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29 SATURDAY Each participant in today’s Earth Charter Community Summit will get a chance to sign the charter, a “declaration of interdependence calling for a sustainable global society.” The document–inspired by the 1992 Rio Earth Summit–includes input from people in 56 countries and will be presented to the UN next June. It calls, in part, for the peoples of the world to “join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.” Satellite-linked summits will take place simultaneously in 12 U.S. cities, including Seattle, Indianapolis, Honolulu, and Tampa, the movement’s home base. Speakers here include Middlebury College religion professor Steven Rockefeller, who chaired the international drafting committee, simple-living advocate Vicki Robin, and Center for Voting and Democracy chair John Anderson. Registration starts at 8; the conference runs from 8:30 to 6 in the auditorium of the Lutheran School of Theology, 1100 E. 55th. It’s free, but you should bring a lunch; call 847-331-5236 or go to www.earthchartersummit.org for more information or to register.
Israeli artist Ariella Azoulay’s 1999 film A Sign From Heaven looks at the roles rhetoric, photography, evidence, and reconstruction play in presenting violent events by analyzing three such episodes in recent Israeli history–the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carmella Buhbut’s killing of her abusive husband, Yehuda, and the Israeli security forces’ “elimination” of Palestinian bomb maker Yehiya Ayash. Tonight’s free screening of the 55-minute film is at 6 at Columbia College’s Ferguson Theater, 600 S. Michigan. Call 312-663-5554.
