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Summer 2005 Calendar
Here is a link to the
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Friday-Sunday, May 27-June 5
and pre-season June weekends
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World Fellowship Work Week/Weekends
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Enjoy good work and food. Bring tools you are skilled
using and work gloves for the family. Register with
arrival/departure dates and pay by the sweat of your
brow. We'll plan projects in the garden, cleaning,
carpentry...a good time for all!
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Friday-Sunday, June 17-19
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Grass Roots Organizing Workshop (GROW)
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Activist Training for NH, VT, ME folk.
For info, tel: (207) 525-7776 or
email: invert@acadia.net
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Saturday-Tuesday, June 25-28
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Feldenkrais Intensive Retreat
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The Work of the Hands
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Through daily Awareness Through Movement® lessons and hands-on pair
work based on Functional Integration®, participants will learn how
their hands and fingers relate to the core of the body so that the
action of each finger becomes supported by the whole self. Improve
the use and sensitivity of your hands an discover how to carry your
weight with less effort, to free your shoulders, neck and back for a
more natural, graceful posture, and to generally improve the way you
relate to yourself and your world.
Plus focus on shoulders (excellent for repetitive strain).
Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Learning is a gentle way
to improve quality of movement/awareness of embodied self.
Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner Josh Schreiber:
(781) 640-8794 or josch@rcn.com.
$100 fee.Registration required.
Also see Josh's Word document.
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Season Opens
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Wednesday, June 29
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WF 65th Season Opens with Dinner
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Wednesday, June 29, 7:30 PM
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An Evening of Stories
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Storytellers from the Mt. Washington Valley gather to share tales
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10th Annual Early Music &
Country Dance Week
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Thursday-Thursday, June 30 - July 7
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Family Music Retreat
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An Italian Sojourn
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Classes for singers, recorder, viol, lute, early wind
and early keyboard players (A=440Hz) - could include
other instruments. Small ensembles for experienced
adults; mixed ensembles of instruments/voices;
activities for all levels of playing experience
(grand band, chorus, and guided listening sessions).
English Country Dance Fri/Sat evenings with caller
Marianne Taylor.
$125 fee
NEW THIS YEAR - Vocal focus with Pamela Dellal.
Other Faculty: Julian Cole, Jane Hershey,
Anne Legêne, Jay Rosenberg, Larry Wallach, Josh Schreiber.
For more details please click
here,
or contact Christopher Greenleaf at (401) 596-3699 or
crecquillon@earthlink.net
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Friday, July 1, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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followed by English Country Dance
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Saturday, July 2, 10 AM
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Refugees and Political Asylum
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Saturday, July 2, 8 PM
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Early Music Week Faculty Concert
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Sunday, July 3, 10 AM
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Surviving Fascism in 20th Century Germany
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World Fellowship Director Emeritus
Christoph Schmauch
shares his family's history.
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Sunday, July 3, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and... Over the Mountains
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Christopher Greenleaf
presents live and recorded music in a seminar on the
Italian Sojourn.
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Monday, July 4, 7:30 PM
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Alernative 4th of July Celebration
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The Power and the Glory
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A discussion of patriotism, love of country and related
topics with Jim Kates.
Kates is a poet, literary translator, and co-director
of Zephyr Press.
A lifelong activist, he worked with SNCC/COFO in Mississippi
in 1964-1965.
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Tuesday, July 5, 7:30 PM
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Hildegard von Bingen
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Pamela Dellal speaks on this 12th century mystic.
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Wednesday, July 6, 7:30 PM
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Early Music Week Student Concert
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Thursday, July 7, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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'Tis, by Frank McCourt
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Thursday, July 7, 8 PM
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The Story Behind the Stars
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Matt Krug shares the
mythology behind the constellations. Stories with a
sprinkling of science while stargazing.
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Friday, July 8, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Jewish History & Culture
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Saturday, July 9
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Jewish Humor
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A sampling of Jewish humor of the 20th Century.
Laugh, groan, and say "Oy Vey" as
Michael Kaufman
leads a discussion based on selected recordings of
shtick by the likes of Willie Howard
(aka Prof. Marquette), the Barton Brothers,
Fuyvish Finkel, Betty Walker, Mickey Katz, and more.
Michael Kaufman first realized he was funny in the
7th grade, when one of his teachers wrote on his
report card, "Michael is a clown."
