Posted 8:45 AM
by Mary
FRIEDRICH EBERT FOUNDATION – FES
NGO SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WELFARE - ICSW
CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM ON THE OCCASION OF THE 42ND SESSION OF THE COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2004
CHURCH CENTER (CORNER 44TH/ FIRST AVE.), 2ND FLOOR
Posted 10:43 PM
by Mary
The United Nations Association of New York
Invites you to a briefing on
WATER: THE COMING CRISIS
OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2004
Reception: 5:30 – 6:00 PM Briefing: 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Church Center for the United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza – 2nd Floor
(44th Street entrance near First Avenue)
Posted 8:43 AM
by Mary
OPEN PROPOSITION: Artists for the Bill of Rights
FEBRUARY 7, Private Preview, 6-9pm
FEBRUARY 12, Public Reception, 6-9pm
ARTISTS (parital List) : Ross Bleckner, Louise Bourgeois, Chuck CLose, DJ Spooky, Jules Feiffer, Peter Halley, Julian La Verdiere, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Reiner, Nancy Spero, and others
SUPPORTERS: Donald Baechler, Anthony Haden-Guest, Bianca Jagger, Tony Kushner, Joan Osborne, Susan Sarandon, and others.
PREVIEW and reception space limited.
RSVP: Sally Robinson 212-344-3005 x 243
For more info:
www.ArtistsForTheBillofRights.org
Posted 10:34 PM
by Mary
Friday, January 23
7:30 pm BOOK PARTY/FORUM
Radicals in Power: The Workers' Party & Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil
(Gianpaolo Baiocchi) With the recent election of Luis Ignacio da Silva (more popularly known as Lula) as President of Brazil, many in this country have become more familiar with his Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers' Party. However, as this new book illustrates, the PT has, over the past twenty years, introduced a series of innovative policies at the state level, and in big and medium-sized cities. Gianpaolo's new book provides a unique body of information and understanding of the ways in which a non- dogmatic, left-wing political movement has instituted a highly innovative set of experiments to involve ordinary citizens, especially the socially disadvantaged, in the local policy choices and fiscal allocation decisions which affect their lives, as well as a variety of other experiments to achieve both participation and social redistribution and justice.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umass/Amherst. He publishes in the areas of political culture, cities, participatory democracy and social theory, and is currently part of a research project on participatory governance in Brazil, South Africa and India.
Suggested donation: $6/$8/$10
The Brecht Forum
122 West 27th St. 10th Fl.NYC (Betw. 6th & 7th Aves.)
