SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-395

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SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-395

Thursday January 29, 7 p.m. The Criminalization and Mass Incarceration of Immigrants

The public is welcome to hear and respond to anthropologist, social activist and advocate Dr. Christine Ho.

Dr. Ho will discuss the criminalization and the systemic mass incarceration of immigrants in the United States. Thanks to an alliance between the U.S. Congress and private prison corporations, immigrants have been criminalized by means of the law and the media and have been incarcerated on a massive scale by a “Congressional bed mandate” and then deported. Contrary to popular opinion, most immigrants are not criminals, but are treated worse than criminals. They are denied due process rights and live under horrible conditions. Furthermore, immigration detention costs taxpayers $164 per person per day, totaling about $2 billion each year.

Christine will also connect the dots between this “detention industrial complex” and immigration policies that keep the vast majority of immigrants undocumented and thereby super-exploitable, as well as free trade policies (globalization) that produce vast pools of desperate, job-starved people willing to cross borders to find work.

Christine will also speak about her work as Founder and Director of Friends of Broward Detainees (FOBD), a humanitarian organization dedicated to ending the isolation of immigrants starved for human contact, to affirming their dignity and worth through friendly visits, assistance staying in touch with family and finding lawyers. This visitation program serves hundreds of immigrants incarcerated at Broward Transitional Center (BTC) in Pompano Beach, FL, an institution owned and operated by GEO Group Inc., which treats them as less than human in its quest for profits. Christine has testified in a U.S. Congressional Hearing about the appalling conditions in BTC and her testimony is part of the Congressional Record.

The meeting is sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale.

Dr. Ho is Professor Emerita at Fielding Graduate University, where she received the University’s Social Justice Award in January 2013. She has taught in several universities across the U.S. in the fields of Anthropology, Globalization; International Migration; Human Rights, immigrant rights; Racial, Ethnic and Gender Studies; and Social Change.

A researcher for more than 20 years, she has published three books as well as many journal articles. Her most recent book is titled, Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy and Rights for Displaced People (Kumarian Press, March 2012), a human rights approach to migration policy, co-authored with James Loucky.

She has also published opinion pieces, the most recent one addressing the destructive effects of detention on immigrant families, in Reader Supported News, September 3, 2014,

http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/125-125/25676-locking-up-american-family-values.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

Contacts: Dr. Christine Ho, chris...@fielding.edu 305-933-6195

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Tuesday January 13-Thursday January 15 Orientation for volunteers
to count Broward homeless persons

With the goals of ending veteran homelessness by 2017, chronic homelessness by 2016, and family and youth homelessness by 2020, Broward County officials are recruiting volunteers to help determine the number of Broward homeless persons.

For more information, please contact Sander Schrantz: San...@handsonbroward.org

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Tuesday January 13, 3:30-5 p.m. Movie—Voices of Civil Rights

Personal narrative histories of the civil rights movement.

Northwest Regional Library

3151 North University Drive

Coral Springs 33065

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Tuesday January 13, 7-8:30 p.m. Move to Amend—Broward

We will review the Move to Amend mission; examine our organizational chart from the grassroots local affiliates to the state network up to national; and watch a short video to tie things together. Starting on the same page always helps.

We will refine our strategy: the road map to guide the journey.

Finalize our event for January 21^st, the fifth anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision
Discuss future events and rallies to gain attention, educate and grow
Set new goals and milestones for 2015
Form working groups
Total Wine and More
801 S University Drive
Plantation 33324
The Fountain Center: take main road to 2^nd stop sign; then turn right.

RSVP https://www.facebook.com/events/310518305813103/

Move to Amend is a non-partisan non-profit coalition of hundreds of organizations and 380,000 individuals who Move to Amend the US Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are the only persons entitled to constitutional rights.

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Thursday January 15, 12 noon Labor and Community Meeting on pending
Fast Track/TPP Trade Deal

President Obama will be pushing the secret corporate-written TPP (Trans Pacific Trade Deal) very soon. House Speaker John Boehner needs approximately 35 Democrats to pass this NAFTA-style trade bill without Congressional or public input through the Fast Track process, ensuring the outsourcing of hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs by making it easier for US corporations to flee our shores. This trade agreement is designed to limit the ability of governments to implement and enforce laws that regulate businesses to protect our food, our environment, worker safety and the public’s health.

