journalism forum tomorrow; Dec forums; Wall Street: The Great Jobs Killer on 29th; World AIDS Day service on 30th
Dave
http://allsoulskc.org/sunday/forum.php
Sunday Forum, 10 a.m., Bragg Auditorium
The Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance. Each presentation is followed by questions and discussion.
27 November 2011 Independent Media and the Journalism Crisis Tom Klammer
The founding fathers understood that democracy cannot survive without an informed public, so they actively supported journalism with postal subsidies. In the United States today, corporate control is causing a collapse of journalism, and that constitutes a crisis for democracy. Tom Klammer of KKFI's "Tell Somebody" radio, will describe how we got to the current crisis, debunk notions of the internet as cause or remedy of the crisis, and discuss possible solutions including the need for taxpayer subsidies and the role that community media can play.
4 Dec Water, Water Everywhere? with Barclay Martin
Kansas Citians need only turn on the tap for usable, safe water. Much of the world, however, does not have access to clean drinking water. Barclay Martin, regionally raised and educated musician, is an activist for water justice. His work with Water.org, a Kansas City-based international nonprofit, includes educating communities around the world, especially in Africa, to help people access safe water and sanitation. Mr. Martin will discuss this work and the global water crisis.
11 Dec. What the Pro-Choice Movement is Doing Wrong with Rev. Rebecca Turner
The Pro-Choice Movement has lost a lot of ground in the past ten years. The stigma surrounding abortion is increasing instead of decreasing. Some of that backward motion is because of our own messaging. Learn what we're doing wrong and how to start changing our messages. Rev. Turner is a minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), leading its mission to eliminate the religious stigma of abortion and sexuality. Her spiritual abortion counseling has been featured on PBS, CNN and in three documentaries.
18 Dec Burning Issues in the Flint Hills with Craig Volland
To some people the burning of the vast grasslands of the Flint Hills of Kansas is an annual ritual and a sacred cow. But in recent years the burning has caused unhealthy ozone smog in Kansas City and Wichita and is linked to the decline of grassland bird populations. Craig Volland is Chair of the Kansas Sierra Club's Air Quality Committee. He will explain how this came about and what can be done about it.
25 Dec An Informal Conversation about Tar Sands with Rita Norton
The postponement of presidential sanction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada through the United States possibly means that that pipeline won't happen. But the destructive mining for this carbon saturated fuel from Alberta forests continues. This 10 a.m. Christmas Day discussion will be less formal than the usual Sunday morning forum, but it should be useful to people wanting to talk about complicated issues of climate change and fossil fuels.
Wall Street: The Great Jobs Killer
Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 pm UMKC Student Union Theater—5100 Cherry KCMO Speakers: William Black, white-collar criminologist, former financial regulator, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. Featured in the Michael Moore documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story" and; Jeff Wright, president, UAW Local 249 at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant
Sponsored by the Jobs Now! Coalition, UMKC Economics Club, UMKC College Democrats, the Institute for Labor Studies, and United Autoworkers Local 249 Find us on facebook at Jobs Now! Add your signature to the Letter From the American Heartland online at http://heartlandletter.blogspot.com/
World AIDS Day Service
Wednesday, November 30, 7:00pm
Spirit of Hope MCC, 3801 Wyandotte, KC, MO
The Kansas City Coalition of Welcoming Ministries will hold a World AIDS Day Service. This year’s theme is Getting to Zero; Zero new conversions, zero deaths, and zero discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS. We expect participation from the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City including SAVE Inc., Good Samaritan Project, Hope Care Center, and the Kansas City Free Health Clinic.
The service will begin by invoking the names of those in Kansas City who have passed away from HIV/AIDS. The Treblemakers from the Kansas City Women's Chorus will also share two musical numbers during the service. Please join us as we kick off World AIDS Day (officially observed on December 1st) activities in Kansas City.