Peace Activities at Goshen
Event Archive
November 10, 2005 A Discussion on the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Palestinian and Israeli Scholars
Tal Litvak-Hirsch and Muhsin Yusuf will lead a discussion on the Israel-Palestine conflict via interactive webcast. Litvak-Hirsch is an Israeli scholar and Yusuf is from Palestine. Both are currently teaching at Earlham College where they are part of the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence program. Yusuf teaches a course entitled ?Historical Context of Current Conflicts in the Middle East," while Litvak-Hirsch teaches "?Social Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.? Come join us for the conversation!
October 8, 2005 Rebecca Walker
Goshen College, Music Center Free and Open to the Public - No tickets required (Also a part of the In Solidairty Conference) Rebecca Walker is the author of the international bestseller Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books) and the editor of What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future (Riverhead Books) and To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism (Anchor/Doubleday), which has been in print for ten years and is required reading in universities throughout America and abroad. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Salon.com, Interview, Vibe, Essence, SPIN, Glamour, and Buddhadharma, and her essays are widely anthologized. She is the recipient of the Alex Award from the American Library Association, and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. In 1997 Rebecca co-founded the Third Wave Foundation , the only national, philanthropic organization for women aged 15-30. Since its inception, Third Wave has contributed over $750,000. to individuals and organizations that support young women's health, education and activism. For her leadership, Rebecca has received numerous awards, including the Paz y Justicia Award from Vanguard, and the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, among others. When she was 25, Time Magazine named Rebecca one of fifty future leaders of America. Rebecca has lectured at over 300 universities including Harvard , Oberlin, MIT, and Stanford, addressed dozens of organizations including the Northwest Women's Law Center, and acted as a consultant to Sony Music, Microsoft and JP Morgan Chase. She has presented work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others, and made appearances at the Harlem Book Fair, The Los Angeles Book Fair, and dozens of renowned bookstores across the country. Rebecca has been interviewed by Terri Gross, Charlie Rose, and been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show . Rebecca grew up in New York and San Francisco and graduated with honors from Yale University. She currently hosts a series on new masculinity on Pacifica Radio, and in 1997 made her acting debut in Primary Colors, a Mike Nichols film. She sits on GenderPAC 's Parenting Advisory Council and the advisory board of the environmentalist organization Save the Bay . Rebecca is also currently at work on a second memoir and a third anthology, and divides what time she has left after giving birth to her son Tenzin between New York City and Northern California.
October 6, 2005 In Solidarity: Engaging Empire in Activism, Education and Community Strategies
Goshen College, Goshen, IN, October 6-9, 2005 A Peace and Justice Studies Association and Plowshares National Student Peace & Justice Conference In a post-911 world powered by a global matrix of multinational corporations, media outlets, renegade governments and military forces, where does one begin the processes to dismantle the systems of domination and oppression? What are the strategies, tactics and discourses for overturning the Empire? How can one effectively change the meta-narratives of imperialism and colonization? How does one engage racism/white supremacy/white privilege? What political options are available? What are the implications of Empire at home and abroad? What role does nonviolence play? How does one build local communities of solidarity and cultivate the grassroots culture? How does one connect with the world-wide solidarity movement? Through a series of workshops, speakers, panel discussions, strategy sessions and films we hope to address many of these questions. Please join us as we hear about: *Post Colonialism through the eyes of a Native American *Post Conflict Social Changes in Latin America and Iraq *Strategies and Tactics of Non-violent Direct Action *Privileges of Race and Gender *Sudan and the Realities of Darfur *Watch “The Weather Underground” and hear from members For more information see the conference website: http://www.plowsharesproject.org/php/InSolidarity.php
September 28, 2005 Carlos Muñoz, Jr.: The Struggle for a Multiracial Democracy in the 21st Century
Goshen College, Umble Center Sponsored by the Plowshares Project, Multicultural Affairs and Campus Health and Wellness Committee Free and Open to the Public Muñoz has played a prominent leadership role as a founder of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. He is currently active in the struggles for affirmative action and immigrant rights. He also co-founded Latinos Unidos, a grassroots community organization in Berkeley, California. Muñoz has authored numerous pioneering works on the Mexican American political experience and on African American and Latino political coalitions. His book, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement won the Gustavus Myers Book Award for outstanding scholarship in the study of human rights in the Untied States.The book, in its 10th printing, was a major resource for the 1996 PBS television series Chicano!: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.Muñoz was the senior consultant for the project and was also featured in the series as well as in several other documentary films.
