Community of Reason KC

Program for January 25, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Rev. Sam E. Mann, D. Min., Civil rights activist

Program for January 18, 2015, 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Fred Whitehead, Poet, freethought historian, author and activist

Program for January 11, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Dr. Vernon Percy Howard, Jr., Senior Pastor at St. Mark’s Church, Kansas City, Missouri, “The Place for Christian Empowerment in The Urban Core”

Diana and Bob Suckiel will lead the group in civil rights and freedom songs the first part of this presentation.

Program for January 4, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Conveners: Dave Carson (non-homeowner), Luis Flores, (moderator), Mike Hoey, (media specialist), Ray Riepen, (retired impresario)

Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion

Program for December 28, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Argun Saatcioglu, Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, University of Kansas

The following are links of interest based on Argun’s presentation

Program for December 21, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

John Kurmann, Community activist and co-coordinator of 350KC, the local arm of the 350.org, international grassroots climate action movement.

Program for December 14, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Jim Glover, Councilman 4th District At-large, Kansas City

Program for December 7, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

June Carbone, Professor, University of Minnesota, Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology. Author of Family Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2014) (with Leslie Harris), and Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family(Oxford University Press, 2014) (with Naomi Cahn)

Program for November 30, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Moderators: David Carson, local Freethinker and non-motorist; and, Ray Riepen, retired lawyer.

Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion.

The following conferences and books were recommended during the discussion

Conferences;

• Progress MO this week  http://www.progressmissouri.org/content/new-details-2014-progressive-summit-december-5-6-columbia
•  FDIC: AEI  next week  https://www.fdic.gov/news/conferences/other_events/2014-12-11-kc.html
•   Tikkun SF  http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/reclaim-america-after-2014-elections-please-come-to-our-conference-dec-14th

The Books;

•  Gomorrah by Robert Saviano  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Saviano
•  This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein  http://books.simonandschuster.com/This-Changes-Everything/Naomi-Klein/9781451697384
•  Transition Books   http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/transition
•  350  Organization    http://350.org/

Program for November 23, 2014
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

David E Kingsley, Ph. D., Professor of Statistics (retired) at KU Med Center, Department of Health Policy and Management