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SUMMARY:Write for Rights Letter Writing Campaign with Amnesty International Local Group 9/280
DESCRIPTION:The Society and our friends at Amnesty Local Group 9/280 invite you to participate in their annual Write for Rights letter-writing campaign. Amnesty member from the Bronx\, Nick Ogutu Ombeyi\, will speak about his recent trip to East Africa organizing several Write for Rights campaigns for students there. All letter-writing materials will be provided\, including pre-written letters\, envelopes\, pens\, and stamps and refreshments. \nFor more information on the letter-writing event\, call Local Group 9/280 Coordinator Paul Pavese (646) 207-9698. \nAbout Write for Rights\nJoin other activists and concerned citizens by signing letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience incarcerated around the world. Our messages help convince government officials to release people who have been imprisoned solely for who they are or what they believe\, support human rights defenders\, stop torture\, commute death sentences and end other human rights abuses. Learn more at Amnestyusa.org/w4r.
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/write-for-rights-with-amnesty-international-2/
LOCATION:Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:UDHR 75th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Elise Auerbach: Human Rights in Iran at a Critical Juncture
DESCRIPTION:In-person and online! \nIran recently experienced an upheaval as millions of ordinary Iranians protested the death in custody of a young Iranian-Kurdish woman\, Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Joined to their outrage at her death were simmering grievances over the authorities’ pervasive human rights violations against any expression of dissent or non-conformity with the government’s rigid strictures on acceptable conduct. The authorities carried out a predictably harsh crackdown on protesters. \nElise Auerbach\, Amnesty International USA’s country specialist for Iran\, joins us to discuss how at this juncture\, human rights activists both in Iran and out must figure out how to carry on their efforts to end the government’s violations and ensure that all Iranians can enjoy and exercise their basic human rights. \nAbout Elise Auerbach\nElise Auerbach is Amnesty International USA’s country specialist for Iran. Elise has been a country specialist in the AIUSA Middle East Coordination Group since 1995. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Elise is also the acting chair of the AIUSA country specialist committee that oversees the work to provide support for those seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief. \nWatch Online: Click to join at start | ID 863 0430 0961 | Passcode 609424\nTo join by phone (audio only)\, dial (929) 205-6099 and enter the Zoom ID above. \nPresider: Leader Dr. Richard Koral \nMonthly Collection: Amnesty International \nCOVID-19 Notice: Vaccination is required. Masks are optional but encouraged. \nAbout Sunday Platform\nSunday Platform is our most important and long-standing community event. These gatherings educate\, stimulate personal growth\, inspire reflection and action\, and strengthen our community. Sunday meetings begin with music\, followed by greetings and a talk given by a Society Leader\, member\, or guest.  Platforms cover a variety of topics that reflect current events\, pressing social issues\, and Humanist philosophy. Each Sunday meeting is followed by a luncheon and social hour. \nTo watch previous Sunday Platforms\, visit our Videos page and YouTube channel.
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/sunday-platform-9-2023-08-06-2023-12-10/
LOCATION:Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sunday Platform,UDHR 75th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Young Ethical Explorers: Write for Rights with Amnesty International
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we participate in Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights Campaign. \nMonthly Theme: December of Delight and Deed \n10am-12:30 ~ COMING OF AGE: to be confirmed\n10:30-11am ALL AGES MORNING PEACE PLAY ON THE ROOFTOP!\n11am Write for Rights\, participating in a DEED of Amnesty International\n12:30 Community Lunch and YEE FAMILY MEETING\n1:30-2:30 All ages PEACE PLAY on the rooftop\, with cooperative parent oversight\n2-4pm TEEN DEED SPACE: Write for Rights \nNewcomers are always welcome! To join\, please RSVP to Youth Programs Director Audrey Kindred at youngethicalexplorers@gmail.com. For more information about our youth and family programming\, please visit www.ethical.nyc/youth. \n\nYoung Ethical Explorers is our Humanist Sunday school\, designed for youngsters from ages 4 to 13\, and takes place concurrent with our Sunday Platform meetings. Sessions raise issues of personal identity and integrity\, appreciation and respect for others\, and knowledge of religions\, philosophies\, and social concerns. Topics are explored in an age-appropriate way through discussion\, storytelling\, dramatization\, music\, art\, games\, and field trips. \nRSVP is essential to guarantee your place and for planning purposes. If you are enrolled for the season or are members of Ethical NYC your spot is guaranteed. To RSVP as a guest\, become a member\, or enroll in season\, please contact Audrey at YoungEthicalExplorers@gmail.com. Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/young-ethical-explorers-6-2023-12-10/
