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Human Rights Film Series: "The Visitor"
Time: 7:00 p.m.
price: Free
Location: Oak Street Cinema, 309 Oak St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Description: The Visitor Social Action Campaign, in partnership with Active Voice and Participant Media, uses the 2008 feature film The Visitor as an educational tool to help audiences learn more about the U.S. immigrant detention system and connect them with ways to get involved. The Action Campaign is working with local organizations, including the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, the Advocates for Human Rights, and others to bring "The Visitor" to Oak Street Cinema.
Film Description: Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him.
This film is rated PG-13 for Brief Strong Language.
For further information, contact Rebecca Riedell at rriedell@advrights.org.
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Evangelicals and Human Rights: Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century
Time: 7:00 p.m.
price: Free & open to the public
Location: 125 Willey Hall, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, West Bank, Minneapolis,MN
Description: Evangelicals moved from privatism and withdrawal to public engagement in the late 20th century, and are now in the process of broadening their vision and agenda for public engagement to include human rights and other issues far beyond the agenda of the Christian Right. This lecture will discuss the evolution of recent evangelical public engagement and the growing interest of evangelicals in human rights. The work of Dr. Gushee's group Evangelicals for Human Rights in addressing the torture issue will serve as a case study of both the prospects and problems of evangelical public engagement in the 21st century.
David P. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University. Currently, Dr. Gushee's research interests focus on issues emerging at the intersection between Christian faith, ethics and public policy.
Sponsored by MacLaurin Institute (www.maclauirn.org)
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Media Forum: Tools for Democracy, Strategies for Change
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Minneapolis Downtown Central Library
Description: Here at the Twin Cities Media Alliance, we are hard at work preparing for the upcoming 4th Annual Fall Media Forum. Coming on the heels of June's National Conference for Media Reform, the forum promises to be high-energy and very productive, and we don't want you to miss it!
Mark your calendar:
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
9:00am -- 3:00pm
Minneapolis Downtown Central Library
The theme for this year's event will be "Media Forum: Tools for Democracy, Strategies for Change". Confirmed presenters include local Fox 9 news anchor Robyne Robinson and Amalia Anderson from the Main Street Project.
Registration will begin in early September. Watch for details on www.tcdailyplanet.net.
If you have questions about this event or would like sponsorship information, please contact Emily Pearson Ryan at emily@tcdailyplanet.net, or call (612) 436.9188.
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37th Annual League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions Conference
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
price: Registration for conference = $85; Evening Prior = $25
Location: Kahler Grand Hotel, 20 Southwest Second Avenue, Rochester, MN
Description: Celebrating 60 Years of the
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Strategies to Strengthen & Invigorate Our Communities Addressing:
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mary Shuttleworth, Youth for Human Rights, International Human Rights Activist
Disability Issues Mary Kay Kennedy, Advocating Change Together
Keynote Speaker Pete Feigal, National Speaker and Artist
GLBT Issues Kristian Maul, TYSN and Haven Herrin, Soulforce Q
Close the Gap in Education Kristi Rudelius Palmer, U of M Human Rights Center
American Indian Curriculum Jackie Fraedrich, Program Director Student Services for Robbinsdale Area Schools; Marion Helland, LMHRC; Dave Larsen, Assistant Director for
American Indian Affairs, Mankato State University
Evening Prior
Centennial Hall, Kahler Hotel
Dinner, Networking, Stage Left Presentation
hosted by the
2008 LMHRC Board of Directors
Friday, October 3
6:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
Advocating Change
Together
Education Minnesota
Tolerance Minnesota
Transgender Youth
Support Network
Outfront MN
The Advocates for Human Rights
U of M Human Rights Resource Center
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Jazz For Peace, featuring Rick DellaRatta
Time: 3:00 PM
price: Tickets are $25
Location: Artist Quarter, 408 St. Peter Street, St Paul, MN
Description: Jazz For Peace
featuring Rick DellaRatta
performing a special benefit concert in ST. PAUL , MN for:
MINNESOTA SELF-ADVOCACY CONFERENCE
on
Sunday October 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM
at
Artist Quarter
408 St. Peter Street
St. Paul ,MN
Tickets $25.00 at the door or visit our website for advanced purchase discount tickets at www.jazzforpeace.org
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Film Screening: "Standard Operating Procedure" (2008) documenting torture and conditions at the US Forces base Abu Ghraib
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
price: Free and open to the public
Location: MOOS Health Sciences Tower (East Bank), 515 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN
Description: Directed by Errol Morris. Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed Americas image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few bad apples? We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is clear what happened there. The Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup. An expose, because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a coverup because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further. In recent news reports, we have learned about the destruction of the Abu Zubaydah interrogation tapes. A coverup. It has been front page news. But the coverup at Abu Ghraib involved thousands of prisoners and hundreds of soldiers. We are still learning about the extent of it. Many journalists have asked about the smoking gun of Abu Ghraib. It is the wrong question. As Philip Gourevitch has commented, Abu Ghraib is the smoking gun. The underlying question that we still have not resolved, four years after the scandal: how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraiband the subsequent coverupcould happen?