The next marking period she wrote,
"Michael has communistic tendencies."
Some things don't change.
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Saturday, July 9, 8 PM
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Klezmer Koncert
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Seth Austen and
Beverly Woods
play Klezmer music and more on a fantastic array
of acoustic instruments combining hundreds of
resonating strings. Expect to Dance! With
international folk dance teacher
Jenny Deupree!
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Sunday, July 10, 10 AM
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Jewish Irony
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Recognizing the Down Side of Moral Clarity
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Mitchell Silver
is Professor of Philosophy at UMass/Boston,
and author of Respecting the Wicked Child,
A Philosophy of Secular Jewish Identity and Education.
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Movement Building
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Sunday, July 10, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview for
Movement Building
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Monday, July 11, 7:30 PM
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Voicing Our Values
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Building a Movement Through Personal Connection
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Beginning with examples from his own current work with
Massachusetts labor unions and peace groups,
Mike Prokosch
of the
Labor Extension Program at the University of
Massachusetts Lowell will facilitate a participatory
investigation into ways to broaden the activist
cores of our organizations.
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Tuesday, July 12 7:30 PM
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What IS "Movement Building?"
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Most of us are doing organization building, even though
we talk about movement building. What's the difference?
What is needed? What gets in the way?
Meizhu Lui is
executive director of
United for a Fair Economy,
and also directs UFE's
Racial Wealth Divide Project.
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Wednesday, July 13, 7:30 PM
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Organizing Based on Fundamental Rights
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Bringing Issue Groups Together to Fight on a United Front
for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
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Adam D. Sacks
is executive director of the
Center for Democracy and the Constitution.
CDC's mission is to challenge corporate
constitutional rights and help bring democracy
to the U.S.A.
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Thursday, July 14, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
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Thursday, July 14, 7:30 PM
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"Funding The Dream"
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A New Paradigm for Movement Building
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The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. predicted that, to be
effective, the peace and social justice movement,
driven by "a divine dissatisfaction" with
the "triple evils" of war, economic
exploitation and racism, must compel the American
people to "probe the essential nature of
democracy." How do we build bridges, roads
and tunnels between these struggles today?
Ty dePass
is a board member of the District 7 Roundtable,
an all-volunteer collective of Boston community
activists. He has been a peace & social justice
activist for 40 years, and he is a writer/editor on
race, culture and politics.
http://www.fundthedream.org/
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Friday, July 15, 10 AM
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Achieving Inclusivity
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How do we build a community of change and really
operate in a multi-cultural, multi-racial,
multi-age context? What are the common questions
we struggle with in building inclusive organizations?
What does inclusivity mean? How do we operate in a
multi-cultural movement? How do we build? and
to what ends? What do we want to achieve?
Daryl Wright
of Dorchester People for Peace shares the working
conclusions and key agreements DPP is coming to
in manifesting its goals and practices.
Youth and adult discussion.
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Friday, July 15, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, July 16, 10 AM
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Transitioning to a Renewable Energy Future
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Bob Fabian
works in the Renewable Energy industry. He will
address the realistic transition to renewable
energy sources generating our primary energy,
replacing fossil fuels and negating the need
for new nuclear plants.
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Saturday, July 16, 4 PM
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Youth Workshop with David Rovics
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Share a look at music, performance, and activism
with someone who does it all...
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Saturday, July 16, 8 PM
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"Songs of Social Significance" with David Rovics!
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also Amatul Hannan!
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Amy Goodman says "
David Rovics is the
musical version of Democracy Now!"
Amatul Hannan
is a Boston-based spoken word artist.
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Sunday, July 17, 10 AM
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Two Programs
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Loons! or Hogan Building
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Loons!A
Loon Preservation Committee naturalist's look
at our fascinating Whitton Pond neighbors.
OR
Creation of a "Sacred Theater Hogan"
from naturally occurring site materials, and
with chalk and hemp twine with
Amatul Hannan
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Murder, Torture, Treason, Human Rights
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Sunday, July 17 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, July 18, 7:30 PM
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Guantanamo Detainees and Civil Liberties Post 9/11
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Rachel Meeropol,
is a staff attorney for the
Center for Constitutional Rights
and the author of America's Disappeared.
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Tuesday, July 19, 7:30 PM
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Is Reconciliation Possible?
