BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//141.193.213.21//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Union Theological Seminary X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://utsnyc.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-20512@utsnyc.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T110200Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:EDS at Union CONTACT:Ian Rees\; irees@uts.columbia.edu DESCRIPTION:
Join us on Wednesday\, April 7\, 2021\, at 6:00 PM EST fo r a public address and conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers\, autho r of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.
\n\nPurchase Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’
s Dirty Secret
\nRead Catherine Flowers’ recent
essay for the New York Times summarizing the focus of th
e book.
Each semester\, Episcopal Divinity School at Union selects a theme and book to guide a semester-long discussion on justice issues cr itical for faith communities to address. This spring 2021\, EDS at Union i s joining with the Center for Earth Ethics and the Kairos Center for Religions\, Rights\, and Social Justice to focus on the structura l challenges facing communities living in poverty and to explore how econo mic\, environmental\, and racial issues exacerbate inequality in the Unite d States.
\nWe have selected Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against Am erica’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers to frame this discu ssion.
\nPast community-wide readings have included Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson\, The Poison ed City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark\, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore\, Enrique’s Journey by two-time Pulitzer Prize-win ning journalist Sonia Nazario\, and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Str uggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman.
\nPlease join us in reading Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and share your reflections with us this semester.
\nCatherine Coleman Flowers is the founde r of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice\, Senior Fe llow of Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement at Center for Earth Ethic s at Union Theological Seminary\, and since 2008 has been the rural develo pment manager at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Init iative. She is the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Di rty Secret\, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for a first book in the public interest (from The New Press). In 2020\, Flowers was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Montgomery\, Alabama.
\nTickets: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jyNTq1qPRSKHTBLXT_-8 iw.
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