Wednesday October 9
7:00 at The Bay School’s Emlen Hall
17 Bay School Drive
Blue Hill, Maine 04614
Highlights of the night will include a reading by founding artist Robert Shetterly and a panel discussion with World Peace Game creator and educator John Hunter and Zoe Weil, director and founder of the Institute for Humane Education.
A vivid portrayal of past and present Americans speaking truth to power, Portraits of Peacemakers highlights Robert Shetterly’s remarkable color portraits and profiles of fifty peace activists with essays by Chris Hedges, Kali Rubaii, Paul K. Chappell, Medea Benjamin, Alice Rothchild, and David Swanson. The people honored in this book approach peacemaking in manifold ways. They have told the truth about the lies enabling war, they have protested, they have gone to jail for peace, made art imbued with the suffering of war, the stupidity of war and its cruelty, taught the curricula of peace, exposed the unspeakable wounds and trauma visited on children in war, and shown how environmentally, historically, and psychologically wars never end. They have also shown how warmongers promote and profit obscenely from the business of industrial killing, how atrocity is celebrated as heroic. They resist, resist, resist. They act with love. This book celebrates the heroism of those refusing to participate in the atrocity of war making and celebrates the teachings of the peacemakers.
Join World Peace Game creator and educator John Hunter for an open discussion about the four universal principles behind the World Peace Game’s philosophy. Learn how they apply to teaching in any setting for the ultimate outcome of compassionate teaching and compassionate learning. The World Peace Game is a hands-on political simulation that gives players the opportunity to explore the connectedness of the global community through the lens of the economic, social, and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war. The goal of the game is to extricate each country from dangerous circumstances and achieve global prosperity with the least amount of military intervention. As “nation teams,” students gain greater understanding of the critical impact of information and how it is used as they learn to negotiate for the common good without military intervention. Watch John Hunter’s TED Talk here: John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game | TED Talk
PORTRAITS: Betty Burkes • Major General Smedley Butler • Paul K. Chappell • Ramsey Clark • Charlie Clements • William Sloane Coffin • Rachel Corrie • Frances Crowe • Dorothy Day • Daniel Ellsberg • Bruce Gagnon • Emma Goldman • Amy Goodman • Doris “Granny D” Haddock • Daniel Hale • Jim Harney • Chris Hedges • Pat Humphries • John Hunter • Dahr Jamail • Joyce and Nelson Johnson • Maja Kazazic • Kathy Kelly • Channapha Khamvongsa • Ron Kovic • Dennis Kucinich • Dr. Bernard Lown • Colman McCarthy • Ray McGovern • Camilo Mejía • Jeannette Rankin • Alice Rothchild • Kali Rubaii • Ben Salmon • Cindy Sheehan • Samantha Smith • David Swanson • V (Eve Ensler) • Alice Walker • Henry A. Wallace • Shannon Watts • Craig Williams • Jody Williams • Ann Wright • Howard Zinn
Robert Shetterly is a visual artist, social activist, and writer. For the past twenty years, he has painted over 275 portraits of citizens who address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness in the series Americans Who Tell the Truth. Shetterly’s portrait project is also recorded in a multi-volume book series that includes Portraits of Racial Justice, Portraits of Earth Justice, and Portraits of Peacemakers. Since 1990, Shetterly has been a producer of the Maine Masters Project and has served as president of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. Shetterly lives and works in Brooksville, Maine.
AWTT presents a growing body of portraits and profiles of Americans who have struggled for racial, social, gender, economic, and environmental justice— people who have worked to close the gap between what we say as a country and what we do. A nonprofit educational organization, AWTT teaches the history and the necessity of activism. As Colman McCarthy points out in this book, “Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.” See www.americanswhotellthetruth.org.
Thank you to WERU Community Radio for being the Media Sponsor for this event.