September 8, 2005 Seeking Peace Conference
Sept. 8-11, 2005 — Indianapolis, Indiana A gathering hosted by the historic peace churches, held in partnership with the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Every Church a Peace Church, Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes, Mennonite Church USA Peace Advocate and Peace and Justice Support Network, On Earth Peace Assembly and Quaker House-Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg NC. As a multi-faceted and intergenerational gathering, the conference will provide opportunities to build mentoring relationships and explore practical and intellectual approaches to peace and peacemaking for members and friends of the Church of the Brethren, Mennonite Church USA , The Society of Friends, and all who embrace peacemaking as an integral Christian discipline. For more information please see the conference website: http://www.plowsharesproject.org/php/HistoricPeaceChurchConference.php.
September 4, 2005 Esperanza Gama: Faces of Early Latin America
Sept. 4, 2-4 p.m. in the Goshen College Library Gallery Sept. 4 to Oct. 9 works will be displayed in the Good Library Gallery Sponsored by the Plowshares Project, Multicultural Affairs and Campus Health and Wellness Committee Free and Open to the Public Drawings and paintings of early Mexico by Esperanza Gama (www.esperanzagama.com) in the Library's Art Gallery. Her works are symbolic representations of important people, events and emotions in late-medieval Mexico. Esperanza Gama received a Bachelor of Fine arts degree from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She has been a professor of painting and drawing ay Cabanas Cultural Institute Institute in Guadalajara. Gama's work has exhibited in Mexico, France, the United States and she has a permanent collection at the Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago.
April 12, 2005 Jackson Katz: “My Gun's Bigger Than Yours: Images of Manhood and Violence in the Media”
Goshen College - Location College Church Chapel Free and open tot he public! Jackson Katz will join the Goshen College community for an evening conversation about Manhhod and Violence in the Media. This slide-lecture is regularly updated with images from popular culture and is presented in an interactive style where the audience has the opportunity to participate in dialogue about the images presented. Subjects covered include professional wrestling, sports, Hollywood film, advertising, and music videos. Jackson Katz is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to U.S. colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, the U.S. military services, community organizations and small and large corporations. He is the creator of an award-winning video titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity. The video is available with versions for college and high school students and is a production of the Media Education Foundation, creators of the acclaimed videos Dreamworlds II and Killing Us Softly 3. In 1993, he co-created the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The multi-racial, mixed gender MVP Program is the first large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate and professional athletes in the fight against all forms of men's violence against women. MVP has worked with more than 20,000 high school students, as well as 2,500 student-athletes at 35 colleges nationally. Katz and other MVP staff have trained coaches, players and front office personnel of the New England Patriots Football Club. Katz is the primary author of the program's innovative teaching materials. Since 1996, he has been directing the first worldwide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States Marine Corps. He and his colleagues have trained thousands of Marines on a dozen bases in the U.S. and Japan. The United States Navy is currently piloting his program aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. He is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence in the military. Since 1990, Katz has lectured at more than 500 colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools, professional conferences and military installations in 41 states. He has spoken and done trainings at numerous public schools and community organizations across the country. From 1988 to 1998, Katz was the chief organizer for Real Men, the Boston-based anti-sexist men's organization. Real Men leafleted at Fenway Park and Andrew Dice Clay concerts, provided speakers, sponsored debates and conferences, held fundraisers for battered women's shelters and produced and distributed literature. From 1998 to 2000, he served on the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence. He has consulted for several years with the Liz Claiborne Company's award-winning Women's Work campaign. He has published several academic articles on topics including educating college student-athletes in gender violence prevention, violent white masculinity in advertising, men's leadership in gender violence prevention education K-12, juvenile detention, masculinities in media and the male sports culture. Katz is widely quoted in the national print media. He has appeared on numerous national and local radio programs in the U.S. and Canada, as well as television programs such as Good Morning America, The Montel Williams Show, ABC News, 20/20 and the CBS Evening News. Katz is a former all-star football player who became the first man at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn a minor in women's studies. He holds a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his research concentration was the social construction of violent masculinities through sports and media.
