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Event: International Womens's Day Celebration: Dance Complex, Central Sq. Cambridge,
Sat., March 13, 1999.
FOPA
Workshops
1. SASSY '98 Theater Workshop on
Immigration by Aparna Sindhoor
2. Nuclear Weapons and
Humanity
3. Theater Workshop
based on Nuclear Issues
4. Origamy for Peace
Cranes
Nuclear Weapons and
Humanity
Forum of Progressive Artists
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(where art meets
action)
presents an Interactive
Discussion
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND
HUMANITY
with
Dr. M. V. Ramana &
Merav Datan
(Bring in all the questions that you ever wanted to ask about nuclear weapons)
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 30, 1999
TIME: 12:00-2:00pm
VENUE: MIT Building 5 - Room 217
Street Address: 55 Massachusetts Avenue
Mail Address: Building 5
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Dr. Ramana, a physicist by training, works on issues related to nuclear
disarmament and nuclear energy at the Center for Energy and Environmental
Studies, Princeton. He is a founding member of the Alliance for a Secular
and Democratic South Asia and a member of the Forum of Indian Leftists.
Merav Datan is the Program Director for International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War. Formerly she was a research director for the
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York. A US/Israel national, she
has degrees in physics and international law.
co-sponsored by Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
South Asian Advocacy and Action Collective
Theater Workshop based
on Nuclear Issues &
Origamy for Peace Cranes
Forum of Progressive Artists (FOPA)
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(where art meets action)
presents
Theater Workshop based on Nuclear Issues
with
Brian Rawson
AND
A Demonstration on How To Make a Peace Crane
by
Rajesh Gopakumar
DATE: Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999
TIME: 12:00-2:00pm
VENUE: Harvest Co-op community room.
On Mass Ave, near centeral Sq 'T' stop.
Brian Rawson is a disarmament activist, musician, actor, and visual artist
with an academic background in international development. Recently he has
performed with the Boston-area political theater troupe Class Acts. In
previous years he has also worked with the American Conservatory Theater
(San Francisco, CA), the Scottish Youth Theater (Glasgow), and the Brown
University Production Workshop (Providence, RI). His work in war
prevention and disarmament has included community accompaniment during
wartime in El Salvador, grassroots organizing with California Sane and the
Nuclear Weapons Freeze (now Peace Action), and currently program
coordination with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War, based in Cambridge.
Rajesh Gopakumar is a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical Physics at
Harvard University. In the last few months, he has gotten utterly
fascinated by Origami (Japanese for paper-fold). He has been teaching
himself and anyone else who is willing to learn.
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