Folks!!
Our country is not far from disappearing under with flooded land and very quickly it is happening with the current crisis and unfairness of gas emissions in developing countries, such as Bangladesh, continue to be a rights issue and a violation of protecting our people and its land! There is a FANTASTIC opportunity for you guys to come and attend a screening of "Who Cares if Bangladesh Drowns?", with an opportunity to discuss the film/issue with some renowned members of this mobilising.
Check out the details:
When: Friday, November 21 2008
Where: MIT, Student Center and Stata Center, Cambridge MA
When:
Photo Exhibit: 9:00am - 6:30pm
Film: 6:30 – 7:00pm
Panel Discussion: 7:00-8:30pm
*Please note, this event is FREE and open to the public
For details on room locations and panelists, please visit -
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=595345494&k=631UYV5Z3X3MZBMGQBW6T
A QUICK NOTE ON THE FILM:
Phenomenal journalist and activist from Bangladesh - Afsan Chowdhury, shows his film on Climate Change (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDP0NTT0Ck).
Our country is not far from disappearing under with flooded land and very quickly it is happening with the current crisis and unfairness of gas emissions in developing countries, such as Bangladesh, continue to be a rights issue and a violation of protecting our people and its land! There is a FANTASTIC opportunity for you guys to come and attend a screening of "Who Cares if Bangladesh Drowns?", with an opportunity to discuss the film/issue with some renowned members of this mobilising.
Check out the details:
When: Friday, November 21 2008
Where: MIT, Student Center and Stata Center, Cambridge MA
When:
Photo Exhibit: 9:00am - 6:30pm
Film: 6:30 – 7:00pm
Panel Discussion: 7:00-8:30pm
*Please note, this event is FREE and open to the public
For details on room locations and panelists, please visit -
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=595345494&k=631UYV5Z3X3MZBMGQBW6T
A QUICK NOTE ON THE FILM:
Phenomenal journalist and activist from Bangladesh - Afsan Chowdhury, shows his film on Climate Change (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDP0NTT0Ck).
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT AFSAN:
He is currently a 2008 Oak Fellow at Colby College in Maine. He has had a parallel career in development work and the media. He has been active in multi-disciplinary research, media relations, journalism, and program development for two decades, and is one of the editors of an authoritative work on Bangladesh's War of Independence. He held a high position in UNICEF, but left to become a freelancer and social activist. He was also the BBC's correspondent in Bangladesh but left to concentrate on development-related work. These two resignations are indicative of his personality. Both were extremely prestigious jobs,
but he gave them up to pursue social activism. In 1994, he established, HASAB, a funding nonprofit for organizations working in
the area of HIV, STDs, and AIDS. Afsan has had remarkable success in designing communications materials that appeal to both the youth and elders alike. In 1995 he developed a fifteen-part sex education series for the BBC entitled "Sexwise," which aired in 1995-96. The first broadcasting of such a program in Asia, the series reached ten million listeners and became the most successful radio series in Bangladesh.
The companion book to the series completely sold out of stores. His reputation as a media professional and development worker is firmly established. Afsan says that he cherishes freedom most and that is why he has dropped out of the conventional career tracks to do work that he finds directly relevant to his and other people's lives.
OTHER PANELISTS:
Dr. Sajed Kamal:
Dr. Kamal teaches "Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development" in the Sustainable International Development program at Brandeis University and has been involved in the field for more than thirty years. He has been a lecturer and consultant on renewable energy internationally, setting up projects in the United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Armenia and El Salvador. His work has also provided the basis for projects in Latin America, Europe and Africa. Dr. Kamal is the president of the International Consortium for Energy Development, a Boston-based nonprofit corporation, a Board member of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Coordinator of the Solar Fenway Committee of the Fenway Community Development Corporation in Boston.
Dr. Kamal teaches "Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development" in the Sustainable International Development program at Brandeis University and has been involved in the field for more than thirty years. He has been a lecturer and consultant on renewable energy internationally, setting up projects in the United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Armenia and El Salvador. His work has also provided the basis for projects in Latin America, Europe and Africa. Dr. Kamal is the president of the International Consortium for Energy Development, a Boston-based nonprofit corporation, a Board member of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Coordinator of the Solar Fenway Committee of the Fenway Community Development Corporation in Boston.
He is also an award-winning poet, artist, educational consultant, translator, psychotherapist and published author of a dozen books and many articles in a wide range of areas. In 2007, he was awarded Boston "Mayor's First Annual Green Award for Community Leadership in Energy and Climate Protection" and a "Regional Heroes Award" by AltWheels: Creating a Sustainable Transportation & Energy Vision for the 21st Century, and in 2008, a "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, New England Region. "The Greener Issue" of The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine on September 28, 2008,
featured him as one of the "Six local heroes whose work is having rippling effects—at home and far away—in making the world a better place."
Albelee Haque:
Albelee is an environmental scientist in the department of environment at Boston. She is also one of the leading members of BEN, Bangladesh Environment Network.
Albelee is an environmental scientist in the department of environment at Boston. She is also one of the leading members of BEN, Bangladesh Environment Network.
WHAT THE EVENT AIMS FOR:
Create awareness and highlight urgency of Climate Change Justice so
that countries attending the UN Climate Change Conference
(http://www.cop15.dk/en) in December 2009 will be sufficiently
pressured to enact REAL policies to battle this urgent global problem.
Come and let your voice be known. Be the change you want to see in the world! Help spread the word!
Create awareness and highlight urgency of Climate Change Justice so
that countries attending the UN Climate Change Conference
(http://www.cop15.dk/en) in December 2009 will be sufficiently
pressured to enact REAL policies to battle this urgent global problem.
Come and let your voice be known. Be the change you want to see in the world! Help spread the word!
An Invitation to you by the team at:
MIT Bangladesh Students Association
MIT South Asian Alumni Association
Colby College
Drishtipat Boston
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Sent to you by:
Tania,
With the team at Drishtipat Canada
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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/university_teachers_arrest.htm
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
http://www.mukto-mona.com/news/daily_star/daily_star_MM.pdf
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MM site is blocked in Islamic countries such as UAE. Members of those theocratic states, kindly use any proxy (such as http://proxy.org/) to access mukto-mona.
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm
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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/kansat2006/members/
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm
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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/
Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/index.htm
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Some FAQ's about Mukto-Mona:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/faq_mm.htm
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