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• CROSSROADS International Film & Discussion Series- "Not My Life"

  • When
    21 May 2013
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Red River Theatres, 11 South Main Street, Concord, NH

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  TUESDAY MAY 21

  7 PM

   

  CROSSROADS International Film and Discussion Series Presents:

  
  

  NOT MY LIFE

  
  

  Discussion following the film with US Assistant Attorney Mark Zuckerman and Jennifer Durant, Public Policy Specialist of NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
  
  PLEASE RSVP!
  
  6 PM- Refreshments & Registration
  7 PM- Film
  8:30 PM - Panel Discussion
  
  ** All attendees receive a copy of the film to take home! **
  

  
  

  
  

  ABOUT THE FILM: Not My Life is the first documentary film to depict the horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.  Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life unflinchingly, but with enormous dignity and compassion, depicts the unspeakable practices of a multi-billion dollar global industry whose profits, as the film's narration says, "are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet's youth."  While acknowledging that trafficking and slavery are universal crimes, affecting millions of human beings all over the world, Not My Life zeroes in on the fact that the vast majority of trafficking and slavery victims are indeed children. Not My Life features dignified and inspiring testimony from survivors; depictions of trafficking, exploitation, and slavery in all parts of the world including forced labor in Africa; street begging and garbage picking in India; sexual trafficking in the United States and Southeast Asia; and various forms of child enslavement and abuse in both North and South America.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  RED RIVER THEATRES
  

  11 S. Main Street, Concord NH 03301

  DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INFO HERE:

  http://www.redrivertheatres.org/directions/

  
  

  ~Beer, wine, sandwiches, drinks & snacks are available for purchase from concession stand

  Free and open to the public;
  Advance registration required
  

  
  

  ** Please consider supporting this free global education program for the public with adonation to Red River Theatres or the World Affairs Council  (in lieu of a ticket cost) or joining the Theatres and the Council as a member!**
  

  
  

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• GLOBAL FORUM FUNDRAISER with AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER

  • When
    03 Jun 2013
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Dining Center, Southern NH University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03104

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  MONDAY, JUNE 3
  GLOBAL FORUM
  THE MIDDLE EAST

  
  

  LESSONS FROM A LONG WAR

  
  

  
  

  Featuring 

  Ambassador Ryan Crocker, America's preeminent diplomat to the Middle East under four U.S. Presidents
  

  
  Former Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Kuwait & Lebanon; Kissing Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University; Dean of the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University.

  
   
  MODERATED BY SARAH ASHWORTH
  NHPR News Director
  
  
  

  Banquet Hall, Dining Center

  Southern NH University

  2500 N. River Road Manchester 03106

  
  

  Reception: 5 PM

  Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvres,
  Syrian baklava tasting with Aissa Sweets & cash bar
  
  
  
  

  Program: 6 PM

  Tickets: $50/Members

  $60/Non-members

  
  

  Patrons: $150/per person

  (Includes private dinner with the Ambassador following the program)
  
  

  
  

  All proceeds benefit the critical work of the World Affairs Council of NH to promote global education and understanding

  
  

  Campus & parking map below and online; directions to SNHU available here.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  ABOUT RYAN CROCKER

  Ryan Crocker is Kissinger Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. He is  on leave as Dean, Executive Professor, and Edward and Howard Kruse Endowed Chair at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. 

  He retired from the Foreign Service in April 2009 after a career of over 37 years. He served as an Ambassador five times: Iraq (2007-2009), Pakistan (2004-2007), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-1997), and Lebanon (1990-1993). He was a member of the faculty at the National War College 2003-2004. From May to August 2003, he was in Baghdad as the first Director of Governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2001 to May 2003. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he has had assignments in Iran, Qatar, Iraq, and Egypt, as well as Washington. He was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the bombings of the embassy and the Marine barracks in 1983.

  Born in Spokane, Washington, he grew up in an Air Force family, attending schools in Morocco, Canada and Turkey, as well as the U.S. He received a B.A. in English in 1971 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2001 from Whitman College (Washington). He is a member of the College's Board of Overseers.

