Hudson Union Society Upcoming Events

Michael Mukasey, former U.S. Attorney General - 9/7/2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:40:46 GMT

Michael B. Mukasey became U.S. Attorney General in October 2007, succeeding Alberto R. Gonzales, who resigned in the midst of investigations into the firings of federal prosecutors. Before becoming Attorney General, Mukasey spent 19 years as a federal judge in New York, including serving as chief judge, after being appointed by President Reagan in 1987. Earlier, he had been a prosecutor in Manhattan when Rudolph W. Giuliani was also a young assistant United States Attorney.

While Mr. Mukasey handled many high profile trials, his biggest cases involved terrorism. In 1993, he presided over the prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so–called Blind Sheik, whom he sentenced to life in prison for his role in a plot to blow up New York landmarks and tunnels. In 2003, as chief judge, he ruled that Jose Padilla was an enemy combatant but entitled to access to his lawyers. Before becoming U.S. Attorney General Mukasey and his wife had around–the–clock protection from U.S. marsh - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

The Oxford Alternotives - 9/14/2010

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:03:48 GMT

The Oxford Alternotives are a mixed–voice pop a cappella group from Oxford University. Even though they are the oldest a cappella group from Oxford, the group performs pop, soul, funk & dance music. The Alternotives perform at a variety of events in and around Oxford, such as college balls, charity events, fashion shows and private functions, as well as around the globe at the White House, Shea Stadium, the 58th United Nations General Assembly and at the 9/11 memorial service for British victims in New York. They have produced 5 albums, most recently 2009's Get Naked with... The Oxford Alternotives. In 2009 the Group came second in the Voice Festival UK, winning separate awards for 'Outstanding Arrangement, Solo' & the 'Outstanding Performance' award which they won again at this years festival. - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Academy Award Winner for Best Actor - 9/16/2010

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:48:04 GMT

Widely recognized as one of the strongest film and stage actors in the world, Philip Seymour Hoffman delivered knockout performances in films like Capote (2005), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Big Lebowski (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999) and Almost Famous (2000), Cold Mountain (2003), State and Main (2000), a desperate former child actor in Along Came Polly (2004), The Savages (2007), and a Scent of a Woman (1992), in which Al Pacino won an Oscar.  Hoffman won the Oscar for his portrayal of the famed author Capote. Hoffman has brought his theater–trained sensibilities and a fearless approach to some of cinema's most uncomfortably realistic portrayals, battling dark human urges, addictions, and moral conflicts with powerful if unflattering vulnerability. Hoffman continues to stand out for his willingness to be emotionally exposed, and often to great dramatic effect.  In Mission Impossible 3 (2006), Hoffman tackled a rare role as an out–and–out - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Prime Minister of Kosovo - 9/20/2010

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 00:27:20 GMT

Kosovo is consider by some as the newest nation in the world. Kosovo has had a long bloody history. On February 17, 2008 Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. Serbs regard Kosovo as an integral part of their nation and history, and do not recognize its independence. Former Yugoslav President Slobidan Mlosevic used Kosovo to gain power in the nineteen eighties. Kosovo now has a 90% Albanian majority.  On January 15, 1999 45 Albanians by Serbian troops (Racak incident), was the culmination of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) attacks and Serbian reprisals that had continued throughout the winter of 1998�"1999. The incident was immediately condemned as a massacre by Western countries and the United Nations Security Council, and later became the basis of one of the charges of war crimes leveled against President Milosevic and his top officials. The details of what happened at Račak were revealed shortly after Serb paramilitaries left the scene of the massacre. Rolli - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Geraldo Rivera - 9/23/2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:41:05 GMT

Geraldo Rivera is currently host of the highly rated show Geraldo at Large on FOX News Channel. Rivera has received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national and seven local Emmys. 

Previously, Rivera was a war correspondent at FOX News Channel, which he joined in November 2001. He was immediately stationed in Afghanistan to cover Operation Enduring Freedom and later in Bethlehem to cover the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Prior to that, he secured an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson on the evening before his trial for child molestations charges, and also covered the Iraqi elections from Baghdad. 

Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC's Good Morning America, Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the infamous Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC's Good Night America. He then began an eight–year association with ABC's 20/20 as an investigative - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Ingrid Betancourt – Presidential Candidate & Hostage for 6 1/2 Years - 9/27/2010

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:09:38 GMT

Born in Bogota, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty–two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. The facts of her story are so astounding. Betancourt is releasing Even Silence Has an End, which is her deeply personal and moving account of that time. This will be moving and fascinating event with possibly the future President of Colombia, who experienced hell at the hands of terrorists for - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Bill O'Reilly at 1:00P - 9/28/2010

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:11:49 GMT

Known for his confrontational and aggressive style, political commentator Bill O'Reilly is the most controversial, most frequent discussed TV personality today. For more than seven consecutive years, The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel has been the highest rated of any cable news show. No program even comes close. On average over 3 million people watch Bill O'Reilly every evening. His closest competition on average has less than half his audience size. The Factor , as most people call it, remains a blend of news analysis and hard–hitting investigative reporting dropped into what Bill calls The No Spin Zone . Bill O'Reilly has won the Emmy Award three–times for excellence in reporting. Bill O'Reilly's upcoming book Pinheads and Patriots, guides readers through the extensive transformations sweeping across America, and explains what these changes mean for Americans. The Society is non–partisan.   - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Arianna Huffington at 7:30P - 9/28/2010

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:20:54 GMT

A former debate champion and first foreign president of the Cambridge Union Society, Arianna Huffington used her powers of conviction and assertion to become one of the most influential political commentators of the late 20th and early 21st century. In May 2005 she launched the Huffington Post, which quickly became one of the Internet's most trafficked sites for American and global politics. Over 9.8 million people per month read the Huffington Post. In 2006, Time named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, while The Observer cited The Huffington Post as the most powerful blog on the planet. Huffington is a regular on Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and many other famous programs. She is also the author of thirteen books, including her soon to be released Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream. Luckily for Congress, the White House, and Corporate America, no one - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Harold Ford Jr. - 10/5/2010

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:39:25 GMT

Harold E. Ford, Jr., spent a decade as a member of the United States House of Representatives and was a 2006 Senate candidate. Described by President Clinton as the walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century, Ford has distinguished himself as a charismatic, results–oriented politician with fresh ideas and a pragmatic approach. Some call him the next Barack Obama and one of the most eloquent speakers.

Elected in 1996 to Tennessee's 9th congressional district, Ford was re–elected four times by an average of 80 percent of the vote. Known to his colleagues as a fiscal watchdog conservative, Ford played an active role as a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate and fiscally conservative Democrats seeking middle–ground, bipartisan answers to the current challenges facing our Country.   A gifted speaker and accomplished writer; Ford was the keynote speaker for the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and a frequent g - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald of Ireland - 10/18/2010

Fri, 21 May 2010 14:21:51 GMT

Prime Minister FitzGerald was one of the Ireland's most popular politicians, known to all sides simply as 'Garret'. He served two times prime minister. His gregarious nature, his notorious ability to talk faster than many thought humanly possible, made him a major political force in Ireland.  Garret is the son of Desmond FitzGerald, himself a former Minister for External Affairs in the 1920s. Desmond had been one of the founders of Cumann na nGaedhael, the party created to support the Anglo–Irish Treaty signed in 1921 between Britain and Ireland, and which created the Irish Free State.  As prime minister, he advocated a liberalization of Irish society, to create what he called the non sectarian nation of 'Tone and Davis'. His attempt to introduce divorce was defeated in a referendum, though he did liberalize Ireland's contraception laws. His most dramatic success was in the introduction of the Anglo–Irish Agreement, which provided for a mechanism by which Ireland co - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Marlee Matlin - 11/30/2010

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:36:00 GMT

Free event for members. Marlee Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her motion picture debut in Paramount Pictures' Children of a Lesser God, a performance the film community chose to recognize in with its highest honor –– the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 21, she became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and one of only four actresses to receive that honor for a film debut. In addition to the Oscar, Marlee was honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. That same year she was honored by Harper's Bazaar Magazine as one of the The Ten Most Beautiful Women and Esquaire Magazine's Women We Love.

   Marlee was nominated for two Emmy awards for her guest turns on NBC's Seinfeld and CBS's Picket Fences. For seven seasons, Marlee starred opposite Martin Sheen, Jimmy Smits and Bradley Whitford as pollster, Joey Lucas, on NBC's Emmy Award winning series, The West - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com

Abe Foxman - 1/4/2011

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:01:23 GMT

Abraham H. Foxman is head of the Anti–Defamation League (ADL) and one of today's preeminent voices against hatred, discrimination, and violence in the United States and worldwide. Born in Poland in 1940, he survived the Holocaust when his parents entrusted him to their Catholic nursemaid, who baptized him and raised him as her own son. Foxman is also known as an authority on the Holocaust and Jewish resistance to the Nazis. He has helped to focus worldwide attention on the heroic efforts of Christian rescuers of Jews.  Foxman has met with national and world leaders to discuss important issues of the day, including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. He has had several audiences with Pope John Paul II, and has met with the leaders of European nations, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, China, South Africa and Argentina.   Foxman has been with the ADL for more than thirty– - RSS Feed Powered by RunMyClub.com