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Jonathan Schell Memorial

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Channel: Joe Friendly · 2014 · News & Politics

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Memorial for Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 -- March 25, 2014) at Unitarian Church for All Souls in Manhattan, June 12, 2014. Schell was author of many books including Fate of The Earth described by Kai Erikson in The New York Times as "a work of enormous force" and "an event of profound historical moment.... [I]n the end, it accomplishes what no other work has managed to do in the 37 years of the nuclear age. It compels us - and compel is the right word - to confront head on the nuclear peril in which we all find ourselves." 

Participants, In Order: Welcome by Rev. Galen Guengerich, Senior Minister at All Souls; Greetings by Rev. Julie Johnson Staples, Interim Minister of Education for Riverside Church; Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation; Cora Weiss, UN Representative International Peace Bureau; Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary; Jesse Lerner-Kinglake,  writing student of Schell at Wesleyen University who became teacher and prison rights advocate; Van Gosse, former organizing director of Peace Action, History Professor Franklin and Marshall College; Music by WaFoo, Yuuki Koike (flute), Takeshi Asai (piano), Kazuo Nakamura (bass); Guy Quilan,  Chair, All Souls Nuclear Disarmament Task Force; Alicia Godsberg, Executive Director of Peace Action New York State;  and Jim Anderson, Chair of Peace Action New York State.

Schell was born in New York City. He graduated Harvard in 1965, was staff writer for the New Yorker 1967-1987 and principal writer of their Notes and Comments. He was a columnist for Newsday 1990-1996; and Peace and Disarmament correspondent for The Nation from 1998 on, and was a Senior Fellow of The Nation Institute.  He taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, NYU, New School, Wesleyan University,  Yale Law School, and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization.

He appeared often on radio and television, including Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Lehrer News Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, and Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Doris and Don Shaffer Memorial Lecture Series/Peace Action Fund of NYS, All Souls Nuclear Disarmament and Peace and Justice Task Forces, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office, The Nation Institute.

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