Category Archives: Human Rights

DCI Gala and Dinner, Tues. Dec. 10

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Celebrate International Human Rights Day, with honored guests:

Andrew Young Ambassador Andrew Young

DorothyCotton-1 Ms. Dorothy Cotton

Vincent Harding in Nabi-Saleh Dr. Vincent Harding

  • 6:00 Reception & cash bar with jazz and r&b by Fe Nunn and Friends

  • 7:00 Dinner with jazz by Harry & Eric Aceto, Doug Robinson & Chad Lieberman

  • 8:00 Program with Emcee Cal Walker

  • Remarks by Ambassador Young

  • Fellowship of Reconciliation Presentation of  the 2013  Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards to Ms. Cotton and Dr. Harding

  • Spirituals and Freedom Songs by the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers led by Baruch Whitehead

In Ballroom of the Trip Hotel (formerly the Clarion), One Sheraton Drive, Ithaca, NY

$125 per plate. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Dorothy Cotton Institute.

Click here to purchase tickets online or sponsor others’ attendance.

The Dorothy Cotton Institute is a locally based non-profit organization providing workshops on Human Rights Education, the Citizenship Education Program for the 21st Century, and is working to build a global community of human rights leadership.
DCI is a project of the Center for Transformative Action and an organizing member of the Building Bridges initiative.

Heather Taylor in Zambia

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Human Rights attorney, Heather Taylor, former member of the Dorothy Cotton Institute Steering Committee, sends greetings from Zambia, working on behalf of widows and orphans. Please read her blog.

Greetings friends and family:

Check out my new blog!  View quarterly and other updates about my advocacy work for widows and orphans who are victims of property grabbing in Zambia.
Please consider partnering with me and contributing to this awesome mission.  Praise God and abundant thanks to my financial supporters!
You may make a tax deductible donation by credit card: www.ijm.org/getinvolved/internshipsupport  Click on “Support Intern/Fellow” and select my name, “Heather Taylor”, from the fellows list in the dropdown menu.
Sincerely,
Heather L. Taylor