Past Events
Fall 2011
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Aug 30 |
Introduction to PI at Union’s New Student Orientation |
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Aug 31 |
Orientation Movie Night |
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Sept 1 |
Orientation Bible Study |
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Sept 6 |
Breakfast for new Union students and staff |
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Sept 14-17 |
COR opening retreat |
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Sept 15-17 |
Retreat at Montreat Center, Asheville, NC |
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Sept 16 |
HuRAH Social Movement Engagement Committee Meeting |
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Sept 23 |
Wall St. Tour for Union students and Poverty Scholars |
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Sept 24 |
CIW Fair Food Festival, Brooklyn |
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Oct 4 |
Wall Street Tour for Drew University students |
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Oct 5-6 |
Pedagogy of the Poor tour at Cornell University and Ithaca College |
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Oct 7 |
IVAW gathering in Washington DC |
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Oct 8 |
MMP Working People’s Media & Communications Forum |
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Oct 16 |
World Food Day: Hunger in a World of Plenty |
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Oct 16 |
Justice in the Sukkah: An Interfaith Exploration of Food and Social Change |
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Oct 17 |
Pedagogy of Poor Keynote in Wilkes Barre |
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Oct 20 |
Chris Hedges Speaks at Union |
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Oct 21 |
SU190 Course: Poor People’s Campaign and National Union of the Homeless |
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Oct 21-23 |
School for Authentic Journalism Training in NYC |
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Oct 23 |
Edible Churchyard/White House Interfaith Initiative launch event |
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Oct 24-25 |
Visit to Vida Urbana in Boston with NESRI |
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Oct 26 |
MST exchange in Philly |
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Oct 27-29 |
Critical Refusals Conference at UPenn in Philadelphia, PA |
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Oct 28-30 |
United Workers Fair Development Forum in Baltimore, MD |
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Oct 29-31 |
Visit to Asheville, NC with PI Committee Co-Chair Mitchell Watson |
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Nov 3-5 |
Statewide Collaboration meeting in NYC |
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Nov 7-9 |
US Human Rights Fund Convening on Racial Justice and Human Rights |
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Nov 18-21 |
American Academy of Religion Conference |
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Nov/Dec |
Poverty Scholars Program Intensive |
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Dec 10 |
VWC Human Rights Day event |
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Dec 21-Jan 2 |
PI Office Closed |
Summer 2011
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June 23rd-26th |
Allied Media Conference |
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June 28th |
MMP Leadership Council Educational |
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July 8-10 |
Poverty Scholars Regional Leadership School – Wilkes-Barre, PA |
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July 11th-12th |
Reality Tours in Philly and NYC with POWER in Washington DC |
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July 12th |
Care Congress - Caring Across Generations Campaign, Washington DC |
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July 19th |
Dinner with Vermont Workers Center |
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Aug 8th-12th |
Engaging the Powers Training |
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Aug 21st |
Preaching at Wilton Church |
Spring 2011
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Jan 15 – 17 |
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Jan 21 |
Kew Gardens REZ Reading Series: Reading from “A New and Unsettling Force” |
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Feb 25 |
Paul Robeson: His Life Through Word and Song – Community Showing |
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Feb 26 |
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Mar 17 |
Trinity Lutheran Lenten Bible Series |
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Mar 18-20 |
Left Forum |
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Mar 24-25 |
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April 1-3 |
Poverty Scholars Leadership School Leadership Council Meeting |
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April 7 |
Crossing The American Crisis Showing |
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April 22 |
Good Friday: Social Justice Stations of the Cross |
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April 28 |
United Workers Fair Development Report, NYC (flyer) |
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May 3 |
Church and Society Lecture Series and the Poverty Initiative Present: A Lecture by Leonardo Boff CANCELLED |
