Five Towns Forum 2008-11-18T15:32:37Z http://fivetownsforum.com/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast September 2008 Meeting tag:fivetownsforum.com,2008-09-21:3a411dc2-9cd4-4548-97a5-e6fdcd3969aa Maria Kuriloff 2008-09-21T19:57:18Z 2008-09-21T19:52:00Z 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!]]> A Message from the Membership Committee tag:fivetownsforum.com,2008-09-21:52601a3c-0eb1-45d5-b685-373b861d68c5 Maria Kuriloff 2008-09-21T15:45:32Z 2008-09-21T15:35:00Z
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
]]> June 13, 2008 Meeting tag:fivetownsforum.com,2008-05-18:773aeb5a-430e-4b2b-ba46-ef0175af9d9c Maria Kuriloff 2008-05-18T22:18:26Z 2008-05-18T21:41:00Z 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.”

 

]]> May 9, 2008 Meeting at 8pm Sharp! tag:fivetownsforum.com,2008-04-18:268d2be7-4aab-4cd6-a84d-6fb7136704c8 Maria Kuriloff 2008-04-18T17:22:44Z 2008-04-18T17:04:00Z 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
 
 
 
]]> Global Warming & the Struggle For Justice A Talk by Brian Tokar tag:fivetownsforum.com,2008-04-02:5f810444-0482-4eb0-970d-e003478f403e Maria Kuriloff 2008-04-02T22:26:35Z 2008-04-02T22:10:00Z
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
]]> March Meeting Notice tag:fivetownsforum.com,2007-02-18:e4f70c4b-eb27-4ecb-b7bc-d69611b4fce1 Maria Kuriloff 2007-02-18T00:29:00Z 2007-02-18T00:29:00Z 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
]]> MEETING NOTICE tag:fivetownsforum.com,2007-01-18:a7d4d3a2-3943-43c4-a70a-58777f1aa4d6 Maria Kuriloff 2007-01-18T19:58:14Z 2007-01-18T19:09:00Z 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. 
 
        
 
CONTACT:  ROCHELLE DORFMAN - (516) 623-5689
                  www.FiveTownsForum.org
]]> WAR, TORTURE & U.S. POLICY TOWARD LATIN AMERICA tag:fivetownsforum.com,2006-10-04:74ca94d4-5708-4078-a53f-0e1f89166fbb Maria Kuriloff 2006-10-04T05:56:00Z 2006-10-04T05:56:00Z
In Conjunction With The Five Towns Forum
Hofstra University & Nassau Community College

Presents
Professor Lesley Gill

WAR, TORTURE & U.S. POLICY TOWARD LATIN AMERICA

October 19, 2006

1:00 P.M. - Nassau Community College
Tower Building, Room 1208

4:30 P.M. - Hofstra University
Breslin Hall, Room 103


American University Associate Professor of Anthropology Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas will discuss her many years of field research in Latin America including her book and her recently completed fact-finding trip to Colombia.

For additional information, please call:
Hofstra University: 516-463-5602
Nassau Community College: 516-572-7794



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