Beryl Benbow Presents The May 7th Charley Horwitz Memorial Platform Part I

Beryl Benbow hosts this podcast as an introduction and announcement for the May 7th Charley Horwitz Memorial Platform at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture.The main thrust of the program, however, would be the conversation between two scholars of W.E.B. Du Bois: Dr. John Flateau, DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy, and Professor Aldon Morris, from Northwestern University.The Charley Horwitz Memorial Platform is held to honor the life and work of a devoted community organizer, civil rights’ activist, labor lawyer and international humanitarian. Charley Horwitz moved to Mississippi from Chicago in 1964 to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Council of Federated Organizations and the Delta Ministry of the National Council of Churches. He was President of the Board of Trustees at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture and Chair of its Ethical Action Committee. Charley also served on the Executive Committee of Brooklyn for Peace and initiated the Israel/Palestine Committee after he and several SNCC organizers visited the Palestine occupied territories in Gaza in 2005. Haitian KermesseFeaturing arts, crafts, food vendors, musicians and entertainers, the Kermesse will include Haitian organizations like Fonkoze US, Neges Foundation and GreenHaiti. Musicians and entertainers sourced through the Haiti Cultural Exchange. Greenhaiti is honored to share the progressive vision of Charley Horwitz. We support the advancement of Haitian farmers' right to determine their future through making Haiti greener and its environment healthier. Over the past 25 years, Haiti and its people have endured catastrophic man-made and natural disasters that have devastated its people and the land. Greenhaiti's vision is to build a Greener Haiti while we invest and advance the health of its people for a brighter, sustainable future. Neges FoundationFrom 1994-2000, the Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture's Haiti Projects in Partnership was a program of BSEC's Ethical Action Committee. Our primary partner in Haiti, Fonkoze Microfinance Bank, grew from one priest and Haiti's Leogane Province's Peasant Association of Fondwa's.