{"id":1111,"date":"2009-09-08T10:18:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:11:50","slug":"interdependence-day-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2009\/09\/08\/interdependence-day-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Interdependence Day 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idayscranton.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idayscranton.org\/images\/headerglobe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>The city of Scranton is celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idayscranton.org\/\">Interdependence Day<\/a> this year on Thursday, September 10.\u00a0 Launched in Philadelphia in 2003, Interdependence Day was created in reaction to the events of September 11, 2001 and is meant to be a time to reflect on how all peoples of the world are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Several interdependence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idayscranton.org\/events.html\">events<\/a> will be held throughout the city and Northeastern Pennsylvania this week.\u00a0 On Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrill.umd.edu\/directory\/details.cfm?id=158\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Klose<\/a>, dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Merrill College of Journalism<\/a> at the University of Maryland, will give the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrantontimes.com\/arts_living\/technology_leads_to_interconnected_world\">keynote address<\/a> entitled<strong> &#8220;We the iPhone People: A Revolutionary Interdependence&#8221;<\/strong> at 5:30pm at the William J. Nealon Federal Building.\u00a0 While this event is by invitation only, University of Scranton community members are welcome to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idayscranton.org\/documents\/University%20of%20Scranton.pdf\">&#8220;All You Have to Do is Listen,&#8221;<\/a> a talk by NPR commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robkapilow.com\/\">Rob Kapilow<\/a>, planned for Wednesday, September 16 at 7:30pm in the Houlihan McLean Center.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lackawannacounty.org\/uploads\/SONDRA%20MYERS.pdf\">Sondra Myers<\/a>, co-founder of Interdependence Day, Senior Fellow for International, Civic and Cultural Projects at the University of Scranton, and director of the Weinberg Memorial Library&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/wml\/schemel.html\">Schemel Forum<\/a>, for coordinating this year&#8217;s Interdependence Day events.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. 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