Annual Sumer Fundraiser
Sunday June 7, 2009
at 2pm
At the home of Ruth and Dan Brenner
Call Chlly Dorfman for more details
623-5689
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Since 1973 New York State has lived under the Rockefeller Drug Law. Instead of beginning to solve the drug problem, it has only made things worse. Mandatory harsh punishment disconnected from the offense has become common. It has irrationally limited judicial discretion. Prosecutors’ pursuit of information has led to false “snitching” and convictions. In a word, the drug law has become an abomination. Fortunately, this year the law has undergone a massive transformation.
The 2009 Rockefeller Drug Law Reform: In the Interest of Justice?
A Talk by
Stephen Kunken
Our speaker, a criminal defense lawyer, is Village Justice of the Village of Huntington Bay. He is in private practice and before that worked for the Nassau Legal Aid Society. For more than a decade, he was an Associate Dean of the Suffolk Academy of Law. For the past 25 years, he has been an adjunct professor of Touro Law School.
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Sharp!
7:30 p.m. for coffee and cake
Hewlett-Woodmere Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
Mark the date on your calendar and try to be there.
Please note that this talk is scheduled for the third Friday of the month and not our usual se cond Friday.
Admission is free.
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What Obama Needs to Know About Intelligence
A Talk by
MELVIN A. GOODMAN
Our speaker will outline the recent analytical and operational failures of the Central Intelligence Agency and concentrate on the need for reform. He will highlight such failures as the failure to anticipate the decline of the Soviet Union; the failure to provide strategic warning for 9/11; and the corrupt intelligence provided to the White House in the run-up to the Iraq War. Goodman, an intelligence insider, with 24 years of experience at the CIA, will suggest a reform agenda for the CIA and the intelligence community, and will assess the impact that Obama has had thus far.
Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow and untitled director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy. He was division chief and senior analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to 1990. He was a senior analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Departme nt from 1974 to 1976. He is co-author of The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze (2nd edition, 2001), The Phantom Defense, America’s Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (2001) and Bush League Diplomacy; How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk (2004). He will be available to sign copies of his most recent book The Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Sharp!
7:30 p.m. for coffee and cake
Hewlett-Woodmere Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
Admission is Free.
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Anthony Arnove on Iraq after the November 2008 Elections
Friday, September 19, 2008
at 8PM
Coffee, Tea or Cake at 7:30
Hewlett-Woodmere Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
Admission is FREE!
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Dear Members and Loyal Supporters,
Gas prices are at an all time high, home foreclosure rates are up, the national average of folks who are unemployed is 5.50%,
inflation is 5.05% as of June 2008. The U.S. is involved in 2 international conflicts- Afghanistan and Iraq, the baby boomers
are ageing, Social Security is almost bankrupt, and Obama and McCain are not talking issues.
Has all this news got you down?
Cheer up. At least the Five Towns Forum membership dues is still only $30 per person for the 2008-2009 season.
That's right, your $30 membership will give you 12 months of exciting information and discussion on national and international issues.
Refreshments and dessert are included too!
Folks ask us all the time, "how do you do it"? The answer is simple, YOU.
We rely on your membership dollars. So please renew your membership today. You might want to give a gift membership to that special someone.
And while you're at it, how about making an additional contribution. Our costs are rising too. We need YOU.
Thank you,
Maria Kuriloff
Membership Committee Chair
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The Untold Story of the Iraq War
A talk by Kris Goldsmith
U.S. Iraq War Vet
Graduate of Mepham High School in Bellmore Long Island, N.Y.
Friday, June 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Hewlett-Woodmere Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, N.Y.
Kris, a former Army Sergeant, said the following at the Winter Soldiers Hearings in Washington D.C. “I joined the army to kill people. I joined the army to kill Iraqis, to kill Muslim, to kill people [with] a skin tone that was other than mine.” He then apologized, “I’m no longer a racist, no longer filled with hatred like that.”
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Standing Up to the Madness
Repression and Resistance and Renewal
after 9/11 - an American Journey
a talk by David Goodman
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
Bestselling author David Goodman will speak about his new book
(co-authored with his sister Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!),
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in
Extraordinary Times. The book chronicles the Goodmans’ journeys
around the U.S. profiling ordinary citizens who have stood up to government
repression since 9/11.
CONTACT: ROCHELLE DORFMAN – (516) 623-5689
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Efforts to prevent catastrophic global warming have become a signature struggle of our time. While scientists emphasize the potential long-range consequences of continuing climate changes, the world’s poorest people are already directly affected. The destruction of many New Orleans neighborhoods by Hurricane Katrina is linked to long-range climate trends, and the UN’s World Development Report states that one out of 19 people in the global South has already been impacted by increased droughts, floods, wildfires and other consequences of climate disruption. While the US has historically been the largest source of excessive emissions of "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere, our government lags far behind the rest of the world in addressing the problem. We will explore the global justice dimensions of today’s climate changes, and discuss the economic, political and social transformations that are needed to sustain the earth’s ecological balances and our hopes for a more just society.
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1970's, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology, based in Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), and edited Redesigning Life?, an international collection on the politics and implications of biotechnology, (Zed Books, 2001), as well as Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and Globalization of Hunger (Toward Freedom, 2004). Brian has lectured throughout the US, as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for food sovereignty and global justice. His articles on environmental issues, emerging ecological movements, and resistance to genetic engineering appear in Z Magazine, Earth Island Journal, Toward Freedom, and on websites such as Counterpunch, Znet, Truthout, and WW4Report. Brian holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.
April 11, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Sharp!
7:30 p.m. for coffee and cake
Hewlett-Woodmere Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
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MEETING NOTICE
DATE: Friday, March 9, 2007 at 8 p.m.
PLACE: Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
SUBJECT: Today’s Youth Activism.
SPEAKER: Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic. She is graduate of the University of Chicago College and the Law School. She is a visiting professor, teaching Human Rights each year at the University of Chicago and Vrieje University in Amsterdam.
SPONSORED BY: FIVE TOWNS FORUM
CONTACT: ROCHELLE DORFMAN - (516) 623-5689
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DATE: Friday, February 9, 2007 at 8 p.m.
PLACE: Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
1125 Broadway
Hewlett, New York
SUBJECT: Will the recent split in the labor movement strengthen Labor’s hand in the future?
SPEAKER: Eugene G. Eisner
Mr. Eisner is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations and N.Y.U. Law School. He is a charter member of the Advisory Board of the N.Y.U. Law School Center for Labor & Employment Law. He previously was a member of the NLRB, Labor-Management Advisory Board.
He has been a leading advocate in the field of labor and employment law for over forty years.
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