List of Past PRT
Programs
For upcoming PRT events,
please see announcements on the TMI Home Page
Updated: April 1,
2010
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Date: Saturday,
March 20, 2010
Time; 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoia Public Library
THE NEW DEAL: RECENT BIOGRAPHIES
OF FDR AND FRANCES PERKINS
TMI
Board Treasurer Paul Beckett will review
Traitor to His Class: The
Privileged Life
and Radical
Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by H. W. Brands
(2009)
TMI Board Chair Connie
Threinen will review The Woman
Behind the New Deal: The
Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S
Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin
Downey (2009)
Where did the New Deal
come from? What lessons should we (and Obama) learn from FDR,
Frances
Perkins, and their
colleagues? Was/is an Obama New Deal possible? Can America ever
complete the
unfinished work of
the New Deal? Please join us for a lively discussion; please tell
your friends.
Date: Saturday,
February 27, 2010
Time; 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoia Public Library
WISCONSIN'S TAX SYSTEM IS BROKEN:
HOW CAN WE FIX IT?
Gary
Bahr
Gary Bahr of Belleville argues that Wisconsin’s tax system needs a
major overhaul. Dave Zweifel says in The
Capital Times that Bahr may be right
(See
http://www.fightingbob.com/article.cfm?articleID=1105)
Gary Bahr is a
former farmer, realtor and banker and now owns a tree farm and bed
and breakfast near Belleville.
He was a Democratic
candidate for the state legislature in 1994. Bahr started the Stop
Taxes On Property (STOP) movement in 1994 and encouraged Democrats
to propose taking schools off property taxes. The proposal lost by
1 Republican vote in the State Senate. He has been arguing for state
tax reform for two decades.
Click Here for the Presentation
Listen to Discussion
Date: Saturday,
January 30, 2010
Time; 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoia Public Library
HEALTHCARE IN THE U.S.: WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Moderated by Dr. Gene Farley*
Where will the
healthcare bill being completed now leave the nation? What does it
do? What does it not do? Taken overall, is it a positive or a
negative? What will it do for people in our community? How can we
move beyond THIS "reform", and where should we try to go?
TMI is hosting a panel discussion on this issue with representatives
of the following stakeholders groups:
-
A Self Employed Business Owner
–
Lindsey Lee - Ground Zero And Cargo Coffee
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A Person Employed to Help People Through
the Present System - Shiva Bidar Sielaff – UW
Hospital
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A Presently Unemployed Individual With
No Or Inadequate Coverage – Sue Carson
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A Hospital or Health Plan Administrator Or
CEO – Larry Zanoni, GHC of South Central Wisconsin
-
An
NGO Executive, Employee or Volunteer - Ruth Schmidt, Exec.
Director, Wisconsin Early Childhood Assoc. (WECA)
The
panel will be followed by a
group discussion.
*TMI Associate Board
Member Dr. Gene Farley has
been a tireless campaigner (with his late wife Dr. Linda Farley) for
health
care reform based on a single payer system. Gene has practiced
medicine in a variety of settings. An Emeritus
Professor of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, he is recognized as one of the founders of the specialty
of
family medicine, and served as Chair of the UW-Madison Department of
Family Medicine from 1982 to 1982.
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Date: Saturday,
November 21, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes
Corporate
Personhood: Taking Stock
Jane Anne Morris
Madison resident
Jane Anne Morris is a
corporate anthropologist. She is the author of the
recently published book, "Gaveling
Down the Rabble: How 'Free Trade' is Stealing our Democracy." Ms. Morris
maintains that
"corporate personhood" permeates our economy, politics, and society,
yet many people are at best only vaguely
aware of its consequences.
She
will discuss the implications to our democracy of this dubious legal concept. Her presentation will be followed by a
question and answer period and group discussion.