  Crocker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award, in 2009. He received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 2007 and 1994 and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service in 2008 and 1997. He also holds the Secretary of State's Award for Distinguished Service, the Distinguished Honor Award and Award for Valor as well as the American Foreign Service Association Rivkin Award for creative dissent. In January 2002, he was sent to Afghanistan to reopen the American Embassy in Kabul. He subsequently received the Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for "exceptional courage and leadership" in Afghanistan. In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the Foreign Service. In May 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Expeditionary Diplomacy.

  He is married to Christine Barnes Crocker, also a member of the Foreign Service prior to her retirement in 2002. They met in Baghdad in 1979. She holds the State Department's Award for Heroism.

  
  

  
  

  2013 GLOBAL FORUM SPONSORS
  
  

              

   
  PATRONS

  
  

  Danny Calegari & Libby Birnie
  Joan Camann

  Frank & Irja* Cilluffo

  Sarah Demers*

  Katharine Fischer

  William & Kathy Gillett

  Philip & Carolyn* Hollman

  Anne Milne

  Jim & Kathryn* Muirhead

  Jack* & Carol Resch

  Alan & Joan* Reische

  Chuck* & Wendy Sanborn

  David* & Missie Schroeder

  Rick* & Karen Schubart
  Harry Schult
  

  David Stahl*

  Andrew Supplee*

  Bonnie White

  
  

  *Denotes WACNH Board of Directors member

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• WORLD AFFAIRS LUNCHEON & WACNH ANNUAL MEETING

  • When
    13 Jun 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Salon Room, Hospitality Center, Southern New Hampshire University - 2500 N. River Road, Manchester, NH

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  WORLD AFFAIRS LUNCHEON & ANNUAL MEETING

  "Burma: Facing Change"
  

  
  

  Featuring Dr. Charles Bickford
  

  Thursday, June 13

  11:30 AM- Registration & Lunch

  Noon - Annual Meeting & Presentation, Discussion on Myanmar

  
  

  Salon Room, Hospitality Center, Southern New Hampshire University

  
  

  Luncheon tickets:
  

  MEMBERS- $20 per ticket or $30 for two tickets
  

  NON-MEMBERS- $25 per ticket
  
  PLEASE PURCHASE TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
  

  
  

  The Annual Meeting portion of the program will include a vote by members on the 2013-2104 slate of Board of Directors as well as presentation of awards for service and support of the Council's mission. The program is open to the public.
  
  

  ABOUT CHARLES G. BICKFORD

   lectured at the Myanmar Institute of Technology in fall 2010 as part of the theological school’s religious studies, theology and divinity programs and taught as a Professor of Literature at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 2001 to 2003 and 2005 to 2006.

  He has served as President and Executive Director of several institutions and non-profit organizations: the American Boychoir School, Portsmouth’s Strawberry Banke and New Hampshire Humanities Council and previously acted as Interim Direct0r of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire.

  Dr. Bickford has a PhD in Medieval Literature and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Franklin and Marshall. He has received many honorary doctorates and awards for his scholarship and service including an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from both Saint Anselm College and Rivier College.

  Dr. Bickford lives in Portsmouth with his wife, Barbara, who is a photographer.

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• CROSSROADS International Film and Discussion Series- "Salaam Dunk"

  • When
    18 Jun 2013
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Red River Theatres, 11 S. Main Street, Concord NH 03301

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  Tuesday, June 18

  7 PM 

  
  

  CROSSROADS International Film and Discussion Series Presents:

  
  

  SALAAM DUNK
  

  
  

  Discussion following the film with Catherine Rielly of Rubia and Corri Wilson, Sports Management Lecturer at Southern New Hampshire University

  
  

  
  

  ABOUT THE FILM: Two years ago, most of the women on the basketball team at the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani (AUIS) had never been running before. Many had never played sports. None had ever been on a team with other women. They came from all corners of Iraq to attend this prestigious school, but many cannot tell family back home they go to an "American" university.   Through traditional interviews and private confessional video diaries, Salaam Dunk follows the ethnically diverse AUIS women's basketball team as they discover what it means to be athletes. From the joy of their first win to the pain of losing the coach who started their team, the film gives a glimpse into an Iraq we don't see on the news.

