2018-19  MEETING

Dec. 14 -Separated: Children at the border

Film from PBS Frontline

Dec 21 - Prisoner Rights

Paul Wright, founder and director, Human Rights Defense Center and editor of "Prison Legal News"

Jan 4 - Hate Groups in America

Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center

Jan 11 - Racial Justice

Center for Constitutional Rights -- Speaker to be announced

Jan 18 - Jazz and Civil Rights

Dick Lowenthal, jazz musician and educator

Jan 25 - Political Struggles in Africa

Ernest Harsch, Journalist and research scholar, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University

Feb 1 - Iran

Medea Benjamin, peace and human rights activist, author, and co-founder of CODEPINK

Feb 8 - POTUS vs. SCOTUS

Frank Askin - retired lawyer and scholar

Feb 15 - The Manufactured Memory of Slavery

Ethan Kytle and Blain Roberts, Professors of History, California State University at Fresno, co-authors of "Denmark Vesey's Garden"

Feb 22 - Venezuela and Colombia

Dan Kovalik, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, author and lecturer on global human rights and author of "The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela, How the U.S. is Organizing a Coup for Oil"

Feb 29 - America's Abusive Immigration Practices

Center for Constitutional Rights -- Speaker TBA

Mar 7 - Roots of Gun Violence

Thomas Gabor, criminologist and international gun policy consultant and author of "Confronting Gun Violence in America"

March 14 - Film -- TBA

March 21 - Songs of Resistance

The Pink Slip leads us in songs of protest from legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and Woodie Guthrie

March 28 - The Bagel Party