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Father Paul Mayer: Climate Change, Social Activism, and Global Peace

Paul Mayer has more than a half century of service to the earth including 18 years as a monk, involvement with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement in the South, and work as a liberation theologian in the barrios of Central America. He has worked with Japanese atom bomb survivors, Pastors for Peace, reconciliation efforts between Israelis and Palestinians and anti-nuclear efforts in New Jersey. He was a co-founder of the Children of War organization, and his work with indigenous people brought him to the United Nations Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been involved with United for Peace and Justice and the New York City Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders in work for peace and justice in Iraq and the Gulf region. Most recently he was a co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition.. He is also a Yoga practitioner and teacher.

By Aaron Donovan

11:29 PM EDT on April 12, 2007

Paul Mayer has more than a half century of service to the earth including 18 years as a monk, involvement with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement in the South, and work as a liberation theologian in the barrios of Central America. He has worked with Japanese atom bomb survivors, Pastors for Peace, reconciliation efforts between Israelis and Palestinians and anti-nuclear efforts in New Jersey. He was a co-founder of the Children of War organization, and his work with indigenous people brought him to the United Nations Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been involved with United for Peace and Justice and the New York City Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders in work for peace and justice in Iraq and the Gulf region. Most recently he was a co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition.. He is also a Yoga practitioner and teacher.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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