Guest Speakers and their Lectures
at
Events
2001-2008
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Phil Angelides Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club The Current Crisis in California Politics
James Anthony Pacific Zen Institute Enlightenment and Happiness
Shaka At-Thinnin Black August Organizing Committee Furthering the Movement The Prison Industrial Complex
Byron Belitsos Origin Press 9/11 Uncensored
Medea Benjamin Global Exchange and Code Pink Support the Resolution of Inquiry
Dereca Blackman Leadership Excellence African-Americans in the 2004 Elections
Dorsey Blake Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Objectors and GI Rights Michael Boehm Veterans for Peace Mylai Peace Park and Other Peace Projects in Vietnam
Robert Bowman
The Patriots Let's
Take Back America
Lenni Brenner Free Speech Movement Zionism, the Democrats, and Kerry
Linda Burnham Women of Color Resource Center African-Americans in the 2004 Elections
Connie Burton WMNF Radio Station, Florida Free Speech is Under Attack!
Darryl Cherney Earth First! Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Michael Connell Service Employees International Union Local 87 Independent Unions, Democracy, and the AFL-CIO
James Cosner International Council for Humanity Furthering the Movement
Angela Y. Davis Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy Why I am an Activist
Ron Dellums
Candidate for Mayor of Oakland
Education in Oakland
Ramon Peñate Díaz Network of Community Defenders for Human Rights One World Where Many Worlds Fit
Bonnie Faulkner KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA and the Pacifica National Board
Eric Festo Peace Between Peoples Citizen Delegations to Iraq
Steven Funk Not in Our Name Pacifism
Susan Galleymore Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Objectors and GI Rights
Gaida
Kambon
African People’s Socialist
Party
West Africa, Venezuela, and St.
Petersburg
Kali Grosberg Theatre Workshop Lies, a One Act Play
Fred Hampton, Jr. Chicago Chapter of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee Prison Industrial Complex
David Harris Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Objectors and GI Rights
Chandra Hauptman KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA Report to the Listeners
Crystal Haviland Anti-Militarist Anarchist Anti-Militarist Festival of Resistance
Penny Hess African People’s Solidarity Committee America’s Other War Africa: A Vision for the Future
Dahr Jamail Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Objectors and GI Rights
Ellis Jones Earth Charter Living Your Values:
Applying Earth Charter Principles in Daily Life
John Judge Coalition on Political Assassinations 9/11 Omission Report
Tarika Lewis Black Panthers Prison Industrial Complex
Lincoln Malik Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club Political Dynamics in Iraq
Eloy Martinez Intertribal Friendship House Silent Auction
Mel Mason Black Panthers Furthering the Movement
Michael Meade
Mosaic Multicultural Foundation
The Road of Life and Death
Steven Morse Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Objectors and GI Rights
Dorsey Nunn All of Us or None of Us African-Americans in the 2004 Elections
Bakari Olatunji Oakland International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement America’s Other War
Miguel Pickard Center for Economic and Political Research for Community Action One World Where Many Worlds Fit
Richard Phelps KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA Report to the Listeners The State of KPFA Ray Quan BART Chapter of the Service Employees International Union Independent Unions, Democracy, and the AFL-CIO
Maria Quetzaoceloaciva Barrio Defense Committee America’s Other War Abolish the Security Housing Units
Mary Ann Ring UCSF Coalition of University Employees Independent Unions, Democracy, and the AFL-CIO
Rutillio Rivas United Service Workers for Democracy Independent Unions, Democracy, and the AFL-CIO
John Tarrant Roshi Pacific Zen Institute Enlightenment and Happiness
Thomas Rudderow Pentagon for Peace Poetry and Song are Antidotes to Weapons and War
Fadi Saba KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA and the Pacifica National Board
Gerald Sanders Bay Area Strike Solidarity Organization Safeway will Attack the Bay Area KPFA and the Pacifica National Board KPFA Report to the Listeners
Peter Dale Scott 9/11 Citizens Watch 9/11 Omission Report
Matthew Shenoda Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee America’s Other War
Wendy Snyder International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement Where is the Peace Movement Going? Stop America’s Other War Africa: A Vision for the Future Stop the War on the Black Community Free Speech is Under Attack! Reparations Now! For African People! All Diamonds are Blood Diamonds
Lynne Stewart African Peoples Solidarity Committee Free Speech is Under Attack!
