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FORUM2021 Sacred Food ~ Blessed Earth
Interfaith Prayer Service
ONLINE September 9, 2021 10am-2pm ET
International Speakers, Prayer Contributors, Musicians presenting:
Support local farmers, support your health, protect the Earth
FORUM2021 Sacred Food ~ Blessed Earth
Thursday September 9th, 2021
10:00am- 2:15pm ET
10:00am Opening Prayer & Welcome
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle for the Great Sioux Nation.
10:02am Welcome from the Temple of Understanding
Chris Wang, Temple of Understanding Board Member
10:04am Welcome to the FORUM2021
Dr. Michael Bos, Senior Minister, Marble Collegiate Church
10:07am Chief Oren Lyons Keynote Address
Chief Oren Lyons , Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Member Chief of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs and the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee Peoples.
10:22am Dr. Vandana Shiva Keynote Address
Reclaiming Ancient Wisdom to Protect Our Future
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Founder, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. World-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate.
10:40am Dr. Vandana Shiva & Lyla June Dialogue: Reclaiming Ancient Wisdom to Protect Our Future
Lyla June, Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.
10:57am International Activists on Regenerative Farming Panel
Darcy Neill, (Moderator), Temple of Understanding Board Member
Kathryn Manga, Project Coordinator, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines, Philippines
Adelita San Vicente Tello, Director of Primary Sector & Renewable Natural Resources, Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources, Mexico
Daniel Wanjama, Coordinator, Seed Saver Network, Kenya
11:27am Scientists on the Impact of Industrialized Agriculture Dialogue
Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Daphne Miller, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Research Scientist at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
11:48am Faith-Based Farming in the United States Panel
Rev. Susan Hendershot, (Moderator), Interfaith Power & Light, USA
Edgar Hayes & Ann Rader, Freedom Farm Community NY
Clayton Harvey, Ndée Bikíyaa (Peoples’ Farm), AZ
Shani Mink, Jewish Farmer Network, NC
Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm, NY
12:20pm Sacred Food from an Interfaith Perspective
Rev. Jim Antal, Denominational leader, climate activist, author and public theologian. Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ.
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale School of the Environment and Yale Divinity School
12:54pm Grandmother Mona Polacca, The Sacred Way
Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa elder. She is the Chair of the InternationalCouncil of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Interfaith Prayer Service
1:18pm Opening Prayer: Chief Arvol Looking Horse
1:20pm Imam Saffet Catovic
1:24pm The Marble Choir
1:27pm Prof. Ephraim Isaac
1:31pm Dame Prof. Meher Master Moos
1:35pm Eda Zavala Lopez
1:40pm Rev. Dr. John H. Vaughn
1:45pm HE Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
1:48pm Samir Chatterjee & Steve Gorn
1:58pm Pandit Shukla Ji
2:00pm Lyla June
2:04pm Grandmother Mona Polacca
2:08pm Rev. J. Elise Brown, PhD
2:10pm Marble Community Gospel Choir