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Noodling Around Northern India
08/03/2014
Robert Sanford

Robert Sanford has been a world traveler for many years and has given us presentations in the past. This time, he talks about his adventures  in northern India -- mostly in Rajasthan with some time spent in Uttar Pradesh. He visited a number of major cities there. He's been a serious photographer over the years, and he describes his travels as “following his camera around.

Portland’s Eccentrics
07/27/2014
Heather Arndt Anderson

Presentation by Heather Arndt Anderson. We've all seen the bumper stickers, but what made Portland weird in the first place? Maybe it was the fluoride-free water, or the magnetic fields around Mt. Tabor, but Portland has a long history of coddling eccentrics, including the telekinetic wife of a wealthy Congressman. Come learn about a few of the major players from a century ago. Heather Arndt Anderson is a Portland-based culinary historian and food writer. She is the author of Breakfast: A History (2013) and the forthcoming Portland: A Food Biography (2014).

Constitutional Amendment
07/20/2014
David Delk

Presentation by David Delk. The court-created doctrines that money is speech and that corporations are people undermine our democracy, and moves us toward corporatocracy and plutocracy. How did this happen? How do we respond? David Delk is the national co-chair of Alliance for Democracy and local co-president. He also founded the local chapter of Move to Amend, advocating for a 28th constitutional amendment.

Fourteen Years in the Oregon Legislature
07/13/2014
Carolyn Tomei

Representative Carolyn Tomei provides a summary of the 2013 and 2014 legislative session. As she will be retiring at the end of 2014, she offers highlights of her legislative career, especially as they relate to the separation of church and state. Tomei is a member of HGP and is now in her seventh term in the Oregon Legislature. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the House Human Services and Housing Committee. Twenty years ago, she was on the Milwaukie City Council. She was among the first to advocate for the Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail Line which opens Sept. 2015.

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