Community of Reason KC

Program for March 8, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Michèle Foster, Professor and Sherman Family Endowed Chair of Urban Education Research/Executive Director, Urban Education Research Center

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

David Carson (non-cellphone owner and convener), Luis Flores, (moderator), Mike Hoey (media specialist), and, Ray Riepen, (retired bookseller and convener)

Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion.

Discussion link: tomdispatch/authors/WilliamAstore

On April 5, the book, This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein will be discussed.

Program for February 22, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Winston Apple,  Founder of PopulistinAction.org,  author of  Edutopia, A Manifesto for the Reform of Public Education.

Program for February 15, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Mindy L Walker, Ph.D., Evolutionary Geneticist, Associate Professor of Biology, Rockhurst University

Program for February 8, 2015
1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Haag Hall, Room 301

Judy Dollard, Professional geographer and retired teacher activist

We’ll examine details of the discovery of human remains of 5000-year-old Chalcolithiz man found in the Italian Alps

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

Moderators: David Carson (non-cellphone owner and convener), Luis Flores, (moderator), Mike Hoey (media specialist), and, Ray Riepen, (retired bookseller and convener)

Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion.

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