Click here to listen
Date: Saturday,
October 17, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes
Energy Futures and Carbon Taxes:
An Activist's Viewpoint
Dr. Richard Steeves
Dr. Richard Steeves, Prof. Emeritus
at the UW-Madison
School of Medicine & Public Health,
will present
his views on approaches to dealing with the energy and climate
challenges facing the planet.
His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion.
Date: Saturday,
May 16, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Madison Public Library - Sequoia
Branch
Book review:
The Case for Big
Government
by Jeff Madrick
Reviewed by Paul Beckett
Political
scientist and TMI Board member Paul Beckett will provide a review of
economist Jeff Madrick’s recent book The Case for Big
Government, after which he will lead a discussion.
The role of
government has been under systematic attack for 30 years.
Government, we are told, is our enemy and “big government” is
incompatible with economic growth. Rejecting what seemed a solid
past consensus, the right wing wants to roll back the achievements
of the New Deal, and to close the door on a federal universal
single-payer health system.
What do we need
government to do? What is the truth about government’s role in
American social and economic development in past eras? Can we
afford bigger government? How can we undo the damage done over
three decades? How can we restore the public sense that government
is us, and that
it is through government that we solve our national problems?
Click here to listen
Date: Saturday,
March 7, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes
Book review:
The Wrecking Crew: How
Conservatives Rule
by author Thomas Frank
In his previous book What's the Matter
with Kansas, Thomas Frank explained why
working America votes
for politicians who reserve their favors for
the rich. In The Wrecking Crew,
Frank examines
the
blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.
TMI Board Member Fred Johnson will
provide a review
of this book, followed by a group discussion.
Click here to listen
Date: Saturday,
February 21, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes
Why American Consumerism
Demands Perpetual
War
Don Jones
Information Technology Consultant and
TMI Associate Board Member
Using Andrew J.
Bacevich's most recent book, "The Limits of Power," we will look
at his examination of America's political and
military crisis in the light of the "crisis of profligacy" and
why, together, they require "war without exits."
Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of
International Relations and History at Boston University.
This
will be followed by a group discussion.
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Date: Saturday,
January 31, 2009
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes
Union-Related Legal Issues
David Newby
President, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
During the first hour we will discuss an article that appeared in
The Nation entitled "Can labor Revive the American
Dream?"
and others about the Employee Free Choice Act. At 10 am David Newby
will speak on the status of the union
movement
in the current political climate, followed by a question and answer
session and group discussion.
Click here to listen
Date: Saturday,
December 6, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes (formerly Meriter
Maingate)
There will two
parts to our December 6 PRT:
Shock Doctrine
Video
In the first half we will watch a
short (6 min.) video by Naomi Klein. In it she provides a
historical background for the concept that forms the basis of her
book “The Shock Doctrine”. After viewing the video, we will discuss
her recent Madison forum and the video.
Health Care Agenda
for Obama
In the
second half of the PRT we will discuss ways to help ensure the
health care reforms on President-elect Obama's agenda are
progressive and comprehensive.
Health care reform is definitely on the table, but as yet
no policy details appear to be set. In preparation for
our discussion we encourage you to learn as much as you can about
the subject. Explore single payer, expanding Medicare, and
proposals put forward by John Conyer's, Bernie Sanders, and Tom Daschle.
Date: Saturday,
September 13, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes (formerly Meriter
Maingate)
Professor Charles
Franklin:
"The National
Platforms of the Two Major Political Parties"
Charles Franklin
is a Prof. of Political Science at
the UW-Madison.
He specializes in
the statistical analysis of polling and election results.
A panel discussion will follow
Professor Franklin’s
presentation. Panel members will
include:
Joe Elder, TMI Board Member and
Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bill
Kraus, former press secretary of Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus and
current board member of Common Cause of Wisconsin
Midge Miller, TMI
Board Member and former Wis. State Representative
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Date: Saturday,
August 16, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes (formerly Meriter
Maingate)
"Uncounted: The New Math of American
Elections"
a
documentary by David Earnhardt
At this PRT we will view this video and
follow with a group discussion led by TMI Board Member Midge
Miller.
