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When: August 12-16, 2012

Where: Retreat center in upstate New York

Who: All campus activists currently running or hoping to launch a We Divest Campaign targeting TIAA-CREF on campus

What: A 5-day intensive program for campus organizers of the We Divest campaign, those with campaigns already running and those hoping to get one launched in the 2012-2013 school year. This Summer Institute will include:

-Extensive campaign development coaching
-Grassroots organizing skill building
-Media & messaging training
-Anti-oppression analysis workshop
-Non-violent direct action planning
-Historical overview of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
-Relationship building between activists on campuses nationwide
-Strategy sessions with BDS movement leaders
-Two tracks for new and existing campaigns

Applications are now being accepted. For more info and to apply, visit wedivest.org/2012/02/sltsummerinstitute/

Founded in 1973, the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP) is a national grassroots movement that organizes and empowers small farmers in order to improve their living conditions. Today, the MPP has more than 60,000 members, including adult men, women, and youth. The MPP’s major goals include helping Haiti regain food security, contributing to sustainable natural-resource management, advocating for women’s rights, promoting alternative energies, and building people-centered rural communities.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee will be sponsoring two internships with the MPP through their Global Justice Summer Internship Program: one communications internship and one ESL instruction internship. Click these links for more information on how to apply:

www.uusc.org/field_internship/communications_intern

www.uusc.org/field_internship/english_as_a_second_language_intern_instructor

The Rotary Foundation is now accepting applications for the world-competitive Rotary Peace Fellowship. The fellowship provides academic and practical training to prepare scholars for leadership roles in solving conflicts around the world.
Up to 110 fellows are selected every year in a globally competitive process based on personal, academic, and professional achievements. Fellows earn a master’s-level degree or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict studies at one of six Rotary Peace Centers at leading universities in Australia, England, Sweden, Japan, the United States and Thailand.
Master’s Degree Option

· “Building the leaders of tomorrow”

· 15-24 months of Rotary-funded graduate study toward a master’s degree at one of our five Rotary Centers

· Training in the root causes of conflict, theories of international relations, and effective models of cooperation, conflict resolution, and negotiation including course work and applied field experience

· A growing network of committed alumni employed around the world in diplomacy, government, non-governmental organizations and private corporations.

Professional Certificate Option

· “Strengthening the leaders of today”

· 3 month professional development certificate program

· Designed specifically for candidates already working in the field of peace and conflict studies to further their understanding of conflict resolution

· Theoretical foundational knowledge during 8 weeks in the classroom and practical experience during 2-3 week on site fieldwork

Both programs require, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree in a related field; 3 years of relevant work experience and proficiency in a 2nd language for the MA program and 5 years for the professional development certificate and proficiency in English.

The 2013 Academic term deadline is 1 July 2012. Applications are available at: www.rotary.org/rotarycenters. Please pay close attention to the language and academic test requirements for each center.

All Rotary Peace Fellowship applications need the endorsement of your local Rotary district. You can find your nearest local Rotary Club by using the Club Locator tool on the Rotary International web site at www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/SiteTools/ClubLocator/Pages/ridefault.aspx.

Please email Ms. Niki Fritz, Rotary Peace Centers Program Assistant at niki.fritz@rotary.org with questions.

HIAS Pennsylvania’s 2012 Annual Fundraiser

An Evening to Remember
Honoring the incredible individuals and organizations working to build Philadelphia into a global city.

RSVP today! Visit our registration page and sign up online.

hiaspa.org/events/2012-annual-fundraiser

Special performance by the Unity Choir an interfaith ensemble featuring songs of hope and joy.
Beth Am Israel, Zion Baptist Church and Main Line Reform Temple

Festive Attire
Discounted parking in HYATT Self Parking Lot
$10 after 5pm with voucher

Demonstrate for Justice!
On the Global Day of Action Against Military Spending,
Tax Day, Tuesday, April 17, Noon-1 PM
Philadelphia is on the verge of a catastrophe in education, food, housing,
public service jobs, health care….
Take a Stand Against Pentagon Greed…at the Expense of People’s Needs!
Join us to present a resolution for Philadelphia City Council to
REDIRECT MILITARY SPENDING
TO FUND OUR COMMUNITIES
Philadelphia City Hall East Portal, 13th & Market Sts.
(facing East Market Street)
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Speakers (Members of Phila. City Council Have Been Invited) – Music, and more…

Sponsored by: Delaware Valley New Priorities Network
Including: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (District Council 47), Asian Americans United, Brandywine Peace Community, Center for the Celebration of Creation (Chestnut Hill United Church),Catholic Peace Fellowship, Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia, Coalition of Labor Union Women, East Mt. Airy Neighbors, Fight for Philly, Granny Peace Brigade, Main Line Peace Action, Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, Neighborhood Networks, Pennsylvania Progressive Democrats of America, Philadelphia National Writers Union, Philadelphia United for Peace and Justice Delaware Valley Network Education Committee, Philadelphia Area Black Radical Congress, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Temple University Graduate Students Association,
US Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom

THURSDAY, 4/5, 5:00pm, Cohen Hall G17 at the University of Pennsylvania

The Urban Studies Program invites you to its twenty-eighth annual lecture:

“Mass Incarceration and the Prospects for Reform”

Bruce Western, Sociology, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

Bruce Western’s research finds that the penal system has become a common presence in the lives of poor Americans, with lasting effects on their life chances, showing how serving time in prison reduces earnings, skews statistics on wages and employment, and destabilizes families. His talk will focus on the imperative and dilemmas of reforming incarceration policy. In his book “Punishment and Inequality in America” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006), Western examines the role that incarceration plays in the increasing economic and racial inequality in America, and the impact of inequality on mass incarceration.

