Canvass and SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-367
Bob Bender
In 2013-14,Occupy Ft Lauderdale Labor Outreach's primary work was supporting airline contract workers at FLL, working with SEIU to improve their conditions, and ultimately for them to be included in the Broward County Living Wage ordinance.We also followed up on our 2012-13 activity which led to the enactment of a Broward County Wage Recovery (Theft) ordinance, we fought further attempts in the Florida legislature to erode county options to improve workers' benefits, and we held meetings on the Robin Hood Tax and other initiatives.
We have the opportuinity to be briefed on the current status of the TransPacific Partnership bill, “NAFTA on Steroids" which has bipartisan support (and opposition) and probably will come up in Congress in the next period. The bill has earned the acute concern of labor and environmentalists regarding further deterioration of working conditions and environmental standards, exports of jobs and for an internal judicial system which can override national, state and local laws.
Brother Fred Frost, of South Florida Working Families and the former head of the AFL-CIO Miami Dade Labor Council who a few years ago provided us with an excellent briefing on the situation with American Airlines can inform us of where TPP stands and what popular actions are called for.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU MIGHT ATTEND SUCH A MEETING IN OAKLAND PARK AND,IF YOU WOULD, WHEN – in general, in what weekly time slots.
Suggestions of other initiatives are also welcome.
Sunday January 11, 1 p.m. Challenges to the New Jim Crow Updated
Accomplished activist, researcher, advocate, administrator and pioneer Rebecca Doggett will update South Florida on challenges to the New Jim Crow at the invitation of the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale.
Becky’s life-long social activism was ramped up, like that of hundreds of thousands of others, by Michelle Alexander's landmark The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She redoubled her efforts toward building the new social movement for which Alexander called, i.e., the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth. She will update us on the progress that has been made in this regard during the past four years, nationally and in her home state of New Jersey, and will provide us with an opportunity for discussion about what’s been happening here in Florida.
Rebecca Doggett chairs the Undoing Racism Committee of the UU Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey and has been a leader both within that congregation as well as in the NJ-wide Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth.
Becky is a retired Senior Fellow of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), a non-profit research and advocacy organization. While there, she helped establish the Essex County Construction Careers Program which successfully enrolled over 400 local residents into union construction trade apprenticeships.
Previously, Becky was Special Assistant for Community Development to the
Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, where she was instrumental in forging the partnership between the school system and the community based early childhood centers under the New Jersey-funded Abbott Early Childhood Program.
Becky was the first Director of Business and Job Opportunity for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She established the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors and other initiatives which were instrumental in bringing over $100 million per year in business opportunities to minority and small businesses in the region. She was the first Director of the Essex County Department of Citizen Services where she spearheaded welfare and social service reforms.
Prior to her public service career, she was the Executive Director of Tri-City People’s Corporation and founding president of the Newark Preschool Council, Newark’s citywide Head Start agency. She has also served on many non-profit boards, including serving as Chair of the Center for Community Change based in Washington, DC.
The public is welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
3970 NW 21st Avenue
Oakland Park 33309
“Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don’t know how to face. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work. . . Alexander considers the evidence and concludes that our prison system is a unique form of social control, much like slavery and Jim Crow, the systems it has replaced. . . [She] is not the first to offer this bitter analysis, but The New Jim Crow is striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing. Her tone is disarming throughout; she speaks as a concerned citizen, not as an expert, though she is one. She can make the abstract concrete, as J. Saunders Redding once said in praise of W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and history.”
—The New York Review of Books, March 2011.
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Saturday January 3 2015, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Leonore Tiefer, NYU Educator, Therapist, Author:
Sex is More Like Dancing than Digestion: the Medicalization of Sexuality
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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Sunday January 4, 6-8 p.m. Transition Palm Beaches presents
Colony1: Reclaiming our City for Resiliency
A talk by Blair Butterfield, director of The Art of Cultural Evolution
She will be discussing her organization's Colony1 project, a sustainability center being built in the heart of Wynwood Miami. Colony1's programming is geared towards resiliency and connectivity in the community. The center will house a zero packaging bulk food store, a teaching event kitchen, a learning demonstration food garden, an art and science residency program, an exhibition space and a youth classroom. The goal of Colony1 is to share knowledge to help move our cities towards adopting more sustainable practices. Check out more at www.artofculturalevolution.org
Friends Quaker Meeting House
823 N “A” Street
Lake Worth 33460
Pot Luck: Light snacks and finger foods. Beverages provided.
Free and open to the public, but RSVP to yogim...@gmail.com is requested.
Cultural Evolution is a non-profit dedicated to fostering a sustainable future for all.
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Tuesday January 6, 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Two courthouse demonstrations for Equal Marriage Day
We will be gathering on the west side of the Palm Beach County Courthouse.
The nature of the action will depend on whether the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts will issue marriage licenses to same sex couples that day or not.
Therefore, they will either be celebrations for those receiving their licenses in Palm Beach County and elsewhere, or protests against Pam Bondi who continues to threaten the Clerks of Court throughout the state. We should be prepared either way, as we may not know until Monday January 5.
Quadrille between Banyan and 3rd Street
West Palm Beach
If you plan to be there in the morning you can come a little later, but the gathering will start at 7:30 a.m. and marriage licenses will be processed beginning at 8:00 or 8:30 a.m.
