With President Obama in Asia at this time, visiting China, Singapore, Korea and Japan, we have a good opportunity to see something of how this country and this President look in the eyes of people overseas - people who, like ourselves, face the challenges and opportunities of the new century, but from very different and unfamiliar cultures, histories, mindsets, and interests. 

    Fortunately, most of these countries have a fairly lively English language press, usually with provision for reader opinion and feedback from around the world.  And Geotrees offers an English language press page, with links to a number of news services in all four lands.  We invite you to explore these services, and see how they might help illuminate our growing view of the world. 

    In addition to Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore, the World Press Page also has links to North Korean press outlets, Korean News and North Korea Books.  Of course, these are both official government organs.  But we feel that it's important to have access to a full spectrum of views, and thus to the information, knowledge and understanding that are only possible with such exposure.

    The World Press Page has grown to include press links to those countries and peoples least familiar to and understood by the industrialized world, or "the West."  It is they who play an increasingly important role in human affairs, and often where the greatest challenges to human wellbeing, abundance, justice and peace exist - and where our need for knowledge and understanding may be greatest.

    Geotrees' list is by no means complete.  Do you know of a newspaper, magazine, press service, broadcaster, blog or other English language source of merit?  If so, please let us know.  If we include them in the Press Page, we will be happy to credit you as source.

    Geotrees is especially interested in how the world press is being engaged in the classroom.  We welcome any news you may have of such activity, and would be pleased to share it with others.

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    With President Obama in Asia at this time, visiting China, Singapore, Korea and Japan, we have a good opportunity to see something of how this country and this President look in the eyes of people overseas - people who, like ourselves, face the challenges and opportunities of the new century, but from very different and unfamiliar cultures, histories, mindsets, and interests. 

    Fortunately, most of these countries have a fairly lively English language press, usually with provision for reader opinion and feedback from around the world.  And Geotrees offers an English language press page, with links to a number of news services in all four lands.  We invite you to explore these services, and see how they might help illuminate our growing view of the world. 

    In addition to Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore, the World Press Page also has links to North Korean press outlets, Korean News and North Korea Books.  Of course, these are both official government organs.  But we feel that it's important to have access to a full spectrum of perceptions and views, and thus to the information, knowledge and understanding that are only possible with such exposure.

    The World Press Page has grown to include press links to those countries and peoples least familiar to and understood by the industrialized world, or "the West" - and indeed, often antagonistic to it.  It is they who play an increasingly important role in human affairs, and often where the greatest challenges to human wellbeing, abundance, justice and peace exist - and where our need for knowledge and understanding may be greatest.

    Geotrees' list is by no means complete.  Do you know of a newspaper, magazine, press service, broadcaster, blog or other English language source of merit?  If so, please let us know.  If we include them in the Press Page, we will be happy to credit you as source.

    Geotrees is especially interested in how the world press is being engaged in the classroom.  We welcome any news you may have of such activity, and would be pleased to share it with others.

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To: "Robert Vinson Brannum" < @robertbrannum.com>

From: "Robert Vinson Brannum" < @robertbrannum.com>

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Subject: [saveourschoolsdc] FW: Washington Teachers' Union Candlelight Vigil for Education

Although the message states view the attached flyer, when I received it  none was attached.

Robert

Take a stand for the rights of our young people at a Candlelight Vigil for Education.

WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 17

6:00 p.m.

WHERE: African American

Civil War Memorial

1200 U St., N.W.

(U Street/Afr. Am. Civil War

Memorial/Cardozo Metro

Stop - Green Line)

Put the "Public" Back

in Public Education.

For information visit

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Subject: Washington Teachers' Union Candlelight Vigil for Education

To: "Monique Lenoir" < @wtulocal6.org>

Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 9:43 PM

The Washington Teachers' Union is holding a Candlelight Vigil for Education on Tuesday, November 17th, at 6:00 pm at the African American Civil War Memorial. Please join us in taking a stand for our young people. For more information, you can view the attached flyer. Thank you.

