[SustainableTompkins] Practical Peace Building and Environmental Justice, Sat. 11/3 @ SUNY Cortland

[Patricia Haines]

WHY DO ALL THE GOOD THINGS HAVE TO BE ON THE SAME DAY?!!! eg American REcycles Day and Step It Up - and YOUR conference, which sounds wonderful - I hope it will be written up in some way - p

pete meyers <truthisonepathsaremany at yahoo.com> wrote:  
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


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


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 

Our Step It Up event is co-sponsored by Cortland's student environmentalist group SAVE!!
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






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