Francesca Tenenbaum Elderflower WomanSpirit Festival Earth-Based and Feminine Spirituality
Tim Thomas Bay Area Black Radical Congress African-Americans in the 2004 Elections
Jimmy
Walter
Omission Commission and
Filmmaker
Confronting the Evidence
LaVarn Williams KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA and the Pacifica National Board KPFA Report to the Listeners
Stan Woods KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley KPFA and the Pacifica National Board
Omali Yeshitela Uhuru Movement America’s Other War Free Speech is Under Attack! Africa: A Vision for the
Future Why we need Black Power
The Fellowship of Humanity
Guest Speakers and their Lectures
at
Programs
2001-2007
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Lawrence Andrews Independent Scholar Truth and Transferability
Cassie Barr Teacher Environmental Activism
Jesse Beagle Whole Note Poetry Series The Art of the Spoken Word I Looked in the Mirror for Bob Kaufman and I Found Rimbaud
Paul Bloch Businessman Personal Identity and Humanity
Ron Brookmeyer Independent Scholar Empire: Is there a Way Out of Globalized Capitalism?
Sterling Bunnell Independent Philosopher In Search of a Practical Philosophy of Nature Languages of the Brain and Pictures in the Mind Bode’s Law, the Anthropic Principle, and our Place in the Universe Gathering World Crises and What We might do about them Chimpanzee Politics and Human History History and Implications of Evolutionary Thought Science, Religion, and Humanism Comparing Natural Systems to Human Enterprises How Humans Might Become Good Ecological Dominants An Historical and Anthropological Perspective
on Religious Fundamentalism Exploring the Image Kingdom of the Mind Psychosis and Sanity: Individual and Collective Psychosis and Politics Stupor Mundi Natural Order, Technology, and Social
Policy Convergent versus Contingent Evolution Re-Wilding Rock Varnish and Humanism in the Cosmos Future Human Evolution: How it can be
Guided and Promoted Cultures as Memic Organisms Energy, Information, and Being Saving the Earth and Saving Knowledge The Human Bioprogram and its Creative
use in Shaping the Future
James Cosner People’s United Front Global Fascism or World Freedom: Our Choice Furthering the Movement, Part I, II
Mark Dorazio School of Hard Knocks Babylonian and Chinese Astrology Gravity and Great Love
Peter DuMont Star Alliance Communicate, Cooperate, Celebrate
Tom Dunphy Guerilla Theatre Volunteering in America Hopi Society General Waste-More-Land
Carolina Dutton Bay Area Friendshipment Free Trade in Central America Enforces Land Theft
Max Elbaum
WarTimes Tiempo de Guerras End the Occupation
Paul
Exavier
School of Hard Knocks
The Illusion of the Delusioin that
Drugs are a Many Spendered Thing
Tina Flores Caribbean Medical Transport By-Passing the Cuban Embargo Unveiling the Cesar E. Chavez Stamp Cesar Chavez Commemoration
A.M. Fonda Bay Area Poets Coalition The State and Health of Reason in our Day and Age A Poet Laureate for the City of Berkeley The
Evolution of Urban Streams
Nancy Friedman Health Care for All -- California Universal Health Care for all Californians
David Fuller Physicians Organizing Committee Declining Ethics in the Medical Profession
Lydia Gans Street Spirit Exploration of Humanism What is Humanism to You? Humanitarian Aid: How Should it be Delivered? Science in Women The Homeless Person: It Could be Any One of Us NGOs: Can They Save the World?
