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Friday Hope in Action 11a-4p, free
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Voelker)
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(taken from act-ma, list for peace events in Greater Boston;
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REMINDER:
Hope Magazine's Hope in Action 2003 Conference
June 13-15 2003, Babson College Wellesley, MA
Together We Have the Power to Change Our World
800-273-7447
http://www.hopemag.com
Free events Friday but registration required at
http://www7.mailordercentral.com/conferences/Prodinfo.ASP?NUMBER=COMMUNITY&MITEM=1
Here's the entire Friday schedule, intriguing!
This is a day of social awareness, including activities,
entertainment, and networking. It runs from 11:00 to 4:00.
Hope in Action Community Day is your chance to gather with
like-minded people for an inspiring day of discovering the path to
meaningful social change for our communities.
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Workshop/Discussion: Taking Self Esteem to the Streets
Marion B. Davis, President & Founder Self Esteem Boston Institute
Social activist, Marion Davis will share her story of creating
Self-Esteem Boston, a non-profit provider of skill-based self-esteem
education to high-risk and under served populations. Marion will talk
about how she became passionate about the topic of self-esteem and
how she came to view it as a cornerstone to making meaningful social
change. Marion will discuss the challenges her organization faces and
lead a discussion on how the community can be empowered to keep Self
Esteem Boston and other organizations like it funded and growing.
Marion B. Davis is founder and president of Self Esteem Boston. Under
Marion's leadership this organization has provided thousands of
Boston area residents with self-esteem programs regardless of their
ability to pay. She is also host of the weekly public service radio
program, Self Esteem Talk Radio from 9-10 p.m. on Wednesdays on
1600-AM WUNR.
Workshop: Conscious Shopping for Your Community and the Earth
Christopher Durkin, Director of Membership and Community Relations
Harvest Co-op Markets, Cambridge and Jamaica Plain MA
More and more, citizens are understanding that their food shopping
needs to reflect their values. They are looking for ways of eating
healthfully and affordably while supporting businesses that value
their communities and the earth. In this workshop, Chris Durkin from
Harvest Co-op Market will discuss how to vote with your food dollars
to support cooperatives, organic foods, buying local, buying fairly
traded products, and buying sustainably raised products. He will
present information from a range of organizations and companies that
are helping consumers identify which products are in line with their
environmental and social justice concerns.
Chris Durkin is a dedicated foodie with an extensive natural foods
background. A strong believer in the power and value of human
cooperation, he has worked at Harvest Co-op for over 10 years.
12:30-1:30
Workshop/Concert: Simple Gifts
Jennifer Armstrong, Musician & Storyteller
A musical conversation with Jennifer on how artistic risk is
political and powerful. Jennifer will share songs and stories with
fiddle, banjo, and bagpipe to tell her artistic/political journey.
Jennifer Armstrong has been traveling the country for the past 25
years performing in schools and concert halls and is coming more and
more into her own.
WORKSHOP: Socially Responsible Investing and Money Management
Mariann Murphy, Pax World, Portsmouth, NH
Do your investments reflect your values? What does "socially
responsible investing" mean? This workshop will explore the
three-legged stool of socially responsible investing: screening,
shareholder activism, and community development. Come and learn more
about this rapidly growing area of the investment world
Mariann Murphy joined Pax World Funds as Vice President - Marketing
in September 1999. Ms. Murphy is currently on the Board of Directors
for the New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility. Ms.
Murphy previously served as the Marketing Manager, and later as Vice
President, of the DEVCAP Shared Return Fund based in Baltimore, MD.
Ms. Murphy has a B.A. in French from Ithaca College and a M.S. in
Business from Johns Hopkins University.
FEATURE PRESENTATION 1:45-3:00
Panel Discussion: Waging Peace in Challenging Times
Elise Boulding, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Dartmouth College;
former Secretary General, International Peace Research Association
Barbara Gottschalk, Executive Vice President, Seeds of Peace
Terry Rockefeller, documentary filmmaker; member, September 11th
Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Moderated by: Virginia Straus, Executive Director, Boston Research
Center for the 21st Century
In the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Americans who had
been seeking nonviolent solutions to the conflict with Iraq are left
wondering, "Now what?" How do we wage peace after a "successful" war
when the role of the UN is in question, when our civil liberties are
under threat, and when more international conflicts loom on the
horizon? Our panelists and moderator will reflect on how they and
others have waged peace in challenging times, and how audience
members can themselves wage peace in the months and years ahead.
Elise Boulding is a scholar-activist who has undertaken numerous
transnational and comparative cross-national studies on conflict and
peace, development, family life, women in society, as well as writing
on the future. Her books include Building a Global Civic Culture and
Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History. She is currently a
resident of the North Hill Retirement Community in Needham,
Massachusetts.
Bobbie Gottschalk is Executive Vice President of Seeds of Peace, an
international camp in Maine which was founded in 1993 to provide
opportunities for the children of war to plant the seeds for a more
secure future. The program focuses on Arab and Israeli teenagers from
ten nations in the Middle East but has also brought youngsters from
Cyprus, the war-torn Balkans and other regions of conflict to its
unique coexistence program.
