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The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton Binghamton, NY; October 24, 2009 Week of Climate Action - Keynote Address The Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition coordinated a weeklong series of events leading up to the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009 as a part of the international campaign being organized by 350.org. Launched by eminent scientists, activists, and environmentalists, 350.org called for coordinated action around the world on October 24, 2009 to build awareness of the need to bring greenhouse gases under control from our current 390 ppm to below 350 ppm. In particular, the campaign aimed to put pressure on world leaders who planned to meet in Copenhagen six weeks later to achieve international agreement on ways to deal responsibly and adequately with the threat of climate change. Details on the global campaign are at 350.org. Sponsors: Broome County Peace Action, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition KEYNOTE SPEAKER: CHRIS HEDGES Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. In 2009 the Los Angeles Press Club honored the original columns that Hedges writes for Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year and granting him the Best Online Column award for his Truthdig essay Party to Murder, about the December 2008-January 2009 Israeli assault on Gaza. Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has written nine books, including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don t Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best-selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). His book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.Hedges, who holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, is fluent in Arabic and also speaks French, Spanish, Greek and Latin. To embed this segment of the Chris Hedges video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton Binghamton, NY; October 24, 2009 Sponsors: Broome County Peace Action, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition To embed this segment of the Chris Hedges video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton Binghamton, NY; October 24, 2009 Sponsors: Broome County Peace Action, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition To embed this segment of the Chris Hedges video into your website, (1) click the triangular wedge at the bottom of the video screen, (2) click the "Embed" tab, (3) click "Copy embed code," (4) paste the HTML code into your website.

Film taken during the blessing of the animals at the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, Binghamton NY on October 4th, 2009