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SUMMARY:Sunday Platform with Louise Jett: Ethical Humanism in the Face of Modern Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\, in-person and online! \nWhat is the relevance of Ethical Culture today? Leader Louise Jett will address contemporary issues like political polarization\, climate change\, and global inequality through the lens of Ethical Humanism\, imagining solutions and approaches grounded in ethical principles. Join her as she explores the Ethical Humanist belief in the ability and responsibility to effect positive change in the world. We don’t have faith in a supernatural being\, so we must have faith in each other. \nWatch Online\nClick to join at start time | ID 863 0430 0961 | Passcode 609424\nTo join by phone (audio only)\, dial (929) 205-6099 and enter the Zoom ID above. \nAbout Louise Jett\nCurious and compassionate\, Louise Jett (she/her) is an Ethical Humanist\, media specialist\, graphic designer\, marketing/branding specialist\, writer and artist. In short\, she is an educator\, community organizer and storyteller who strives to approach challenges with optimism and enthusiasm. She serves Illinois as its Statewide Branding Manager. An American Ethical Union certified Leader\, she is truly inspired by people who are dedicated to empowering and caring for others. Louise loves connecting with others and having fun! She enjoys thinking deeply\, good conversations\, reading\, playing video games and spending time with her family. \nMonthly Collection\nClimate Families NYC \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-with-louise-jett-ethical-humanism-in-the-face-of-modern-challenges/
LOCATION:Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sunday Platform
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SUMMARY:Young Ethical Explorers: Being Ambassadors for Peace
DESCRIPTION:Newcomers are always welcome! \nTogether we’ll honor the United Nations’ International Peace Day (formally on September 21) with a fun intro to the UN’s Global Development Goals. \n10:30: Early peace play on the rooftop \nHow to Join\nTo join\, please RSVP to Youth Programs Director Audrey Kindred at ethicalfamilies@nysec.org. For more information about our youth and family programming\, please visit ethical.nyc/youth. \nAbout Young Ethical Explorers\nYEE 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 ethicalfamilies@nysec.org. Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/young-ethical-explorers-being-ambassadors-for-peace/
LOCATION:Adler Study (514)\, 2 W 64th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Youth and Families
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SUMMARY:Midweek Meditation (Online)
DESCRIPTION:A midweek meditation for relaxing body and mind. Begins promptly at 5:00pm. Larry Hurst and Sondra Stein moderate. \nNew Participants: Please join 10 minutes early to introduce yourself\, otherwise you will not be allowed to enter. The meeting waiting room will close 5 minutes after the session begins\, with exceptions made only for regular attendees. \nJoin Online\nClick to join at start | Zoom ID 865 0709 1351 | Passcode 134918 \n(Photo by Nicollazzi Xiong)
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/midweek-meditation/2024-09-17/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Midweek Meditation
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SUMMARY:Speaking of Science with Tom Meuser: 'Reminiscence and Life Review in Aging: Considerations for Personal Growth and Wellness'
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public online. Q&A follows! \nThis presentation will feature research and clinical findings about the power of reminiscence and life review activities for promoting health\, wellness\, and personal integration in aging. Dr. Meuser will speak from his diverse experiences in teaching students how to conduct integrative narrative interviews and his own work in this area. An applied activity involving the use of sentence stems will highlight benefits and ways to incorporate personal reminiscences into home and community life. \nAbout Tom Meuser\nThomas Meuser\, Ph.D. directs the University of New England Center for Excellence in Aging and Health\, a “center without walls” which promotes applied scholarship\, service-learning\, and intergenerational engagement around healthful aging. \nJoin Online\nClick to join at start | Zoom ID 889 8668 1869 | Passcode 518208\nTo join by phone (audio only)\, dial (929) 205-6099 and enter the Zoom ID above.
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/speaking-of-science-with-tom-meuser-reminiscence-and-life-review-in-aging-considerations-for-personal-growth-and-wellness/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Speaking of Science
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Great Literature Discussion: Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Notice: September’s sessions have been cancelled. We’ll see you in October! \n— \nJoin our twice-monthly online discussions exploring great works together. All are welcome to join and any edition or translation of the book under discussion can be used. See the full list of upcoming books here. \nModerated by Ethical NYC member Gunther Tielemans. 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. \nTo join the discussion\, please contact Gunther.
