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May
Special May Day Speaker
May 4th
Why the Market Isn't Free: The Rigged Economy, and Why We Should Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act
Meeting # 3,765, Joseph W. Kopsick, political analyst and college regular
Speaker states hat I plan to cover:
1) How to define a free market, including views on whether the market is free, from various political perspectives;
2) Whether the markets - including the market to represent workers - are rigged, and how to prove it;
3) Various interpretations of what "anarcho-capitalism" means;
4) How right-libertarians feel about various types of unions and union activities;
5) What the Taft-Hartley Act does to hurt our ability to engage in boycotts and strikes;
6) Why I believe that more right-libertarians should find it acceptable to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act; and
7) What consequences such a repeal would have upon union-employer relations, and upon how we define a private company.
May 11th
New 2024 Edition of
"A Realistic Path to Peace
From Genocide to Global War... and How We Can Stop It"
Meeting # 3,766 - by Dee C Knight (Author)
About the Author About the Book https://realpathtopeace.com/
Dee Knight was an editor of Amex-Canada, the newsletter of American exiles and expatriates who went to Canada in resistance to the Vietnam war. He was part of national organizing efforts to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq, resulting in protest actions of millions of people in the United States and across the globe. His writing appears at DeeKnight.blog, and at RealPathToPeace.com.
"A Realistic Path To Peace" delves into the causes of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, describes the crisis of war in eastern Europe (Ukraine and Russia), West Asia and East Asia, sorting truth from propaganda. It examines the role of the Big Lie in developing public consent and blunting popular opposition, and describes ways countries around the world as well as the general public are pressing for peace.
The world is in a crisis now. As its empire declines toward collapse, the United States leadership is making a series of disastrous errors. The “neocons” in Washington, DC, are determined to maintain U.S. global domination regardless of what it might take. The stakes are high for them. They seem to believe that if they “allow” any other
country to challenge their global leadership, their whole system could fall apart.
So they are prepared to do whatever it takes. Supporting genocide in Israel—by providing weapons, money, and a bizarre “moral justification” for horrific genocidal bombing—is a sign of what it takes. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline was another sign of what it can take.
Western European leaders have been rounded up and bludgeoned into a unified NATO alliance against Russia, and in support of Israeli genocide against Palestinians. This alliance—originally composed of “north Atlantic” countries under U.S. leadership at the end of World War II—is now also being extended to Asia. It’s a quest to curb China’s historic economic success, which threatens Western domination of global trade.
A new peace movement is emerging. It faces enormous obstacles, including a gigantic wave of war hysteria engineered in Washington, magnified exponentially by a captive mainstream media that seems to have abandoned all pretense of critical journalistic independence and objectivity. But as facts emerge and truth surfaces, the movement for peace will intensify.
Combined with the horrific results of sanctions and war, these facts and truths can be expected to bring ever greater waves of opposition and resistance into the fray."
May 18th
A Disturbing Discussion on Safe Rail Transport
with specific concerns regarding Nuclear Materials
Beyond Nuclear + NEIS, Nuclear Energy Information Service
Meeting # 3,767 - Dave A. Kraft who is a safe-energy/anti-nuclear advocate, NEIS, Nuclear Energy InformationService, director https://neis.org/
David co-founded NEIS with seven other activists in 1981, to provide the public with credible information about the hazards and effects of nuclear power and waste; and the viable alternatives to replace them.
Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog
Beyond Nuclear is an organization which aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. The organization works with diverse partners and allies to provide its members, the public, government officials, and the media with the critical information necessary to move humanity toward a world beyond nuclear. https://beyondnuclear.org/
May 25th
On November 7th is America Doomed for a New Dark Age, or Are we headed for a Bright future? A Comprehensive Summary of the Republican Criminals who are Plotting to Steal the 2024 Election, using legal loopholes in our voting laws
Meeting # 3,768 - Andy Anderson, Tim Bolger, college regulars
The speakers asks us “Will America head into a new, permanent dark age with the installation of criminals masquerading as Republicans, led by the psychopathic, megalomaniac, Donald Trump?” Or is America headed into a new age of green clean environmental conditions addressing climate change?”
Andy Anderson, of the Northwest Information Service, assisted by college regular, Tim Bolger, will present a comprehensive summary of the Republican criminals, to steal the 2024 election, using legal loopholes in our voting laws.
We will also present a series of measures, in general opposed by the Republican party, that will keep America democratic, home of the free, clean and green, among other issues.
June
June 1st
Life’s Not Financially Fair - Why?
Meeting # 3,769 - Tom O'donnell - a young man says no one knows the reason
The speaker states that "Life hasn’t been financially fair for the last 5,000 years…For the average person, money is hard to come by, thus making house, food, clothes, etc. hard to come by and that makes life hard, sad and problem filled…
- I asked people why this is, no one knew, I researched and discovered reason is due to an unfair property law…In my presentation I will explain the origins and what life was like before the unfair law took over…
- Solution - I propose people learn root cause and brainstorm ways to use their power to make a small change in the law so life becomes fair.”
June 8th
Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM)
Advocating for Migratory Birds
Meeting # 3,770 - Annette Prince, Director
It is estimated that more than a billion migratory birds die in North America each year from collisions with buildings. From residential structures to high-rise buildings, collision deaths are ranked as one of the greatest threats to bird populations after habitat loss.
Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM) is a conservation project working since 2003 to address the problems that lights and building designs pose to birds that pass through urban areas. Volunteers recover thousands of dead and injured birds from more than 200 different species each spring and fall. The project raises awareness, educates and advocates for bird safety measures. Learn about efforts and methods to protect migratory species from the hazards of lights and glass at our homes and in our communities.
Annette Prince has worked on local and national conservation projects as well as wildlife education and rehabilitation programs over the last thirty-five years. She joined the grass-roots project – Chicago Bird Collision Monitors sixteen years ago and became its director in 2005 helping to advance its mission to rescue, educate and advocate for the protection of birds impacted by urban hazards/threats.
Information http://www.birdmonitorns.net/
June 15th
A Short History of the Dialectic Materialism of Marxism,
and How It Reflects Reality
Meeting @ 3,771 - Sidney Cohen, long-time college regular
"Dialectical materialism, a philosophical approach to reality derived from the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For them, materialism meant that the material world has objective reality independent of mind or spirit and ideas arise only as products and reflections of material conditions."
June 22nd
The Climate Crisis: Capitalism
or Human / Animal / Most Plants Survival?
Meeting # 3,772 - Kim Scipes, PhD, long-time political and labor activist
The speaker states that: "Capitalism requires growth; growth requires energy, most energy is derived from fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases that are attacking the atmosphere around the planet, allowing more heat inside the atmosphere, and trapping this excess heat from escaping into space. End result: temperature of Earth keeps increasing; melting ice raising ocean levels, threatening infrastructure of coastal cities around the globe, causing additional migration; destroying coral reefs—the protector of the bottom of the aquamarine food chain on which one-third of humanity is dependent; generating more energy into hurricanes and typhoons; increasing drought in some places, increased precipitation in others; and threatening human health in short term, and extermination of humans, animals and most plants by turn of 22nd Century.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now at 425 parts per million (ppm) according to NASA; until the year 1750, it never exceeded 300 ppm in 800,000 years!
Alternative visions are needed. Come listen and discuss."
Kim Scipes, PhD, is a long-time political and labor activist who has recently retired from Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana after 18 ½ years. He has published four books and over 265 articles across the US and in 11 countries around the world. He has also worked as a printing press worker, high school teacher, and office worker prior to getting his PhD at age 51 from University of Illinois at Chicago. His web site—with links to publications and climate crisis resources—can be found at https://www.pnw.edu/personal-faculty-pages/kim-scipes-ph-d . Dr. Scipes is working on a new book tentatively titled Combatting the Climate Crisis Through Transforming Trade Unions: A Global Working Person’s Manifesto.
June 29th
Project 2025: Unveiling the Right-Wing Blueprint for U.S. Governance
outlining specific actions to be taken within the first 180 days of the new, incoming Republican Administration
Meeting # 3,773 - ED Spire
"Project 2025 is a plan outlining specific actions to be taken within the first 180 days of the new Republica Presidential Administration. These actions aim to provide swift relief to Americans affected by the Left’s policies.
Organized by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has brought together 45+ right-of-center organizations that are ready to get into the business of restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people.
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In November 2016, American conservatives stood on the verge of greatness. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a triumph that offered the best chance to reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration, after our political appointees had finally figured out the policies and process of different agencies, and after the right personnel were finally in place.
The usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them? That’s where Project 2025 comes in."
July 6th, Special Independence Day Speaker
25 Mistakes Our Country has Made, and
How to Correct Each One
Anyone in Attendance Can Present Their Own
Meeting # 3,774 - Charles Paidoc, historian
The speaker states that "Overall the United States has been administered fairly well, although there have been instances when we fell short of the mark. The most obvious one is electing the wrong guy president, and not sending someone like Bernie Sanders to the White House, I will focus instead on positions and policies in which we could have made the country an altogether better republic in which to live, but chose not to do so."
July 13th
Geoengineering and Chemtrails
Meeting # 3,775 - Matt Landman
"Through grassroots activism, film, interviews, and international summits, Matt Landman has gained recognition as a leader in 5G and geoengineering/chemtrail awareness activism. He presents unprecedented and view-changing information directly from official documentation and accepted research. He created the social change documentary Frankenskies, bringing awareness to ongoing atmospheric aerosol injections, chemtrails, weather modification programs and geoengineering. He has hosted a series of conferences, events and protests concerning the questions surrounding chemtrails and relentlessly continues to speak out against the ongoing lies in our skies. In 2018 he hosted the third Global Summit to Stop Geoengineering in Tucson Arizona, protesting the SCOPEX sky-dimming experiment, after which the experiment was placed on ongoing hiatus.
In addition, Matt continues to contest varied Telecom networks with efforts to help citizens locally fight the rollout of the dangerous and disputed 5G data network in their communities. He is currently working on a sequel film titled Frankenskies 2 : Climate Chains, which exposes the false narrative behind climate change and how weather modification programs combined with smart technology and media control will result in humanity's enslavement if gone unchecked. He is also leading a movement to protect humanity from harmful electromagnetic frequencies with his new project, EMF-shielded SPERO Protection Clothing."
Information https://actualactivists.com/
Movie Frankenstein https://www.frankenskiesthemovie.com/
EMF Protective Clothing & Accessories https://speroprotectionclothing.com/
July 20, 27
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Meeting # 3,775+ contact the Program Coordinator Charles Paidock if you would like to speak at
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