Monique LeNoir

Director of Communications

The Washington Teachers' Union

1825 K Street, NW

Suite # 1050

Washington, DC 20006

Phone: (202) 293-8600

Email:  @wtulocal6.org

Visit Your Group |

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        2010-2011 school year

Duke Ellington School of the Arts at 3500 R St. NW is accepting applications

online now through December 18th for the 2010-2011 school year.  Ellington

is a DC public school which offers a unique, high-quality dual curriculum of

full college-prep courses and pre-professional arts training, tuition-free

for D.C. residents.  98% of  seniors graduate on time, 95% of those go on to

colleges or conservatories, and last year's 106 seniors earned $2.8 million

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and to fill out an application.  For any questions, please contact Barbara

Power in the admissions office at 202-298-1777 ext. 1774, or at

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Subject: One More Day Until the 30th Annual InterFaith Concert: Tickets

 Still Available!

THE 30TH INTERFAITH CONCERT

Featuring five wonderful musical groups, including:

Kol Rinah Choir

Kol Rinah is Washington Hebrew Congregation's Volunteer Choir. It began in 1977 with ten members who enjoyed sharing their love of Jewish music with the congregation and who believed "he who sings prays twice."  The choir was given the name Kol Rinah - "Voice of Rejoicing." 

In 1989, Cantor Mikhail Manevich became Kol Rinah's director.  Under his guidance, the choir grew and flourished.  Presently there are over thirty members.  The choir's repertoire includes close to 200 musical pieces that include Shabbat Melodies, Classical Reform, Israeli, Yiddish, Russian, Chassidic, Sephardic, Ladino, Jazz and those by WHC and Kol Rinah's in house composer, Bob Nath.  The music covers every facet of Jewish life:  Torah, love, life cycles, holidays and most fervent of Jewish hopes - peace.

 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

7:30-9:00 pm at

WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION

3935 Macomb St, NW

Washington, DC 20016

HONORING CARDINAL THEODORE MC CARRICK

TICKETS $15 - $30. TO PURCHASE TICKETS NOW CLICK HERE OR CALL 202-234-6300.

(Funded in part by the DC Council for the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.)

InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington | 100 Allison St., NW | Washington | DC | 20011

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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:55:46 EST
Subject: 11/22/09 Café Philo DC: "Is Passion Compatible with Wisdom?"

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Greetings:

The next meeting of Café Philo DC will convene this Sunday, November 22, 2009 at Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC from 1pm to 3pm.  (Keep in mind that store entrance is located on 20th St. and that it is accessible from both the Farragut West Blue Line and Farragut North Red Line Metro stations.)  Hewitt Rose will moderate.

The topic, "Is Passion Compatible with Wisdom?", speaks to both epistemological concerns ('intellectual' vs. 'emotional' knowledge) and metaphysical problems (e.g., what is the relation of the reality of heart and head?)  Layered on top of these quandaries are social/political philosophical questions, e.g., what is the nature of collective understanding and meaning, and how do cognition and emotion -- and their relationship -- influence, sustain and justify our beliefs, values and behavior, both as individuals and as groups?

I will forward soon some suggested (optional) background readings on the topic.  As usual, please take a look at our affiliated Yahoo discussion list, Café Philo DC Dialogue, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cafephilodcdialogue, for possible exchanges on this topic and where you may post your own thoughts as well.

For those planning to attend the discussion and participate in selecting the subsequent topic, here are some recent runners-up to consider:

o     What is the appeal of the apocalypse?

o     Is it ever reasonable to be irrational?

o     Is abortion homicide?

o     Is torture ever justifiable?

