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Featured Ethics Events at Fordham Centers
and Area Institutions
WESTCHESTER END OF LIFE CONSORTIUM
A Team of Partners in Palliative Care:
Challenges and Choices in Ethics
of Care at End of Life
November 13, 2009
8:00 - 4:00
Westchester County Center, White Plains, New York
This will be the Westchester End of Life Consortium's third interdisciplinary, interfaith end of life conference for professionals, caregivers and families. This conference, free of charge, offers a comprehensive program with prominent speakers and workshop presenters, well known in the field of palliative care. CLE credit is available.
The Westchester End of Life Consortium, a collaborative of over 35 public and private agencies, colleges and universities, home health, hospice, hospital and social services providers, under the auspices of the Fordham Ravazzin Center on Aging, Pace Women’s Justice Center and Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services. This Consortium is dedicated to advancing understanding of end of life and palliative care issues.
For more information and to register, call (914) 666-7616, ext. 235 or visit www.westchesterendoflife.org.
NATIONAL JOBS FOR ALL COALITION
National Conference to Create Living-Wage Jobs for All,
Meet Human Needs and Sustain the Environment:
An Exploration of Work, Public Policy, Human Needs,
and the Role of Public Engagement
November 13–14, 2009
Friday, November 13: Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
Saturday, November 14: District Council 37, 125 Barclay Street, New York, NY
The U.S. economy continues to shed jobs at an unprecedented rate, which is expected to continue well into next year. Unemployment and underemployment are at massive levels. Congregations and their memberships are not immune and have stepped up to provide support of all kinds. Is there more that religious leaders can do?
Join us to build a broad sector national movement of labor, faith, safety net and community organizations to fight for the creation of millions of new living jobs to meet human needs, develop clean energy and sustain the environment.
Details and conference agenda are available at: www.JobsConference.org.
Speakers include:
- Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
- Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Healing of the Nations Foundation
- Dr. Christine Firer Hinze, Professor, Christian Ethics, Fordham University
- Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Greater NY Labor-Religion Coalition
- Rev. Dr. Paul Sherry, Former President, United Church of Christ
- Dr. David Wildman, United Methodist Church
- Dr. Dedrick Muhammad, Senior Organizer of the Institute for Policy Studies
- Ed Ott, Joseph Murphy Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, CUNY
- Ricardo Valadez, National Jobs with Justice
- Debbie Weinstein, Coalition for Human Needs
- Bill Barclay, Chicago Political Economy Group
- Barbara Bowen, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
- Larry Bresler, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
- Shelia Collins, William Paterson University
- Rev. Dr. Doug Grote, National Jobs for All Coalition
- Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
- Helen Ginsberg, Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College
- Trudy Goldberg, National Jobs for All Coalition, Adelphi University School of Social Work
- Phil Harvey, Rutgers University School of Law
- Bill Quigley, Center for Consitutional Rights
- Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the U. of Massachusetts
- Lillian Roberts, District Council 37
- Holly Sklar, Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign
- Chloe Tribich, Center for Working Families
- Billy Wimsatt, Green for All
- and others (see www.JobsConference.org for full list)
Topics to be addressed during the two-day conference include:
- the current crisis in unemployment and underemployment
- faith and community perspectives on the need for living wage jobs and decent work
- America’s “other deficit” of underinvestment in physical infrastructure and public services, and opportunities to create jobs that fix America and put unemployed people back to work
- labor union initiatives to create jobs, raise wages and improve working conditions
- policy options to promote green jobs and environmental sustainability
- developing a transformative legislative program for job creation and economic renewal
- organizing and building a broad-based social movement to create living wage jobs for everyone who wants to work,
- and achieve full employment.
Standard Registration: $60 (both days, breakfast and lunch included)
One Day Registration: $35
Students (both days): $35
Student (one day): $20
Register at: jobsconference.eventbrite.com
CENTER ON LAW AND INFORMATION POLICY
Fourth Law and Information Society Symposium:
Hate Versus Democracy on the Internet
March 26, 2010
9:00 - 5:00
Pope Auditorim, Lincoln Center Campus
From political blogs to the exposure online of rights abuses, the Internet advances communication and the free flow of information that is at the heart of democracy. Yet, from Holocaust deniers to terrorist organizers, the Internet also serves as an enabler for extremistspromoting hate, violence and the corrosion of democratic values. This conference will explore the legal and policy dimensions of the Internet’s dual impact. Panel topics will include: (1) The Internet as a Dual Use Technology – Democracy and Extremism; (2) Distinguishing Hate Speech from Legitimate Political Expression; (3) Online Hate Speech and Diverse International Concerns; and (4) How to Combat Hate Speech While Promoting Democracy.
This symposium is presented by the Fordham Law School's Center on Law and Information Policy. The event is free and open to the public. CLE credit is available for a fee.
With presentations from a number of distinguished and well-known academics, business leaders, regulatory officers, and ethics scholars, this multidisciplinary conference will explore the intersections and tensions between the ethics of environmental sustainability, the workings of markets, and the roles of government and civil society in protecting and advancing an ecologically-responsible common good in the 21st century. Information about panel sessions and speakers will be posted soon.
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