Friday Favorites: May 30
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Last weekend while on a Sunday news rotation, I went an Albanian American event at the Westchester County Center where participants were raising money for a new Roman Catholic cathedral under construction in Prishtina, the capital of the newly-independent state of Kosova (the organizers used this spelling rather than Kosovo as Albanian). The church with a sanctuary, school and library will be named after Mother Theresa, whom I learned was of Albanian descent.
One of the event leaders was Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi of Ossining, Balkan Affairs Advisor to the Albanian American Civic League.
In a follow-up conversation, Cloyes DioGuardi gave me a book recommendation:
“The Sovereignty Revolution” by Sen. Alan Cranston with Jane Goodall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jonathan Granoff, and Jonathan Schell (Stanford University Press, 2004)
(Senator Cranston died a few days after he finished writing this book.)
She says “Cranston explains why our concept of national sovereignty is standing in the way of our addressing the major challenges of the 21st Century-from global warming to terrorism and genocide - which he rightly believes can only be successfully resolved at a global level.
Not light reading, but it sounds very worthwhile. Her husband, former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi, also gave me a copy of “Rescue in Albania” One Hundred Percent of Jews in Albania Rescued from Holocaust” by Harvey Sarner (Brunswick Press, 1997) .
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