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TUESDAY, November 24th
Charlie Brennan
CURRENT EVENTS
Our speaker will be Charlie Brennan, host of the weekday late-morning show on KMOX radio, and longtime panel member, and soon-to-be provocateur, of Donnybrook, the weekly discussion of current events Thursday nights on KTVI.
TUESDAY, October 27th
Avrom Handleman
A RATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM
Avrom Handleman, inventor, peace activist, entrepreneur, consultant, MIT grad., and former President of the JTDC, will present "A Rational Energy Program" at theOctober meeting. Ave will propose his "long-range program to get energy while putting Americans to work".
TUESDAY, July 28th
Tracy McCreery
314.569.0943
Tracy McCreery: Look Beneath the Surface: Human Trafficking 101
Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery.
Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Victims are young children, teenagers, men and women.
Tracy McCreery is the district aide for State Senator Joan Bray (D St. Louis County). Tracy is part of the St. Louis Rescue and Restore Coalition's outreach committee.
TUESDAY, August 25th
Bill Ramsey
War Crimes: Accountability and American Exceptionalism
He is a founder and coordinator of St. Louis Justice and Peace Shares, a collaborative effort among seven small St. Louis organizations working for nonviolent social change.
Bill has participated in movements including: the end of the Vietnam War, the rights of farm workers, the banning of nuclear weapons, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and the halt of sweatshops and child labor practices by U.S. corporations.
Bill Ramsey: Brief Biographical Information:
(a complete resume is available upon request)
Bill Ramsey is the founder and sole operator of the Human Rights Action Service (HRAS) based in St. Louis. As an independent researcher/writer he provides a monthly Buyer’s Guide to Human Rights and a Media Watch on Human rights and letters responding to specific human rights violations for over 300 HRAS subscribers.
Bill is a founder and coordinator of St. Louis Justice and Peace Shares, a collaborative effort among seven small St. Louis organizations working for nonviolent social change. Bill is a member of the Core Group of the Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America, a participant in the St. Louis Instead of War Coalition, a member of the St. Louis Covenant Community of War Tax and a founding member of the Catholic Action Network for Social Justice .
The movements that Bill has participated in and helped to organize over the past 30 years include movements to: end the Vietnam War, foster conscience objection to war, secure rights for farm workers, abolish nuclear weapons, end Apartheid in South Africa, provide sanctuary for Central American refugees, halt U.S. military intervention in Central America, abolish the death penalty, prevent and halt the Gulf War (1991) and the Iraq War (2003) , attain political asylum for Haitian refugees, create peace in Bosnia, resolve the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, lift economic sanctions on Iraq and halt sweatshops and child labor practices by U.S. corporations.
He worked for the American Friends Service Committee from 1975-80 in High Point , Atlanta, and from 1981-97 in St. Louis. In 1980-81 he worked on a St. Louis Economic Conversion Project research project funded by the Ford Foundation. His commentaries and analysis of U.S. foreign policy, human rights issues, news coverage have been published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis Journalism Review. His articles on war tax refusal and redirection have appeared in a number of journals. He is married and the father of five children. He is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and High Point College in North Carolina . |
