This program was sponsored by the Peace Task
Force and Witness for Peace. Mr. Vásquez de la Rosa is one
of the founders of EDUCA (from the Spanish initials for Services for an
Alternative Education), a nongovernmental organization that advocates
for indigenous peoples in the state of Oaxaca, helping small farmers
and women to have fair elections and cope with the judicial system.
He was introduced by Ben Beachy, regional organizer for the
mid-Atlantic region of Educa, which was sponsoring Mr. Vásquez
de la Rosa's tour.
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Fair Trade And The Film "Black Gold"
September 30, 2007
Review by Phoebe Hoss
Fair trade is a movement that seeks to diminish
the vast disparity between the huge profits that multinational
corporations make from certain common products, on which we all depend
in our daily lives, and the meager – often not enough to live on
– income the actual producers of those products receive for their
labor. This issue was dramatized in respect to coffee by the film Black
Gold, which was shown at All Souls Church on Sunday, September 30,
2007, at 1:00 p.m. The film was introduced by Scott Codey from the New
York Fair Trade Organization.
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The Threat of Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Bruce Gagnon at All Souls
August 5, 2007
Review by Phoebe Hoss
On August 5, 2007, at 1:00 p.m., Bruce
Gagnon spoke at All Souls about "The Threat of Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space." Mr. Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and author of Come Together
Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire. In 2003, he was
appointed by Dr. Helen Caldicott as a senior fellow of the Nuclear
Policy Research Institute, where he also serves on the advisory board.
This event – held in remembrance of the August 6, 1945, bombing
of Hiroshima, the world's first nuclear attack – was sponsored by
All Souls Adult Education, the Peace Task Force, and the Nuclear
Disarmament Task Force.
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