June13, 2005 PROGRAM
(use .pdf program with logo and UN Declaration of
Human rights)
An Evening In Memory of Marla Ruzicka and Faiz Al Salaam, accidental
victims in Iraq while working for CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in
Conflict)
1. Welcome to The Odd Monday Series
2. Jonathan Dimmock: keyboardist, founder of Art in Action
3. Robert Howard: cellist plays two movements of Bach Suite #1 for
unaccompanied cello
4. Jan Roosevelt Katten: Board Member of Artist in Action shares a few
words on Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Rita Maran
6. Kevin Danaher: Co-founder with Medea Benjamin and Kirsten Moller of
Global Exchange, a 1988 International Human Rights Organization
dedicated to promotion of environmental, political and social justice
Rita Maran is a Lecturer in "Human Rights: Law and Politics" at the
University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Maran is the author of Torture:
The Role of Ideology in the French Algerian War, and of writings on
torture, the UN, and human rights. As a Fulbright scholar, Dr. Maran
taught International Human Rights Law at the University of Indonesia in
Jakarta. She worked as a human rights analyst for the OSCE in Bosnia and in
Kosovo. Dr. Maran is a member of the Amnesty International Human Rights
Education Working Group. She is President of the United Nations
Association-USA East Bay Chapter and Vice-President of theNorthern California
Division of UNA-USA. Dr. Maran directs a Human Rights Education Project
in several countries for The Fund for Peace. She represents human
rights NGOs at United Nations world conferences.