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Potential and Limitations of
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
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Sally Avery Bermanzohn
is a professor of politcal science at
Brooklyn College, CUNY
and the author of Through Survivors' Eyes:
The Sixties through the Greensboro Massacre
(Vanderbilt University Press, in press).
She co-edited Violence and Politics:
Globalization's Paradox (Routledge, 2002),
which includes her chapter on Violence,
Nonviolence and the US Civil Rights
Movement. She is currently working on a
book on the Ku Klux Klan and terrorism.
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Wednesday, July 20, 7:30 PM
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Treason
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From the American Revolution to the War on Terror
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Robert Meeropol,
the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,
has been a progressive activist, author and speaker
for 30 years. In the 1970's he and his brother,
Michael, successfully sued the FBI and CIA to
force the release of 300,000 previously secret
documents about their parents. He earned
undergraduate and graduate degrees in
Anthropology from the University of Michigan,
graduated law school in 1985, and was admitted
to the Massachusetts Bar.
In 1990, after leaving private practice, Robert
founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children and now
serves as its Executive Director. The RFC
provides for the educational and emotional
needs of both targeted activist youth and
children in this country whose parents have
been harassed, injured, jailed, lost jobs or
died in the course of their progressive
activities. In the past thirteen years the
RFC has built an endowment of over $1.8 million,
awarded grants totaling $1.8 million; and
gained 10,000 supporters nationwide.
On the 50th anniversary of his parent's executions,
Robert's memoir, An Execution in the Family,
was published by St. Martin's Press. The book
details his political and personal odyssey from
Rosenberg son to prominent political activist.
Howard Zinn calls it a "personal, anguished
search for truth" and Michael Moore says
An Execution in the Family is,
"Inspirational . . . moving . . . engaging . . .
should be required reading."
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Thursday, July 21, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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The Dewbreaker, by Edwidge Danticat
(and Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Krik? Krak!, by the same author)
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Thursday, July 21, 7:30 PM
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Human Rights, Victims, Justice & the Death Penalty
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Renny Cushing
is Executive Director of
Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights,
a national organization of people who have lost a
family member to murder or state execution and oppose
the death penalty. A lifelong human rights activist,
Renny served as a two-term New Hampshire state
representative, where he wrote the
Whistleblower's Protection Act and a groundbreaking
law providing assistance to victims of domestic
violence. As a lawmaker, Renny also supported the
passage of laws establishing a vicitms' bill of
rights, victims' advocate programs, and a victims'
compensation fund. As director of MVFR, he now works
to build bridges between the death penalty abolition
community and the victims' rights community, and is
the co-author of Dignity Denied: The Experience of
Murder Victims' Family Members Who Oppose the Death
Penalty.
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Beyond Fundamentalism
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Friday, July 22 10 AM
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Standing in the Fire
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Confronting the Religion of the Empire
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Officially or unofficially, Christianity has
been claimed as the state religion of the
United States. Acts of war and oppression
have been justified with a narrow-minded
interpretation of the Christian faith.
Progressive people of faith are called to
challenge this myopic and oppressive version
of a tradition steeped in justice, peace and
love. Kelly Gallagher
is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ
and pastor of Christ's Community Church in
Chicopee, Massachusetts. Raised Roman Catholic,
she first experienced a call to ministry as a
college student on an immersion trip into the
inner city of Washington, DC. It was with the
Church of the Saviour in DC where she first found
her own political thoughts of justice and equality
resonating with the life and teachings of Jesus.
She attended Union Theological Seminary in
New York City and moved to western Massachusetts
after graduation where she has continued her
peace and justice activism both in the community
and in the church.
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Friday, July 22, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, July 23, 10 AM
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Beyond Fundamentalism
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A Muslim View
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Saturday, July 23, 8 PM
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Jazz with the Willie Sordillo Band
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Doug Rich (bass),
Stanley Swann (drums),
David Hunte (keyboard/vocals),
Willie Sordillo (saxophone).
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Sunday, July 24, 10 AM
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The Way of Torah
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Rabbi David L. Kline
has spent his entire career in the pulpit
striving toward an inclusive, justice-seeking
life beyond fundamentalism.
