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SUMMARY:Second Mondays with CTWAC | June
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow World Affairs Council members in conversation over dinner on the issues impacting our world. Connect and engage with others\, share your thoughts\, and explore how we can secure our global future. \n\n\n\n\nTopic: Potential Flash Points – How is the US positioned and what happens next?\nFrom China and Taiwan to Iran and Israel\, global areas of brewing conflict create mounting uncertainty for our future. How do our adversaries and these areas of instability pose a risk to our global future\, and how is the U.S. positioned to confront that? \nThis is a no-homework event\, but supplemental articles will be provided to attendees.\n\n\n\nThe Details:\nWhen: Monday\, June 10 | 6-7:30PM\nWhere: McCarter & English\, LLP | One Canterbury Green 201 Broad St\, Stamford\, CT 06901\nTickets: $25 | Limited availability | Reserve your spot here\nRegistration is on a “first-come” basis and is limited to 20 participants. \n\nUpcoming Second Mondays:\nJune 10th: Potential Flash Points – How is the U.S. positioned and what happens next?\nSeptember 9th: Topic TBA*\nOctober – Date TBD\nNovember – Date TBD\nDecember 9th \n*Topics will be announced 2 weeks prior to events. \n\nPast Second Mondays:\nMarch 11th: Western Consensus on Ukraine: What’s Next?\nApril 8th: War in Gaza: How did we get here?\nMay 20th: Democratic Systems at a Crossroad \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
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SUMMARY:Community Book Discussion on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Hartford for a community discussion on the urgency of climate change\, led by Susan Hoffman Fishman\, a West Hartford-based environmental artist and writer\, alongside former CTWAC Executive Director Felicity Harley. The conversation will refer to selections from American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau concerning our impact on climate change and our responsibility to our environment. \nThe Details\nWhen: Wednesday\, June 12th at 6:00PM\nWhere: Lobby at Connecticut Public | 1049 Asylum Ave\, Hartford CT\nTickets: $15 for non-members | No charge for members* | Get tickets here\nDinner and refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. \nNot sure if your membership is up to date? To check your membership status\, contact Abby at: noyesa[at]ctwac.org or log in on the membership site. \n\nYou’re invited to celebrate 100 years of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut \nThroughout the year\, we’re hosting a series of events with some of the key supporters\, members\, and partners who have made a significant impact on the history of the Council. This event is a part of this community-inspired series in honor of our 100th anniversary. \n\nFeaturing\nSusan Hoffman Fishman is a mixed-media painter\, environmental artist and arts writer who has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Articles\, interviews and reviews of Fishman’s work have appeared in Burning Worlds: Climate Change in Art & Literature\, a publication of the Chicago Review of Books; The Washington Post\, Art Spiel\, Sci/Art Magazine\, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts\, The Hartford Courant\, Artists and Climate Change and numerous others. Read more about Susan here. \nFelicity Harley is a published journalist\, writer\, and a poet. She has also had a long career in assisting and founding a variety of arts and educationally focused nonprofits.  Until 2013 she was the Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and is currently President of the Board of the Community Foundation for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Over the years Felicity has published articles and poetry in various chapbooks and publications. This year her five book science fiction series Until This Last will be published by a small UK publisher. You can find out more about her at her website. \n\nAbout the Book\nAmerican Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau \n“’Each advance in environmental practice in our nation’s history…was preceded by a great book” – Bill McKibben\, editor of American Earth. \nAs America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change\, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented\, inspiring\, and timely anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. \nClassics of the environmental imagination—the essays of Henry David Thoreau\, John Muir\, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring—are set alongside an emerging activist movement\, revealed by newly uncovered reports of pioneering campaigns for conservation\, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation\, and searing protest speeches. Purchase American Earth here. \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member today. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/community-book-discussion-climate-change/
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SUMMARY:Behind the White House Curtain with Steve Herman
DESCRIPTION:Freedom of the press is a hallmark of our democracy. Steve Herman\, a veteran member of the White House Press Corps\, considers covering the U.S. President a key part of ensuring a healthy democracy. Join us in conversation with Steve on June 25 on what it’s really like to cover the President\, and the importance of journalistic independence at a time when misinformation is so rampant. In conversation with Jim Falk. \nThe details:\nWhen: Tuesday\, June 25 | 7:00PM ET \nWhere: Zoom Webinar \nTickets: Free | Registration required \nBuy Tickets on EventbriteRSVP Now \n\n\nWorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe. Presented in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations\, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations\, World Affairs Council of Jacksonville\, World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts\, and Perspectives Matter. \n\nAbout the Book\nBehind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story of Covering the President – and Why it Matters by Steven Herman \nGoing behind the scenes with a veteran member of the White House press corps \nSteven L Herman\, chief national correspondent for the nonpartisan\, government-funded Voice of America (VOA)\, weaves together memoir and history to pull back the curtain on the inner workings of the White House press corps\, giving readers a rare glimpse into the historic and current relationship between the president and the press. \nHerman traces the trajectory of his career as a journalist—from learning to be skeptical of government officials’ statements when he worked as a novice reporter covering nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1970s to understanding the power of on-the-ground social media coverage after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and facing the challenges of covering the Trump administration. He reflects on the experience of reporting on a president who once called journalists “enemies of the people”—and indeed\, former president Trump singled out VOA\, accusing the organization of being not a voice of America but rather a voice supporting Moscow’s and Beijing’s interests. Under questionable circumstances\, top VOA executives lost their security clearances\, and a dossier was prepared on Herman in an effort to remove him as White House bureau chief. With journalistic independence under threat\, Herman feared not only for his career but also for “the soul of Voice of America.” \nThroughout Behind the White House Curtain\, Herman convincingly argues that public access to accurate\, unbiased information is essential to a healthy and peaceful democracy\, and that journalists can and should play a key role in pressing government officials to be truthful and transparent. At a time when misinformation is rampant and the need for unbiased coverage of current events is more urgent than ever\, Herman reminds readers that freedom of the press is a foundational American right. \nPurchase Behind the White House Curtain here. \n\nAbout the Author\nSteven L Herman is the chief national correspondent of the Voice of America (VOA)\, an adjunct assistant professor at Shenandoah University\, and an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department of the University of Richmond. He covered the White House for VOA during the Trump administration and the first eight months of the Biden administration. He has traveled to more than 75 countries and territories\, including reporting assignments in Afghanistan\, Argentina\, Bhutan\, Burma\, China\, the Gaza Strip\, North Korea\, Peru\, and Vietnam. \nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. Now residing in Santa Fe\, New Mexico he is member of the Board of Global Santa Fe where he chairs the program committee. Jim co-hosts Perspectives Matter\, a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/behind-the-white-house-curtain-with-steve-herman/
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