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/great-literature-discussion-omensetters-luck-by-william-h-gass-online/
CATEGORIES:Great Literature Discussions
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Circle (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public online! \nOne of the oldest traditions around the world is storytelling — folk tales\, fairy tales\, historic tales\, family tales. Bring whatever story you choose. We’ll gather ’round the virtual campfire and listen. Our talented storytelling expert Doris Hart moderates. \nRead about Storytelling Circle in Time Magazine! \nJoin Online\nClick to join at start time | Zoom ID 885 4488 0162 | Passcode 089856
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/storytelling-circle-2/2024-09-19/
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CATEGORIES:Storytelling Circle
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SUMMARY:Reclaim Our Vote Postcard Writing Party at Fourth Universalist
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA! \nRSVP\nClick Here to RSVP
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/reclaim-our-vote-postcard-writing-party-at-fourth-universalist/
CATEGORIES:Social Service Board
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SUMMARY:Fighting the Power: Stories of Resistance in the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public! \nJoin environmental lawyer Steven Donziger in conversation with non-violent direct-action organizers and participants on the urgent need for sustained disruption against the biggest backers of the fossil fuel industry. \nPanelists include organizers and participants in Summer of Heat\, the extraordinary\, months-long campaign targeting Citibank for their continuing support of fossil fuel financing. Drawing upon his own experiences with Chevron\, Steven will elicit personal stories of courage and non-violent civil disobedience on a grand scale\, street theater\, playful storytelling\, intergenerational climate activism and the strategic vision intended to pressure specific targets to end the era of fossil fuels. \nRSVP\nFREE! Click to RSVP on Eventbrite \nParticipants\nPat Almonrode – Co-Leader\, Third Act NYC\, Third Act Lawyers\nKeanu Arpels-Josiah – Fridays for Future NYC\nMichael Greenberg – Founder\, Climate Defiance\nAlice Hu – Senior Climate Campaign Manager\, New York Communities for Change\nJohn Mark Rozendaal – Extinction Rebellion\nLiv Senghor – Summer of Heat\nDr. Sandra Steingraber – Biologist\, Author\, Environmental Activist\nSteven Donziger\, Host – Attorney and activist \nFeaturing a performance by Rev. Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir \nPat Almonrode is an attorney and a longtime climate activist. He has worked with 350NYC and other local and national groups\, and is currently co-facilitator of Third Act NYC\, as well as Third Act Lawyers. Pat has been particularly interested in the intersection of law and climate advocacy\, and in the role of the faith community in the climate movement. He was instrumental in organizing faith participation in the 2014 Climate March that brought more than 350\,000 people to the streets of NYC\, and more recently has been involved in the elders’ actions that have been part of “The Summer of Heat\,” a months-long series of protests targeting Citigroup\, the world’s largest financer of new fossil-fuel infrastructure projects. He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife\, Susan Gargiulo\, and is active in local Democratic politics. \nKeanu Arpels-Josiah (he/him)\, 19\, is a youth climate justice organizer and activist based on Munsee Lenape land in what is called New York City. He’s been a core organizer and the policy co-lead with Fridays For Future NYC where he’s advocated for action on climate justice and legislation on the local\, state\, federal\, and international governmental levels. His work helped lead to the passage of the Climate Superfund Act in 2024 in the NY state legislature\, he’s also organized on congestion pricing among other policy issues\, garnering appearances on news media from Democracy Now! to statewide radio. In 2023\, he was one of the lead organizers of the March To End Fossil Fuels organizing with a multigenerational intersectional coalition to plan and mobilize for a 75\,000-person march in N.Y.C. calling on President Biden to stop expanding and phase out fossil fuels. Building from the March\, he attended conferences including COP28 in Dubai\, U.A.E. as well as the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit where he pushed the Biden Administration on the same. This work has been covered by outlets from NPR\, POLITICO\, Sierra Magazine\, NBC News\, and the front page of the New York Times. He’s currently a first-year college student at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania where he’s still involved in organizing from supporting Fridays For Future NYC and Sunrise Movement NYC to preparing for the November general election. \nMichael Greenberg is the founder and executive director of Climate Defiance. His work has been profiled in the Guardian\, New Republic\, Rolling Stone and New York Times. Michael graduated from Columbia University with a BA in economics. \nAlice Hu is Senior Climate Campaigner at New York Communities for Change. She was a lead organizer of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign and the March to End Fossil Fuels in 2023. Her campaign and direct action work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, and other local\, national\, and international outlets\, and – on one fun occasion – satirized on Saturday Night Live. \nJohn Mark Rozendaal has enjoyed a musical career specializing in teaching and performing stringed instrument music from the baroque and renaissance eras. As founding Artistic Director of Chicago Baroque Ensemble\, he performed and led seven seasons of subscription concerts\, educational programs\, radio broadcasts\, and recordings for the Cedille and Centaur labels. Mr. Rozendaal served as principal violoncellist of The City Musick and Basically Bach\, and has performed both solo and continuo roles with many period and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra: and taught at Princeton University. Since 2022 John Mark has devoted his efforts to activism for climate justice\, taking a leading role in Extinction Rebellion\, and participating in actions with Summer of Heat and Climate Defiance. \nLiv Senghor is an organizer and artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. She has experience organizing against fossil fuel funding\, police brutality\, and American militarism at home and abroad. She was a lead organizer with the Summer of Heat campaign and is the incoming campaign manager at Stop the Money Pipeline. \nBiologist\, author\, and cancer survivor\, Sandra Steingraber\, Ph.D. writes about climate change\, ecology\, and the links between human health and the environment. Recognized for her ability to serve as a two-way translator between scientists and activists\, Dr. Steingraber has keynoted conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada and has been invited to lecture at many medical schools\, hospitals\, and universities–including Harvard\, Yale\, Cornell\, Columbia\, and the Woods Hole Research Center. She has testified in the European Parliament\, at the European Commission\, before the President’s Cancer Panel\, and has participated in briefings to Congress\, the Environmental Protection Agency\, and before United Nations delegates in Geneva\, Switzerland \nAfter environmental and human rights attorney Steven Donziger helped Amazon communities win a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgment against Chevron\, the company retaliated and prosecuted him for contempt of court in New York after he refused to turn his computer and confidential case file over to his adversary counsel. The federal prosecutor rejected the charges\, which were filed by a pro-corporate judge with financial ties to the company. The judge appointed a Chevron law firm to prosecute Steven in the name of the US government. The private Chevron prosecutor immediately ordered Steven locked up at home with a 24/7 monitoring device on his ankle\, while his trial was delayed for over two years. He ended up spending 993 days in detention and in prison for a misdemeanor offense with a maximum sentence of 180 days; the judge denied him a jury. He is still the only person ever in the US locked up in retaliation for his human rights work. Chevron used 60 law firms and 2\,000 lawyers to attack Steven. He now enjoys the support of 68 Nobel Laureates and more than 150 bar associations and civil society groups around the world and is considered a leading global spokesperson on the issues of human rights\, climate justice\, Indigenous rights\, and the law. Learn more about Steven at FreeDonziger.com. Follow him on Twitter at @SDonziger and on Instagram at @stevendonziger.
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/climatesos/
LOCATION:Adler Hall\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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