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Writing Workshop & Retreat
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Sunday - Friday, July 24 - July 29
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Writing Workshop & Retreat
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Acclaimed novelist and poet Marge Piercy
and novelist and publisher Ira Wood
will be writers in residence for 2 days during the workshop. Before,
during and after their group sessions, there are many other sessions
to accommodate a variety of interests. All writers are welcome.
Don't miss this open, friendly, helpful, and unique event.
Why unique? Because it is not just about technique or "getting it out,"
it's about cultivating and resolving the struggle between great
technique and great heart. Those who wish to explore social themes in
their writing are welcome. Everyone is welcome, regardless of what they
choose to express or how they choose to express it.
Participants have said...
"Your soul will be nourished... Your love of writing will be revitalized."
"Great! Reminded me just how much I love writing... Lots of good laughter and good spirit."
"Have no fear--your ego will not be crushed. You will leave eager to do more writing."
There is a $145 fee for participation in
the Writing Workship, above and beyond
the expense of lodgings and board at the
World Fellowship Center. Evening programs
will be open to all World Fellowship guests,
which will include the readings.
For complete information, see the page
about the workshop on the
Why It's Great website.
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Sunday, July 24
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, July 25, 7:30 PM
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"America's Place"
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Through readings and commentary,
David Vigoda
reflects on the role of American writers
in describing their country and its
place in the world.
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Tuesday, July 26, 7:30 PM
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The Rhythm of Wishes
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Reflections on Storytelling and Social Change
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Storyteller and World Fellowship
co-director Andy Davis
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Wednesday, July 27: 7:30 PM
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Reading by Marge Piercy
and Ira Wood
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Marge Piercy
is the author of sixteen novels of astonishing breadth
(including Gone to Soldiers and
The Third Child), sixteen critically
acclaimed volumes of poetry (including
The Moon Is Always Female and Early Grrrl),
and a highly praised memoir.
The New York Times Book Review calls
Ira Wood
a novelist with "a special gift for
heartwarming comedy."
He is also the publisher of Leapfrog Press.
For more details, see the page
on the
Why It's Great website.
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Thursday, July 28, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy
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Thursday, July 28, 7:30 PM
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Writing Workshop Participants read
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Civil Liberties & The War on Terror
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Friday, July 29, 10 AM
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Songs with Tony Saletan
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July 29, 2005 is the 50th anniversary of Harry Bridges'
final court victory in his decades-long fight against deportation.
Tony Saletan grew up
hearing and singing the Harry Bridges song that Pete Seeger,
Lee Hays and Millard Lampell wrote. Tony will lead group
singing during the course of the weekend, to include this
song as well as songs with a theme of Civil Liberties:
mostly songs of the McCarthy period.
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Friday, July 29, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, July 30, 10 AM
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Growing Up Left...
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With and Without Left-Wing Culture and Institutions
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How do we give children the chance to envision
and experience alternatives to rampant
individualism, consumerism, militarism? What
role have lefty camps and institutions played
in providing both a "safe space" for activists,
but also in providing a lived version of the
idea that "Another World is Possible." A
discussion with Deborah Gerson, a red diaper
baby who teaches social science and labor studies
at San Francisco State University.
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Saturday, July 30, 8 PM
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Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War
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The moving story of George and Ruth Watt:
idealists starting their marriage while joining
efforts to stop facism in the 1930s. He went to
Spain to fight with the International Brigades
while she organized in NYC. Music was a crucial
part of rallying support and of keeping up spirits
of the troops. Songs of the period (in 5 languages)
interwoven with excerpts from letters. Performed by
Dan and Molly Lynn Watt,
and Tony Saletan.
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Sunday, July 31, 7:30 AM
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Yoga
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Sunday, July 31, 10 AM
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The Einstein File
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Journalist Fred Jerome
looks at the history of the McCarthy era through
the lens of the FBI file of the great physicist/pacifist.
Jerome is currently working on another book,
Einstein on Race and Racism, which is
expected to be published in 2005.
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Sunday, July 31, 1:30 PM
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Bill Gerson Memorial Service
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Sunday, July 31, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, August 1, 7:30 PM
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The Lynne Stewart Conviction
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Civil Liberties vs. the New McCarthyism
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NY Civil Rights attorney
Lynne Stewart or
(if she's under travel restriction) a member
of her defense committee.