“Fast Track is a misguided and undemocratic policy that advances the corporate trade agenda and bad deals like NAFTA, CAFTA, and the Korean FTA. Congress must end the secrecy and create a new process to develop and implement trade, investment and economic policies that will promote good jobs, rising wages, a clean environment and a fair economy for us all. America’s workers simply can’t afford more Fast Track.”

—Richard Trumka, President AFL-CIO

South Florida AFL-CIO

4349 NW 36^th Street

Miami Springs

Lunch will be provided.
To provide an accurate lunch count, RSVP by Monday, January 12^th to: cra...@flaflcio.org

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Thursday January 15, 1-2 p.m. Retrospective of Paul Simon with
Rod MacDonald and band

North Regional/Broward College Library

1100 Coconut Creek Boulevard

Coconut Creek 33066

Admission: $5.

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Thursday January 15, 7 p.m. Author Presentation: Flower of Iowa
by Lance Ringel

Flower of Iowa takes place against the turbulent backdrop of World War I.
In France during the final months of the war in 1918, young American Tommy Flowers juggles the challenges of life in the trenches with an unexpected attraction to British soldier David Pearson. The men must navigate their relationship as the war reaches a crescendo. It is a sprawling tale of battle, courage, the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of love.

Stonewall Library & Archives

1300 East Sunrise Boulevard

Fort Lauderdale

Books will be available for sale.

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Saturday January 17, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Ronelle Delmont, Lecturer at FIU and FAU:

World of Our Parents—the Immigrant Story of the Lower East Side

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Saturday January 17, 2-6 p.m. Rally for the Rocklands

Join environmental organizations as well as your friends and neighbors on Saturday, January 17th for a rally to save an important piece of South Florida's natural heritage. Major parts of the Richmond Pine Rocklands are slated to become the site of a new Walmart shopping center (Coral Reef Commons) as well as a new theme park (Miami Wilds).

In addition to the rally on Coral Reef Drive, we will also be gathering for a pre-rally press conference and picnic beginning at 11 AM at PAVILION 2 in the beautiful Larry and Penny Thompson County Park (just south of the zoo). All are invited. Bring your own lunch - cold drinks will be provided. Great chance to see what intact pine rockland habitat looks like. See Google Map for location of the park and pavilion: http://bit.ly/16DCIYr

The Richmond Pine Rocklands is a South Florida treasure. Once extending from downtown Miami to what is now Big Pine Key in Everglades National Park, pine rocklands are considered a "globally imperiled" habitat. With US 1 running along the spine of our rockland community, and city after city built on top of them, only 2 percent of Miami-Dade's rocklands still exist. Outside the park, the Richmond Pine Rocklands—once a former blimp base used to protect shipping in the Atlantic during WWII—is the largest remaining parcel.

But small as it is, the Richmond Pine Rocklands hosts an incredible array of species. Within the last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has identified the area as critical habitat for two endangered butterfly species and two species of endangered plants. Ironically, the property is located right next to Zoo Miami and its collection of rare animals from throughout the world.

This is an excellent opportunity to take a stand for South Florida's biodiversity while there's still a chance to do something about it. Many environmental organizations will be represented at the Saturday, January 17th rally. South Florida Wildlands is being joined by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Tropical Audubon Society, 350.org, Urban Paradise Guild, and many other individuals and organizations. No building permits have been issued as yet for either project, so there is definitely time to get these areas protected. A strong showing from the community on January 17th will help make that a reality.
Those who live here know that South Florida has no need for new shopping or entertainment centers. However it is in desperate need of habitat and green open space for humans and wildlife.

Zoo Miami parking lot:

12400 SW 152nd Street

Miami 33177

See map: http://bit.ly/16zmuzo. Then walk along pine rocklands to Coral Reef Drive and the proposed Walmart site.

Volunteer opportunities for this rally are available. Please contact us for more information: southflo...@yahoo.com

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Saturday January 17, 7-10 p.m. Museum Mixer with the World AIDS Museum

Experience both of Wilton Manors' world-class museums on the 3^rd Saturday of each month during the Island City Art Walk. Free admission and free Hopper Shuttle Bus service to/from

Stonewall Gallery, 2157 Wilton Drive and
The World AIDS Museum, 1201 NE 26^th Street
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Sunday January 18, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p. Fort Lauderdale Peace Talks

Fort Lauderdale Peace Talks is a community service project combining aspects of peace, public speaking, and sustainability. Speakers are given the opportunity to speak for five to seven minutes on an aspect of peace that is important to them.

