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| Description: | "I am a witness and it is my moral obligation to tell what I have seen." What actress Mia Farrow, of "Rosemary's Baby," "Great Gatsby" and Beatles fame, has seen is part of the murder of 250,000 people and the displacement of nearly three million refugees in Darfur. She has come to Hanover College to tell students that now is the time to act to stop the genocide. "The biggest misconception there is," she says, "is that young people are powerless. You are not." |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Hanover College |
| Contact: | miafarrow.org |
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| Description: | Our next subject is also a worldwide traveler, carrying with him a message of peace. But it's one that might surprise you. Indian guru and humanitarian Sri Sri Ravi Shankar runs a women's shelter in Iraq and has missions in over 30,000 rural communities in Latin America and Asia. And while he's used a lot of bricks and mortar to get his message across, the real path to building a better world, he tells a packed house at Indianapolis' Scottish Rite, is a very personal journey—and one that everyone can make. "No one expects you to do what you cannot do," he says. "You cannot give medicine if you are not a doctor. But it is very, very important to teach everyone about basic human values." |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
| Contact: | srisri.org - The Official Website of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
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| Description: | A big part of bringing real change to our world and making it last is the need to educate children about their larger role in the affairs of our planet. Bloomington's Elsa Marston Harik and her husband Iliya lived in and traveled the Middle East for years. And they saw a lot of misunderstanding by countries in the West as to the true nature of the cultures there. About thirty-years ago, Elsa decided to try and change that. She started writing children's stories about life in the Middle East. In so doing, she is living out a childhood dream. Elsa penned her first "novel"—about a boy in Egypt—in the fourth grade! |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Bloomington |
| Contact: | For a copy of "Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about Children in the Middle East:"
http://www.elsamarston.com/
For a copy of the film made from Elsa's stories for use in schools:
http://www.santaclausinbaghdad.com/ |
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| Description: | Indianapolis' Lois Main Templeton has long been recognized as one of Indiana's top painters. Her latest project—late in life—is a children's book. Why tackle a kid's book after such a long career in other art forms, you might ask? Well, there's an easy reason. Her book uses wisdom and art to convey a valuable lesson to all young people about collaboration and finding your own voice. |
| Credits: | Produced by: James E. Moriarty
Narrated by: Lynn A. Dunnagan
Original music by: Eddie Grogan
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| Location: | Indianapolis |
| Contact: | For a copy of "Who Makes the Sun Rise?"
beyondthebarnyard@gmail.com>> |
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| Description: | "See my house over there?" Indianapolis' Janet Wright told her friends at the funeral for her husband, Jim. "That's going to be my cave. I'm going in there and not coming out. And I did that for a very long time." Author Janet Wright found a way to release her grief. She discovered that writing about fear and personal sadness is a way to overcome it and create a better tomorrow. And when she published "The Widow's Journey," she found out something more. That there were many people who could identify with the journey that she thought was hers and hers alone and that, no matter the struggle, no one is ever really abandoned. |
| Credits: | Sarah Mynett |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
| Contact: | For a copy of "The Widow's Journey:"
thewidowsjourney.com |
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| Description: | We'd like you to meet Kaitlynne. She exists now only in photographs and memories. Kaitlynne was a victim of child abuse. She was only three years old when she was beaten to death by her mother's boyfriend. Friends and relatives in New Castle and Hagerstown have vowed not to let her smiling eyes and dimpled smile simply fade away. They've started "Kaitlynne's Kause"—"one small voice against child abuse"—to keep what happened to Kaitlynne from happening to other children. Our story is dedicated to Kaitlynne, in the hope that all children everywhere will be allowed to grow and reach their potential. |
| Credits: | Diane Willis |
| Location: | New Castle and Hagerstown |
| Contact: | Kaitlynne's KAUSE
(765) 489-5252 |
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