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<BODY id=compText>This schedule of January 22, 2008 supercedes previous program schedule. Please discard all earlier versions. <B><FONT size=4>
<P>Cambridge Forum</P>
<P>Winter-Spring 2008 Program Schedule</P>
<P>Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted **)</P>
<P>First Parish In Cambridge</P>
<P>3 Church Street</P>
<P>Cambridge, MA 02138</P>
<P>617-495-2727</P>
<P>www.cambridgeforum.org</P>
<P>FREE and Open to the Public</P>
<P>The Medium and the Message: Communicating in the Digital Age</P></B></FONT><FONT size=3>
<P>Cambridge Forum explores the many ways we communicate–across the globe, across time, across a room or a conference table. How have digital technologies affected our ability to communicate? How do we balance the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century’s demands to convey information rapidly and flexibly with the enduring human quest for examining ideas and timeless truths? How do we respond to the authorial or the authoritative voice in an interactive culture?</P>
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<P>Wednesday</P>
<P>January 30 THE BULLDOZER AND THE BIG TENT: Recovering American Ideals*</P></B><STRONG>
<P>Todd Gitlin,</STRONG> professor of sociology and journalism at Columbia University and one-time president of SDS, brings his political insights to the 2008 presidential campaign on the eve of the February 5 super-primary. Why have Republicans been so much better than Democrats at getting and exercising power?</P><STRONG>
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<P>Wednesday</P>
<P>February 6 ENDING SLAVERY*</P></STRONG>
<P>International human rights worker and award-winning author<STRONG> Kevin Bales</STRONG> presents a 25-year plan to end global slavery and rebuild the lives of 27 million held in slavery today. What actions by governments, NGOs, businesses, and individuals are required to bring an end to more than 5,000 years of human bondage?</P>
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<P>**Monday, at 7p.m.</P>
<P>February 11 FAITH AND POLITICS AFTER THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT*</P></B>
<P>Best-selling author, theologian, and founder of Sojourners, <B>Jim Wallis</B> discusses the end of the religious right’s dominance in American politics and looks forward to a new role for faith in American society. What happens when politics fails to solve our most pressing problems? What role can spirituality play in public life?</P>
<P>FREE WILL DONATION REQUESTED at the door. $5 suggested.</P><B>
<P>Friday</P>
<P>February 22 PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization</B>*</P>
<P>Environmental guru <B>Lester Brown</B> proposes a plan of action to address the challenges of climate change. How can nations cut carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2020? What are the economic and political prospects for mobilizing the world to achieve Plan B 3.0? <I>Co-sponsored by Tim Weiskel and Harvard Book Store.</P></I><B>
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<P>Wednesday</P>
<P>March 19</B> <B>GETTING A GRIP ON DEMOCRACY*</P></B>
<P>Visionary social activist <B>Frances Moore Lappé</B> challenges citizens to examine their underlying assumptions and think about fear, power, democracy and hope itself in new ways. She argues that replacing a vicious "circle of powerlessness" with a virtuous "circle of empowerment" enables a democratic society to reach its full potential. <I>Co-sponsored by Food For Free.</P></I>
<P>6:30 reception precedes the program.</P>
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<P>Wednesday</P>
<P>March 26</B> <B>TIBET: Lens on Human Rights in China</B></P>
<P><B>Dr. Lobsang Sanjay</B>, Senior Fellow of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, discusses Tibet. Using Tibet’s status as a starting point for examining China’s commitment to human rights, Sanjay explores how Tibet’s situation illuminates shortcomings as well as strengths in international law and politics. <I>Co-sponsored by Mullane, Michel & McInnes, Counselors at Law. </P></I>
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<P>Thursday</P>
<P>April 10</B> <B>AMERICAN BLANDNESS: Risky Writing and the Forces That Silence It </B>*</P>
<P>A panel of authors and editors discusses the barriers to getting "risky" and important work published. The importance of politically challenging fiction and poetry, from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s <I>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</I> to Allen Ginsburg’s "Howl," is undeniable. But has such writing been effectively neutered by current trends in publishing? What is the social and cultural impact of such trends? And what is an individual author to do? <I>Co-sponsored by PEN-New England, as part of the Freedom to Write series. </P></I><B>
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<P>Tuesday</P>
<P>April 15</B> <B>BAD MONEY</B>*</P>
<P>Best-selling author and political analyst <B>Kevin Phillips</B> exposes the crisis of American capitalism. How has the interaction among reckless financial dealings, excessive debt, worn-out politics and global over-reach creates an Achilles heel for U.S. national security? What challenges does the threat of "bad money" pose for the 2008 presidential candidates? And for the new administration in 2009? <I>Co-sponsored by Ann Daily.</P></I>
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<P>**Friday, 8:00 p.m.</P>
<P>April 25 BAD RELIGION: Greg Graffin, Cultural Humanist</B>*</P>
<P>Evolutionary biologist and punk rocker <B>Greg Graffin</B> receives the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The lead singer and songwriter for Bad Religion, arguably America’s most influential punk rock band of the past generation and professor of life sciences at UCLA, Graffin explores the philosophies underlying human creativity–in the sciences and in the arts. <I>Co-sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard</I>.</P>
<P>Event takes place at The Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Tickets are required; call Cambridge Forum at 617-495-2727 to reserve yours.</P></FONT><B><FONT size=4>
<P>* Book signing courtesy of Harvard Book Store follows the program.</P></B></FONT></BODY><pre>
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