They are encouraged to speak about their work, the communities and organizations to which they belong, as well as any creative aspect of their life and work that reflects peace. We will have tables available for anyone who would like to share promotional materials about peace—including books they have written or are currently writing.

Flagler Village Farm

601 N.E. 3^rd Avenue

Fort Lauderdale 33304

The Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce located at 512 N.E. 3^rd Avenue (0.1 miles to the south of the farm) has graciously allowed us to use their parking lot on the day of the event. Just park and walk north along NE 3rd Avenue to the farm.

Flagler Village Farm has donated some of their best vegetables to Fort Lauderdale Peace Talks attendees. You'll have some to take home with you from the event.

If you wish to speak at the event, to attend or to volunteer, please respond by Wednesday January 14^thto Terry Conover tcon...@gmail.com 954-240-8967. If you can bring any additional chairs or tables, please include that information.

Please bring a potluck dish/dessert/drink to share with others.

In case seating is limited, please consider bringing your own chairs and/or blankets.

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Sunday January 18, 2 p.m. Citizens United Fifth Anniversary Event

Overturn Citizens United: Public Citizen's Democracy is for People campaign

210 NW 43^rd Place

Deerfield Beach 33064

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 2015 celebration

Sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Coordinating Committee

For more information: call 561-832-4682

Visit us online: www.mlkcc-1444.org

Wednesday January 14, 6 p.m. Performing Arts Auditions

Roosevelt Middle School

1900 N. Australian Avenue

West Palm Beach

Friday January 16, 5 p.m. Arts Awards Reception

Classroom Teachers Association (CTA)

715 Spencer Drive

West Palm Beach

Friday January 16, 7 p.m. Freedom Celebration

Temple Israel

1901 N. Flagler Blvd

West Palm Beach

Friday January 16, 7 p.m. Interfaith Service

Jupiter Church of God

18051 Limestone Creek Road Jupiter

Saturday January 17, 9 a.m. Oratorical Contest

Roosevelt Middle School

1900 N. Australian Avenue

West Palm Beach

Saturday January 17, 7 p.m. Performing Arts Finalists Competition

Roosevelt Middle School

1900 N. Australian Avenue

West Palm Beach

Sunday January 18, 3 p.m. Gospel fest

Orthodox Primitive Baptist Church

2900 Australian Avenue

West Palm Beach

Monday January 19, 8 a.m. Annual Breakfast / MLK Essay Contest Awards

Keynote speaker: Elvin J. Dowling

Artistic and cultural awards will be presented to the participants in the MLK Contest, and the high school winner of the Oratorical Contest will present his or her winning speech.

Palm Beach County Convention Center

650 Okeechobee Blvd.

West Palm Beach

Adults: $45 Students: $25

Monday January 19 Lake Worth’s 21st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration

· 7:30-9 a.m. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, South E Street and 10^th Avenue South. Includes entertainment by Mel and Vinnie duo

· 5 p.m. Candlelight March gathers at Lake Worth City Hall, Lake Avenue and Dixie Highway, and walks down Lake Avenue to the Cultural Plaza, Lake Avenue and M Street

· 5:30 p.m. MLK Commemorative Program in the Cultural Plaza

· 6-8 p.m. MLK Fellowship Dinner at the First Baptist Church,
M Street and 2^nd Ave South

Monday January 19, 7 p.m. Moving Forward Together: a Panel Discussion on Advancing Civil Rights for the LGBT Community

Guest speaker: Suze Orman

Remarks: National Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman

Panelists include:

Mitchell Gold, Founder of Faith in America
Rabbi Dan Levin, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida
David Barkey, ADL Civil Rights Area Counsel
Jamie Schaefer, Board Member of Faith in America
Temple Beth El
333 SW 4^th Avenue
Boca Raton
Free and open to the community. RSVP required at LW...@adl.org
Sponsors: ADL, Northern Trust, Equality Florida, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
                                    —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Wednesday January 21, 12:30-1:30 p.m. West Broward Regional Library
            Lunch and Learn with Public Defender Howard Finkelstein on
Race Relations and the Law
          Multi-Purpose Room at West Broward Regional Library
          8601 West Broward Boulevard
          Plantation
          For more information call (954) 765-1560
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Thursday January 22, 7 p.m. Democratic Women’s Club of Northeast Broward
          Because this date marks the 42^nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, our program will be about Roe v. Wade and our continuing fight to keep abortion healthcare a legal and safe right for women. With the Florida legislature, governor and cabinet squarely anti-choice, we will have another tough year keeping anti-choice legislation from passing.
          Emma Lou Olson Civic Center
          1801 NE 6th Street
          Pompano Beach
          www.dwcneb.org
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Saturday January 24, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Alice Rothchild, Activist, Author, Physician: The Israel/Palestine Conflict