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May 14 |
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May 16 |
Poverty Initiative Fellows Commissioning and Community Celebration (6:00 pm in Union's Social Hall) |
Fall Semester 2010
September
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Sept 2 |
UTS Orientation Wall Street Tour |
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Sept 8 |
Food Justice Round Table |
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Sept 10 |
PI UTS Staff Orientation |
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Sept 12–18 |
Ford Foundation Housing Convening, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Sept 15 |
Bible Study and Introduction to the Poverty Initiative, 3:30 – 5 p.m. |
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Sep 24 |
Poverty Initiative UTS SU190: "Ending Poverty: Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign", 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
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Sep 25 |
Vermont Workers Center Annual Membership Meeting |
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Sep 27 |
UMC Ministry With The Poor Bible Study, 8 a.m. |
October
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Oct 1-2 |
NEPA Organizing Center, Wilkes-Barre – Coming Home Premiere and Economic Crisis Educational |
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Oct 2 |
Habitat for Humanity Speaking Event |
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Oct 9–10 |
United Workers Poverty Zone Reality Tour in NYC |
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Oct 25 |
UN Special Rapporteur on Right To Adequate Housing NYC at UTS, 6 p.m. |
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Oct 30 – Nov 1 |
American Academy of Religion Conference, Atlanta, GA |
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Oct 30 – Oct 31 |
Edible Church Yard UTS SU190 and Mini-Immersion |
November
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Nov 5 |
NEPA Organizing Center, Wilkes-Barre – Faith Outreach Training |
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Nov 10 |
Mr. Adolfo Carrion former White House Director of Urban Policy of the Obama Administration, 6 p.m. |
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Nov 11-14 |
Poverty Scholars Program Gathering |
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Nov 11 |
Abhalali Shackdwellers Movement President, S’bu Zikode, in NYC with Poverty Scholars Program |
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Nov 12 |
Poverty Initiative publication UTS Book Launch book launch A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign |
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Nov 13 |
Domestic Workers United 10th Anniversary Gala, 6 p.m. |
December
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Dec 10 |
Human Rights Day – United Workers Event NYC |
Spring Semester 2010
SPRING SEMESTER COURSES
Mondays 2 – 4 P.M. E 360 Gospel of Paul: Poverty & Spirituality
Mondays 6 – 9 P.M. CS 320 Poverty and Poor People’s Movements – Social Analysis and Ethical Reflection
JANUARY
Thursday 7th, Evening with Rev. Jesse Jackson
Wednesday 14th – Friday 22nd, Poverty Initiative Immersion Course New York City and Beyond
Saturday 16th, United Workers Justice Theater Conference, Baltimore, MD
Sunday 17th, NE Pennsylvania Organizing Center, MLK Day Celebration, Wilkes-Barre PA
Monday 18th, Philadelphia Student Union MLK Day Call to Witness and Action, Philadelphia, PA
Sunday 24th, Willie Baptist at Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA
Sunday 31st, St. Michael's Episcopal Church
FEBRUARY
Monday 1st, 2010 Poverty Scholars Program Media and Communications Planning Meeting, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
Monday 1st, Presentation at Grace Episcopal Church
Wednesday 3rd, UTS Remembering Haiti Chapel Service
Sunday 7th, Advent Lutheran Church Virtual Wall Street Tour
Monday 8th, (12 – 12:30 p.m.) Poverty Initiative Chapel: Lessons from 2010 Immersion
Wednesday 10th, (4 – 6 p.m.) “The Church and Cesar Chavez – What Price Servanthood?”
Monday 15th – Tuesday 16th, Union Board of Trustees
Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th, Sam King in NY with Poverty Initiative
MARCH
Monday 1st, Columbia University Urban Planning History and Theory Class, Willie Baptist Guest Speaker
Friday 12th 8 p.m., Picture the Homeless with Rev. Billy, Harlem Worship, St. Mary's Church
Sunday 14th 11 a.m., Domestic Workers United Justice for Pat Rallly!
Thursday 18th, Picture the Homeless, Potter's Field Memorial Service, Hart's Island
Thursday 18th, CIW 14th Street NYC Rally at Trader Joe's
Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st, Left Forum, Poverty Initiative panelists
Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th, Penn State Erie, Ithaca College & Justicia Global (from the Dominican Republic) NY Immersion Trip
APRIL
Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th, Poverty Scholars Program Strategic Dialogues on Media & Communications and Religious Strategy
Saturday 9th, 7pm, PUBLIC EVENT: Poverty Scholars Program Hosts Talk By Journalist and Public Intellectual Chris Hedges
Friday 16th - Sunday 18th, Farmworker Freedom March Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Tampa FL
Thursday 22nd, "Dignity Overdue: Standing Together for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights" A Town Hall Meeting
MAY
May 1 - June 30 Poverty Initiative Fund Drive!
