Free Event: The Economic Collapse and a People's Plan for Recovery

Meltdown: The Economic Collapse and a People's Plan for Recovery
Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture, NYC
When: 8 pm

Join Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, Black Commentator's Bill Fletcher, Jr., Nation D.C. editor Christopher Hayes and author and director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, Jeff Madrick, in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation as they discuss the origins on the financial collapse, debate President Obama's stimulus package and consider what form economic recovery should take to ensure a more equitable future for everyone.

The event marks the publication of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover (Nation Books) by Katrina vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation.

Audience questions will be taken, and a book-signing will follow the conversation.

DATE: March 6, 2009
LOCATION: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York City
TIME: 8PM. Doors open at 7:25PM.

FREE OF CHARGE

Co-sponsored by The New York Society for Ethical Culture, Public Concern Foundation, Democrats.com, Democracy Now!, Code Pink, AlterNet and The UpTake.

Honoring the Women of Darfur

Sun March 8, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
International Women's Day!
Honor the Women of Darfur

See a video presentation about situation of women and girls in Darfur.
Hear a representative of Darfur People's Association give an update on the crisis.

Locaton: Kiernan Hall, St. Andrew the Apostle Church
6713 Ridge Blvd, (Senator St and Ridge Blvd.)
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 11220

Train: Take R train toward 95th Street Brooklyn (Take N,M,D train to 36th Street to connect to R train.)
>>Exit train on Bay Ridge Ave and 4th Ave (69th Street).
>> Walk down Bay Ridge Ave. past 3rd Ave. to Ridge Blvd
>>Make a right on Ridge Blvd and walk to Senator Street which is one block before 67th Street.

Sponsor: Social Justice Committee of St. Andrew the Apostle Church
Questions? Call 718-624-5921 or e-mail darfur@brooklynpeace.org

Women Veterans Talk

Thursday March 5, 6:30 -- 8:30 pm:
Women Veterans:
Citizen-Soldiers in Changing Times

Hear women veterans who served in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan discuss their military experiences, and the expanding role of women in U.S. Armed Forces.
Featuring:
Joan Furey, author with Lynda Van Devanter of Visions of War, Dreams of Peace. Served as staff nurse at the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku from Jan 1969 to Jan 1970; worked at the Department of Veteran's Affairs for 30 years.

Capt. Esther S. Marcella, Commander of Long Island Recruiting Company, U.S. Army and Army Reserves; served in U.S., Kuwait, and Iraq.
Susan O'Neill: author of Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam. Served in Vietnam an an operating room nurse from 1969--1970.
Moderated by Meg McLean and Daria Sommers, filmmmakers behind the documentary Lioness aired on PBS).

Location: Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, (near Tillary and Cadman Plaza West), Brooklyn Heights.

Train: 2,3,4,5,M,R to Court St/Boro Hall; A.C to High St.
Sponsor: Brooklyn Historical Society

Questions? Call 718-222-41111 x 233

Chet Safian in now a blogger!!

Thanks to detailed instructions from Jess Aisenbrey, I am now able to post on the PP55 NYC blog. I have nothing of importance to report other than I am leaving today for Geneva, Switzerland and am pleased that I am now able to blog!

Free conference: International Development and Aid - Controversies and Successes

March 6 - 7, 2009

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Icahn Institute Goldwurm Auditorium
1425 Madison Avenue, NYC

http://mssm-ghc.org/conference2009

REGISTRATION
Please email : global.health@mssm.edu for FREE registration and complimentary lunch.

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For more details check out the website above, but generally:

FRIDAY March 6, 2009

6:30 pm Cocktail Reception

7:00 pm Film Screening, "What Are We Doing Here?"


SATURDAY March 7, 2009

9:30am Registration/Breakfast

10:00am "Development 101"Daniella Ballou-AaresPartner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors

11:00am "Case Studies: Zimbabwe and Liberia"Ronald Waldman, MD MPH
Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Guest Moderator: David Rieff

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm "The Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Global Health"Alexander Preker, PhD
Head Health Investment Policy, World Bank Group

2:00pm "Africa's Development Conundrum"George Ayittey, PhD
President, Free Africa Foundation

Human Rights in Gaza Talk - February 26th

Thurs. Feb. 26, 7:00 pm
Human Rights in Gaza & the Occupied Territories
Join Dr. Maya Sabatello, U.S. legal advisor of B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) for a discussion on the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories and an up-to-the-mninute report on the military campaign in Gaza.

B'Tselem is a prominent independent human rights organization which endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Terrorities.

Dr. Sabatello is a lawyer, member of the Israeli Bar Association, and teaches at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University. She has just returned to the U.S. after working with B'Tselem's headquarters in Jerusalem during the recent military campaign in Gaza.

Location: Brooklyn Friends Meeting House, 110 Schermerhorn St (corner of Boerum Place).
Trains: A/C/F to Jay St/Boro Hall; A/C/G to Hoyt Schermerhorn; 2/3/4/5/M/R to Court St/Boro Hall;
Bus: B25,26,27,28,37,41,61,75 to downtown Brooklyn.

Hot Chocolate Festival!

It's February again, time for the City Bakery's annual Hot Chocolate Festival. If you haven't had a chance to sample the *best* hot chocolate in NYC (no seriously, it is) now is the time to check it out. If you don't want to commit to a full cup of rich chocolatey goodness (you may be too full to eat for the rest of the day) then try a "shot" which gives you just a taste. Every day has a different special flavor in addition to their original one.

http://www.hotchocolatefestival.com/