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes (formerly Meriter Maingate)
Book Review:
"Unchecked and Unbalanced:
Presidential
Power in a Time of Terror"
by authors
Frederick A.O. Schwartz,
Sr. Counsel at the Brennan Ctr. for Justice, NYU School of Law and
frmr Chief Counsel, Church Comm. Invest. in the 1970's
and
Aziz Z. Huq, a lawyer
who directs the Liberty and National
Security Project at
the Brennan Center
Madison attorney and TMI Board Member Fred Wade will
provide a review of this book, continuing our focus on abuses of
executive power.
This presentation will be followed by
group discussion.
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Capitol Lakes (formerly Meriter Maingate)
Midge Miller
"Come Puzzle
With Me About Our Government
and Our
Role in Changing It"
Midge Miller
is a former State Representative
and current member
of the TMI Board.
Click here to listen
This presentation will be followed by
group discussion.
Click here to listen
The room will also
contain a display of posters about
the nuclear bombing
of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
Charles Weitz
"The Looming Food Crisis"
Charles Weitz
is a former administrator in UNESCO
and the Food
and Agriculture Organization.
Click here to listen
Charles Weitz's review of Lester Brown's book,"Plan B 3.0"
Click here to listen
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Book
Review: Two Books by Scott Ritter"
"Target Iran"
reviewed by TMI Board Member Paul Beckett
"Waging Peace: The Art of War for
the Anti-War Movement"
reviewed by
TMI Board Member Fred Johnson
Mr. Ritter is an author, former Marine Intelligence Officer, and
former lead weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations.
Click here to listen
The presentations will
be followed by a group discussion.
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
Book Review: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism" by author Naomi Klein
A monumental work that shows with
vicious clarity the nightmarish dangers of Milton Friedman's
fundamentalist free market economics theory, which is being imposed
by force, from Iraq to China to Katrina-devastated New Orleans.
Reviewed by Gene Farley,
Linda Farley, and Sheila Spear
Click here to listen
This
will be followed by a group discussion.
Date: Saturday, January 12,
2008
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
Book Review:
"Takeover: The Return Of The Imperial Presidency And The Subversion
Of American Democracy"
by Charlie Savage
"Until 'Takeover', no one has pieced together ... the systematic effort
at constitutional revolution pressed by the Bush-Cheney
administration."
Harold Koh,
Dean of Yale Law School
Reviewed by TMI Board Member and
Madison Attorney Fred Wade
Click
here to listen
This
will be followed by a group discussion.
Date: Saturday, September 15,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Book
Review: Two Books by DAVID HARVEY"
David
Harvey is a Distinguished Professor
of Anthropology
at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York and a leading social
theorist of international standing.
TMI Board Member Ted
Kinnaman will provide a review of two of Harvey’s
books:
A
Brief History Of Neoliberalism
and
The
New Imperialism
Click here to listen
This will be followed by
a group discussion.
Date: Saturday, August 11,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Election Integrity"
DVD and discussion of "Fooled Again", by
Mark Crispin Miller. This video addresses the irregularities
of the 2004 elections and the relatively silent treatment these
irregularities received from the press.
Date: Saturday, May 12,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Chalmers Johnson on
Empire"
We will begin
this PRT by viewing a video featuring Chalmers Johnson.
Johnson, president of the Japan
Policy Research Institute, has written
three books on the United States and empire. The trilogy
includes:
"Blowback: the Costs and
Consequences of American Empire",
"The Sorrows of Empire:
Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the
Republic", and "Nemesis: The Last Days of the
American Republic".
A
discussion lead by Midge Miller will follow the viewing of the
video.