May 1 - International Workers Rights Day with United Workers - Maryland, Vermont Workers Center - Vermont, ROC-NY/Domestic Workers United/Picture the Homeless Immigrant Rights Rally, New York City
May 13 - Community Organizing Residency (COR) Interviews
May 14 - Micah Institute Living Wage Campaign Training
May 17-21 - Resilience and Unemployment conference, University of Salzburg, Austria
May 19 - Picture the Homeless "Homes Not Shelters" Rally
May 21 - Union Graduation
May 31 - June 3 Poverty Initiative Staff Retreat
JUNE
June 1 - Philadelphia Student Union 15th Anniversary Celebration
June 8 - Domestic Workers United Day of Action in Albany
June 11 - 18 WV Immersion Trip with First Baptist Church of Greater Des Moines
June 22 - 26 US Social Forum, Detroit Michigan
June 25 - July 12 MST Brazil visit NYC
July 29 - August 1 COR Opening Training
Fall 2009 Semester
September
September 4, 2009
UTS Orientation: Introduction to the Poverty Initiative and Bible Study - 9:00 am- 12:00pm
September 10, 2009
"Moral Obligation To End Poverty" Event with Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Co-sponsored by UTS, PI and Oxfam NY
September 11, 2009
PI Staff Day-Long Orientation
September 20, 2009
Riverside Bible Study: Women’s Theology
October
October 8-9, 2009
Union Days on The Church and Sex (PI will present a workshop)
October 13, 2009
Eco-Justice Event Co-sponsored by the Church and Society program and the Poverty Initiative (6:00 pm at Union, Social Hall)
October 21, 2009
Seven Sisters Seminar in Stamford, CT on poverty in the US,
Featuring Poverty Initiative staff-person Onleilove Alston as panelist
October 22-24, 2009
Human Rights in the USA Conference, University of Connecticut
October 22, 2009
UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Town Hall at Union
October 23-24, 2009
Buddhist Retreat for Social Activists with John Makransky
Co-sponsored by Paul Knitter
October 23-24, 2009
UN Special Rapporteur on Housing and Homelessness visits to NY and Wilkes-Barre, PA
October 27, 2009
Christianity In The Cities Course – Tour of Wall Street (led by the Poverty Initiative) (4 pm)
November
November 5, 2009
'Report from the Frontlines of the Economic Crisis' and Reception (4 pm)
November 5-8, 2009
AAR Meeting in Montreal (Poverty Initiative will offer several presentations)
November 6-8, 2009
Poverty Scholars Program Next Steps Gathering at Union
November 8, 2009
Trinity Church: Discovery Ministry for Continuing Education Presentation
November 13, 2009
SU190 – One Day Seminar: Ending Poverty: MLK and the Poor People’s Campaign
November 13, 2009
Documentary film The End of Poverty? NY premiere at the Village East Cinema
November 18, 2009
Educational on “Shackdwellers Movement in South Africa”
December
December 7-13, 2009
United Workers Fair Food Solidarity Tour with Coalition of Immokalee Workers
2008-2009
Summer 2009
July 7, 2009
Little Portion Friary Visit to the Poverty Initiative
July 21, 2009
Cabrini College Visit to the Poverty Initiative
August 9-15, 2009
Poverty Scholars Program Leadership School in Charleston, WV
August 20, 2009
An Evening with the Shackdwellers Movement of South Africa - 7:30 pm
August 28, 2009
UTS Orientation: Screen on the Green showing "The Great Debaters" - 8:00 pm
Spring Semester
Willie Baptist and Jan Rehman teach CS 310 “Poverty – Social Theories – Alternative Models?”
Mondays 6-9pm
February
February 10, 2009
Poverty Initiative Members Lobby Visit to Albany with Domestic Workers United
February 16, 2009
Poverty Initiative Chapel Service, James Chapel, Union Theological Seminary
February 21, 2009
Poverty Initiative Members Visit Poor Voices United, Atlantic City, NJ
February 23, 2009
Union Chapel Talk on Poverty Initiative February 16th Worship Service
February 27, 2009
Poverty Initiative Hosts Ohio Disciples of Christ Youth on New York visit and workshop
March
March 18, 2009
Willie Baptist guest lectures at Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
March 19, 2009
Poverty Initiative Presentation at Scarsdale Community Baptist Church
Picture the Homeless Housing Action
March 21, 2009
Scotland Poverty Truth Commission
March 26 – 29, 2009
Poverty Scholars Program Strategic Dialogue Gathering #3
March 28, 2009
NESRI (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative) National Campaign to Restore Housing Rights
Congressional Hearing, Los Angeles, CA
March 29, 2009
Member Jessica Chadwick's ordination, Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, Scarsdale, NY
April
April 2, 2009
Open Bible Study with the Poverty Initiative: Mark 11:1-11
April 5, 2009
United Workers Justice Sunday, Baltimore, MD
April 8, 2009
Domestic Workers United visit UTS professor Barbara Lundblad's Preaching for Social Transformation Class.
