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July 8th
Happy Birthday Henry!
200th Birthday of Our Special Guest
Henry David Thoreau Meeting # 3,432 - Jonathan Barton
Join us as we celebrate his 200th birthday with our special guest Henry
David Thoreau, one of the most famous and respected writers ever on the
natural environment, liberty, and the human experiences of the 19th
century.
A presentation on how his works are relevant to today's climate change
movements, civil liberties struggles, and global actions for the liberation of
working class peoples.
Note: A special thank you to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for graciously sharing the use of their recently developed time
travel machine in order for the speaker to attend.
July 15th
Cannabis: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Meeting # 3,433 - Michael Burick - Speaker maintains that: “Cannabis has
been around for 3 thousand years and is/should be going mainstream for
medicinal reasons. Some current obstacles are big Pharma's lobbyists, poor
information about cannabis, and its proven health benefits and antiquated
Federal regulations that will be supplanted by states' that need the tax
revenues."
July 22nd
Chemtrails: The Final Impetus to Revolution?
Meeting # 3,434 - What are chemtrails? Many researchers and observers
believe that this phenomenon is exactly what it appears to be: a clandestine
government program of releasing vast amounts of toxic particulates into the
atmosphere. The ostensible reason would seem to be "solar radiation
management," i.e. blocking sunlight to reduce global warming. So is this a
vast project in geoengineering? Or is the purpose something else? And all
without the knowledge, much less the consent, of the citizenry?! The
political no less than the environmental implications are almost beyond
imagination. Are we really to be nothing more than oblivious sheep and
guinea pigs to the Masters of the Universe? Or will we finally take our lives
into our own hands? Investigator Ted Aranda explores this mind-bending
topic.
July 29th
Stop by the CofC Table at the
Bughouse Square Debates
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Newberry Library - Washington Square Park - 60 W. Walton
July 29th
Intellectual Sovereignty vs The Thought Police
Meeting # 3,435 - Robert Holland returns with another thoughtful analysis
of our society
August 5th
Refuse Fascism – Chicago
Meeting # 3,346 - - "In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept
the Trump/Pence regime. Donald Trump is assembling a regime of grave
danger. Millions of people in the US and around the world are filled with
deep anxiety, fear, and disgust. Our anguish is right and just. Our anger
must now become massive resistance
Our resistance must spread rapidly to every sphere and every corner of
the country. Because we refuse to accept a fascist America, millions must
rise up in a resistance with a deep determination such that we create a
political crisis that prevents the Trump/Pence fascist regime from
consolidating its hold on the governance of society.”
August 12th
Centrist Project: America's First Unparty
2 Parties, Zero Results
Meeting # 3,437 - Matthew Geiger, Chapter Lead, Chicago Centrists - a group
made up of people who feel let down by both political parties and blame the
influence of money in politics, a lack of bipartisanship, and gerrymandering for
our unresponsive system. They are concerned about the increasing extremism
within political parties and the hollowing out of the political center.
The Centrist Project aims to strategically elect independent candidates to
office who can break through political gridlock and serve as a voice for all those
in the sensible center –– not as a traditional third party, but as America’s first
Unparty.
Their “Fulcrum Strategy” is focused on electing a sufficient number of
these candidates to closely divided legislatures like the US Senate where, as a
swing coalition, they can deny both parties an outright majority and use their
disproportionate influence to forge real solutions.
August 19th
We’re a Frog in Boiling Water
Why Warren Buffet is Seeking to Transfer His
Investments on Earth to Mars
Meeting # 3,438 – Moe Shenfield returns with another provacative talk
August 26th
Special Labor Day Speaker
Illinois Labor History Society
Meeting # 3,439 - Stefanee Asche, Director, ILHS
Sept 2nd
Open Microphone (program in progress)
Has Trump Made American Great Again, or
Should He be Impeached to Save the Nation
from Destruction?