LOCATION:Adler Study (514)\, 2 W 64th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:UDHR 75th Anniversary,Youth and Families
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Alter: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Free in-person and online! Our fall series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights continues with an interview of journalist and author Jonathan Alter hosted by Leader Dr. Joe Chuman. \nClick Here to RSVP to Join In-Person \nClick Here to RSVP to Join Online Via Zoom \nAbout His Very Best\nFrom one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed\, “splendid” (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter\, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. \nJonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man\, a complex figure–ridiculed and later revered–with a piercing intelligence\, prickly intensity\, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times\, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people. \nGrowing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South\, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the twenty-first. \n“One of the best in a celebrated genre of presidential biography\,” (The Washington Post)\, His Very Best traces how Carter evolved from a timid\, bookish child–raised mostly by a Black woman farmhand–into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer writing passionate\, never-before-published love letters from sea to his wife and full partner\, Rosalynn; a peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over staying silent during the civil rights movement and not confronting the white terrorism around him helped power his quest for racial justice at home and abroad; an obscure\, born-again governor whose brilliant 1976 campaign demolished the racist wing of the Democratic Party and took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt\, amassing a historic environmental record\, moving the government from tokenism to diversity\, setting a new global standard for human rights and normalizing relations with China among other unheralded and far-sighted achievements. After leaving office\, Carter eradicated diseases\, built houses for the poor\, and taught Sunday school into his mid-nineties. \nThis “important\, fair-minded\, highly readable contribution” (The New York Times Book Review) will change our understanding of perhaps the most misunderstood president in American history. \nPurchase the book here. \nAbout Jonathan Alter\nJonathan Alter is an award-winning author\, political analyst\, documentary filmmaker\, columnist\, television producer and radio host. \nAlter’s most recent book is “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter\, a Life.” (2020)\, which received uniformly favorable reviews. His earlier books include three New York Times bestsellers: “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (2013)\, “The Promise: President Obama\, Year One” (2010) and “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” (2006)\, also one of the Times’ “Notable Books” of the year. \nA former senior editor and columnist at Newsweek\, Alter is a longtime political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.  He co-produced and co-directed the HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists\,” which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. In 2013-2014\, he was an executive producer of “Alpha House\,“ a comedy on Amazon. \nOver the years\, Alter has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Washington Monthly\, the New Yorker\, Bloomberg\, the Daily Beast and other publications. In 2021\, he launched a weekly Substack newsletter called “OLD GOATS\, Ruminating with Friends\,” which includes frequent columns and his conversations with accomplished people of wisdom and experience. Since 2016\, he has hosted “Alter Family Politics“ each week on Sirius XM\, 102 with his three adult children. \nAbout Leader Dr. Joe Chuman\nJoe Chuman started on his road to Ethical Leadership as a leader-in-Training here at the New York Society in 1969 and continued his training at the Bergen Society\, after which he became Leader of the Essex County Society before returning to the Bergen Society\, where he served as leader for 46 years\, retiring in January 2021. Joe has been a leader at the New York Society Since 2008. During his long career\, Joe has worked as an academic\, a social justice activist\, a speaker\, and a writer. He has been teaching human rights in the Graduate School at Columbia University for more than 20 years\, teaches human rights at Hunter College\, and has taught at the U. N. University for Peace in Costa Rica and at other colleges. \nAs an activist\, Joe has advocated for civil liberties\, human rights\, and other progressive causes and has frequently testified before the New Jersey legislature on such issues as religious freedom\, gun violence prevention\, death penalty opposition\, and immigrant rights. He founded the Northern New Jersey Coalition for Asylum Seekers 20 years ago and still serves as its president. Joe has written numerous book chapters\, encyclopedia entrees\, scores of Op-eds\, and is the author of “Speaking of Ethics\,” a compilation of essays on Ethical Culture. Currently\, he writes articles on political and socio-political issues on Substack and other social media outlets. \nAbout the Ethical NYC Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75th Anniversary Series\nCalled humanity’s Magna Carta by our