- Serving fair trade coffee, tea and speakers to stir the social conscience -
2008 Schedule
April 23
4pm (3:30pm for coffee)
Colt Forum
Raising Holy Hell
A contemporary Christian music icon and an American cultural historian dialogue about the prophetic role of contemporary Christian music with Charlie Peacock and Dr. Karl Martin
Charlie Peacock is a Grammy Award winning music producer, Dove Award winning recording artist and Co-founder/Director of The Art House (a ministry of hospitality, the arts and biblical teaching) in Nashville, TN).
Dr. Karl Martin is professor of American cultural history and literature in the Department of Literature, Journalism and Modern Languages at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Co-sponsored by the PLNU Department of Music
February 27
Colt Forum 3:30 (3:00 fair trade coffee)
Slavery in San Diego?
Human trafficking in our own back yard
Heidi Hermann
Coordinator, Anti-Human Trafficking
The Salvation Army
www.abolishhumantrafficking.com
Come learn about the realities of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in San Diego County. Also, come to learn about what local, national and international organizations are doing to combat modern day slavery from one of PLNU’s graduates now taking leadership in this area.
January 31
Colt Forum
Was that a noose I saw hanging? Hate Crimes and Racial Climate in San Diego
Dr. Lei-Chala Wilson, San Diego County Deputy Public Defender, President of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association and First Vice President of the San Diego chapter of the NAACP
Hate crimes against individuals because of their actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, disability or sexual orientation are on the rise. Recent San Diego County incidents include the placement of nooses and swastikas, vandalism, and physical attacks motivated by the victim's race. This community forum will provide an overview of hate crimes under California and Federal Law and discuss their applications for charging and punishment decisions. Background information regarding hate crime groups and victim impact issues will also be discussed as well as how to report such crimes.
Co-sponsored by PLNU’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation and Black Student Union
2007 Schedule
7 p.m. (6:30 p.m. for coffee)
September 13
Harboring the Harborless: A church provides sanctuary for undocumented migrants
San Diego Friends (Quaker)
October 8
… As We Forgive Our Debtors: Biblical Economics Inspiring Alternatives to Exploitative Global Economy and Empire.
Co-sponsor: Jubilee Economics Ministries
www.jubilee4justice.org619-528-8075
November 12
White Man’s Burden? An inter-disciplinary forum to discuss the implications of Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Special Time: 3:30 Colt Forum
November 27
Gogo Grandmothers: Malawian Grandmothers Caring for AIDS Orphans
Nicholson Commons Main Dining Room
2006 Schedule
7 p.m. (6:30 p.m. for coffee)
September 26
Growing Environmental Justice: Grassroots Organizing for a Healthy Quality of Life
Environmental Health Coalition
October 30
Special Time - 3-4:30 p.m. Speaking Truth to Power: Journalism, Women’s Rights and Religious Persecution
Jennifer Arul, Chief of News Bureau, New Delhi Television, Chennai, India
November 8
Welcoming the Stranger: Crossing Borders and Reconciling Perspectives on Immigration
Border Patrol and the American Friends Service Committee
November 30
Caring for the Widow, the Orphan and the Stranger: The Cry of those suffering with AIDS in Africa
Larry Bollinger, Director of Nazarene Compassionate Minsitries
February 21
A New Abolition Movement? Modern slavery and hopeful responses.
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick of Free the Slaves
March 28 - CRILL AUDITORIUM
Special Time - 7:30 p.m. Making Peace Between Heaven and Earth: Creation Care and Social Justice
Susan Drake Emmerich, biologist and activist
As a former U.S. Representative to the U.N. and U.S. negotiator for the Department of State, Dr. Emmerich was a negotiator at the 1992 Earth Summit, Biological Diversity Convention, Global Climate Convention, and the Chair of the Secretariat for the International Coral Reef Initiative. She also worked for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, EPA, and Department of Interior. Dr. Emmerich also served as the Director of the East Coast office of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies and as Vice President of the Au Sable Institute’s Board of Directors.
Brewed Awakening is a forum sponsored by PLNU's Center for Justice and Reconciliation whose mission is
"to study poverty and oppression and teach Christian means of social engagement."