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Cerritos College
Global Consortium
- "Buddhist Monks in Burma -
Religious Men on a Dangerous Mission"
Originally Broadcast on October 10th, 2007
Description: With honored guest Louisa Benson Craig, exiled Burma freedom fighter, U.S. Campaign for Burma and Leaders from the Buddhist community. Hosted by Dr. John Haas.
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- "The Battle Between Spiritual and Political Islam"
Originally broadcast on September 24th, 2007
Description: Hosted by Dr. John Haas
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- "Save Darfur"
Originally broadcast on April 23rd, 2007
Description: A discussion about the Darfur
conflict in Western Sudan with Peter Jackson of the United Nations.
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- "The Women and Children of Burma"
Originally broadcast on March 21st, 2007
Description: Cerritos College and the Global Consortium
present this event, hosted by Dr. John Haas, and featuring Shari Villarosa
of the U.S. State Department, live from Rangoon along with Louisa Benson
Craig of the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
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- "Digital
Terrorism and Hate
Originally broadcast on February 28th, 2007
Description: Cerritos College and the Global Consortium
host Rick Eaton from The Simon Wiesenthal Center who discusses acts
of violence, intolerance, and bigotry, commonly known as Hate
Crimes.
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- Cerritos College Hosts Dr. Judea Pearl
Originally broadcast on Nov. 28th, 2006
Description: Cerritos College’s Humanities and
Social Sciences Division along with the Global Consortium host Dr. Judea
Pearl, UCLA researcher and father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.
Dr. Pearl is the father of Daniel Pearl, a Wall
Street Journal reporter who in 2002 was killed in Pakistan.
This prompted Dr. Pearl and other family and friends to create the
Daniel Pearl Foundation. Dr. Pearl holds a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel, a master's degree
in physics from Rutgers University, and a doctorate degree in electrical
engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He worked
at RCA Research Laboratories on superconductive parametric and storage
devices and at Electronic Memories, Inc., on advanced memory systems.
He joined UCLA in 1970, where he currently serves as a computer
science faculty member.
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- "And
the World Looked Away: the Story of the Holocaust"
Originally broadcast on Nov. 6th, 2006
Description: Cerritos College’s Humanities and
Social Sciences Division and the Global Consortium host Dr. Aaron Breitbart,
senior researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, for a discussion of
the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. “And the World Looked
Away: the Story of the Holocaust”.
Breitbart received his bachelor’s
degree in history from Yeshiva University in New York in 1971. In
1986, he was appointed by the California State Assembly to develop
a model curriculum for the study of the Holocaust in California schools.
Breitbart has worked on many motion picture and television film projects
including “War and Remembrance,” “The Long Way Home,”
“The Writing on the Wall,” and “Law and Order.”
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