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Fawzia Koofi - First Female Speaker of the Afghanistan Parliament
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Monday, February 13, 2012
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Fawzia Koofi is Afghanistan's first female Parliament speaker and a noted activist for women and children's rights. She is currently a leading candidate for the presidential elections in 2014 and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. Before her election to Parliament, Koofi was employed by UNICEF as a child protection officer. Koofi has made her leadership journey in a country of harsh topography, internal conflict, intermittent wars and a militant government. She completed high school during the war ravaged years and entered a competitive medical school. But soon after the Taliban took over in September 1995, and barred women from access to all education. Finding the doors of a university education closed to her, Fawzia focused her energy towards women's right organizations, and worked closely with one of the most vulnerable group such as Internally Displaced People, and marginalized women and children.
Her country has highest (more...)
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Debate - The European Union Should Dissolve
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Free event for members. Yale Political Union vs. Hudson Union Society This House Believes The European Union Should Dissolve. The debate will take place at the Yale Political Union at Yale University. This is a special evening, and the audience is allowed to debate the debaters. The Society is non-partisan. A recent Hudson Union debate video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBW2yaXp24&feature=plcp&context=C3a26f70UDOEgsToPDskKzriud_4EQw0aN3q-KoVzw (more...)
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William Shatner
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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William Shatner has cultivated a career spanning over 50 years as an award-winning actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist, and horseman. He is one of Hollywood's most recognizable figures and a major philanthropist.
In 1966, Shatner originated the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the television series Star Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where Shatner returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the Star Trek movies, one of which he directed. Shatner played the title role in the hit television series T.J. Hooker before hosting television's first reality-based series, Rescue 911. He won Emmys and his first Golden Globe for his portrayal of eccentric lawyer Denny Crane on both The Practice and Boston Legal. He received four more Emmy nominations as well as other Golden Globe and SAG Award nods.
Off the screen and broadcast waves, Shatner has authored nearly 30 best-sellers in both the fiction and non-fiction (more...)
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Senator Russ Feingold
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Free event for members. Senator Russ Feingold, one of America's most famous politic leaders, served in the United States Senate for 18 years. Senator Feingold is best known for his work with Senator John McCain to clean-up election campaign finance abuses, via the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002. The act bans soft money contributed to candidates and parties, thus closing the loophole that has significantly affected our national political priorities for the past decade. He aimed to blunt the influence of larger moneyed interests. He exhorted that the 2004 Democratic Convention was a corporate trade show. Senator Feingold was also the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act, was the first senator to propose a timetable to exit Iraq, and believes we need a timetable to leave Afghanistan. Amongst other things Senator Feingold will discuss: President Obama admits to Feingold he was right on Iraq: Russ I'm always with you--just six months later. eye rolling gaffes by Je (more...)
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Spring Mixer
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Monday, March 12, 2012
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By overwhelming member demand, the Society has added a Spring mixer. For the first two hours (we have increased it by an hour) free wine and beer (bottles of Heineken, Heineken Light and Corona) will be served, followed by a cash bar for the last hour. Come out of winter hibernation at the Society's Spring mixer (6:30P - 9:30P) at the hot-spot SPiN, in its private VIP lounge. Located off of Park Avenue in Manhattan's Flatiron District. Additionally it sports up to 16 top-quality table-tennis courts on cushioned Olympic-competition flooring. It was the recent setting for the widely popular HBO television series Entourage and Showtime's hit television series Nurse Jackie. Meet new people, and make new connections at the Spring mixer at one of the trendiest spots in New York. The Spring mixer like other Society mixers will be member driven, with no structure, so members can meet one another. All are welcomed, nevertheless, normally a demographic of under forty-nine attends. Only (more...)
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Live Performance - Oxford Gargoyles
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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The Oxford Gargoyles have performed at Lincoln Center, Columbia, Princeton, Yale and Harvard Universities, and on NBC's Today Show. Over the last decade the Gargoyles have become a staple of the world music scene. The group's repertoire, though rooted in the jazz songbook, offers a tasty cocktail of musical styles from pop to show-tunes. So whether they're flying you to the moon or picking up good vibrations, sit back and enjoy an evening of live and intricate arrangements, heavenly harmonies and soulful solos. A video clip of a recent performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXaxQ7SF88Q&feature=plcp&context=C3b3cbecUDOEgsToPDskLMTTiyA7GRPshcPz1xZW2V (more...)
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Debate - Free Love Is Neither
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Friday, March 23, 2012
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Free event for members. Yale Political Union vs. Hudson Union Society This House believes Free Love Is Neither. The debate will take place at the Hudson Union Society by Gramercy Park South. The Society is non-partisan. A recent Hudson Union debate video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBW2yaXp24&feature=plcp&context=C3a26f70UDOEgsToPDskKzriud_4EQw0aN3q-KoVzw (more...)
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Daryl Hannah
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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Daryl Hannah has starred and acted in over fifty films and has been an effective, passionate activist and advocate for a more ethical sustainable world for decades.
Hannah came to the fore with her memorable performance as a mermaid in Ron Howard's comedy hit, Splash (1984). Hannah was cast in a supporting role as a beautiful android in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). She starred in Wall Street (1987), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Legal Eagles (1986), Roxanne (1987), Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Steel Magnolias (1989). Hannah appeared in one of her most high profile roles in 2003 and 2004 and played the iconic one-eyed assassin Elle Driver, in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's critically acclaimed Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Throughout the entire first half of the 1990's, Hannah was mostly in the spotlight for being John F. Kennedy's longtime girlfriend (they dated from 1989 to 1994). Hannah has been arre (more...)
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Evening of Live Music - Oxford Alternotives
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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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 performed at the White House, the 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 the 2010 festival. Video clip of a recent performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4mGS7qHPbg&feature=plcp&context=C3b3cbecUDOEgsToPDskLMTTiyA7GRPshcPz1xZW2V (more...)
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Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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In addition to the intimate event, each paid attendee will receive Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez's hardcopy book. While much has been written over the years about this prominent entertainment family, neither Martin Sheen nor Emilio Estevez has told their story together in person before. At a VERY RARE APPEARANCE at the Hudson Union Society they will break their silence together, offering a striking, often stirring, frequently funny story of two very different kinds of faith told from two viewpoints that are as different as they are eloquent. In person they will provide a very intimate conversation spanning more than fifty years of family history, of a creative father and son set against the background of Hollywood. They will discuss their profound bond with each other, and offer candid insight into their lives and careers. Martin Sheen born Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez, is perhaps best known for his unforgettable performances in Badlands (1973), Apocalypse Now (1979), Wall Street (19 (more...)
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