friend Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the foundational document of human rights that has inspired over a hundred treaties\, conventions\, bills\, declarations\, and constitutional provisions around the world. \nJoin us for this four-event event series celebrating the institution of fundamental rights that we all share as human beings. \nMonday\, October 2 at 7:00pm: Ruchira Gupta on Fighting Poverty\, Patriarchy\, and Human Trafficking \nMonday\, November 6 at 7:00pm: Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter and Human Rights \nSunday\, December 10 at 11:00am: Amnesty International USA’s Elise Auerbach on ‘Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Women’s Rights and the Uprisings in Iran’ \nSunday\, December 10 at 1:00pm: Letter writing for Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/jonathan-alter-jimmy-carter-and-human-rights/
LOCATION:Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:UDHR 75th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Ruchira Gupta: Fighting Poverty\, Patriarchy\, and Human Trafficking
DESCRIPTION:Free in-person and online! Our fall series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights kicks off on Gandhi’s birthday with an interview of anti-trafficking advocate Ruchira Gupta hosted by Leader Dr. Joe Chuman. \nHuman trafficking of girls in South Asia and elsewhere is a persistent product of poverty and the devaluing of women and girls. Combatting it means battling on both fronts. Join us on Gandhi’s birthday for an interview with Emmy Award-winning journalist\, novelist\, and anti-trafficking NGO founder Ruchira Gupta. \nClick here to RSVP to join in-person \nClick here to RSVP to watch online \nAbout Ruchira \nRuchira Gupta is an Emmy winning journalist and founder of the anti sex trafficking NGO Apne Aap\, that empowers women and girls to exit systems of prostitution. I Kick and I Fly is her debut fiction novel. \nShe has been awarded the French Ordre National du Mérite\, the Clinton Global Citizen Award\, and the UN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction\, among other honors\, for her contribution to the establishment of the UN Trafficking Fund for Survivors\, the passage of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act and her grassroots activism with Apne Aap. She also holds a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Smith College. She has co-written a book with Gloria Steinem\, “As if Women Matter” and edited two anthologies\, “River of Flesh” and “Renu’s letters to Birju Babu”. \nRuchira has worked for the United Nations in Nepal\, Thailand\, Kosovo\, Iran\, and the USA. She occasionally teaches at the New York University’s Center for Global Affairs as a visiting faculty. \nRuchira divides her time between New York and Forbesganj\, her childhood home in the foothills of the Himalayas\, where she furthers the work of Apne Aap and paints her mother’s garden. Visit her online at ruchiragupta.com. \nAbout Leader Dr. Joe Chuman \nDr. Joe Chuman started on his road to Ethical Leadership as a leader-in-Training here at the New York Society in 1969 and continued his training at the Bergen Society\, after which he became Leader of the Essex County Society before returning to the Bergen Society\, where he served as leader for 46 years\, retiring in January 2021. Joe has been a leader at the New York Society Since 2008. During his long career\, Joe has worked as an academic\, a social justice activist\, a speaker\, and a writer. He has been teaching human rights in the Graduate School at Columbia University for more than 20 years\, teaches human rights at Hunter College\, and has taught at the U. N. University for Peace in Costa Rica and at other colleges. \nAs an activist\, Joe has advocated for civil liberties\, human rights\, and other progressive causes and has frequently testified before the New Jersey legislature on such issues as religious freedom\, gun violence prevention\, death penalty opposition\, and immigrant rights. He founded the Northern New Jersey Coalition for Asylum Seekers 20 years ago and still serves as its president. Joe has written numerous book chapters\, encyclopedia entrees\, scores of Op-eds\, and is the author of “Speaking of Ethics\,” a compilation of essays on Ethical Culture. Currently\, he writes articles on political and socio-political issues on Substack and other social media outlets. \nAbout the Ethical NYC Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75th Anniversary Series \nCalled humanity’s Magna Carta by our friend Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the foundational document of human rights that has inspired over a hundred treaties\, conventions\, bills\, declarations\, and constitutional provisions around the world. \nJoin us for this four-event event series celebrating the institution of fundamental rights that we all share as human beings. \nMonday\, October 2 at 7:00pm: Ruchira Gupta on Fighting Poverty\, Patriarchy\, and Human Trafficking \nNovember (Date TBA): Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter and Human Rights \nSunday\, December 10 at 11:00am: Amnesty International USA’s Elise Auerbach on ‘Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Women’s Rights and the Uprisings in Iran’ \nSunday\, December 10 at 1:00pm: Letter writing for Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/ruchira-gupta-fighting-human-trafficking/
LOCATION:Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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