Bernardo Garcia-Pandavenes Ethnic Studies My History as a Human Being
Conrad Greenstone Independent Writer Visioning Alternative Futures Directions Modern Myth and Propaganda On People Power
Michael Greger The Humane Society of
the United States
Surviving the Next Pandemic
Virginia Handley Fund for Animals Animals in Politics
Keith Hedlund Global Exchange Imagining Afghanistan
Jim Heldberg San Francisco Atheists The American Atheists Convention California’s Atheist Benefactor
Bert Herman Independent Sociologist The King Arthur Myth
Gina Hill Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy Art and Resistance
Rowland Hill Freethinker Why Isn’t Life Easy? What’s Ahead in Space Exploration? Nanotechnology State Propositions on the Ballot Lord Graviton
Donald Hughes School Teacher Why Do People Fight Wars? Science,
Skepticism, and Heresy
Jim Jacklich Living Philosophers Consciousness and the Self The Self Reality Are We Free? The Spiritual Transformation of Humanism The Human Being
Arthur Jackson American Humanist Association Developing Humanist Ethics
Cornelia Jarica Colloquium on Quantum Phenomena, Consciousness and Being What is the Nature of Reality and Why Should We Care? Exploring Quantum Phenomena:
How we
Create our Experiences I and II Unconditional Happiness I, II, III
Sonya Kaleel Grassroots Organizers from Muslim and Arab Communities Racism, Hate Crimes and Stereotypes in our Back Yard
Rebecca Kaplan Wilson Riles Campaign Spirited Politics
Michael Thomas Kelly Independent Poet Liberators of the Republic of Ireland
Dave Kong American Atheists Medicare/Medicaid Funds Go To Christian Scientists
Shirley Lee Peace and Freedom Party Woman Power: Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Kingman Lim U.C. Berkeley Student Following the Vegetarian Path
Karl Linn Berkeley EcoHouse Reclaiming the Commons
Tony Littmann Jubilee USA Network Debt Cancellation for Impoverished Countries
Jennifer Lovewell Physicians Organizing Committee Death Squad Medicine: The Collapsing Medical Profession
Yur Loz Mother Goddess Religion Priest Energetism Human Spirituality and International Affairs The Fullness of Understanding through Energetism Our Language and Human Survival
Jan Lundberg Culture Change PetroCollapse
Pat Maginnis National Organization for Women Reproductive Choices
Anthony Marr Heal Our Planet Earth - Compassion for Animals Road Expedition Omni-Scientific Cosmology
Edwin Massey, Jr. Independent American Historian War of 1812 The Monroe Doctrine Andrew Jackson James K. Polk and the Mexican War Manifest Destiny as Lebensraum Ben Hur Amazing Moments of World History The American Civil War: The First Modern War The Bloodiest War in American History: The Civil War The War of Wars: A Brief History
Perry Matlock Independent Local Historian Saving Remnants of Local Ancient Native Shell Mounds
Robert Mattson International Macrobiotic Directory Macrobiotics: The Way to Personal Health and Peace
Sonya Mehta Young Workers United Yellow Apparel: When the Coolie Becomes Cool
Maggi
Meyer
Bay Area Poets Coalition
My Life, My Home
Eric Mills Action for Animals Wild Life or Dinner?