Date: Saturday, March 3,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"The Central Liberal Truth:
How Politics
Can Change a Culture and Save
It from Itself"
Speaker: Lawrence
Harrison, Senior Research Fellow and
Adjunct Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts
University
Since 1982, Harrison has
been researching and writing, mostly at Harvard, about how cultural
values help to explain why some countries and some ethnic or
religious groups do better than others. "The Central Liberal Truth"
is the seventh book he has either written or co-edited, and it
contains the goal of his academic work on culture: guidelines for
progressive cultural change. Between 1962 and 1982, Harrison
was with the US Agency for International Development, during which
time he directed five USAID missions in Latin America.
A discussion panel
including Paul Beckett and Joe Elder will follow the formal
presentation.
Date: Saturday, February 17,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Why the Wisconsin
Partial Veto Must Go!"
Speaker: Fred Wade,
Attorney and TMI Board Member
Fred Wade, an expert on
constitutional law, will discuss the status of Wisconsin's partial
veto, how it undermines the authority of the Legislature, and
efforts to limit its scope.
Date: Saturday, January 20,
2007
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Avoiding Cromwell: The
Founding Fathers
Attempt to Limit the
Abuse of Executive Power."
Click here to listen
Speaker: John Kaminski, Director,Center
for the Study of the American Constitution, Department of History,
UW-Madison.
John
Kaminski has edited, co-edited, or written numerous books and
articles on the Revolutionary era with special emphasis on the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the judiciary, slavery, the
Founding Fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas
Paine. He has spoken on these subjects throughout the country and
abroad. Mr. Kaminski will discuss
executive power in the context of the Founding Fathers' attempts to
get the best out of the executive without endangering
liberty.
Date: Saturday, December 16,
2006
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
"Carbon-free Energy: From Wind Turbines to
Airships"
Richard
Steeves, Prof.
Emer.
School of Medicine &
Public Health, UW-Madison
Dr. Steeves will define and briefly discuss
seven different types of carbon-free energy (sources that do not
emit CO2) and distinguish them from "carbonaceous" sources (both
fossils and "biomass").
Date: Saturday, November 18,
2006
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter MainGate
Topic:
Globalization: Any Hope for Progressives?
Ed Friedman, Professor of Political Science,
UW-Madison
Professor Friedman will speak on the
politics of the world economy
and will examine contemporary international
flows of wealth and
their impacts on nations, regions, and a
multitude of other interests.
Date: Saturday, September 16,
2006
Time: 9:00 to
Noon
Place: Meriter
MainGate (333 W.
Main Street, Madison)
Topic: One Wisconsin Now, Inc.
(OWN)
Robert Kraig, PhD; Policy Director,
One Wisconsin Now
Dr.
Kraig will tell us about how and why OWN was founded and what it is
presently doing. He will also participate in a discussion of
how OWN might assist TMI/PRT in fulfilling its mission and
increasing its outreach.
Date: Saturday, May 13,
2006
Time: 9:00 to
Noon
Place: Meriter
MainGate (333 W.
Main Street, Madison)
Topic: Next Steps Towards a
Progressive Agenda (Continued)
Under the same format as our March 25 PRT, we continue
our
work under the theme of "Rebuilding Working America".
Health Care
Insurance
Presented by David
Slautterback with help from
Doctors Linda and Gene
Farley
Essential
ingredients for a Functional Democracy
Presented by Midge Miller
In addition, Midge will lead a discussion
of:
TMI: Where we've
been and where we think we're going.
Date: Saturday, March 25,
2006
Time: 9:00 to
Noon
Place: Meriter
MainGate (333 W.
Main Street, Madison)
Topic: Next Steps Towards a
Progressive Agenda (Cont'd)
Under the same format as our
February 25 PRT, we will continue our work under the theme of
"Rebuilding Working America" with three additional
topics:
|
Topic |
Presenter |
|
Fiscal
Responsibility |
Dan
Cornwell |
| Democracy |
Kaj
Foget |
|
The
Environment |
Fred Johnson |
Each presenter will express his/her
own views as well as those reported by others. This will be followed
by a group discussion in which we will determine if we can reach
some agreement on a course of action on these issues.
