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Please send all Calendar Listings
for events from December 15, 2005
(and beyond) to:
Voice Male Calendar
voicemale@mrcforchange.org
or mail to:
236 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Fax (413) 253-4801
Deadline for Winter issue:
November 25, 2005
October 3 - November 30 • Amherst, MA
Conscious Communication Workshop
The MRC’s Moving Forward program is
sponsoring an eight-week workshop to help
people stay connected with partners, family,
friends, neighbors, and co-workers in
the heat of difference. The workshop will
be offered on Mondays (Oct. 3 to Nov. 28)
and Wednesdays (Oct. 5 to Nov. 30). The
workshop aims to teach people to use differences
to actually grow in understanding and
intimacy and to experience the joy hidden
in conflict. Facilitator Karen Fogliatti is currently
both an associate with the Conscious
Communication Institute and a counselor
with Moving Forward at the Men’s Resource
Center. The workshop is open to both men
and women.
Cost: $230-$280, sliding scale,
includes materials
Location: Men’s Resource Center
for Change
Info: www.ccitraining.org,
karenmf@mindspring.com, (978) 544-3844
October 21-23 • Rowe, MA
Nonviolent Communication as
Spiritual Practice
Nonviolent Communication helps people
connect with the life that is alive in them
and the living field of energy permeating
and animating all things. In the evolution
of language over the last several centuries,
the dominant cultures on our planet have
developed ways of communicating centered
in the mind—in thinking, in knowing,
and in judging what is good and bad, right
and wrong. This language of knowing and
judging cuts us off from life and creates
the violence and suffering on our planet.
The language of Nonviolent Communication
(NVC) enables us to “come back to life,” as
NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg puts it.
Cost: $170 - $270, plus room and board
Location: Rowe Camp & Conference Center
Info: www.rowecenter.org,
retreat@rowecenter.org, (413) 339-4954
October 25 • Los Angeles, CA
Male Rape and the Human
Rights Framework
Lara Stemple, Director of Graduate Studies
in Law, will present her current research
on sexual violence against men and boys
in international law. Before joining UCLA,
Stemple was executive director of Stop
Prisoner Rape, a national human rights
organization whose mission is to end sexual
violence in prisons, jails, and immigration
detention. The prevailing approach to sexual
violence internationally has focused on
the abuse of women and girls. Numerous
instruments in the human rights canon
that address sexual violence, including UN
treaties, resolutions, consensus documents,
and general comments, exclude victims who
are men and boys. Stemple argues that to
continue this approach in light of evidence
that males are a small but sizable percentage
of sexual assault victims is to ignore reality,
perpetuates norms of women as victims,
imposes unhealthy expectations about masculinity
on men and boys, and inhibits effective
advocacy against male rape.
Cost: free
Location: 1648 Hershey Hall, UCLA
Info: www.women.ucla.edu/csw,
csw@women.ucla.edu, (310) 825-0590
October 25-27 • Holyoke, MA
November 10-12 • Amherst, MA
Eyes Wide Open
Beyond Fear, Toward Hope: An Exhibition
of the Human Cost of the Iraq War
“Eyes Wide Open” is a multimedia, multisensory
journey through the words, images,
and sounds of the Iraq War with more than
1,800 pairs of combat boots representing
fallen U.S. soldiers and thousands of
shoes representing Iraqi dead. “Eyes Wide
Open,” a vivid memorial to the Iraq War’s
soldier and civilian victims, puts a human
face on the war and helps further the wider
discussion about the cost of war for our
communities in the United States, for our
soldiers who fight it, and for those who
must endure it. Programs at both locations
will include panel presentations, concerts,
and film showings. Journalist/photographer
Dahr Jamail will speak on October 26, and
activist/mother Cindy Sheehan will speak on
November 11.
Cost: free
Location: Oct. – Holyoke Community
College, Nov. – University of Massachusetts
Info: www.westernmassafsc.org,
afsc@crocker.com, (413) 695-6059
October 28-29 • Deerfield, MA
Witness for Peace New England Annual Fall
Conference/Retreat
Keynote speaker Noam Chomsky will stimulate
the discussion around the central theme
of “building movements to reverse policies
of oppression” and activist trainings led by
WFP National Grassroots Organizers will
help move ideas into action. Topics to be
discussed include building the movement
for Economic Justice in the Americas and
an end to U.S. militarism in Colombia. The
conference will also feature Flor Rivera, a
researcher with the Center for Studies on
Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM); Mateo
Bernal, a member of the Witness for Peace
International Team in Oaxaca, Mexico;
and Janna Bowman, National Grassroots
Organizer on Military Aid to Colombia for
Witness for Peace.
Cost: $55 to $175, depending on registration
date and portion to be attended
(limited financial aid is available)
Location: Woolman Hill Retreat Center
Info: www.witnessforpeace.org,
wfpne@witnessforpeace.org, (802) 434-2980
November 1 • Worcester, MA
2005 Teen Pregnancy Institute: Switching
Gears in Changing Times
Each year, the Massachusetts Alliance on
Teen Pregnancy draws together teen parent
and pregnancy prevention service providers
from across New England for a day of continuing
education, skill-building, networking,
resource-sharing, and support. This
year’s conference will provide an opportunity
to learn about new approaches to
work with teen parents and in pregnancy
prevention.
Cost: $65 - $100
Location: College of the Holy Cross
Info: www.massteenpregnancy.org,
info@massteenpregnancy.org,
(617) 482-9122
November 2-4 • Detroit, MI
From Roots to Wings:
The Future of Batterer Intervention
This conference, featuring two workshops
by staff from the Men’s Resource Center for
Change, is an important national conference
on batterer intervention (BI). Presenters
include men and women who started batterer
intervention programs. Network with professionals
working to end domestic violence,
gain new tools and strategies, learn about
funding, legislative changes and current
research, hear from communities monitoring
BI programs, be exposed to philosophical
changes in BI programs, and participate
in discussions on defining success.
Cost: between $275 and $400
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