The Department of Philosophy and its Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice would like to invite you to attend our conference: Practical Peace Building and Environmental Justice Saturday--November 3, 2007
9:00 am-5:00 pm at SUNY Cortland - Old Main Building Conference website http://www.peaceconsortium.org/SUNY%20Cortland_conf_2007.htm <http://www.peaceconsortium.org/SUNY%20Cortland_conf_2007.htm> Please help spread the word to students, faculty, staff and friends through the conference flyer attached. Conference Highlights: Registration opens at 8:30 11:15 am -- Keynote Speaker Dr. Micere M. Githae Mugo, Chair, African American Studies, Syracuse University (free and open to the public). Dr. Mugo is a poet and playwright, as well as full professor and has taught in the Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University since the fall of 1993. Although a Kenyan by birth and upbringing, she is a citizen of Zimbabwe; a Pan Africanist by identification, an internationalist in orientation and a Black feminist. Please see her website at http://web.syr.edu/~mmmugo <http://web.syr.edu/~mmmugo> 12:30 -- Cortland's Step-It-Up Action for the National Campaign on Global Warming - front of Old Main Initiated by Bill McKibben and his students, Step It Up 2007 is a campaign organized by people all around the country, calling for leadership on global warming. Its goal is to empower the grassroots climate movement to take action locally by calling for national change. http://stepitup2007.org <http://stepitup2007.org/> Our Step It Up event is co-sponsored by Cortland's student environmentalist group SAVE!! http://csave.wordpress.com <http://csave.wordpress.com/> Throughout the day: Concurrent sessions on advocacy, theoretical perspectives and practice will feature Cortland faculty, regional academics and cultural workers, area environmental and peace activists, and more! Suggested donation is $20 to include lunch and provide for conference scholarships. No one will be turned away because lack of funds! Students Free! Daycare available on request. Sponsored by: Cortland's Social Philosophy Program, The Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS), CNY Peace Studies Consortium, CALS, FDC, Office of the Provost, Office of the President, A&S Dean, & Neovox Pete Meyers TC Workers' Center 115 E. State Street Ithaca, NY 14850 607-269-0409 www.TCWorkersCenter.org "As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene Debs "The seed of our unhappiness lies in our wish to control how things will be".--Roger Rosenbaum __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
