"It is a scientific fact that these macaques, like all other primates, including humans, are communicating. They communicate in much the same way we do - facial expressions, vocalizations, body postures, those kinds of things." - Jeff Kerr Jeff Kerr is PETA foundations Chief Legal Officer. I asked him to come on the show to talk about one of PETA’s current lawsuits against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Nathional Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). PETA is arguing that the monkeys being tested on in a government run facility are capable of communication (or “are communicating”). And that we have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to receive their communications. This could be a game changer in allowing us to see what’s really going on in labs that are funded by taxpayer money, and which have so far been censored from public view. PETA’s lawsuit follows years of NIH’s attempts to deny Freedom of Information requests banning PETA executives from its campus and illegally censoring animal advocates’ speech on NIH’s public social media pages. Through the lawsuit, PETA is seeking a live audio-visual feed to see and hear real-time communications from the macaques who have been kept isolated, used in fear experiments, and had posts cemented into their heads. Anthropologists and other scientists have studied macaque and other primate communications for decades and know that the monkeys communicate effectively and intentionally through lip smacking, fear grimaces, body language, and various cries and sounds—all of which constitute speech under the law. Primatologists can analyze that speech on a deeper level to share their stories with the world.…
Lovebabz Lovetalk Welcomes Yale historian Professor Elizabeth Hinton for a timely conversation about justice reform and redemption, focusing primarily on HB 7133, currently on the legislative calendar. Along, with Maurice Blackwell, whose successful reintegration was enabled by an earlier iteration of HB 7133, and James Jeter, Executive Director of the Full Citizens Coalition--who is justice-impacted himself.…
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Yale Rep) Mara Vélez Meléndez she/her is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico https://yalerep.org/productions/notes-on-killing/ http://wnhh.org http://wnhhradio.org http://newhavenindependent.org
Yale Schwarzman Center Conor Hanick: 'Book of Sounds' One of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music new and old... March 26, 2025 | 7:30pm–9pm | March 27, 2025 | 7:30pm–9pm | The Dome https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/SchwarzmanCenter/rsvp_boot?id=2294973
CCM's Free Two-Day Training will Teach Communities of Color the Fundamentals to Run for Public Office and Discuss the Benefits of Civic Participation! Day One: Saturday, March 1, 2025 Register Here for Day 1 The Campaign School at Yale will examine the ins and outs of developing and running a campaign, featuring a national panel of elected officials. This session will provide a foundation and skillset for launch as community leaders. AGENDA 10:00 a.m.: WELCOME! Ron Thomas, CCM 10:15 a.m.: Session I: Making the Decision to Run, Run a Campaign, Lead in your Community. Patti Russo, Executive Director 11:30 a.m.: Session II: Finding Your Voice, Making it Matter, Gilda Bonnano, TCSYale faculty 12:30 p.m.: Session III: Effective Networking Techniques, Patti Russo, Executive Director 1:00 p.m.: Session IV: How TCSYale Transformed my life: Hear from TCSYale alumnae leading locally as they share their individual political paths, and how TCSYale skewed them for success. Moderated by Patti Russo, Executive Director Panelists: YT Bell, Councilwoman, City of Clarkston, GA Jacqueline Cabrera, Zoning Board Commissioner, City of Danbury, CT Gabriela Koc, Board of Education member, City of Stamford, CT Jason Nova, Special Assistant to Mayor Roberto Alves of Danbury, CT Wendy Tyson Wood, President, NAACP of Greater Waterbury, CT 1:45 p.m.: Session V: Wrap Up/Next Steps: Where do I go from here? Patti Russo, Executive Director Day Two: Saturday, March 8, 2025 Register Here for Day 2 Day Two includes presentations from and conversations with individuals with varying state and local government backgrounds. AGENDA 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Welcome Joe Delong, CEO of CCM Patrice McCarthy, Executive Director, CABE Thea Montanez, Senior Advisor, Office of Governor Ned Lamont 10:15 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.: Why Representation Matters in Local Government Secretary of the State of CT, Stephanie Thomas 11:05 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.: Break 11:10 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.: Getting Involved in Politics and Seeking Elective Office Moderated by Patrice McCarthy, Executive Director, CABE Darrell Harris, Easton Republican Town Committee Chair Tijal Ballam, Rocky Hill Democratic Town Committee Chair 11:40 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.: Poet Laureate Performance Manchester Poet Laureate, Nadia Sims 11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.: Lunch Break 12:10 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Municipal Governance 101 Roberto Alves, Mayor of Danbury Danielle Wong, Mayor of Bloomfield 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.: 50/50 Campaign, Best Practice Sharing to Ensure Gender Equity and Racial Diversity on Local Boards and Commissions Tiffany Young, YWCA Hartford Region 1:20 p.m. – 1:25 p.m.: Break 1:25 p.m. –2:45 p.m.: Panel of Seasoned Local Experts Sharing Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Leadership Moderated by Melvette Hill, Executive Director of the CT Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity Panelists: Aidee Nieves, Council President, Bridgeport Nuchette Black-Burke, Mayor of Windsor Rose Reyes, Councilmember, Windham Caroline Tanbee Smith, Alder Ward 9, New Haven Leonard Lockhart, Board of Education Member, Windsor Jarrell Hargraves, Councilmember, New Britain 2:45 p.m. –3 p.m.: CCM Closing Remarks…
Winner of the Obie Award for Excellence in Playwriting and the Outer Circle Critics Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church’s belief. A big-little play about faith in America This award-winning play masterfully examines the price of conviction and the complexities of changing one’s mind. Lucas Hnath's works include A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 and HILLARY AND CLINTON which were produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. "A smart, stimulating play…Mr. Hnath grants his characters the dignity of sincere belief, even as his play raises probing questions. Mr. Hnath is quickly emerging as one of the brightest new voices of his generation.” — New York Times This is the company's second production of a Lucas Hnath play. In 2017 NHTC mounted a critically acclaimed production of Hnath's A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY. THE CHRISTIANS is directed by Deena Nicol-Blifford, who appeared in the NHTC hit production of CRY IT OUT last season and whose prior directing credits with the company include Conor McPherson’s THE SEAFARER. The cast includes company members Susan Kulp, Margaret Mann, Marty Tucker, and J. Kevin Smith, and visiting artist Gavin Whelan. Performances for THE CHRISTIANS will take place on the NHTC Stage in the back of EBM Vintage, 839 Chapel Street, New Haven. Performance dates are February 27 and March 6 at 7:30 p.m., and February 28, and March 1, 7, and 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. https://www.newhaventheatercompany.com/…
Experience one of the greatest American choral works of all time, American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses , performed by hundreds of combined voices from the Fairfield County Chorale, Heritage Chorale of New Haven, and New Haven Chorale. From Music Director Perry So: “Finally after almost a century this great work is starting to receive its due. The Ordering of Moses was never forgotten – church choirs, community groups and others have kept the piece in our ears – but the first performance at Carnegie was only in 2014, and the British premiere in 2022. What remarkable sound worlds are contained in the piece: lush late-Romanticism with echoes of Wagner and Elgar, but as a context for the immediacy of the African-American spiritual that sounds stark and timeless. The sound of actual chains being pulled emanate from the orchestra against harmonies that dissolve into suggestions of near-Eastern scales. All in the service of the story and the emotion contained at the core of the work – a young Moses discovering his calling to lead his people out of slavery, perhaps the most eloquent musical cry against oppression in the American tradition.”…
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