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Saturday January 24, 4 p.m. Palm Beach County National Organization for Women and Emergency Medical Assistance of West Palm Beach

If abortion were totally illegal in your country, and if a Dutch physician and crew sailed into international waters, just offshore, to perform safe medical abortions, would you help? On the 41^st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, come and view the Florida premiere of the acclaimed human rights film Vessel.

MosArt Theatre

700 Park Avenue

Lake Park (Directions at www.MosArtTheatre.com)

All are welcome. Admission is by donation (suggested $10) to Emergency Medical Assistance Inc.

EMA is a local nonprofit that helps improve lives, by providing funding for abortions, travel and lodging for low income women and girls who are faced with an unintended or problem pregnancy. www.emawpb.org

Palm Beach County National Organization for Women (NOW) www.pbcnow.org

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Thursday January 29, 7 p.m. The Criminalization and Mass Incarceration of Immigrants

The public is welcome to hear and respond to anthropologist, social activist and advocate Dr. Christine Ho.

The meeting is sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale.

She has also published opinion pieces, the most recent one addressing the destructive effects of detention on immigrant families, in Reader Supported News, September 3, 2014, http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/125-125/25676-locking-up-american-family-values.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

Contacts: Dr. Christine Ho, chris...@fielding.edu 305-933-6195

Reverent Gail Tapscott- 954-288-4245

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Saturday January 31, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Medea Benjamin, Human Rights Activist, Co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange: How Creative Activism Leads to Change—Examples from the Street

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Saturday January 31, 3-5 p.m. Regional Meeting of the Democratic Women’s Club of Southwest Broward County

Speaker: Dante Trevisani, President of the South Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild: Legal Observers Policing the Police.

This is the group with the green hats that observe, protect and promote the rights of protesters at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as well as protests such as the ones currently being held in Ferguson Missouri, Berkley California, and New York City. Dante will also talk about their short course entitled Knowing Your Rights.

Donato's Ristorante at Regency Square

4831 Southwest 148th Avenue

Davie 33330

All Democrats are invited but must RSVP to Gallu...@yahoo.com to be assured a seat.

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Sunday February 1, 11 a.m. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink

will sermonize on Demilitarization at Home and Abroad.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

Medea Benjamin is a brilliant and captivating personality, an American political activist best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with activist and author Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was also the Green Party candidate in California in 2000 for the United States Senate. She currently contributes to OpEdNews and Huffington Post.

The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders" of the peace movement, and in 1999 San Francisco Magazine included her on its "power list" of the 60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area.

Colloquy with her, after a delicious $3 luncheon.

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Saturday, February 7, 7 a.m. Silent Peace Walk

Rivera Sun from Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence http://paceebene.org/ will be in our area facilitating workshops on nonviolent action for social change. As soon as we have the dates of her workshops we will let you know.

The Silent Peace Walk www.SilentPeaceWalk.org on February 7 is shaping up to be a special one. Rivera said she wants to join our walk, as have many peace activists. Representatives from several peace organizations in the region will afford marchers a great opportunity for networking. Peace lovers, peace activists, promoters of social justice, compassionate people, people with feelings for the poor, are all invited.

https://www.facebook.com/events/779570375447561/

http://www.coralsprings.org/events/eventdetails.cfm?eventid=10129

International Peace Garden at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts

2855 Coral Springs Drive (access through NW 29^th Street)

Coral Springs 33065

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Saturday February 7, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Professor Mark Solomon: Is the USA Inching toward Fascism at Home?

Mark Solomon has a Bachelor's Degree from Wayne State University, an M.A. in History from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in The History of American Civilization from Harvard University. He is currently an Associate at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African Research at Harvard University where he is writing a memoir/narrative on the peace and civil rights movements in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mark has written scores of articles on African American history, race and racism, U.S. foreign policy, globalization, and war and peace issues, which have appeared in both scholarly and popular journals.