March 11, 2005 Elena Featherston to speak at Transforming the Culture of Violence Against Women Seminar/Conference
Goshen College College-Mennonite Church March 11-12, 2004 Elena Featherston is a lecturer, workshop leader, writer, cultural critic and filmmaker. A political visionary, she has lectured on social theory throughout the United States and Europe since 1982. Her focus is varied: sexism, racism, reproductive rights, women’s spirituality, multicultural democracy, heterosexism, women’s rights, gender violence and multicultural alliance-building are some of the issues she address. An outspoken proponent for human rights, Featherston has appeared on radio and television in the U.S. and abroad. She has worked with the Green Party and ISD in Germany to end the neo-fascist violence there, coordinated the "Children Having Children" Conference with the National Council of Negro Women to address the fundamentals of teen pregnancy, devised diversity training materials for battered women’s shelters, and taught journal writing techniques as a form of narrative healing. Featherston’s writings have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and her book Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture & Identity was published by The Crossing Press in 1994. She is the producer/director of the award-winning documentary "Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit." In 1988, Featherston co-founded REEL DIRECTIONS, a San Francisco-based film/video collective which fosters the creation of realistic and multi-dimensional images of women and people of color for cinema and television in countries around the world. In 1990, she co-founded Featherston and Associates, a group of cross-cultural lecturers, teachers and facilitators from diverse backgrounds who work to end all forms of oppression, particularly those based on race, ethnic or cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability and spiritual beliefs. Featherston is currently working on a children’s book on ethnicity and color entitled This is Me; a documentary film which explores interracial relationships, "Under Our Skins"; and a book that fuses art, politics and spirituality, Weaving Change: A Guide to Personal and Political Transformation". She is an adjunct professor at New College of San Francisco in the departments of psychology and literature, and a candidate for the Beatrice M. Bain Research Affiliated Scholars Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Memberships include: The African/Asian American Roundtable, Bay Area Committee on Reproductive Rights, Women Against Rape, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the National Writer’s Union, Comparative and International Education Society(CIES), Women Make Movies, National Women’s Studies Association, Black Women in Publishing, NAACP, Bay Area Video Coalition and the Film Arts Foundation.
February 2, 2005 SHAY BANKS-YOUNG & JULIA JEFFERSON: Descendants of President Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings, his slave
Goshen College, Free and Open to the Public Genetic testing strongly suggests that Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, one of our nation’s most respected Presidents, bore children with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. This was shocking news for many historians, who for years had denied the possibility that Jefferson was capable of such "immoral" behavior. It was not, however, shocking to Julia Jefferson and Shay Banks-Young and their families, who have always been confident that their great-great-grandfathers, Eston and Madison, were, in fact, the sons of Jefferson and Hemings. The proof of this relationship, which seems to have lasted 38 years, leaves us with a great number of questions about race relations in the United States. Jefferson is a former educator turned businesswoman and her "new" cousin, Banks-Young, is a preventive health trainer and a poet who has hosted her own public affairs talk show. Jefferson is white and Banks-Young is black. Now, they are looking forward to their role as a focal point for what they hope will be an honest new dialogue on these very important issues we face as a society. In this unique presentation, the audience will have the opportunity to listen in on their conversation, hearing these articulate women discuss the many differences and similarities they share. They are anxious to engage the audience in their discussion which makes for a very interactive program. Together and separately, Banks-Young and Jefferson have appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, BET Tonight with Travis Smiley, and Sally Jesse Raphael, and have been interviewed by Time, U.S. News and World Report and People. Cosmopolitan named Banks-Young as one of their “Fun, Fearless Females” for her community building efforts. Anne Gordon-Reed, author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, said on The NewsHour with Jim Leher that "the thing this shows very clearly is that we're not two separate people, black and white; we are a people who share a common culture, a common land, and it turns out a common blood line, and this is something we haven't wanted to deal with openly."
