Important events and links
- “Shining Light on Dark Politics," by Max Skidmore published is the current issue of Poverty and Public Policy 8:3 (September 2016). Link to the article http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pop4.146/full.
- See Climate Disruption, Moral Obligations and Existential Choices by Ben Kjelshus in our Essays page
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Civil Rights: ACLU’s 21st Century Goals
Program for Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Gary Brunk, Executive Director of ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri The new Director shared current concerns of utmost urgency: voting rights, immigration, reproduction … Continue reading
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What About Electric Cars?
Program for Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall John Kurmann, ReEnergizeKC (ReEnergizeKC.org), Craig Volland, (picture not available) Spectrum Technologies and Air Quality Chair of the Kansas City Sierra Club The technology of the … Continue reading
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Occupy Kansas City: A Hope for Democracy
Program for Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Participants and friends of Occupy Kansas City discussed and shared their experiences with the movement. They shared their ideas for coming actions and … Continue reading
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Freethought and Christmas
Program for Sunday, December 25, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Individual members of Community of Reason talked about their own sources of joy, inspiration and the guidelines they use as the basis for … Continue reading
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The Workings of Common Sense
Program for Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Dr. Hiten Soni, Psychiatry Residency Program, UMKC. (His primary interest in addiction medicine and critical thinking.) Dr. Soni examined the mental processes that … Continue reading
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What the Pro-Choice Movement is Doing Wrong
Program for Sunday, December 11, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Rev. Rebecca Turner, Minister of Disciples of Christ Church and Executive Director of Faith Aloud (whose mission is to eliminate the religious stigma … Continue reading
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The Benefits of Planting and Caring for Trees
Program for Sunday, December 4, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Kevin Lapoine, Kansas City Forester, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department Kevin stressed the social, community, environmental and economic value of trees. There is … Continue reading
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Morals Through Reason
Program for Sunday, November 27, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Sarah Hargreaves, Kansas City Atheist Coalition President and Adam Brown, K.C.A.C. Marketing and Public Relations Director Founders of the new group K.C.A.C described … Continue reading
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Puerto Rico: Past, Present and Future
Program for Sunday, November 20, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Eric Dollard, Self-made scholar with a long-time interest in geography in general and a special interest in Puerto Rico Eric discussed the political … Continue reading
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Remembering Selma 46 Years Later
Program for Sunday, November 13, 2011 1:00 pm till 3:00 pm, at UMKC, Room 301, Haag Hall Sister Rosemary Flanigan, March 10, 1965 St Louis delegate to Selma, Alabama It is apt that Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help, became … Continue reading
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