Prof. Solomon has also traveled and lectured in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. He has written or edited five books. His most recent are The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 and the editing and writing of an extended Afterword for Victor Grossman’s memoir, Across the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War and Life in East Germany.

Mark is a past national co-chair of the United States Peace Council, was a member of the Presidential Committee of the World Peace Council and was a former national co-chair of The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Saturday February 7, 12 noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.)-3 p.m. Palm Beach County National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)

42^nd Annual Susan B. Anthony Feminist of the Year Awards Luncheon

Honoree: Corinne T. Miller, Voting Rights Advocate

Keynote Speaker: Senator Maria Sachs

Boca Country Club

17751 Boca Club Boulevard

Boca Raton

Directions: I-95 to Congress Ave exit #50; south (left) to Boca Club Boulevard; right turn at entrance

Tickets: $50 members, $65 non-members, $500/table for 11. Special offer: $80 includes ticket and one-year membership

Mail check (payable to PBC NOW) before 1/28/15 to: Shirley Herman, Treasurer, 2600 North Flagler Drive #207, West Palm Beach FL 33407. Include guests’ names as well as your own.

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Thursday February 12, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Feelin’ Groovy:
The Life and Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel

FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter

(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)

Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the door)
More information: 561-799-8547

All of our programs have narration accompanied by slides, and live music accompanied by lyrics for sing-along. We do programs for private communities, if you think your HOA might be interested.

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Thursday February 12, 7 p.m. The Issue of Assisted Dying

Speaker: Rich Palermo

Five states have passed legislation allowing terminally ill people of sound mind to choose to hasten their deaths in a merciful and dignified fashion using lethal doses of barbiturates legally prescribed by their physician. What are the arguments that support and oppose this practice?

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches

635 Prosperity Farms Road

North Palm Beach 33408

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Saturday February 14, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Professor Mark Solomon:

U.S. Imperialism around the World

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Sunday February 15, 1 p.m. War vs Human Needs South Florida and UUCFL Social Justice Committee present

Professor Mark Solomon:

Ukraine—the Danger of a Disastrous Big Power Conflagration

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

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Friday February 20, 7 p.m. War vs Human Needs South Florida and
First United Church of Christ of Lake Worth present

Professor Mark Solomon:

Convergence of the Peace, Climate Change and Human Rights Movements?

First United Church of Christ

1415 North K Street

Lake Worth 33460

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Saturday February 21, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Jeffrey Nall, Professor at Florida Atlantic University

The Facts of Fast-Food Life: Having it OUR Way at THEIR Expense

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Saturday February 28, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Caroline Lewis, Environmental Activist: How Climate Change Impacts Our Lives

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Thursday March 5, 7-9 p.m. PinkSlip—If I Had a Hammer:
The Life and Song of Pete Seeger

A multimedia sing-along program

FAU-Boca Lifelong Learning Society
Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium

Boca Raton

Tickets: $25 at the door; $20 for members with advance registration
Free parking close-by in lots #15 and #16

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Saturday March 7, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Speaker from Center for Constitutional Rights:

Stop and Frisk and Stand Your Ground

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Friday, March 13, 7 p.m. Professor Harry Targ: Globalization in the
21st Century and its Discontents

A talk on the United States, the other rich countries, and growing resistance globally and within countries.

Harry Targ is a professor of political science at Purdue University, specializing in foreign policy, US/Latin American relations, international political economy and working class and peace studies. His books include Strategy of an Empire in Decline: Cold War II; and Challenging Late Capitalism, Neo-Liberal Globalization and Militarism: Building a Progressive Majority. Targ is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) and serves on its National Executive Committee. He has helped organize the new Indiana Moral Mondays Moving Forward Together coalition. His blog is heartlandradical.blogspot.com

First United Church of Christ

1415 North K Street

Lake Worth 33460

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Saturday March 14, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Deepa Kumar, Professor at Rutgers University:

Manufacturing the Terrorist Threat: from the 1970s to the War on Terror

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. (Please see entry dated Saturday March 21 for directions.)

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Sunday, March 15, 1 p.m. The Meaning of Moral Mondays, 2015

Guest speaker: Professor Harry Targ

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

Cosponsored by Occupy Ft Lauderdale Labor Outreach and UUCFL Social Justice Committee.