January 16, 2005 Charlie King & Karen Brandow Performance
Goshen College - Java Junction Charlie King and Karen Brandow are musical storytellers and political satirists. Their repertoire covers a century and a half and four continents. They perform with the sweet and precise harmonies of life partners. They sing and write passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. "Two voices that complement each other beautifully & instrumentation that is spare, acoustic & just right" Victory Music Review. In Sept. 2003 they released their latest, live concert CD, SPARKS & TEARS. Other recent releases include: PUPPET TOWN (story, satire and hope for the new millenium) and REMEMBERING SACCO & VANZETTI: A LIVE PERFORMANCE. This musical and spoken word performance was selected from their 2001 Appleseed Recording, I STRUCK GOLD, which won rave reviews and extensive radio airplay. In addition to a full time career of concert touring, King and Brandow have sung in support of numerous groups working for peace, human rights, environmental sanity and alternatives to violence. Their central vision as entertainers is to leave audiences with a sense of optimism and possibility about the future. "We try to cover a broad emotional landscape in my concerts. The stories we collect and the songs we write take the listener on a journey of humor, heartache and hope. What we most value in a song is the way it helps us see an old reality in a totally new light." Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small. Honors include an "Indie" award for one of the top three folk recordings of 1984. In May of 1998 the War Resisters League gave their Peacemaker Award to Charlie and to Odetta. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award, which he received in November 1999. Charlie has released a dozen solo albums since 1976. He has also released three albums with the touring ensemble Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists. Charlie was born in 1947, and was raised in Brockton, MA. He cites as musical influences the folk music revival of the 1960's, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War era. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, "If we had more Charlie Kings in the world I'd be less worried," and Tom Paxton adds, "Luckily, we have him!" Karen Brandow has been performing with Charlie King since 1998. While doing human rights work in Guatemala from 1986-1994, Karen studied voice, performance and classical guitar. She performed at political and cultural events in that country as a soloist and was a founding member of the a cappella singing group, the Non-Traditional Imports. Karen was born in 1954 in Philadelphia, PA. She began singing and playing guitar as a teenager. While living in Central America, she broadened her repertoire to include Latin American music of the "Nueva Canción" or New Song Movement. She performs songs in English and Spanish.
October 22, 2004 Plowshares National Student Peace Conference
Earlham College Oct. 22-24 - Plowshares National Student Peace Conference - "Bringing our Pieces Together - Peacebuilding Through Intercultural Dialogue" - Aaron Miller, the Director of Seeds of Peace, Ilyssah Shabazz, daughter of Malcom X, Eugenia “Jennie” Kiesling, a professor of military history at the United States Military Academy, and 2 concerts (a group that toured with FOR's Drop Beats not Bombs, and a multicultural group called Funkidesi. For more information goto http://www.plowsharesproject.org/php/featured.mediaconference.2004.php.
October 21, 2004 Public Interest and Community Service (PICS) Fair
Indianapolis Oct. 21 - Public Interest and Community Service (PICS) Fair - The Career Centers of Earlham College, Goshen College, Manchester College, the Plowshares Peace Studies Project, the Indianapolis Peace House, and the College Career Center Consortium (Anderson, Butler, DePauw, Franklin, Hanover, Marian, IUPUI, St. Joseph’s, Taylor, University of Indianapolis, Wabash) are excited to host the second annual Public Interest and Community Service Fair, (PICS). This years PICS Fair will take place in the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown from 1-4 p.m. We will join local, national and international employers with students and career service professionals from the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Michigan. PICS is an incredible opportunity for students who seek ways to fulfill their personal commitment to service to find ways they may become involved. For more information regarding this fair please contact Megan Gallagher at careerdevelopment@earlham.edu.
September 14, 2004 Jesus "Chuy" Negrete - Songs & Images of Mexican Labor
Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center Public warmly welcome! Chuy Negrete, with guitar in hand, performs traditional "corridos," the folk music of his native Mexico. The son of migrant farmworkers who later settled in Chicago, Negrete went on to become one of the nation’s foremost musicologists and interpreters of Mexican and Chicano music. He’s the founder and Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Chicago and has performed at universities nationwide. Through concerts and workshops, Negrete takes you on a musical journey from Aztlan to the fields of Cesar Chavez, instilling in audiences an understanding and respect for the culture of his people.