MONDAY, 4:30-5:45pm, Silverman Hall Room 240B at the University of Pennsylvania

The Center for East Asian Studies and the Law School invite you to a China and International Human Rights Colloquium”

“China and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights: Political Dissent and Other Issues”

Jerome Cohen, Law School, New York University

Professor Jerome Cohen is the senior American expert on East Asian law. As Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School from 1964-1979, he helped pioneer the introduction of East Asian legal systems and perspectives into American legal curricula.

Acting Together on the World Stage: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Brandeis University’s Peacebuilding and the Arts Program and Theatre Without Borders

Sunday, April 29th
4:00-6:00 pm
Leeway Foundation office
1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832, Philadelphia 19107
Free

Dr. Cynthia Cohen, director of Brandeis University’s Peacebuilding and the Arts Program, will present the one-hour documentary, which chronicles the work and thoughts of performing artists, playwrights, educators and activists engaged in the transformation of conflict in places as far-flung as Serbia, Peru, Uganda, the United States and elsewhere. Dr. Cohen will answer questions following the screening.
The Acting Together Project:
From the boundary of human suffering and human possibility emerges a story that offers hope to our war-weary world. It is a story that arises on a contested boundary, but not the kind of boundary that divides peoples at war. It is rather the border between the violence and inequity of our current condition and the more just and peaceful world we seek, terrain where artists and peacebuilders engage people in creative acts of courage and moral imagination.
Acting Together, a collaboration between Brandeis University and Theatre Without Borders, has been exploring this terrain for the past six years. The project documents peacebuilding performance, highlighting artists, peacebuilders and community leaders from every continent whose rituals and theatrical works speak truth to power and support communities to mourn losses, seek justice and build bridges across differences.
Witness their courageous acts in the documentary. Read their stories in the anthology. Gather your community and plan peacebuilding performance initiatives, using resources in the toolkit. Join the Acting Together conversation, with your own acts of courage, compassion and resolve.
Watch a preview of the film or visit New Village Press to purchase your own copies!
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For more information about the screening on April 29th, contact Toni Shapiro-Phim at the Philadelphia Folklore Project: 215-726-1106; toni@folkloreproject.org.

Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio, the linkage of sustainable development to economic growth requires profound rethinking. It has not offered a convincing solution to one of the most dramatic crises in history: how to avert ecological collapse while enhancing social justice and improving life’s prospects. In advance of Rio plus 20, our Conference seeks to challenge and move beyond the sustainable development agenda. A degrowth perspective will help us visualize and build towards a truly prosperous world.

Drawing from previous degrowth conferences in Paris and Barcelona in 2008 and 2010 respectively, the Montreal conference will focus on the particular situations and dynamics of the Americas. What does degrowth mean for our Hemisphere with its rich geographical, cultural, social and economic diversity? How can degrowth models apply to different contexts from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego? What does degrowth mean for the indigenous peoples of the Americas and their aspirations for their lands and peoples? How can degrowth concepts be made audible, understandable and acceptable to rich North Americans?

This gathering will bring together academics, activists, environmentalists and indigenous peoples to discuss our needs and hopes for diverse and more equitable societies in the Americas, on a post-growth healing earth.

Dor more info: montreal.degrowth.org/

The Philadelphia Nonprofit & Government Career Fair, a special Employer Workshop and an exclusive Networking Reception for Small and Mid-Sized Employers.

Saint Joseph’s University, March 20, 2012.

12:30-3:30pm:The Philadelphia Nonprofit & Government Consortium and Campus Philly invite you to the 2012 Philadelphia Nonprofit & Government Career Fair on Tuesday, March 20, 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. at Saint Joseph’s University’s Athletics Center. The career fair is designed to help you identify talented Philadelphia area students from 23+ colleges and universities for full time, part time, internship and volunteer/service positions. The registration fee is $60 and the deadline to register is March 8th, so register today! For more information, contact Shelia Doherty at sheila.doherty@villanova.edu

4:00-4:45pm: You are also invited to a special workshop just for employers: “How to Create and Manage an Internship Program”. Attendees will hear from career experts and get great advice from a panel of experienced HR professionals, internship coordinators, business owners and administrators. All attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions and receive a free copy of Campus Philly’s new resource guide, Internship-in-a-Box: A Guide for Employers. This workshop is offered free of charge to all those who participate in the Philadelphia Nonprofit & Government Career Fair or ConnectPHILADELPHIA.

5:00-7:00pm: Join us after the workshop for a networking reception: ConnectPHILADELPHIA. This exclusive event is for small and mid-sized businesses only. Connect with 100+ college students to discuss career opportunities at your company or lend advice and answer questions about working at a start-up, owning a business or being an entrepreneur in today’s market. There is a small fee of $25 to register for this event if you are not already registered for the career fair. For more information, please contact Ashlie Thornbury at ashlie@campusphilly.org.