Paul Krugman and comedian Reno Discuss the Economy
Tuesday, May 6
7:00 PM
Auditorium
Please join us for a festive, as well as hilarious evening; an exploration of the economy with acclaimed economist and political columnist, Paul Krugman, and comedian and social/political oracle, Reno. Ticket prices are $25 for performance and $50 for performance and cocktail party. Call 1-800-838-3006 or purchase on line at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/31557.
Co-Sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture and WBAI.
Gandhi, King and the Power of Nonviolence:
Alternatives to Force in the 21st Century
Monday, April 21
7:00 PM (Doors open 6:30 pm)
Auditorium
Join bestselling author Jonathan Schell, author of The Seventh Decade, and Pulitzer prize-winner Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters, as they discuss Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the enduring power of nonviolence in our contemporary world. This evening is part of a series that has been organized in collaboration with the Satya Graha Forum to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera's performance of Philip Glass' opera about Mahatma Gandhi and Satya Graha, his movement of social change through nonviolence.
Moderator: Suzannah Lessard. Following the discussion there will be audience questions, and a booksigning.
For more information go to www.nationinstitute.org or www.satya-
graha.org. Admission: Free (suggested donation $10).
Cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture and The Nation.
Woman and Child Crossing: Caution - Lives at Risk
Thursday, April 17
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Auditorium
A panel discussion on critical human rights issues facing women and youth around the world, including access to reproductive rights; sexual violence against women; and exploitation and abuse against female migrant workers. Join us to learn about critical human rights issues, help to raise the voices of women and youth, and find out how you can get involved.
Admission: free and open to the public
Cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the United Nations Association Young Professionals for International Cooperation Human Rights Committee.
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Saturday, March 15
7:00 PM
Auditorium
A lecture featuring Richard Dawkins, renowned scientist and public intellectual, discussing "The God Delusion," and the state of science education.
Admission: free. Tickets are first-come, first-serve. For information: nyc@centerforinquiry.net; or phone 212-504-2945.
Sponsored by Center for Inquiry-New York City; New York Society for Ethical Culture; Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers at NYU; and Columbia Atheists & Agnostics.
My Hippocrates Workshop - Dr Vikki Hufnagel MD
and Friends
Saturday, March 15
1:00 - 5 :00 PM
Discussion on important issues in women’s health - learn what is fact, and what is misconceptions.
Topics:
- Prolapse
- Endometriosis
- Fibroids
- Menopause
- Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome
Hear more about the workshop on WBAI March 13 at noon. The press is welcome to listen to break through news on virtual colonoscopy with guest Dr. Bill Glenn on of the creators of this new technology. This is part of the No More series on WBAI 99.5 FM www.wbai.org.
Open to the public; men are invited and welcome to join. Admission: free.
Sponsored by WBAI 99.5 FM, and the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Mapping Hazards in America: Earthquakes, Coastal Storms, and Sea Level Rise
Wednesday, March 12
6:30 - 9:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall, 4th Floor
Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography, at Syracuse University will use a variety of maps to explore cartographic strategies for coping with earthquakes, coastal storms, and rising sea levels. Open to the public. Admission: free.
Sponsored by the NY Map Society www.nymapsociety.org, and the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
NY's Rockefeller Drug War: The Human and Fiscal Price We All Pay
Thursday, March 6
7:00 - 10:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Auditorium
Join us for a panel discussion and call to action.
Panelists:
- Jeffrion Aubry, NYS Assembly Member, Chair of Committee on Corrections;
- David Soares, Albany County District Attorney;
- Robert Gangi, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of NY;
- Cheri O'Donohue, Community Activist; Steering Committee member of FREE: Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment.
Moderator: Gloria Browne-Marshall, JD, Women's City Club member; author of Race, Law and American Society 1607 to Present; Ass't Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Admission: Free, donation accepted at the door. For information call Caitlin Dunklee, Drop the Rock Coordinator at 212-254-5700.
Cosponsors: New York Society for Ethical Culture, WCC (Women's City Club of New York, and Drop the Rock.
People of Color Don’t Care About the Environment
Thursday, February 28
7:00 PM
Auditorium
Join a panel of A-list personalities, nationally recognized environmentalists and social pioneers for a press conference and provocative town hall discussion exploring race marginalization within the environmental movement. Hosted by Simran Sethi of the Sundance Channel’s The Green. Ms. Sethi has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Martha Stewart Living as well as being a featured pioneer in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue.
RSVP at: Greenuptown@yahoo.com.
Cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
New York City Winter Soldier
Thursday, February 21
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Auditorium
US Troops are resisting the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will give firsthand testimony from their combat experiences to show how official policies have created the reality on the ground.
Suggested donation at the door: $20; $5 students. Free for active, national guard, reserve troops, and all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
IVAW NYC - myspace.com/ivawnyc - nyc@ivaw.org - 212-228-0450.
Taking Stock of Human Rights
Tuesday, September 25
6.30 – 8.00 PM
Auditorium
Moderator:
- Mary Robinson, Founder and President,
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Panelists:
- Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University
- Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty USA
- Francis Omaswa, Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and Former Minister of Health, Uganda
- Michael Posner, President of Human Rights First
- Len Rubenstein, President of Physicians for Human Rights
Please join us for the 5th anniversary celebration of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. We are using this anniversary event, co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture, to highlight a far more important one – the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2008. This provides a unique moment to raise global awareness about what can and must be done to realize internationally agreed human rights standards.
A conversation by the panelists will be followed by Q&A and an exchange of ideas on where we are as a human rights movement today, and how we can galvanize political will and public interest on the eve of the countdown to the 60th Anniversary.
All are welcome. Please RSVP to celeste.fichter@eginitiative.org, or by calling 212-895-8080. No charge. Donation at the door.
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut-Honoring His Humanism
Thursday, May 31, 2007
7:30 PM, doors open at 7:00
(Member seating 6:45 through west door)
Concert Hall
In cooperation with the American Humanist Association and the Vonnegut family.
Kurt Vonnegut, author, social critic, and Humanist, will be remembered by:
- Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
- Howard Zinn, historian and longtime friend
- Donald Farber, author and literary agent
- Fred Edwords, AHA, Director of Communications
Tony Hileman, Senior Leader presiding. For further information call Suzy Frazer 212.874.5210 ext. 113.
Rock to Save Darfur
Thursday, April 19
7:30 - 11:00 PM
Concert Hall
An all star musical lineup headlined by George Clinton and the 420 Funk Mob, featuring members from Parliament Fundkadelics.
Guest speakers:
- Jim Brennan: New York State legislature representative who has co-sponsored a bill to divest all companies doing business in Sudan
- Ron Haviv: three time world press award winning war journalist, who has documented the genocide in Sudan
- Yahya Osman: victim of the genocide in Sudan. He represents the Darfur Rehabilitation Project
- Simon Deng: Former slave from Sudan
- Representative from Save the Children
Tax deductible tickets: $40 performance; $100 performance and private after-party with artists and speakers. To order call 212-307-7171, www.ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, or the box office day of show.
All proceeds support the work of Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, SaveDarfur.org and others.
Sponsored by Rock to Save Darfur and the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Society/Nation Institute and the Public Concern Foundation
Wednesday, March 21
7:00 - 10:00 PM
Concert Hall
An audio file of this event is available: listen | download
Their private contractors operate in Iraq, Afghanistan and within the United States. Most people have never heard of Blackwater USA, but that is about to change.
Join Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books), and Nation Columnist Naomi Klein, as they discuss the radical privatization of war and how it threatens American democracy. Moderated by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
A book signing of Blackwater will follow the event. There will be a suggested donation of $10 at the door.
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The Network of Arab-American Professionals of New York
Thursday, March 15
7:30 - 10:30 PM
Concert Hall
The status of Arab-American women in their communities is often misrepresented, both within and outside the Arab community. All too often, Arab women are categorized in stereotypical roles ranging from the hopeless, oppressed figure to the sexy pop star.
The goal of this program is to have an open forum where women and men are able to discuss rationally how women are perceived in the Arab community by non-Arabs, by Arabs, by men and other women within the community. The discussion will touch on dispelling some stereotypes, while the program will conclude with ideas on how to exact change for the future. Open to the public. Admission is free.
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Make Your Vote Count
October 25
(Audio file)
Our County Commissioners, at the direction of the State Board of Elections, will soon choose voting machines for NYC.
What do you know about the choices they will make?
What can you do to encourage selection of the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective voting machines for NYC?
Listen Make-Your-Vote-Count.
Jerrold Nadler, Member, U. S. Congress; Mark Crispin Miller, New York University professor and author; Douglas Kelner, Co-chair, NY State Board of Elections & John Ravitz, Bo Lipari, David Kogelman. Moderator Adam Cohen – NY Times Editorial Board.
This program was taped before a live audience on October 25, 2006 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture.