June 30, 2004 Ruby Sales, Civil Rights Veteran and Director of Spirit House to speak as a part of Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions
Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions June 27, 28 & 30. Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Free and Open to the Public. Civil rights veteran, Ruby Sales is a, historian and activist from Jemison, Ala. In the 1960s, while studying at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Sales became involved with the state’s Freedom Summer voter registration drive. She currently serves as director of Spirit House, a nonprofit organization she launched in 2000 in Washington, D.C. Spirit House is focused on community organizing and spiritually based community building. Sales has also served as director of the Citizens' Complaint Center in Washington, D.C., director of Black Women’s Voices and Images and director of Women of All Colors. She has taught courses on the civil rights movement and African American women’s history at the University of Maryland. Sales has written several articles and has appeared as a commentator on national television programs.
June 28, 2004 Paul R. Loeb, author and associated scholar at Seattle’s Center for Ethical Leadership to speak as a part of Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions
Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions June 27, 28 & 30. Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Free and Open to the Public. Paul Loeb is an associated scholar at Seattle’s Center for Ethical Leadership and board chair of Peace Action of Washington state. Loeb has spent more than 30 years studying and writing about the psychology of social involvement. His most famous book, Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, with 85,000 copies in print, explores what leads some people to get involved in larger community issues and what it takes to maintain commitment for the long haul. Loeb has written for such publications as: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Redbook, Parents magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Salon, the Village Voice, National Catholic Reporter, and the International Herald Tribune. In addition to Soul of a Citizen, he is the author of Generation at the Crossroads : Apathy and action on the American Campus, of Nuclear Culture, and of Hope in Hard Tiimes. His new anthology on political hope, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, will be published in August 2004 by Basic Books.
June 27, 2004 Rachel Harding, Director of The Veterans of Hope Project to speak as a part of Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions
Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions June 27, 28 & 30. Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Free and Open to the Public. Rachel Harding is the executive director of The Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo. The Veterans of Hope Project documents the life stories of “Veterans” -- men and women from a variety of ethnic, cultural and religious communities who have been active for many years in movements for compassionate social change. Harding has also taught classes on religion and African-American studies at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness, history of the nineteenth century development of the Afro-Brazilian religion. Harding is also an accomplished poet, with works published in Callaloo, Chelsea, Feminist Studies, The International Review of African American Art, Hambone, and in several anthologies.
March 31, 2004 Jim Wallis to speak at Goshen: "Prophetic Politics in an Election Year"
Jim Wallis will speak at 7:30 in Goshen College's Rieth Recital Hall. Jim is a Christian leader for social change. He is a speaker, author, activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis was a founder of Sojourners - Christians for justice and peace - more than 30 years ago and continues to serve as the editor of Sojourners magazine, covering faith, politics and culture. In 1995, Wallis was instrumental in forming Call to Renewal, a national federation of churches, denominations, and faith-based organizations from across the theological and political spectrum working to overcome poverty. Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers. His most recent book is Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (Random House, 2000). This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joe Liechty at (574) 535-7802, or email joecl@goshen.edu
March 30, 2004 Judy O'Bannon Public Lecture and Reception
College Church Chapel, Goshen College Goshen College, the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative, & the Indianapolis Peace House present an afternoon lecture with Judy O’Bannon, the newly appointed Director of External Affairs of the Indianapolis Peace House. O’Bannon is former First Lady of Indiana and longtime member of southern Indiana’s Corydon United Methodist Church. Judy has spent her life as a community activist and volunteer, advocating for such issues as education, the environment, and community development. The event is free and open to the public. Following the lecture there will be a short reception.
March 24, 2004 James Loewen to speak at Goshen
Wednesday, March 24 from 4-6 pm James Loewen, best-selling author of "Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything your High School History Textbook Got Wrong," will speak in Goshen College's NC17. This event is especially open to local educators and education majors. Loewen is a sociologist and author, who spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history. He found them overwhelmingly full of bland optimism, nationalism, and plain misinformation. What lies might your social studies teachers have inadvertantly taught you? Loewen will also speak on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:00 pm in the Rieth Recital Hall and in chapel on the 24th.
March 24, 2004 James Loewen to speak at Goshen College Convocation
James Loewen will speak at Goshen College Convocation at 10:00 am in the college church chapel. Loewen is a sociologist and best-selling author, who wrote "Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything your High School History Textbook Got Wrong" and "Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong." Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history. He found them overwhelmingly full of bland optimism, nationalism, and plain misinformation. What lies might your social studies teachers have inadvertantly taught you?
