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Indigenous Peoples of the World

Forum: Tuesday, September 30
7:30 – 9:00 pm (PDT) In-person at Concord Hall, 1407 Chapala Street, and Live on YouTube

According to the United Nations, the world’s Indigenous Peoples “are inheritors and
practitioners of unique cultures and ways of living.”

Who are the Indigenous Peoples of the
world and what human rights issues are they concerned with? Our speaker Joshua Cooper
will begin with a description of various Indigenous peoples in different countries and discuss
whether or not their long-time struggles for human rights and for self-determination are being
achieved.

There are numbers of Indigenous peoples’ movements that we should know about
and can support. Joshua will report on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the
regional issues for indigenous peoples, and the UN Expert Mechanism on Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.

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Joshua Cooper balances academia and advocacy focusing on international human rights law through diplomacy and direct action. He continues to volunteer for various indigenous peoples movements in the global human rights machinery.

He has taught over 100 classes at the University of Hawaii, as well as summer programs with a specialty on human rights of
indigenous peoples at the National University of Ireland, Galway and the School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C. as well as intensive courses on emerging issues in peace and human rights at the International Training Center for Teaching Peace and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dimensions of Light

Forum: Saturday, October 18th, 2025

2-4 pm (PDT)

In-person at Concord Hall, 1407 Chapala Street, and Live on YouTube

Come explore the depths of the Mariana Trench, the interior of the atom, ride gravity waves, Einstein Rings, and Black Holes. Enjoy light in the Gardens of Giverny and Shelley’s poetry; honor Divali, and learn from the illumination of mystics.

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Presenters: Russ & Gerry Lewin

Sikhism: the Path of Love and Service

Saturday, November 8, 2:00 – 4:00 PM (PST)! In-person at Concord Hall, 1407 Chapala Street, and Live on YouTube

Sikhism is a spiritual, religous, and philosophical path that originated in the Punjab region of India at the end of the fifteenth century CE. 

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Dr. Veena Howard, Ph.D., is the Chair of the philosophy department at Fresno State University, where she is a professor of Asian Religious Traditions, holds the Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma and serves as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya. Among several other works written or edited by her, in 2017 IB Tauris published: Dharma, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh Traditions of India.

Ongoing Study Circle

Tuesdays in the Seminar Room of Concord House, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM (PDT)  

In September, the Study Circle will seek the therapy found in T.S. Eliot’s poetic work – The Four
Quartets, published between 1936 and 1943. This was a difficult time in history; perhaps we
can find clarity and solace in Eliot’s philosophical meditations. (The titles of the Quartets refer
to localities. It is not clear to me what their significance is.)
“Do not let me hear of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.”

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