There are low cost parking lots and garages at Banyan & Dixie and also at Banyan and Olive. http://www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/maincourthouse.aspx
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Tuesday January 6, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Messages in Harmony:
The Story and Songs of Peter, Paul and Mary
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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Saturday January 10, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Growing Green Communities
Growing Green Communities is an annual event sponsored by Slow Food Glades to Coast, Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, and Pine Jog Elementary School. This year's conference—Eat It to Save It!—will focus on Preserving Food Biodiversity and will feature workshops, tastings, tours, and a panel on heirloom products. Attendees will learn why it is critical to maintain a diversity of crops and why that is important for our food system.
Speakers will include:
Dr. Richard Campbell (Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden)
Svetlana Simon (Heritage Hen)
Gabby Lothrup (Slow Food Southeast Regional Governor and East End Market Director in Orlando)
Susan Lerner (member of the Palm Beach Chapter of the Rare Fruit Council)
Noel Ramos (member of the Rare Fruit and Vegetable Council of Broward County)
Mario Yanez (Earth Learning)
Pine Jog Environmental Education Center
6301 Summit Boulevard
West Palm Beach 33415
Tickets are available through the Slow Food Glades to Coast website at www.slowfoodgladestocoast.com and include lunch.
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Saturday January 10, 10 a.m.-12 noon Deerfield Progressive Forum
Brian Jones: Educator, Actor and Social Justice Activist:
The Radical Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
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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Sunday January 11, 1 p.m. Challenges to the New Jim Crow Updated
Accomplished activist, researcher, advocate, administrator and pioneer Rebecca Doggett will update South Florida on challenges to the New Jim Crow at the invitation of the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale.
Becky’s life-long social activism was ramped up, like that of hundreds of thousands of others, by Michelle Alexander's landmark The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She redoubled her efforts toward building the new social movement for which Alexander called, i.e., the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth. She will update us on the progress that has been made in this regard during the past four years, nationally and in her home state of New Jersey, and will provide us with an opportunity for discussion about what’s been happening here in Florida.
Rebecca Doggett chairs the Undoing Racism Committee of the UU Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey and has been a leader both within that congregation as well as in the NJ-wide Movement to End Mass Incarceration, Police Terror and the Criminalization of Youth.
Becky is a retired Senior Fellow of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), a non-profit research and advocacy organization. While there, she helped establish the Essex County Construction Careers Program which successfully enrolled over 400 local residents into union construction trade apprenticeships.
Previously, Becky was Special Assistant for Community Development to the
Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, where she was instrumental in forging the partnership between the school system and the community based early childhood centers under the New Jersey-funded Abbott Early Childhood Program.
Becky was the first Director of Business and Job Opportunity for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She established the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors and other initiatives which were instrumental in bringing over $100 million per year in business opportunities to minority and small businesses in the region. She was the first Director of the Essex County Department of Citizen Services where she spearheaded welfare and social service reforms.
Prior to her public service career, she was the Executive Director of Tri-City People’s Corporation and founding president of the Newark Preschool Council, Newark’s citywide Head Start agency. She has also served on many non-profit boards, including serving as Chair of the Center for Community Change based in Washington, DC.
The public is welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
3970 NW 21st Avenue
Oakland Park 33309
“Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don’t know how to face. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work. . . Alexander considers the evidence and concludes that our prison system is a unique form of social control, much like slavery and Jim Crow, the systems it has replaced. . . [She] is not the first to offer this bitter analysis, but The New Jim Crow is striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing. Her tone is disarming throughout; she speaks as a concerned citizen, not as an expert, though she is one. She can make the abstract concrete, as J. Saunders Redding once said in praise of W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and history.”
—The New York Review of Books, March 2011.
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Sunday January 11, 2-4 p.m. Protest to Shut Down Guantanamo
Thirteen years ago, the United States brought the first detainees to Guantanamo Bay. The detention center has since then become a place of torture and shame. Released detainees claimed that waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and forced drugging were used on prisoners. Six detainees have committed suicide.
WikiLeaks produced documents from the US government stating that at least 150 Afghanis and Pakistanis detained in Guantanamo were never a risk at all, were brought in by mistake or for no clear reason, and then were held without due process for years. These innocent people include a camera man from Al Jazeera and a 70 year old with dementia with "no reason on record" for being held. They have been separated from their families and subjected to cruel treatment for absolutely no reason.
Join us on this terrible anniversary as we march to the headquarters of Southern Command, the center that operates Guantanamo, and demand that thirteen years of torture and thirteen years of shame come to an end!
March begins at NW 36th Street and NW 87th Avenue
Doral, Florida
March concludes with a rally at US Southern Command
9301 NW 33rd Street
Doral, Florida 33172
Facebook event: bit.ly/miagitmo #CloseGitmo #MIAProtestGitmo
If you or your group would like to co-sponsor by helping to organize the event, or simply endorse the action, please email powirsou...@gmail.com
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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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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. 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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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
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
Friday January 9, 6 p.m. Kick-off Reception
Dr. MLK Jr. Landmark Memorial
Sponsored by In Time Church of God in Christ
Saturday January 10, 9 a.m. MLK—Urban League Basketball
Salvation Army, Northwest Center
600 N. Rosemary Avenue
West Palm Beach
Saturday January 10, 1 p.m. Soccer
Gaines Park
West Palm Beach
Saturday January 10, 7 p.m. Candlelight Service
Dr. MLK Jr. Landmark Memorial
Sponsored by Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Sunday January 11, 4 p.m. Unity Day
Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church
1220 Pioneer Road
Mangonia Park
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 10th 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 2nd 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 4th 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 LawMulti-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 42nd 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
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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. 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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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 41st 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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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. 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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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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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. 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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Thursday February 12, 2015 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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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. 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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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 21st 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. 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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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. 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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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. 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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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. 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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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. 2nd 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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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.AWdp