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Saturday March 21, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. All People’s Day Diversity Festival

To Discover our Connections

9:30-11 a.m. Craft Dough People Workshop (for only 30 kids: to save a space, call (561) 495-9818)
11 a.m.-5 p.m. the Main Event
- Twenty live diversity performances
- Fifty interactive & selling booths
- Ethnic  foods, health fair & prizes
  Pompey Park (indoors)
  1101 N.W. 2^nd Street
            Delray Beach 33444
  All People’s Day is a 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Organization. All events are free of charge.
  For more information, call (561) 495-9818
  View a short festival video www.allpeoplesday.org
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  Saturday March 21, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum

Amy Carol Webb, Composer, Performer: Songs of the People

Activities Center adjacent to LeClub at Deerfield Century Village East. Enter Century Village through the West Gate at West Drive (off Powerline between SW 10th St. and Hillsboro Boulevard). Tell the gatekeeper that you are attending the Forum. Take an immediate left after the gate and then another immediate left. Follow the road around until you come to a "T," then turn left and go to the end of that parking area. The building on the left is the Activity Center. Enter Room A. $5 donation is suggested, but first visit is free. You are advised to call (917) 344-0798 to ensure that these instructions still hold. deerfieldprogressiveforum.org

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Friday April 10, 7 p.m. Discussion of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Discussion will be led by Carol Lewis.

Co-sponsored by War vs Human Needs and First United Church of Christ.

ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE BOOK.

First United Church of Christ

1415 North K Street

Lake Worth 33460

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Wednesday April 8, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip— Voices of Women of the 60's: Joan, Joni, Judy, Janis, Carly and Carole

A multimedia program

FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter

(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)

Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the door)
More information: 561-799-8547

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Friday April 10, 7 p.m. Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence

Father John Dear from Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence will speak.

Saint Maurice Catholic Church

441 NE 2nd Street

Dania Beach 33004

http://www.fatherjohndear.org/

http://paceebene.org/

Local organizer: John Schmidt joh...@bellsouth.net 954-999-6552

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Saturday April 11, 2-3:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Bleecker Street and Beyond:
The Greenwich Village music scene of the 60's

Mandel Public Library
411 Clematis Street

West Palm Beach

561-868-7782 www.mycitylibrary.org

No charge

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Saturday April 18-Sunday April 19 Earth Day Fair, the Heart of Florida Earth Festival 2015

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton

2601 St. Andrews Boulevard

Boca Raton 33434

and the adjoining Woodlands Park

Plan to visit the alternative-fuel car park, the bicycle corral, the green business eco-park, the kids’ activity area, and the food truck. Enjoy live music.

Renewable energy. We will highlight alternative-fuel cars and solar energy in booths and in the alternative-fuel car park.
Youth programming will teach our kids about energy. The need for renewable energy sources is acute in our region, because our current energy grid cannot support the amount of pumping that will be necessary to manage water as the sea level rises.
Sea level rise in Southeast Florida. The HighWaterLine Delray Project will culminate in a community project drawing 15 miles of chalk line showing the high water line at 3 feet or 6 feet of sea level rise in Delray Beach. Our region is already experiencing climate change impacts in the form of flooding, saltwater intrusion into our drinking water wells, and failing canal infrastructure.
Protection of our water supply and Everglades restoration. Outreach and education on water conservation are important to protect our water supply. Youth programming on water issues, with Girl Scout Badges, and booths and displays for adults on water management, will be highlighted at the festival.
Air quality. Youth programming on air quality will be offered. Non-profit booths will offer opportunities for citizens to sign petitions and to learn about Florida’s air quality challenges.
Partners include: The Unitarian Universalist Southeast Florida Cluster; Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida; First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches; Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida; The U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter; Sierra Club Loxahatchee Chapter; Eve Mosher and the HighWaterLine Project; The League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County (with partial funding from the Florida Humanities Council); The U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter; Florida Atlantic University Pine Jog Environmental Center; The City of Delray Beach; EcoArt South Florida; The Delray Beach Rising Waters Task Force; The Delray Beach Historic Marina District Home Owners Association
For further information, please go to:
www.faithify.org/projects/florida-earth-festival/#sthash.AWdpUjTW.6zWMd0vu.dpuf
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Sunday April 19, 1 p.m. Discussion of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Discussion will be led by Carol Lewis.

Co-sponsored by War vs Human Needs and UUCFL Social Justice Committee.

ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE BOOK.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale

3970 NW 21^st Avenue

Oakland Park 33309

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