Social Justice Education through the Generations
10 am,Tuesday, August 13, Rochester Public Library, 2nd floor

The public is invited to a discussion with educator-activist Dr. Glenn Hawkes, and sons, Elijah and Jesse Hawkes, at the Rochester Public Library. Vermonters may remember Glenn from when he lived in Moretown and was director of Parents, Teachers, and Students for Social Responsibility.

Over the years, the organization has sponsored anti-nuclear and anti-discrimination programs, authored Nuclear War in Vermont and What About the Children? and organized the 1995 International Teachers for Peace Conference at Norwich University. Glenn later created the Ward Brook Center for Reparations in Montpelier. He has been living near Boston in recent years and is director of Rwandans and Americans in Partnership.

The Vermont branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom invited him to speak to us with his two remarkable sons: Elijah is an educator and was principal of Randolph High School, and is author of several books on education. He was recently one of three finalists for the VT Secretary of Education in Governor Scott's Administration, but the job was given to an outsider active in charter schools. Jesse, meanwhile, has done crusading work in Rwanda (co-founding and directing the theatre for social change program, RAPSIDA) and is the former Director of Global Youth Connect.

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