Presentation at Friendly House by David Delk. Democracy is under threat in several ways. Some of those ways are hidden. Others are in plain sight. Delk discusses three ways, and then takes a deeper dive into one of them -- the Military-Industrial Complex. He discusses ways to combat militarism. David Delk is an activist and a Unitarian Universalist. His work has centered on campaign finance reform in Oregon, as well as anti-war work with the Peace & Action Group of the First Unitarian Church and the Alliance for Democracy, of which he is national co-chair.
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Hidden Threats to Democracy
12/22/2024
David Delk
Why You Should Still Move to Uruguay
12/15/2024
Jeff Seward
Presentation by Jeff Seward. Jeff offers an overview of his experience in Uruguay over the last three months and then provide a post-mortem analysis of the 2024 election. Now that Trump has won, Jeff believes that Uruguay is a wonderful option. Jeff has a Ph.D from Stanford. He has had a career in public television as a political reporter, news anchor, and film producer. A retired professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University, he has presented to us many times in the past.
Freethought Democracy vs Christian Supremacy
12/08/2024
Chris Highland
The ultimate goal of the Christian Nationalist Crusade is to “take America back for God” by imposing “biblical law”. Chris Highland presents an overview of the leadership of this crusade. Highland is a teacher and writer in Western North Carolina. He is a former Presbyterian minister and is now a humanist freethinker. Author of over 30 books, he writes a weekly “Highland Views” column for the Asheville Citizen-Times (in the USA Today network).
Russia & Ukraine
11/24/2024
Chia Yin Hsu
Presentation at Friendly House by Chia Yin Hsu who provides a picture of the relations between Russia and Ukraine from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era. Chia Yin Hsu is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University. Her research focuses on Russian and Soviet views of ethnicity and nationality. She has published in academic journals and is also coeditor of two anthologies of essays on the cultural aspect of economic and monetary history.