Free food will be provided.
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Martin Burtora, Czech Scholar, Discussion on Social Reforms
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
price: Free and open to the public
Location: 250 Wulling Hall, 86 Pleasant Street SE (East Bank), Minneapolis, MN
Description: Martin Butora, Czech Scholar, will discuss social reforms in post-Communist Czech Republic.
Light deserts will be served.
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Women's Human Rights Program Fall House Party/Fundraiser
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Marlene & Tom Kayser home, 466 S Mississippi River Blvd, St Paul
Description: Join us to celebrate the Women's Program and the birthday of Advisory Committee Co-Chair and Board member, Marlene Kayser.
Tom Kayser has agreed to match donations up to the amount raised at the September 2007 House Party.
Details/Invitations coming soon!
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Sex Trafficking and Human Rights in Minnesota
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
price: Free and open to the public
Location: Briggs and Morgan, Minnesota Room, 2200 IDS Tower, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis
Description: Sex trafficking violates women and children's basic human rights, including the right to be free from slavery and slavery-like practices; the right to equal protection under the law; the right to be free from discrimination based on race, nationality, and gender; and the rights to life, security of person and freedom from torture. Governments also violate trafficked persons' rights when they fail to prevent sex trafficking, prosecute perpetrators or provide trafficked persons with effective remedies for these violations, such as access to courts and legal immigration status.
At the request of the State of Minnesota's Human Trafficking Task Force, The Advocates for Human Rights has prepared and published a needs assessment on sex trafficking in Minnesota. The report examines the government response to this issue at the local, state, tribal and federal levels; identifies facilities and services currently available to trafficking victims in Minnesota; assesses their effectiveness; and makes recommendations for coordinating services to better meet the needs of sex trafficking victims statewide. Cheryl A. Thomas and Angela Bortel, two authors of the report, will discuss these findings and recommendations, and the importance of implementing responses that prioritize the safety and autonomy of trafficked persons while continuing to hold traffickers and patrons accountable.
Presenters are Cheryl Thomas, attorney and Director of the Women's Human Rights Program, a program she founded at The Advocates for Human Rights in 1993; and Angela Bortel, staff attorney in the Women's Program with an extensive background in combating trafficking in persons.
Hosted by The Advocates for Human Rights as one in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women's human rights issues.
Please join us the second Tuesday of alternating months for additional presentations. For more information, contact Mary Hunt at The Advocates for Human Rights, mhunt@advrights.org or 612-341-3302, ext. 107, or see www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
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Women's Human Rights Film Series: "Finding Dawn"
Time: 7:00 PM
price: Free and open to the public
Location: Hayden Heights Branch Library, 1456 White Bear Ave, St Paul, MN
Description: Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed M tis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy.
This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women s experience in Canada. From Vancouver s skid row, where more than 60 women are missing, we travel to the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia, and onward to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of Native women remain unresolved.
Along the road to honour those who have passed, we uncover reason for hope. It lives in Native rights activists Professor Janice Acoose and Fay Blaney. It drives events such as the annual Women s Memorial March in Vancouver and inspires communities all along the length of Highway 16 to come together to demand change.
Finding Dawn illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in this country. It goes further to present the ultimate message that stopping the violence is everyone s responsibility.
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Children and Genocide: Rwanda and the Holocaust
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
price: Free and open to public
Location: Concordia University, 1282 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul
Description: This workshop begins with testimonies from three people who were child survivors: Holocaust survivors Irene Berman, Norway, and Dr. Sabina Zimering, Poland, and Alice Musabende, Rwanda.
Professor Simon Sibelman, University of Wisconsin, will speak on the rescueof children during the Holocaust in France. Holocaust and Rwandan genocide survivors whose artwork is on exhibit in "Voice to Vision" at Concordia will share their stories.
The workshop will conclude with a tour of the exhibit and a film based on the survivors'memories as documented in art.
Registration: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/news/children.html
Additional information: 612-624-0256
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7th Annual International Youth Conference
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
price: Free, but online registration required
Location: Higher Ground Academy, 1381 Marshall Ave, St Paul, MN 55104
Description: Theme: "Preparing Future Leaders!"
Speakers include (invited)
- Mary Tate, Director, Uof MN's Empowering Minorites in Medicne, and program interns. (confirmed)
- Nadifa Osman, President WARDA, Getting Involved In Our World
- Julia Opoti, MSHALE Editor in Chief, journalism and media conversation. (confirmed)
Come and give your students, youth group and children the information needed to be successful now and in the future. Learn the next steps.
Conference applications at our website along with photos from the Peace Jam.
Conference is free to all - just register.
Future careers with a global perspective.
Conference is open to all youth and their advisors.