Meeting # 3,440 - contact the Program Coordinator Charles Paidock if
you would like to speak at (312) 842-5036 office, (312) 714-7790 cell or
by email to [email protected]
Sept 9th
The Truth About 911 Update
Meeting # 3,441 - college regular Lindson P. (Andy) Anderson, Research
Analyst, of the Northwest Information Service - Data Base Translations of
Environmental, Political and Social Issues into Basic English
Sept 16th
The Cold War Establishment vs. JFK
Meeting # 3,442 - In the 1950s the so-called "Cold War" was proceeding
apace, with the American Oligarchy, through the CIA, engineering criminal
coups and wars in several countries in the name of fighting communism. When
John F. Kennedy entered the presidency he soon began formulating and
implementing (a) economic policy in the interests of the American people
rather than the corporate elite, and (b) foreign policy more favorable to world
peace than to the warmongering, profiteering aims of the military-industrial
complex. Kennedy thereby incurred the Cold War Establishment's deadly
wrath.
The 1963 false-flag assassination of JFK was thus the culmination of
a titanic struggle within the American state, one whose outcome cemented the
supremacy of the imperial Oligarchy behind and above the year-to-year facade
of electoral/party politics. The American people have been living under this
type of tyranny-by-deception ever since, with the present "War on Terror"
being merely its latest incarnation. Historian Ted Aranda examines the
Eisenhower-Kennedy Cold War period in this light.
Sept 23rd
Social Change - in Chicago
Meeting # 3,443 - Todd Belcore, Executive Director, Lecturer at the
University of Chicago Law School
Social Change is a people and policy focused non-profit that empowers
and amplifies the voice and power of the marginalized via film, coalition
building, and by providing advocacy, legal, and technical assistance to
individuals and organizations.
The best way to break the cycle of poverty, prison and violence is to
give people a real alternative. We do that through by providing all
interested, not just those who can afford it, with the training needed to get
the well-paying jobs of today and tomorrow.
Sept 30th
How African Americans Experience Higher
Education Meeting # 3,444
Description: In America, access to, and success in, higher education is
often seen as the most viable path to class, cultural, and social improvement.
Unfortunately, different populations tend to have contrasting college
experiences. Through this discussion we will explore the shared lived
experiences of African American students, faculty, and administrators in
the nation’s higher education institutions. Conclusions from this discussion
will point the way toward racial and socioeconomic equity within
America’s colleges and universities.
Bio: DeWitt Scott is Student Success Specialist at Moraine Valley
Community College in Palos Hills, IL. He received his doctorate in
Educational Leadership from Chicago State University. DeWitt is also an
instructor at Sister Jean Hughes Adult High School, a high school for
formerly incarcerated adults in Chicago. He has also developed and teaches
a class titled “Black Male Leadership” to inmates at the Cook County Jail
in Chicago. Currently, DeWitt lives in Chicago with his wife Cecelia.
Oct 7th
Author: Orwell Your Orwell :
A Worldview on the Slab
Meeting # 3,445 - David Ramsay Steele
"To those who think they know what George Orwell is all about, this book
unpacks surprise after surprise. Orwell Your Orwell reveals an Orwell very
different from the one most people think of. It gives an unexpected yet
convincing picture of Orwell's beliefs, every key point precisely
documented. Orwell adopted a habitual rhetoric in which he portrayed
himself as a lone, embattled dissident. But objectively examined, his
opinions broadly corresponded with those of conventional leftwing
thinking. Far from being skeptical of prevailing orthodoxies, Orwell
emerges as a True Believer in the orthodoxies of the 1930s Left, though a
believer who sharply drew attention to some of the serious problems with
these ideologies."
Oct 14th
Pro/Con of Term Limits, Redistricting and
Other Major Non-partisan Topics
Meeting # 3,446 - Hear! Here!: Steve Kungis will share with the Great
College of Complexes students all of the details --pro and con- of term
limits, redistricting and other major non-partisan topics...as usual, he highly
encourages audience participation ....
Oct 21, 28
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Meeting # 3,447,48 Contact the Program Coordinator Charles Paidock if
you would like to speak at (312) 714-7790 cell, (312) 842-5036 office, or
by email to [email protected]
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