April 14, 2009
Domestic Workers United visit Union Theological Seminary for an information session.
FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality) Film Screening:
"Someplace Like Home". Host: FUREE organizer Theo Moore.
Co-Sponsors: UTS Black Women's Caucus & Students for Peace and Justice
April 16, 2009
Alix Webb (Poverty Initiative) and Jeff Mansfield (Restaurant Opportunity Center of NY) host a table during UTS community lunch to talk with students interested in field education at these sites.
April 17, 2009
Poverty Initiative Gathers with Union Alumni, Local Poor People's Organizations, Local Pastors and Oberlin College to discuss the local affects and response to the current economic crisis.
First Congregational Church, Lorain, Ohio
April 18, 2009
Left Forum panel “Religious Communities, Social Justice Campaigns, and Poor People’s Movements”
Willie Baptist, Jan Rehman, Charlene Sinclair, New York, NY
United Workers B’more Fair and Human Rights Zone Protest, Baltimore, Maryland
April 24, 2009
One Day Course: “Struggles of the Poor: A Global Movement” SU190
Union Theological Seminary
April 26-29, 2009
Sojourners Mobilization to End Poverty, Washington, D.C.
April 27 – May 1, 2009
Domestic Workers United Week of Action
April 28, 2009
Domestic Workers United Albany Day
May
May 3, 2009
Riverside Church, Beloved Communities Initiative, Poverty Initiative presentation on January Haiti Enrichment Program and Poverty Initiative programs
May 8, 2009
Willie Baptist speaks with NY Faith and Justice
May 14, 2009
Who's Barrio? Showing and Schomburg Collective
May 22, 2009
173rd Commencement
June
June 4, 2009
HARLEM COMMUNITY DINNER HONORING THE LEGACY OF DOMESTIC WORKERS
Join domestic workers, faith leaders, legislators and the Harlem community for a dinner to recognize and honor the many women in our families who have done domestic work and supported New York communities through the generations. Bring photos, stories and memories of the domestic workers in your family tree.
7:00pm - 9:00 pm. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. St. Philips Episcopal Church, Harlem, NY
204 W. 134th St. @ 7th Ave. - Take the B Train to 135th Street. RSVP - priscilla@domesticworkersunited.org or (212) 481-5747
June 7, 2009
Celebration of Marilyn Clement, Director of HealthCare-NOW. Judson Memorial Church
June 8, 2009
DOMESTIC WORKERS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER IN ALBANY
Join domestic workers for a day of culture, testimony, truth-telling, legislative visits, a rally and march at a critical time in the legislative session. Buses Leaving 6:30 am from Union Square Barnes and Nobles - North side of the park. Returning by 8:00 pm the same day. Take the N/R/4/5/6/L to Union Square. RSVP - aijendwu@gmail.com, or (212) 481-5747
June 10-13, 2009
Poverty Initative staff and community leaders prepare for August Leadership School in Charleston, WV
June 11, 2009
First Baptist Church, Des Moines, IA Jessica Chadwick and Youth Group visit
June 12-13, 2009
24-HOUR VIGIL FOR THE DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS
Many domestic workers, particularly live-in workers, work around the clock without rest. We're asking all New Yorkers who support domestic workers rights, to stand together for 24 hours straight in a symbolic show of support for the passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights - so that domestic workers can receive overtime, job security, basic respect and recognition.
8:00 am - 8:00 am. City Hall - across from 250 Broadway. Take the N/R to City Hall, or the 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge
RSVP, and sign up for a shift, aijendwu@gmail.com, or (212) 481-5747.
June 14, 2009
NY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES MARCH for DOMESTIC WORKERS RIGHTS
Bring your entire family, community and congregations to this Sunday afternoon, after-church, "march for peace and justice in the home" to show how many people of faith support and are connected to domestic workers. With children leading the march, many generations will march together with one common message and theme. Let's send a strong message to the NY State Legislature and the Governor that we won't stop until they honor, respect and protect the work that makes all other work possible in New York.
