ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO SPEAK AT THIEL NEXT WEDNESDAY
For immediate release April 19, 2006

GREENVILLE, PA – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak at Thiel College as part of the institution’s Earth Week celebration at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in the college’s William A. Passavant Memorial Center.

Kennedy, law professor and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the country’s most prominent environmental attorney, will discuss “Crimes Against Nature: Our Environmental Destiny.”

The author of the book “Crimes Against Nature,” he is an authority on the laws that have protected America’s air, water, public lands, and wildlife for the past 30 years. His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful confrontations against governments and companies polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound.

In Kennedy’s recent book “Crimes Against Nature,” released in fall 2004, he shares his concerns for the health of our world’s environment. The book details the poor environmental record of the current administration as compared to Republican and Democratic administrations of the past. The book details the poor environmental record of the current administration as compared to Republican and Democratic administrations of the past.

He also released a children's book titled, Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy in March 2005. His writings are published regularly in various magazines, including Rolling Stone, and he has written several other books.

He is featured, along with Julie Roberts, George Clooney and Al Gore, on the April cover of Vanity Fair magazine, and he was recently lauded by Successful Meetings magazine as a man whose message supercedes his golden name.

The event is free and open to the public. A book signing session will be held immediately following his presentation in the lobby area of the Passavant Center.

Kennedy’s visit is sponsored by the Global Institute of Thiel College.

For more information about the event, please contact Sherrie Greenlee-Ogello, special events coordinator, at 724-589-2240, or Dr. Curt Thompson, professor of religion and co-director of the Global Institute, at 724-589-2106.