Best regards,

Ken Feldman

Founder, Café Philo DC

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Subject: Next Nation Magazine Discussion Group Meeting. on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 from 3-5 PM on social responsibility

Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:35:02 -0500

Dear Nation Magazine Discussion Group:

      What does it mean to take responsibility for one's actions and those of the society in which we live our embedded lives?   What did Ellsberg and Nixon understand differently?   And what if the UN's Goldstone report on the Gaza massacre is not treated by the US as the "Pentagon Papers" when it was finally released?  Who was responsible for the Fort Hood shootings: the Islamic psychiatrist in the US military from a Palestinian background born in Arlington, VA who went to Virginia Tech; or the military supervisors of the shooter who didn't hold him accountable to professional standards when he was practicing psychiatry; or the military bureaucracy which did not let him disenroll when he was traumatized by being ordered to serve in Afghanistan?  

      Rabbi Arthur Waskow has an insightful blog on this topic entitled "After Ft. Hood: To Bigotry, No Sanction" (at the URL http://webmail.aol.com/28878/aol-1/en-us/Suite.aspx).   Is it more moral to kill for jihad, patriotic nationalism, or as a mercenary?   What is likely to come out in a criminal trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed as the so-called "master-mind" of the 9/11 attacks that could put their behavior in a different context than if they were tried in a military court, or subjected to targeted assassination?  

     Since I tend to find metaphors for most issues in the medical care system, what do you think of the Stupak Amendment that was incorporated into the House health care reform bill with the support of the Catholic bishops by inserting the prohibition of abortion for any health plan that depends on public funding, jeopardizing the meaning of universal coverage?  (Cartoonist Wasserman in the Boston Globe not so humorously opined: "What's the message to women?  Either don't get pregnant... Or don't be poor" -- a new meaning for what "Pro-Choice" means (see Washington Post cartoon reprint on Nov. 14, 2009).  What is good policy vs. good politics vs. winning by any means necessary as we consciously or unconsciously follow orders, or embark on our own crusades to change the world one step or one policy, or one system at a time?  

      Thinking of historical examples, like Nazi Germany, remember Pastor Martin Niemoller's famous quote: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."  (see http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Politics/niemoller/).

      Finally, are there any personal decisions that you have made in your life on the basis of expediency that did not live up to the moral standards that you respect?

      These are some of the questions to explore in the next meeting of our Nation Magazine Discussion Group on Saturday, November 21, 2009 from 3-5 PM at the Cleveland Park Public Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue, on the second floor.  Please look over the emails that were sent on October 30 and November 7, 2009 for recommended readings.   And feel free to invite anyone else interested in participating in this discussion.

Sincerely,

Bob Griss, Coordinator

Nation Magazine Discussion Group in DC

H: (703) 639-0437

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Subject: Conflict, Identity and Reform in the Muslim World
From: "Rumi Forum" <do-not-reply@...>
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:05:11 -0500

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RUMI FORUM

Presents

"Conflict, Identity and Reform in the Muslim World"

Dr. Daniel Brumberg

Acting Director, Muslim World Initiative, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, USIP

Thursday, November 19th

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

at Rumi Forum

1150 17th Street NW, Suite 408  Washington, D.C. 20036

www.rumiforum.org

Free and open to the public (registration required)

Light lunch will be served

        Please Click to RSVP

Daniel Brumberg is acting       director of USIP's Muslim World Initiative in the Center for Conflict   Analysis and Prevention, where he focuses on issues of democratization and      political reform in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. He is also an      associate professor at Georgetown University and a former senior associate      in the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Project (2003-04).        Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at USIP, where he  pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brumberg was a Mellon junior fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting     fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. He was a visiting      professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University and a      visiting fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center, and      has taught at the University of Chicago. Brumberg is the author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic    world. With a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he is currently working      on a comparative study of power-sharing experiments in Algeria, Kuwait and      Indonesia. A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and      the advisory board of the International Forum on Democratic Studies,    Brumberg is also chairman of the nonprofit Foundation on Democratization and    Political Change in the Middle East. He has worked closely with a number of     nongovernmental organizations in the Arab world, including the Palestinian      Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. Brumberg is also a     member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Association's Political Science and Politics. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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Subject: Conflict, Identity and Reform in the Muslim World
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:05:11 -0500