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.)
Topic: Next Steps Towards a Progressive
Agenda
Introduced and moderated by Joe Elder
Under the theme of "Rebuilding Working America"
we will focus on three topics:
|
Topic |
Presenter |
|
Foreign Policy |
Paul Beckett |
|
The Economy |
Dan Cornwell |
|
Social Security |
Wanda
Williamson |
Each presenter will express his/her own views as
well as those reported by others. This will be followed by a group
discussion in which we will determine if we can reach some agreement
on a course of action on these issues. |
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2006
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
333 W. Main St.,
Madison, WI
(free parking is available in the lot across the
street.)
Topic: The Integrity of our Electoral
System
We will view a video recommended by Mark Crispin
Miller, NYU professor and author of "Fooled Again: How the Right
Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One
Too." This will be followed by a panel and a serious discussion
of what needs to be done to protect the integrity of our electoral
system. Bring your ideas and join us. |
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.)
Topic: Conservatism: Investigating the
Spectrum
Speaker: John Nichols
The Capital Times,
The Nation
Discussion leader: Constance Threinen
Chair,
The Madison Institute |
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
333 W. Main St.,
Madison, WI
(Ramp parking is available across the
street.)
Topic: MEDIA REFORM:
Report from the
National Conference held in May in St. Louis and
Where do we go
from here?
Panelists:
Laura
Miller - Center for Media & Democracy
Norm Stockwell -
WORT-FM
Fred Johnson - TMI Board |
Date: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
333 W. Main St.,
Madison, WI
(Ramp parking is available across the
street.)
Topic: Health Care - Public/Private Financing
Options
And Other Issues Facing Our Health Care
System
Presented by: The Study Group on
Privatization
Panelists:
Linda
Farley
Dr. Eugene Farley
Mark Miller, Wis. State Senator
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Date: Saturday, March 12, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
333 W. Main St.,
Madison, WI
(Ramp parking is available across the
street.)
Topic: Present and Future Energy Needs and
Strategies
Presented by the Global Sustainability Study
Group, with guests:
Converse Blanchard, Retired UW Prof.
of Physics
Gary Mathis, Director of Electric Policy at
MG&E
Alfred Meyer, Ex. Dir., Madison Chapter, Phys.
for Soc. Resp.
Richard Steeves, MD, PhD, Radiation
Oncologist, UW-Hospital |
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Meriter Maingate
333 W. Main St.,
Madison, WI
(Ramp parking is available across the
street.)
Topic: Protecting Democracy: Three Views
* Tabor
* The Accenture Contract
* The Partial Veto
Presented by: The Strategies for Protecting our
Democracy Study Group
Legal and historic overview by Fred Wade
followed by a discussion moderated by Gene Farley |
Date: Saturday, January 22, 2005
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.)
Topic: Social Security and
Alternatives
Presented by: The Study Group on
Privatization |
Date: Saturday, August 21, 2004
* * * Special PRT Event * * *
TMI has arranged a special showing of the Sundance
award-winning documentary:
"The Corporation"
Hilldale Theater (behind Hilldale Mall)
9:00
a.m. $5.00 admission
Discussion following
We'll have our
own room at the Peking Palace restaurant next to the
theater
For more information about this documentary, see
www.thecorporation.com/about |
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Time: 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Topic: "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under
Stress and a Civilization in Trouble"
by Lester Brown, Founder,
The Earth Policy Institute
Review and discussion to be led by
Dennis Merritt
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.)
". . . a worldwide mobilization to stabilize
population and raise water production to prevent
calamity." |
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2004
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topic: "Leo Strauss and the American Right"
book by Sheila Drury
Review and discussion
to be led by
Don Jones, a member of the
TMI Board
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.)