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Wednesday, August 3, 7:30 PM
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Resistance in the Military to the Iraq War
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Jules Lobel
makes a presentation based on his representation
of 8 soldiers stationed in Iraq who resisted the
extension of their enlistment.
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Thursday, August 4, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
(and Trans-Sister Radio, by Chris Bohjalian)
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Thursday, August 4, 7:30 PM
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Life and Times of Maria Mitchell
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Maria Mitchell, who discovered a comet from her roof
in Nantucket in 1847, became Vassar College's
first Professor of Astronomy and inspired generations
of women to enter the field of science. Slides
and discussion with photographer
Gina Bilander.
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Ecological Justice
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Friday, August 5, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, August 6, 10 AM
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Hiroshima Day
The Nuclear Relapse
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A nuclear relapse is no answer to climate change. The "greening" of nuclear power is increasingly being headlined as new atomic consortia seek to stage a "Renaissance." After a 27-year de facto moratorium on new nuclear reactor construction in the United States due to public opposition and what Forbes magazine described as "largest managerial disaster in business history," industry is poised to reinvest our energy future in more nuclear power.
Paul Gunter,
directs the Reactor Watchdog Project for the
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
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Saturday, August 6. 8 PM
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Storytelling
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John Porcino,
storyteller
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Sunday, August 7, 10 AM
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How to Tell a Darn Good Story
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Storyteller John Porcino
never imagined that his love of both storytelling
and music would one day lead him to hanging out
his shingle as a storyteller/musician. Seventeen years,
a wife, two kids, a mortgage and several thousand
performances and workshops later, that shingle is
still the same. The journey has brought John to
many places, helped him to meet lots of fine people,
and he's known great exhilaration, and humbling
bumps and bruises. What John is after through these
simple arts is to bring people of all ages the gifts
of laughter, wisdom, and insight, and leave them with
nourished minds and spirits.
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Sunday, August 7, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, August 8, 7:30 PM
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An Introduction to Capoeira Angola
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Courtney Mark Grey,
who has taught capoeira for 15 years, and Boston
educator Winston Cox
will frame the historical
and spiritual origins of this Afro-Brazilian
martial art form, with special focus on its
redemptive and revolutionary qualities and
applications. Workshop all week!
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Tuesday, August 9, 7:30 PM
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Taking Action on Climate Change
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Moisha Blechman
had a career in fashion design which she gave up
for full time advocacy of a healthy environment.
She became Political Chair of the
Sierra Club
and Chair of the
NYC Group.
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Thursday, August 11, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
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Thursday, August 11, 7:30 PM
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Environmental Justice from the Perspective of Communities of Color in Boston
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Alternatives for Community
& Environment (ACE) builds the power of communities
of color and lower income communities to eradicate
environmental racism and classism and achieve
environmental justice.
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Friday, August 12
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, August 13, 10 AM
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Privatization of Water and Environmental Justice
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Atema Eclai,
Program Director of the Unitarian Universalist
Service Committee, will look at US and International
efforts to privatize water and the grassroots
movements that are resisting.
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Saturday, August 13, 8 PM
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Magdalena Gomez, Poet/Performance Artist
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"Ms. Gómez'
writing is ferocious and compassionate, resolutely
political and proudly Puerto Rican, full of
vivid emotions, sensually exalting and confrontational.
Laugh, weep and get incensed: her poems are all
incendiary devices for the heart and intellect."
Fred Ho - Composer, Musician, Author
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Labor
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Sunday, August 14, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, August 15
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"Where Do You Stand"
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Alexandra Lescaze
is the director and producer of this 60 minute documentary from 2004.
The film was the winner of the 2004 CINE Golden Eagle
On June 23, 1999, after a quarter century of struggle,
textile workers in Kannapolis, North Carolina won the
single largest industrial union victory in the
history of the South, a region long known as a
bastion of anti-union sentiment. "Where Do You Stand?"
traces the story of that epic and often bitter struggle, and examines
the efforts of workers to cope with a rapidly changing
social and economic climate.
The film shows how far U.S. based multinationals are
willing to go in destroying workplaces and communities
that stand in the way of the global race to the bottom
in wages and living standards. Told primarily through
the voices of those active in the numerous attempts to
organize the union, without narration, the film offers
an intimate, compelling, and timely portrait of American
workers as they face the myriad challenges of the
post-industrial age.
