Category: Politics
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The Nation magazine Discussion Group with special guest Will Bunch
Sunday, January 9, 11am – Discussion Group – open to everyone The Nation magazine Discussion Group with special guest Will Bunch author of The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama “The Backlash” is the first hard-hitting – yet fairly and thoroughly reported – investigative report that goes behind…
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The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism
Monday, December 6, 7pm – Non-Fiction Panel Dan Berger editor of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (26.95 Rutgers University Press) Moderator Panel includes: Barbara Easley Cox (Black Panther Party), Michael Simmons (SNCC), Sharon McConnell (October 4th Organization), Sherrie Cohen (Dyketactics) The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of…
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The Nation Magazine Discussion Group
Sunday, December 5, 11am – Discussion Group The Nation magazine Discussion Group – open to everyone This month’s discussion will be on the mid-term elections. We’ll have an open floor discussion so, pick a campaign ( Sestak v. Toomey for example) or an issue and come and talk about it. A lot of good articles…
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The Nation Magazine Discussion Group
Sunday, October 24, 11am – Political Discussion The Nation Magazine Discussion Group Everyone is invited to attend this open discussion on the politics of the day.
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Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams
Sunday, October 17, 2pm – Group Reading Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams: Anthology edited and introduced by M. L. Liebler ($22.00 Coffee House Press) Presenters include M.L. Lieber, W.D. Ehrhart, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lamont Steptoe and Richard Peabody. Jobs are at the forefront of the national consciousness, yet there is…
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The Nation Magazine Discussion Group
Sunday, September 26, 11am – Discussion The Nation Magazine Discussion Group
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MoveOn.org’s Fight Washington Corruption House Party
Thursday, July 15, 6pm – MoveOn.org Fight Washington Corruption House Party If we’ve learned anything since President Obama took office, it’s that the fundamental changes we all want for America will be impossible until we end the stranglehold that big corporations and lobbyists have on our democracy. We know the solutions to the big problems.…
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Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo film
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 6pm – Film & DiscussionOutside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a new documentary film, directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, telling the story of Guantánamo (and including sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular focus on how the Bush administration turned…
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The Nation Discussion Group Featuring Ed Herman
SUNDAY, MAY 23, 11am – DISCUSSION GROUPTHE NATION DISCUSSION GROUPFeaturing: ED HERMAN Edward S. Herman, economist, political, social and media critic, author of many articles and books, including Manufacturing Consent (co-authored with Noam Chomsky), will be speaking at our May meeting. He will talk about the current right wing rant on “Big Government”, “Deficits”, “Entitlements”…