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RUMI FORUM

Presents

Religion is usually perceived as the biggest    obstacle for peace but once you question this assumption you will realize       that religion can and should be the strongest driving force for peace. The      Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA) works to promote genuine coexistence     and sustainable peace, through joint community building on the grassroots       level, using interactive interfaith dialogue as its vehicle. The a-political    and all-inclusive approach of the organization and its activities       continuously form the human infrastructure for peace in the Holy Land. In       its eight years of existence, the IEA have held more than 700 programs, with    thousands of participants - from across the political and religious spectra,    most of them encountering 'the other' for their first time. The IEA have        formed till now 31 on-going community-groups of interfaith encounter - from     the Upper Galilee to Eilat, including 4 Israeli-Palestinian groups, with        Palestinians from the West Bank. During 2008, IEA successfully organized 150    programs that included more than 4,000 participants, from all social    sectors. For its work the IEA has been recognized and awarded by: UNESCO,       the Immortal Chaplains Foundation, the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious      Understanding, Institute for Interreligious Studies, the World Movement for     Global Democracy and the Israeli Presidential Conference.

        Yehuda Stolov is the executive director of the Interfaith Encounter     Association, an organization that strives to establish a framework for peace    in Israel and the Middle East by fostering mutual respect among individuals     and communities through interfaith dialogue. Dr. Stolov has lectured on the     role of religious dialogue in peace-building throughout the world, including    Jordan, Indonesia, Turkey, South Korea and Europe. In 2006, he was awarded      the Immortal Chaplains Foundation Prize for Humanity, which honors those who    "risked all to protect others of a different faith or ethnic origin." Among     other activities, Dr. Stolov was a member of the steering committee for the     United Nations Decade of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace.     He holds a B.S. and an M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew     University of Jerusalem.

Moderator :

        Sarah   Hasan is Founder and President of oneblue.org and a freelance   journalist who covers State Department and other news in the Washington, DC     area. She meets regularly with community leaders, scholars and business entities to foster and develop intercultural  and religious awareness.  An      integral part of her work at oneblue.org consists of providing outreach to      Muslim communities for entities such as PBS/WETA, foreign news media and the    State Department. Sarah is currently developing an interactive internet website project surrounding America and Islam as her main project at    oneblue.org. She has served as a member of the Women's Empowerment Action       Team on Education at the State Department led by Ambassador Shireen     Tahir-Kheli,  where she was involved in suggesting and discussing ways media    can be used to make education more accessible to women and girls around the     world and especially in Muslim countries. Sarah completed her A' Levels in      History and Economics in Kuwait and graduated with a triple major in    Economics, Political Science and International Studies from Southern    Methodist University. Sarah currently serves on the Board of Directors of       The Women's Centre a non-profit counseling and resource facility that   addresses the personal, professional, legal and financial concerns of women     and their families.

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From

Contemplative Outreach of Northern Virginia

"Silence ~ Solitude ~ Service"

AN INVITATION TO SATURDAY MORNINGS OF CENTERING PRAYER

Give yourselves the gift of a morning of quiet, contemplative prayer the second Saturday of every month.  A typical schedule will include sessions of centering prayer, fellowship, and in some instances the participation of a presenter.

All Are Welcome and No Reservation is Required.

An introduction to the centering prayer practice will be provided for newcomers.

Tea, coffee and water will be provided.

Bring a breakfast item to share if you wish.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

"Julian of Norwich and the Indwelling Presence"

with Phil Stone

9:00 AM to Noon

Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church

1301 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia

Contacts:

Martha Mason - mmthomas211 AT hotmail. com

Isabelle Robinson - imrobinson AT yahoo. com

Suggested Donation:

$10.00 donation would be gratefully appreciated, or what you can when you can.

http://www.conova.org

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