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Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 PM
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Fighting Back
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Building Community-based Labor Movements
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Come to discuss how
labor activists and community allies can work together to create powerful
solidarity networks and new community-based worker organizations to confront
corporate power. Topics to include the building of worker centers, new non-
traditional union-type organizing campaigns, Jobs With Justice and the
importance of strong solidarity coalitions.
James Haslam is the director of the
Vermont Workers' Center
- Jobs With Justice, an exciting 7 year old solidarity organization that has helped
create new strategic campaigns with its coalition members, including a multi-
union coalition of healthcare workers (Justice For Healthcare Workers), an
ambitious campaign to raise standards for construction workers (Good Jobs For
Vermont) and the innovative new Montpelier Downtown Workers Union, a member-
based organization of service workers who have been organizing to create a
higher community standard for their rights.
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Wednesday, August 17, 7:30 PM
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Intellectual Labor, Higher Education, and the Market Imperative
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Douglas Medina
earned his M.A. in Liberal Studies at New School
University. His academic background has led him to a
professional career in the field of student
development. While at New School, Douglas worked
as Coordinator of Student Programs in the Office
of Student Development and Activities where he
advised students in different facets of student
leadership and civic engagement. Further
professional and academic research plans include
an exploration of the political economy of higher
education in the United States through the Ph.D
Political Science Program at the CUNY Graduate
Center.
Located in New York City, New School University has
been home to several "progressive" scholars during its
80 year history including John Dewey, Thorstein
Veblen, Charles Beard, and Hannah Arendt - to name a
few. Using New School University as a case study,
Douglas will discuss the relationship between the
university's history as an oft-cited "progressive"
institution, the anti-union campaign led by the
current administration against the part-time faculty,
and the political economy of the university, all
within the context of higher education in the United
States. The discussion will also include an update on
the latest contract negotiations, as well as the
graduate student struggles to unionize at Yale,
Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Thursday, August 18, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
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Thursday, August 18, 7:30 PM
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Slaves to Fashion
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Bob Ross
is Professor of Sociology at
Clark University, and author of Slaves to Fashion:
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops.
In the 1960s, he was a founder of Students for
a Democratic Society (SDS).
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Friday, August 19, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, August 20, 10 AM
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Introduction to Yiddish Theater
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Caraid O'Brien
is a performer, playwright and translator.
She is a three time recipient of a new play
commission from the
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
and the director of Bloomsday on Broadway.
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Saturday, August 20, 2 PM
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Yiddish Theater Rehearsal
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Twelve volunteers, under O'Brien's direction, will
rehearse for the evening performance.
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Saturday, August 20, 8 PM
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Yiddish Theater Performance
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Caraid O'Brien
directs a reading performance of her translation
of the Yiddish masterpiece "God of Vengeance"
by Sholem Asch, a play about a Jewish brothel
owner that was banned from Broadway in the 1920's.
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Sunday, August 21, 10 AM
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Trail of Feathers
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The Missile Dick Chicks Documentary
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Filmmaker Randi Cecchine.
The MDC
is a political street theater group which uses song,
dance, and character improvisation to explore the complexity of living in
the US during a time of endless war. Wearing strap-on paper mache silver
missiles and singing songs like "Shop in the Name of War," The
Missile Dick Chicks link issues surrounding over-consumption with
international security and environmental concerns. The documentary
captures the dedication and brilliance of these performers,
celebrating their fearless engagement with the US public during
a very challenging moment in our history.
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Latin America
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Sunday, August 21, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, August 22, 7:30 PM
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Colombia, the US Military, and Corporate Intervention
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As Assistant General Counsel for the
United Steelworkers of America,
Dan Kovalik is working with the
International Labor Rights Fund
to represent Colombian organized labor in human
rights cases involving Occidental Petroleum,
Drummond Coal and Coca Cola.
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Tuesday, August 23, 7:30 PM
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The Linked Labor Histories of Latin America and New England
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A look at the historical relationship between New England
textile mills and Latin America, along with current
Latin American immigration to the old textile towns.
Avi Chomsky
is Professor of History at
Salem State College (MA). She is author of
West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company
in Costa Rica.
