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November 11, 2003

Programs ~ Announcements ~ Updates ~ Resources

Hello members and friends of the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition!

In this week’s PAUR Report:

Announcements

1) AAUW Public Meeting: NDHRC Presentation on Development of Local Human Relations Commissions, November 20, Devils Lake

2) NDHRC Web Site Calendar of Events

Newspaper Articles

No newspaper articles this week

Events

No new events this week

Reminders

3) Public Forum: Changes and Challenges in Programs for Those Living in Poverty, November 17, Fargo

4) Ford Foundation Program Recognizes Community Leaders

5) “Stolen Dreams” Open House, Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Moorhead, MN

6) Sisters of the Presentation at Sacred Heart Convent Presents “Peace Studies” 2003 Series (Various Locations in ND and MN)

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Announcements

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1.) AAUW Public Meeting: NDHRC Presentation on Development of Local Human Relations Commissions, November 20, Devils Lake

In the Devils Lake area and interested in advancing human rights in your community? The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition Director, Cheryl Bergian, will be presenting information on the development of local human relations commissions at a meeting of the American Association of University Women in Devils Lake that is open to the public. The presentation is entitled "Human Rights Advocacy for North Dakota"; it's at 7 p.m., Thursday, November 20, in the Heritage Hall, Lake Region State College, Devils Lake.

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2.) NDHRC Web Site Calendar of Events

Visit our web site calendar for information on monthly statewide human rights related activities and events. We welcome your input and comments.

Please send us your news and events for the calendar to humanrights@ndhrc.org.

View the NDHRC web site here

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Newspaper Articles

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No newspaper articles this week

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Events

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No new events this week

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Reminders

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3.) Public Forum: Changes and Challenges in Programs for Those Living in Poverty, November 17, Fargo

Speakers:

Kathy Hogan, Director of Cass County Social Services, Fargo, ND

Dennis Lien, Director of Clay County Social Services, Moorhead, MN

Duke Schempp, Director of People Escaping Poverty Project, Moorhead, MN

Sponsor:

Fargo Moorhead Branch of the American Association of University Women

Location:

Fargo Public Library Meeting Room

102 3^rd St. North

Fargo, ND

Time and Date:

7:30 PM, Monday, November 17, 2003

Target Audience:

All those in the community who would like to know what is happening to the “welfare programs” in light of the legislative changes at the national level and cuts in programs in both Minnesota and North Dakota, and all those in the community who are being impacted by these changes

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4.) Ford Foundation Program Recognizes Community Leaders

Deadline: January 6, 2004

A program of the Ford Foundation (http://www.fordfound.org/ ), Leadership for a Changing World seeks to recognize, strengthen, and support leaders and to highlight the importance of community leadership in improving people's lives.

Each year, the program recognizes U.S. leaders and leadership groups not broadly known beyond their immediate community or field. Nominated community leaders may work in fields that include economic development; community development; environment and environmental justice; human rights; citizen participation and government accountability; human development; sexual and reproductive health; education reform; youth development; religion and social change; arts and social action; and access to media, including new technologies.

Awardees receive $100,000 over two years to support their programs or new work that is related to the initiatives for which they are being recognized. In addition, awardees receive $15,000 to explore new learning opportunities that support their work and are asked to participate in shared learning and networking opportunities and contribute to research and public discourse on leadership. Funds will be made available to the awardees' nonprofit charitable organizations or fiscal agents.

To be eligible for the program, nominees must be working on social justice issues; working in organizations that are not considered grantmaking foundations; U.S. residents working on domestic issues; leaders who are not widely known outside their immediate community or field; involved in the area for which they are being nominated for at least four years; nominated by someone other than a family member, a board member, a staff member, or a consultant for the nominee's organization; and leaders with clear evidence of ongoing community collaboration.

For complete program information and nomination guidelines, see the program's Web site at http://leadershipforchange.org/.

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5.) “Stolen Dreams” Open House, Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Moorhead, MN

"Stolen Dreams" (October 11, 2003? – December 22, 2003) is an exhibition of 70 contemporary photographs by occupational health physician Dr. David L. Parker. Dr. Parkers shows in very real, moving photographs that the issues of child labor is not one of the past, but one that is affecting the entire world community - including the United States.

"My project can never be completed" says Parker, "what exists is too vast to be seen or documented fully, but it is too important to ignore."

For more information about Stolen Dreams visit http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/intro.html.

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6.) Sisters of the Presentation at Sacred Heart Convent Presents “Peace Studies” 2003 Series (Various Locations in ND and MN)

Presentation Peace Studies has an excellent series of forum speakers for the coming year. Please mark your calendars and more information will be forthcoming this fall!

Nov. 14, 2003 - "Security: An Affair of the Heart" Fr. Johns Sandell, Fargo

Jan. 23, 2004 - "What Is a Peace Church?" Dr. Gerald Schlabach, St. Thomas U., St. Paul

Feb. 27, 2004 - "What Does My Faith Call Me to in Violent Times?" Panel of three: B'hai, Quaker, Muslim

Mar. 26, 2004 - "Jesus against Christianity" Dr. Jack Nelsonp-:Pallmeyer, St. Thomas U., St. Paul

April 30 & May 1, 2003 - "Receding Violence, Reseeding the Earth - Harmony in the Web of Life" Helen Prejean and Marya Grathwohl

View additional information here

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***Member Reminder***

Please keep us in mind for your group or church social action/social justice meetings! We’d be happy to provide a presentation at a meeting or provide newsletter articles for your organizations.

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