OUR QUESTION:
Why is it so hard for
progressives to understand the no-compromise efforts of U.S.
neo-conservatives to fundamentally change America?
This
Canadian book is published by St. Martin's Press, 1999 Obtainable
through Borders ISBN 0-312-21783-8 (paper) |
Date: March 13, 2004
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topic: "The Common Good: What Is It?
How Do
We Create and Support It?"
Guest Speaker: Professor Stan Gruszynski
Director, Global Environmental Management (GEM)
Rural
Leadership & Community Development Program
UW-Stevens Point
Gruszynski represented the Stevens Point area in the State
Assembly, 1985-1994.
He gave a superb speech at the 2003 Bob
Fest.
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: February 21, 2004
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topic: "Superpower Syndrome" by Robert Jay Lifton
Book report by Gene Farley
Discussion Leader: Rose Marie Dercks
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: January 17, 2004
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topic: Who is pulling the strings behind the
scene?
This will be a wide-ranging group discussion. Bring your
own ideas, or tell what you've heard or read.
Discussion Leader: Connie Threinen
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: September 20, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topic: Civil Liberties Under Assault
- "Extradition, Politics and Human Rights,"
by
Christopher Pyle
Book reviewed by Fred Johnson
- "Chasing Spies," by Athan Theoharris
Discussion
Leader: Rose Marie Dercks
Place: Hawthorne Public Library (2707 E.
Washington Ave.)
The Hawthorne Library is in the Madison East Mall, which is on
the south side of Washington Ave., just east of Milwaukee St.
Christopher Pyle will be the featured speaker at a forum to be
sponsored by TMI on October 11. See Public
Forum Events on this site. |
Date: June 28, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topics:
- "Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War,"
Glen Stassen, ed
Book reviewed by Vern Visick
- "Real Economy," by Robert W. Reuschlein
How
military spending controls and shapes our environment from
economics to history of empires to politics, and how economics and
war get stronger and weaker on the 54 year Kondratiev wave cycle.
Bob Reuschlein will review his book.
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: May 17, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topics:
- "Paradox of American Power," by Joseph Nye.
Book
reviewed by Arthur Wortzel
- "World On Fire," by Amy Chua
Book reviewed by Helen
Hift
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: April 12, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topics:
- "American Empire," by Andrew Bacevich.
Book
reviewed by Paul Beckett
- "The End of the American Era," by Charles Kupchan
Book reviewed by Rose Marie Dercks
Place: Alicia Ashman Library
(corner of Old
Sauk and High Point Rd.) |
Date: March 29, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Topics:
- "Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11
Crisis," by Phyllis Bennis.
Book reviewed by Jack
Barisonzi
- "Alternative Strategies for Dealing with Iraq-type
Situations." Group discussion
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: February 22, 2003
Topic: When is Humanitarian Intervention
Justified?
Lessons from the Kosovo Example
Discussion Leader: Richard B. Bilder,
Professor, UW Law School
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: January 11, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to Noon
Topic: Bush's National Security Strategy (NSS):
What Does It Say? What Does It Mean?
Discussion Leaders:
George Rueckert, Foreign
Service Officer (ret.),
U.S. State
Department
Place: Sequoya Public Library (513 S. Midvale
Blvd.) |
Date: December 7, 2002
Topic: "Will U.S. Dominance Bring Security?
Alternative Visions for America's Future Role in the World"
Discussion Leaders: Midge Miller and Vern
Visick
Place: Downtown Public Library (201 W. Mifflin
St.) |
Date: July 20, 2002
Topic: "Crony Capitalism" and "The Company Man"
(reviews of articles by Tim Shorrock)
Discussion Leaders: Ruth Calden and Roger
Buffett
Place: Alicia Ashman Public Library |
Date: June 29, 2002
Topic: Amerika Uber Alles
Discussion Leader: Dan Cornwell
Place: Condo at 601 N. Segoe Rd. |
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