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Thursday, August 25, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
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Thursday, August 25, 7:30 PM
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The Chosen Island for the Chosen People
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Maritza Corrales Capestany
has lectured on Cuba's Jewish population at universities in
Israel, Spain, France and Mexico. Her writings on the subject
have been published by Fondo de Cultura Economica (Mexico),
Editorial Pueblo y Educacion, Banco Nacional de Cuba,
Revista de la Comision Nacional Cubana de la UNESCO,
Revista de la Camara de Comercio (Cuba),
Litostampa (Italia), and the Geocuba and
Fernando Ortiz publishing houses.
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Friday, August 26, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Saturday, August 27, 10 AM
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Report From 4th Encuentro Hemisferico Against FTAA
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World Fellowship co-director Andy Davis
and other participants share their thoughts on the April
conference and the movement to redefine the debate on trade
and globalization.
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Saturday, August 27, 8 PM
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The Mustn't Grumble
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The Mustn't Grumble
is an improvisational folk gypsy swing orchestra with a
new old-time feel, stirring vocal harmonies, extreme playing,
and silly hats.
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Sunday, August 28, 10 AM
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Youth Empowerment as a Community Response to Violence
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Deborah Weaver
is Executive Director of
Girls' LEAP (
Lifetime Empowerment and Awareness Program),
a Boston-based self-defense program for girls ages 8-16
which combines learning physical self-defense skills,
practicing self-awareness, and developing self-confidence
through strong mentoring relationships. It promotes a
model of violence prevention focused on girls' self-esteem
and inner awareness.
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Stop Endless War!
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Sunday, August 28, 7:30 PM
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Introductions and Overview
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Monday, August 29, 7:30 PM
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Military Families Speak Out
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Bring Them Home Now!
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Charley Richardson and
Nancy Lessin
are co-founders of
Military Families Speak Out,
an organization of over 2000 families speaking out against
the war in Iraq.
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Tuesday, August 30, 7:30 PM
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Worlds Apart
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9/11 First Responders Against War
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Tom Jackson
is a peace and media activist. He traveled to
Afghanistan in May 2004 and July 2005 with
Ground Zero for Peace - First Responders Against War,
to make this documentary film. Previously,
Tom worked with Voices in the Wilderness and
produced "Greetings From Missile Street"
which looked at the effects of economic sanctions
on Iraqi civilians. More information can be found at
http://www.joepublicfilms.com/
Megan Bartlett
is an Emergency Medical Worker who participated
in the 9/11 rescue effort. She is the founder of
Ground Zero for Peace.
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Native America
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Wednesday, August 31, 7:30 PM
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The Once And Future Savage
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Chris Charlebois,
Abenaki activist.
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Thursday, September 1, 10 AM
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Book Discussion
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Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
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Thursday, September 1, 7:30 PM
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The Evolution of America
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Deep Water Lhehisson,
Muscogee attorney, designer, novelist, poet and
teacher of spirituality.
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Friday, September 2, 8 PM
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Fun Night!
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Labor Day Music Weekend
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Saturday, September 3, 10 AM
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Instrument-Making Workshop
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Saturday, September 3, 8 PM
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Purly Gates
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This uniquely energetic and creative singer accompanies
herself with guitar, banjo, accordion, ukelele,
harmonica, and umpteen odd or home-made instruments.
Her musical styles range from mostly folk and swing,
to country, a touch of blues, bluegrass or even an
occasional rap. And she may do a little story-telling
between songs, if the time is right...
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Sunday, September 4, 10 AM
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Sing-along
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Rise Up Singing Sing-along and Rounds
singing Workshop with Purly Gates
and Kathy Torrey
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Sunday, September 4, 7:30 PM
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Contradance
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Contradance with Purly Gates,
Kathy Torrey and Friends!
Kathy Torrey is a noted New Hampshire contradance caller and
teacher of traditional dance.
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Monday, September 5, 7:30 PM
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Stories of Fellowship
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Gather for a cozy exchange of yarns around the
Lloyd Lodge Fireplace
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Tuesday, September 6
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WF 65th Season Ends with Breakfast
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Guatemala Accompaniment Project
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NH Peace Action Retreat
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Friday - Sunday, September 9 - 11
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New Hampshire Peace Action Retreat
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The keynote speaker will be
Kathy Kelly
of Voices in the Wilderness.
tel: (603) 228-0559 or
http://www.nhpeaceaction.org/.