  
  

  ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Professor Catherine Rielly has taught international community economic development for the past eight years at Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Community Economic Development where she was International Academic Program Chair. A Political Economist, she has conducted research, training, and technical assistance for the past twenty-five years on women’s empowerment, public policy, economics, democratization and governance, for the following organizations:  the Harvard Institute for International Development, UNIFEM, UNFPA, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, the Governments of Mali, Zambia, and Uganda, and the Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on women’s economic empowerment and fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS through building women’s financial independence. As a Fulbright Scholar in Cameroon, she conducted doctoral research on women’s participation in informal savings and credit organizations and the gender-specific division of labor and income. She received her Ph.D. and Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and her B.A in History from Stanford University.  Dr. Rielly has conducted comparative research and written journal articles on policy processes in over twenty countries.

   

  Corri Wilson is a Lecturer in the Sport Management Department at Southern New Hampshire University. She earned her BA in Sociology from Geneseo State University and her MS in Sport Management from Southern New Hampshire University. Her areas of interest include gender issues in sport, youth and community sport, relationship between sport and society, event management, and leadership issues in sport and she is currently developing a course Gender & Sport to be taught on campus this fall. Wilson is the co-founder of the award-winning Fitness Fridays program at Cawley Middle School in Hooksett and was instrumental in the development of a field hockey program at that school. As a graduate student she created an annual sports event for girls held on the campus at Southern New Hampshire University.   Wilson considers herself a Title IX baby, as her athletics career officially began just two years after the passage of this federal legislation. She credits the many women who came before her with giving her the opportunity to participate in sports and believes it is her obligation to do the same for girls today.

  This 2013 Crossroads series is sponsored by the Mayor Foundation

  
  

  RED RIVER THEATRES

  11 S. Main Street, Concord NH 03301

  Directions and parking info HERE

  ~Beer, wine, sandwiches, drinks & snacks are available for purchase from concession stand

  
  

  Free and open to the public;
  Advance registration required
  

  
  

  ** Please consider supporting this free global education program for the public with a donation to Red River Theatres or the World Affairs Council  (in lieu of a ticket cost) or joining the Theatres and the Council as a member!**
  

  
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• CROSSROADS International Film and Discussion Series- "War Witch"

  • When
    16 Jul 2013
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Red River Theatres, 11 S. Main Street, Concord NH 03301

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  Tuesday, July 16

  7 PM  

  CROSSROADS International Film and Discussion Series Presents:

  
  

  WAR WITCH
  

  
  

  Discussion following the film with Dina Solomon and Jerold White of Second Chance Africa

  
  

  ABOUT THE FILM: Komona is only 12 years old when she is kidnapped by rebel soldiers and enslaved to a life of guerrilla warfare in the African jungle. Forced to commit unspeakable acts of brutality, she finds hope for survival in protective, ghost-like visions and in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier named Magician. Together, they manage to escape the rebels' clutches, and a normal life finally seems within reach. But after their freedom proves short-lived, Komona realizes she must find a way to bury the ghosts of her past.
  

  ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Dina Solomon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the USA, who currently has a private practice in southern New Hampshire. Dina has completed the Certificate Training Program at The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, MA, USA. She uses a variety of methods, including EMDR, to work with children, adolescents, adults and families to resolve issues related to traumatic stress. Previously, Dina has worked in schools, residential treatment programs, group homes, and homeless shelters for adolescents. She believes unconditionally in the power of human beings to heal, transform, live joyfully and love. Dina is a Capoeirista, world traveler, yoga practitioner, and a mom. She lives in New Hampshire with her five year old son.

  Jerold White is the President of the Board of Second Chance Africa.  He was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia and completed his education at the University of Massachusetts and Cambridge College in Boston.  He has a Master’s degree in education with a concentration in Special Education.   He is currently the principal of a substantially separate middle school for students with social and emotional learning disabilities. He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.  He is very passionate about the goals of second Chance Africa as it directly affects the productivity and overall resiliency of the country where he was born.   He loves to play soccer, boxing and ping pong. 
  

  This 2013 Crossroads series is sponsored by the Mayor Foundation
   

  RED RIVER THEATRES
  

  11 S. Main Street, Concord NH 03301

  DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INFO HERE:

  http://www.redrivertheatres.org/directions/
  

  
  

  ~Beer, wine, sandwiches, drinks & snacks are available for purchase from concession stand

  Free and open to the public;
  Advance registration required
  

  
  

  ** Please consider supporting this free global education program for the public with a donation to Red River Theatres or the World Affairs Council  (in lieu of a ticket cost) or joining the Theatres and the Council as a member!**
  

  
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