March 23, 2004 James Loewen, author of "Lies my Teacher Told me" to speak at Goshen
James Loewen will speak at Goshen College on Tuesday, March 23 at 7 PM in the Rieth Recital Hall. Loewen is a sociologist and best-selling author, who wrote "Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything your High School History Textbook Got Wrong" and "Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong." Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history. He found them overwhelmingly full of bland optimism, nationalism, and plain misinformation. What lies might your social studies teachers have inadvertantly taught you? Loewen will also speak on Wednesday, March 24, in chapel and from 4 to 6 pm in NC 19.
March 22, 2004 Goshen College Alumni to report on sustainable tourism project
Two Goshen College alumni, Eric Kanagy and Marten Beels, will report on their project to promote sustainable tourism in Rio Limpio, Dominican Republic. The event will take place in Goshen College's WY 318 at noon on Monday, March 22.
March 17, 2004 Pam Fitzgerald and Paul Dix "Witness for Peace in Nicaragua"
Come hear Paul Dix and Pam Fitzgerald share about their experiences in Nicaragua. Pam and Paul are two Quakers from Livingston, Montana, who have worked with Witness for Peace, a grassroots activist group. They have documented and photographed life in Nicaragua since the 1980s. This event will take place in Goshen College's Convocation from 10:00-10:30 am.
February 25, 2004 "Legacy" showing and small group discussion
Showing at Goshen College in AD 28, "Legacy" is a documentary about the true story of a family from one of the worst Chicago housing projects. After the showing there will be small group discussions about the issues brought up in the movie. The showing will last from 7:00 to 9:30 pm.
February 16, 2004 "The Weather Underground" showing and panel discussion
Showing at Goshen College in Newcomer 17, "The Weather Underground" is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of The Weather Underground radical movement in the 1960's and '70's. It will be followed by a panel discussion. The event is supposed to last from 7:00 to 9:30.
January 19, 2004 C. T. Vivian, Civil Rights Leader
Come celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Study Day with Goshen College. Events start at 9:00 am and feature Civil Rights Leader CT Vivian.
January 9, 2004 A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens
A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens A dynamic mix of personal stories and provocative scenarios that takes you on a mind-expanding, heart-opening journey through the multicultural American experience. This powerful trio of solo performers will challenge, inspire and entertain you as they boldly leap across cultural borders. From outrageously funny to deeply poignant, A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens will satisfy your appetite for meaningful fare. Featuring Shishir Kurup, Dan Kwong and Olga Loya. Come meet: * A newborn baby who talks like a cross between Barry Bonds and Karl Marx. * A woman who discovers that the complexity of identity politics is enough to split your head in three. * A man struggling to handle negative fall-out from The Patriot Act – and maybe make it as a mime. * An upwardly-immobile guy who grows up driving in the glamorous shadow of the Hollywood sign. * A footloose gal who dances her way past prejudice, ignorance and gangs to find her true community. This presentation is best suited for audiences 16 and over due to the mature contextual complexity surrounding issues of culture, racial stereotypes and relationships. We ask for your discretion while warmly inviting a diverse audience.
November 12, 2003 "Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light..."
Sponsored by Goshen College Plowshares, Academic Affairs and Student Life Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Admission is free. Billie Jean Young is a veteran stage actress who brings Fannie Lou Hamer to life in all of Hamer’s Mississippi-born, sharecropping, freedom-fighting glory. In her captivating, award-winning one- woman show, "Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light..." Young recaptures the breadth and majesty of Hamer’s brave journey, from downtrodden field worker to victorious champion of civil and human rights. Audiences come away from the show imbued with new knowledge of the history of the Civil Rights movement. A prolific poet, activist and dramatist, Young’s many artistic endeavors include her poetry collection, My Name is Black.
November 12, 2003 Billie Jean Young (Poet, Activist and Dramatist) Speaks about her work and Fannie Lou Hamer"
Sponsored by Plowshares, Academic Affairs and Student Life College Church Chapel, Goshen College Free. Billie Jean Young is a veteran stage actress who brings Fannie Lou Hamer to life in her award-winning one-woman show, "Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light..." Young will speak about her life's work and her connection to Fannie Lou Hamer.
September 25, 2003 Sweet Honey in the Rock
October 25 Goshen College, Sauder Concert Hall More information coming soon.