Kathy Kelly
is a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness
(www.vitw.org),
a campaign to end economic and military warfare
against the Iraqi people. Voices in the Wilderness
organized 70 delegations to visit Iraq in the period
between 1996 and the beginning of the "Operation
Shock and Awe" warfare (March 2003). Kelly has
been to Iraq twenty times since January 1996, when
the campaign began. In October 2002, she joined Iraq
Peace Team members in Baghdad where she and the team
maintained a presence throughout the bombardment and
invasion. Kelly left Iraq on April 19, 2003 and has
returned there twice, for 17 day visits with team
members who’ve remained in Baghdad. She most recently
traveled to Iraq from December 21-2003 - January 8, 2004.
For her work in Iraq, Kathy has been nominated three
times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Back to Camp
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Friday - Sunday, September 16 - 18
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Back to Camp!
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Gay, bi, trans men's healthy living
gathering. Sign up: NH HIV/AIDS Task
Force (800) 942-7437
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Additional Recreational Offerings
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Crafts, Cooking & Critiques
New This Year
Crafty volunteers share in weekly hand craft
and/or cooking adventures... Learn to knit, quilt,
make dolls, origami... Bake biscotti or a pie..
Or join the book discussion.
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Innovative Games
July 11-16
Fun for youth and adults with
Jonathan Hart and
Joanie Parker,
adventure leaders.
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Soccer Week
July 18-22
Supportive training and play - fun for all.
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Nature Photography
August 1-5
with photographer Gina Bilander.
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Bike Week
Aug 29 - Sept 2
Group rides with Wally Malakoff
to explore the beautiful valleys-and hills-in the area.
Bring bicycle and helmet and get in shape.
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4 PM Youth Workshop with David Rovics
Saturday, July 16 4pm
Share a look at music, performance, and
activism with someone who does it all...
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Animal Spirit Totem Theater
Sunday, July17, 2pm
...for youth of all ages.
With Queen Fox
(Amatul Hannan) &
King Coyote (Nate Peyman)
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Introduction to Lifetime Empowerment
and Awareness Program (LEAP)
Sunday, August 28, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Self-Defense workshop for all Teens,
with Deborah Weaver
and Melissa Lockman.
http://www.girlsleap.org/
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Bike Week
August 29 - September 2
Group rides will explore the beautiful valleys -
and hills - around World Fellowship. Get in shape
and bring your bicycle and helmet. For further
information, contact Wally Malakoff
at malakoff@starpower.net
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Feldenkrais®
June 30 - July 9
Feldenkrais® with Josh Schreiber
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Paneurythmy
July 10 - Sept 4
Four mornings per week with
Joan Reynolds
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Book Discussions
| July 7 |
'Tis |
Frank McCourt |
| July 14 |
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man |
John Perkins |
| July 21 |
The Dewbreaker and
Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Krik? Krak! |
Edwidge Danticat |
| July 29 |
Woman on the Edge of Time |
Marge Piercy |
| August 4 |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Trans-Sister Radio |
Chris Bohjalian) |
| August 11 |
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood |
Marjane Satrapi |
| August 18 |
The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
| August 25 |
Dreaming in Cuban |
Cristina Garcia |
| September 1 |
Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
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Capoeira Angola
August 8 - 13
The morning training sessions of this week will
be devoted to introducing the basic elements of
movement, philosophy, and music of Capoeira Angola
to beginners. The afternoons will be focused on
advanced training. Students who have consistently
participated in training during the week will be
asked to take part in a Saturday sharing performance
with the World Fellowship community.
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Yoga
August 15 - 21
Yoga with Nancy Simons
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Fall Work Weekend
Sept 22 - 27
Help close World Fellowship before frost! Share
your talents with a weekend of good work, good
food, and good fellowship in the clear beauty of
fall. Contact us in the office to register!
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Angel (Angelo) Borisoff
Sunday, July 3, 1:30 PM
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Bill Gerson
Sunday, July 31
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Children's Fellowship
Daily: 10-noon, ages 3-9
Sunday - Thursday: 7:30-9 PM, ages 5-12
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Under construction
For more information, contact:
Andy Davis and Andrea Walsh, Co-directors
World Fellowship Center
PO Box 2280
Conway, NH 03818-2280
tel: (603) 447-2280
office@worldfellowship.org
For reservations, please write to
reservations@worldfellowship.org.
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