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. City Hall - across from 250 Broadway. Take the N/R to City Hall, or the 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge
RSVP, particularly with groups to joycedwu@gmail.com or (212) 481-5747.
June 15, 2009
National Domestic Workers Alliance Regional Congress Public Forum - WOMEN AND WORK
Join domestic worker organizers, feminist scholars, activists, legislators, and other allies to raise awareness on how to extend protections to all working women. Featuring a video presentation of women leaders from across the country who are raising their voices to support the work being done on behalf of domestic workers in this country. Video includes appearances by:
Jennifer Baumgardner, activist and author; the Guerilla Girls, artists and activists;
Maria Hinojosa ‘84, Senior Correspondent of NOW on PBS and NPR’s Latino USA anchor;
Katha Pollitt, author and The Nation columnist;
Amy Richards ‘92, activist and author;
Gloria Steinem, activist and Ms. Magazine co-founder;
Jessica Valenti, Feministing.com founder.
7:00 - 9:00 pm. Julius Held Auditorium. 304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College - Barnard Center for Research on Women
3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027
June 27th - July 10th
Poverty Initiative office is CLOSED for Summer Break!
August
August 9 – 15, 2009
Poverty Scholars Program Leadership School, Charleston, WV
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April 17, 2008
Jesus People Against Pollution, founder Charlotte Keyes
Evangelist Charlotte Keyes presented the shocking story of environmental violence and injustice in her community and talked about her organization's commitment to fight for justice.
April 4-5, 2008
New Testament and Empire Conference
March 27, 2008
"Living Broke in Boom Times" film screening and discussion
The hidden story of poor people organizing in America, this action filled documentary spans the 1990s and includes current commentary from activists who were involved in the organizing, and are now drawing lessons from that period.
March 31, 2008
One-Breasted Woman Poetry Reading by Susan Deborah King
In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to a soul’s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent mastectomy.
February 19-22, 2008
World Religions & Poverty Symposium
January 14-22, 2008
MLK Poor People’s Campaign 40th Anniversary Immersion Trip to Mississippi and Tennessee
January 4 –12, 2008
Train the Trainers Appalachia Immersion
December 4, 2007
Arts & Culture Event in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. launching the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968
October 11-12, 2007
Bonhoeffer Lecture Series featuring a Poverty Truth Commission
2006-2007
April 12-14, 2007
Poverty Truth Commission
A public event that included workshops, documentary screenings, art exhibits, worship services, and music around the feature--a Truth Commission where individuals from around the country testified on violations of their economic human rights that are and have been a direct result of living in poverty in the United States. Commissioners from many backgrounds, including the academic, political, and religious realms, bore witness to these stories of injustice. more information
January 4-14, 2007
Immersion Experience in Appalachia
This hands-on and experience-based course explored the reality of poverty in Appalachia and across the United States and offered tools for overcoming and eliminating poverty.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Awarding of the Union Medal to Ophelia Dahl and Paul Famer
The Seminary's highest award was given to these pioneering global health activists. Prior to the medal ceremony the Poverty Initiative hosted a working session with Dr. Farmer and Ms. Dahl.
Tuesday, Novmber 7, 2006
An Evening With Tracy Kidder
A reading from and discussion of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World with Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder.
October 24 and 26, 2006
Fosdick Convocation Workshops
The Poverty Initiative sponsored two workshops, "Street Preaching" on Tuesday Oct. 24, and "Ending Poverty" on Thursday Oct. 26, at the 5th Fosdick Convocation held at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Friday, October 20, 2006 (9am - 5pm)
Ending Poverty: New Concepts and Skills in Community Organizing
Workshop led by Union’s Scholar-In-Residence, Willie Baptist and Poverty Initiative instigator Liz Theoharis.
Friday, October 13, 2006
"Do This in Memory of Me": the Story of Picture the Homeless in New York’s Potter’s Field
Prof. Hal Taussig, Picture the Homeless, and the Poverty Initiative presented this forum as part of the 2006 Union Days with Marcus Borg.
Monday, October 2 - Friday, October 6, 2006
Martin Johnstone from the Church of Scotland
The Poverty Initiative hosted Martin Johnstone from the Church of Scotland and discussed the predicament of the poverty in Scotland, including issues of deindustrialization, the plight of the poor, and the rise of pentacostalism.
Wednesday, September 14, 2006
Chapel Service led by Poverty Initiative
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - a Poverty Initiative original publication is 