Terry Kay Rockefeller is a documentary film producer who lives in
Arlington, Massachusetts. After her sister Laura was killed in the
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Terry began working with
Peaceful Tomorrows to honor Laura's life and try to insure that other
families throughout the world do not experience the tragic and
violent deaths of their innocent relatives. In January of this year,
Terry traveled with three other members of Peaceful Tomorrows to Iraq.
Virginia Straus is a public policy specialist who has directed the
Boston Research Center for the 21st Century since its founding in
1993. An international peace and justice institute, the Center draws
inspiration for its work from a philosophy of Buddhist humanism. The
Center's focal points are women's leadership, peace education, and
global ethics, including support for the Earth Charter.
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
STORYTELLING: Stories to Change the World
Judith Black, Teacher and Storyteller, Marblehead, MA
Stories, ancient and modern have the power to transform. That power
rests in their ability to take us from where we are to where we can
be. They accept our needs, hurts, feeling and failures, and allow us
to envision a greater self, a greater world and walk towards it.
Today's tales will take from a world dominated by right wing
fanatics, confident muscle bound athletes, and depressed dogged
mothers to worlds where sin is understood as universal, strength has
a root deeper than muscle, and love enables a parent to help their
child realize their authentic potential. Laugh and cry through the
journeys that enable us know ourselves and our world a little more
intimately, mustering the spirit and strength to work towards change.
Judith Black. From the Montreal Comedy to the National Storytelling
Festival, to National Public Radio, from Jerusalem to Cape Town to
NYC, Judith's original tales out of American history, reworkings of
worldfolklore, and her own observed life have rocked laughing
audiences to standing ovations. Judith has won the Oracle/Circle of
Excellence Award, Parents' Choice Award, Storytelling World's Honor
Tape, Parents Guide to Children's Media "Outstanding Achievement,
"National Youth Storytelling Pegasus Award, Centennial Alumni Award,
an Emmy nomination, and many others.
3:15-4:15
Workshop: Turning Public Talk into Community Action Michael
McCormick, Program Director Study Circles Resource Center, Pomfret, CT
Communities today are facing difficult challenges: crime, economic
problems, and conflicts of many kinds. Over the past 10 years, more
than 300 communities have faced these challenges by using study
circles to bring all kinds of people together to talk about critical
community issues and work together to find solutions. In this
workshop, participants will learn how study circles lead to better
understanding of issues; building new relationships and networks; and
generate workable solutions that benefit communities. Program
Director Michael McCormick will share success stories about
communities across the country that have used this process to address
issues such as race relations, education reform, community-police
relations, the gap in student achievement, youth concerns and more.
Michael McCormick has worked for twenty-five years to promote social
change. The focus of Michael's work at the Study Circles Resource
Center is on building and sustaining community-wide study circle
programs. Prior to coming to the Center, Michael directed the Center
for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury State University in Maryland,
where he coordinated a study circles program on race and, before
that, directed the Mediation Clinic at the University of Washington
School of Law in Seattle.
WORKSHOP: Living Your Values
Sean Casey, Life Coach and Independent Educator Concord, MA
We live and express our deepest values when our attention and time is
spent engaged with what really matters to us. Our social structures
and relationships sometimes affirm our values, but more often they
dictate a way of living that suppresses our core values. Living your
values sometimes seems to pose risks-less money, less popularity and
criticism. When we live from our own values: we often rock the boat!
Come join this provocative discussion of what it would be like to
live more aligned with your values. Gain clarity and insight into
what matters and has purpose for youŠa cornerstone of taking action!
Sean Casey Leclaire, Managing Partner of Best Practices, brings to
his coaching and trainings many years of direct business experience
in marketing and brand management as well as over 20 years in somatic
(body-centered) education and mindfulness practice. Sean's expertise
is in supporting individuals and organizations to engage the inner
landscape of identity and integrity. He has conducted seminars and
workshops throughout North America and is a sought after speaker on
issues of addiction/recovery, natural health and
alternatives-to-violence. He is the author of a new book "Hug and
Angry Man and You Will See He Is Crying."
WORKSHOP: All Together Now: Songs of Hope
Family Folk Chorale, Arlington, MA
Come together with others in this fun, moving, and harmony -filled
workshop. Led by the Family Folk Chorale, Boston's premiere
intergenerational singing group, we will sing songs of hope and
optimism ranging from Bob Marley's "One Love" to the Indigo Girl's
"Let it Be Me." Participants will learn new tunes, sing in harmony,
and provide rhythmic accompaniment, all the while learning about and
experiencing first hand the powerful role of music and singing in
community building. All skill levels, including the bashful, are
welcome. Come sing!
The Family Folk Chorale, an intergenerational group of singers ages 4
to 74, practice weekly at Sunrise Assisted Living in Arlington. The
group has brought its contagious energy and joyful harmonies to
sold-out audience at the legendary Club Passim, to a 10,000, person
peace rally in Copley Square, and other stages around New England.
Next Saturday, June 21, the Chorale will be singing in Lexington to
benefit the U.N. World Food Programme. For more information visit
www.familyfolkchorale.org. Chris Eastburn directs the Family Folk
Chorale. He is an arranger, performer, and an award winning and
frequently commissioned composer and orchestrator. Chris also serves
on the board of the Brookline-based PALS children's chorus, which
sings with the Boston Symphony. He enjoys sharing music making with
people of all ages and walks of life, and has a firm belief in the
power of music to affect positive change.
Admission is FREE, but you must Register.