Want to know more about the International Leadership Institute - Go to:
-- www.internationalleadership.org --
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63rd United Nations Rally & Seminars presents
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
price: $25 Luncheon and Seminars
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
Description: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe
Women s Human Rights The Global Revolution
Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe is President of the Center for Women Policy Studies, the Nation s first feminist policy institute, founded in 1972. The Center s mission is to improve women s lives and ensure women s human rights through enlightened public policy. Before joining the Center in 1987, Dr. Wolfe served as Director of the Women s Educational Equity Act Program in the U.S. Department of Education, Director of the Project on Equal Education Rights, Deputy Director of the Women s Rights Program at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Education in the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Registration: 9:00-9:30am
Seminars:
Two 60-minute sessions at 9:30-10:30am and 10:45-11:45am
Each seminar will be repeated. Please choose two of the three listed below to attend.
Women and Water Rights An International Perspective
Presenters: Marilyn Cuneo, Liz Dodson, Luella Green, Terri Hawthorne from WILPF: Women s International League for Peace and Freedom Minnesota Metro Arts Committee
YPIC: A New Venture of the United Nations Association of Minnesota
Presenters: Afa Alizada and Juliana Junqueira, Co-Chairs, UNA-MN Young Professionals for International
Cooperation
Human Sex Trafficking in Minnesota
Presenter: Cheryl A. Thomas, Director, Women s Human Rights Program, The Advocates for Human Rights
Special Parking: $8.00
Ramp Entrances at 12th Street and 2nd Avenue South
Please make checks payable to the "UN Rally Fund"
Limited number of complimentary tickets available for students in grades 7-12.
Please contact Margaret Severe at 612/869-0559, 7420 Sheridan Ave S, Richfield, MN 55423
For questions only, please contact Zehra Avsar Keye, UN Rally Chair, 612/377-0214
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PeaceJam Slam
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
price: registration fee per adult is $75, per student is $25
Location: Metropolitan State University, 700 East 7th Street, St Paul
Description: PeaceJam Slam will be held Sunday, October 26th at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. We invite your PeaceJam group to participate in an inspiring, action-packed day! This leadership event serves as an opportunity for PeaceJam groups, new and pre-existing, from all throughout the upper midwest, to gather and gear up for this spring's two-day PeaceJam, which will feature a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate!
We will be announcing and launching this spring's PeaceJam laureate at PeaceJam Slam!! We are expecting a fabulous spring conference and look forward to having you involved. In order to prepare for the spring conference, we need representation from your group at PeaceJam Slam.
Due to space limitations, we are recommending that groups please limit their size to 1 adult and 4 youth. If you wish to bring a slightly larger group, accommodations can be made as extra space becomes available.
If you have not yet participated (or not participated recently) in PeaceJam events or used the PeaceJam curriculum, this is the perfect opportunity to get involved! Please forward this e-mail to anyone you think may be interested. Adult advisors will attend an advisor track to discuss PeaceJam activities and updates to the PeaceJam curriculum. The curriculum will be specific to the laureate that will attend PeaceJam in the spring.
The registration fee per student is $25, which includes: breakfast, lunch, conference materials and a small gift.
The registration fee per adult is $75, which includes: PeaceJam curriculum (specific to the laureate that will be attending this spring's PeaceJam), the newly released "PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace" book, the newly released "PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace" DVD, breakfast, lunch, conference materials and a small gift.
Return all completed registration forms and fees to Callie Aguilar by Wednesday, October 15th.
Everyone at youthrive, Upper Midwest Affiliate of PeaceJam Foundation, is looking forward to an exciting, high-energy event that will focus on the Global Call to Action. The event will provide young people an opportunity to meet and share with other young leaders and gather momentum for PeaceJam
in the spring! Each group is invited to bring a display board explaining your Global Call to Action service and activities (this is optional).
- PeaceJam Slam Agenda -
9:00 to 9:45 am .Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 to 10:30 am ...Greeting, Opening Keynote and Introduction
Greeting by Metropolitan State University President Sue Hammersmith
Opening Keynote by Carlos Garcia-Velasco, Executive Director of West Side Citizen s Organization
Emcees: Traci Coward and the youthrive Leadership Team
10:35 to 11:35 am .Workshop Session 1
11:40 to 12:15 pm ..Lunch for Family Groups 1-10/
Family Groups 11-20 meet together
12:25 to 1:00 pm ....Lunch for Family Groups 11-20/
Family Groups 1-10 meet together
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm Workshop Session 2
2:20 to 2:55 pm ..Family Groups
3:00 to 4:00 pm ..Closing Ceremony
Feel free to contact Callie Aguilar anytime with questions or concerns:
Callie Aguilar
Associate Director
youthrive - Upper Midwest Affiliate of PeaceJam Foundation
400 Selby Ave, Suite G-3
St. Paul, MN 55102
Tel: 651-224-3066
Fax: 651-225-8426
www.youthrive.net
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