David Moe Living Philosophers Charles Taylor, Philosopher John Caputo’s Hermeneutics Paul Ricoeur How to be God Now! How to be God 1-23 Always Home Royal Poetopia and the Wild Law Civilization The Unity of Poetopia is Revealed Physicalism Grandparents Day A Real and Imaginary Land Pollyfrenic Humanism and Multiple Reality New Humanists Soaking in Maui! The Origins of Philosophy, Part I and II The Relevance of Plato’s Philosophy to Our World The Philosophy of Aristotle Amit Goswami’s Worldview Scientific Verification of Immortality Moe’s Moe-Om France and All Europe from the Baby
Beat Poet’s Perspective Experience, Ideologies, Categories, and
Truth Evolutionary Scenarios from Ray
Kurtzweil
Jim Moore Union Organizer Michael Parenti
Joy Moore Ecology Center of Berkeley Food is the Earth’s Way of Love
Merle Mosk Medical Doctor Science and Mystic Experience
Jessie Muldoon International Socialist Organization Why we Need a Revolution
Usha Muliyil Vedanta Society Vocabulary for Peace Vedanta Growing Old: A Privilege Return to Humanity
Ray Nelson Independent Existentialist Choose Choice Choice: Atheistic Existentialism
Zachary Norris International Society of Ecology and Culture Shocking and Awful! The Military Entertainment Complex Buy Local, Buy Organic: Change the World Ancient Futures: Traditional Values for
a Modern World
Tim Nuveen Bay Area Poets Coalition Running on Empty
Bernard
Oesch
School of Hard Knocks
History of the Pacific Film Archive
Lynda Otvos Special Education Universal Traits among all Cultures
Ormond Otvos Independent Intellectual Religion or Standard of Living, Take
your Pick
Gene Paulson School of Hard Knocks Non-Beliefs about Politics: Natural Rights and Contestable Rights
Carleen Pickard Global Exchange One Year after Fox
Redwood Mary and Hali Hammer Citizen’s Campaign for Old Growth Preservation The Ancient Trees Initiative
Douglas Rees Independent World Historian The Mischianza Human Ethics and Non-Human Life Countries You’ve Never Heard of, Guaranteed What Lessons Can the Civil War Teach us Today? Bulgarian History How Finland Survived the Cold War What’s HOLY about the Holy Roman Empire? Music from Behind the Iron Curtain Where the Civil War Turned Nasty Who was Thomas Hutchinson? How Should History Judge Winston Churchill? Theft of a Nation: How the U.S. Stole Hawaii What is Humanism anyway? Humanism II: The Sequel When Radicals Ruled Minnesota
Edward Rippy Independent Political Theorist The Deep Politics of 9/11 9/11 and the Secret History of U.S. Fascism Guns, Drugs, and Slavery: Political Economics
Bernard Rosen Independent Scholar Substituting a Continuum for Natural Kinds Pro-Life – Pro-Choice
Zachary
Runningwolf
School of Hard Knocks
Energizing Native America to its
Responsibilities and Traditions
Ben Sargent Jesuit Priest Human Knowledge Natural Theology: Bernard Lonergan
Penny Schoner 9/11 Truth Alliance Positive Opportunities in the Movement Today 9/11: An Inside Job
Victor Sehhati East Bay Coalition Against the War How the 9/11 Attacks in NY Affect Life in the Middle East
David Seaborg World Rainforest Fund Principles and Controversies of Evolution
Walter Springer Theatre Workshop Revolution in Religion Benjamin Disreali The Shaping of San Francisco Bay Celebrating the Mars-Earth Encounter Genesis of the American Empire Community Watch I, II, III, and IV Fellowship Watch
Sue Supriano San Francisco Independent Media Center Grassroots Media
Becky Tarbotton International Society of Ecology and Culture Ancient Futures: Traditional Values for a Modern World
Antonio Trossero Argentinean Solidarity Committee How Argentinean Workers Toppled 4 Presidents in 2 Weeks Free Lori Berenson and All Political Prisoners in Peru U.S. Imperialism and the Counterinsurgency War
Bruce Valde Industrial Workers of the World The Resurgence of the Industrial Workers of the World
Ilan Vitemberg Jewish Voice for Peace Making Sense of the Confusion: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Sam
Wheat Teacher Slavery and the American Civil War
Nadya Williams Global Exchange Travel for Activism: Reality Tours to Northern Ireland and India Vietnam Today: Report Back
Matthew Willis African Peoples Solidarity Committee Reparations Now!! For African Peoples!!
Florence Windfall Independent Scholar The Big Question: The Meaning of Life Ethics? A Cultural Divide: Linguistic Differences Male and Female Agribusiness at the Heart of Global Ruin Oil and Overpopulation Thinking Through Humanism I, II, III, and IV
Steve Zeltzer Workers Democracy Network The Labor Movement, Democracy and the Political Vacuum Independent Unions, Democracy, and the AFL-CIO Zionism, the Democrats, and Kerry Making KPFA a Voice for the People The AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago The Working Class Struggle in Korea