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Global Community Series
Fall 2007
On September 17th, 2007 Kerry
Kennedy, Daughter of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and human rights
activist with Amnesty International, visited Lees-McRae College as the Keynote
speaker for the Global Community Centers third annual Global Community Series.
The Series began the week prior to Kerry’s visit, with a showing of the
film Bobby and a program centered on Global Volunteers, sponsored by the Young
Adult Volunteers of the Presbyterian Church USA.
Kerry Kennedy started working in the field of
human rights in 1981 when she investigated abuses committed by U.S. immigration
officials against refugees from El Salvador. Since then, her life has been
devoted to the fight for equal justice, to the promotion and protection of basic
rights, and to the preservation of the rule of law. She is the author of
Speak Truth To Power, a book of profiles of fifty human rights defenders
around the world. She has led forty human rights delegations to twenty-seven
countries.
Her visit was followed by multiple other
programs and speakers including Take Action Now: Darfur, Avery County Crop Walk,
Distinguished Staley Lecturer Dr. Curtis Ryan, an Interfaith Prayer for Peace
ceremony, and a concluding Diversity Celebration.
For more information on these events or any of the speakers, please click
on the following links below or contact the Global Community Center.
Resources & Related Links
Schedule of Events
http://enews.lmc.edu/?p=150
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Kennedy
http://www.speaktruthtopower.org/
http://web.mac.com/winetowater/Wine_To_Water/Home.html
http://www.amnesty.org/
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
http://www.churchworldservice.org/
http://www.pcusa.org/msr/
http://www.pcusa.org/msr/youngadult.htm
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