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PLUNDER: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS With Danny Schechter Wednesday   April 29, 2009   7 pm Reidy Friendship Hall The current financial crisis is page-one news, imposing an economic squeeze in the lives of hundreds of millions worldwide.  The headlines chronicle a major downturn globally, but few articles examine the back story and explain how it happened, who benefited and who lost.                Danny Schechter is the founder and executive editor of Media Channel and founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of GlobalVision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in 1986. A broadcast and print journalist and internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues, Schechter has been honored with numerous awards, including the Emmy and George Polk Awards.  He was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WBGH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC.  He is the author of several books, the most recent being Plunder.  In that book and his soon-to-be released film of the same name, he follows up from where he left off in 2007, with his film “In Debt We Trust,” detailing how this systemic crisis unfolded and who should be held accountable.  Co-sponsored by Resistance Cinema, Community Church of New York.                 Free event, light refreshments will be served at 6.30 pm, program will start 7 pm sharp. Donations will be appreciated and used to assist in the film production of Plunder.

Fellowship of Reconciliation’s
Interfaith Peace Delegations to Iran: Talkback

February 22, 2009    1 pm

The Chapel

Over the past three years the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), America's oldest and largest interfaith peace organization, has sent eight delegations to Iran as part of a long standing practice of civilian diplomacy.  The November, 2008 delegation, co-sponsored by Shomer-Shalom, a new Jewish order committed to nonviolence, included ten Jewish delegates in a group of 14 members, including two rabbis and a rabbinical student.  They interacted in Tehran, Shiraz, and Esfahan, Iran with Judaism's oldest and largest Middle Eastern community outside of Israel, 20,000+ members who can trace their origins to the time of Cyrus.  Delegates from recent visits will share a story of a people rich in cultural heritage, deeply injured by recent wars and sanctions, committed to peace and looking to the United States for a partner in that pursuit.

Mark Johnson, executive director of FOR and co-leader of the November delegation will introduce the program.  For more information, visit www.forusa.org.

Q & A will follow the program.  Light refreshments will be served.