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Critical Actions for Global Survival

20 Sep 2015

"Critical Actions for Global Survival" will be presented by Jim Barton at the Sunday, September 20th meeting of the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville, 2:00-3:30 PM, at The Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, Asheville, NC.

Jim Barton will discuss converging global movements for world peace, the focus on climate change, and improving the human condition. These include the 14th International Day of Peace celebrated annually on September 21st, the UN's soon-to-be ratified Sustainable Development Goals, and Pope Francis's encyclical on issues of climate, ecology, and human well-being with his upcoming addresses to the UN and the U.S. Congress.

Informal discussion and refreshments will follow the presentation. All are welcome.

Barton grew up three blocks from the Essex Ethical Culture Society in Maplewood, NJ and attended the then-Ethical Culture sponsored Encampment for Citizenship in 1976. He studied History and German Studies at the University of California in Santa Cruz and attended law school at the University of California in Davis. He has been active in the peace movement for 41 years, in the environmental movement since 1977, and the movement for global democracy since 1989. Barton has lived in Asheville since 2005.

The Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville is a humanist, non-theist alternative to traditional religion. Meeting topics are educational, philosophical and of current interest. It is affiliated with the American Ethical Union, and the American Humanist Association, both of which are members of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Members are inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. Their commitment is to the worth and dignity of the individual and to treating each human being so as to bring out the best in him or her.

For more information: call 828 687-7759, or email: ehsasheville@gmail.com,
visit our website at: http://EHSAsheville.org,
or see us on MeetUp: www.meetup.com/Ethical-Society-of-Asheville.