Sunday Meeting

Sunday, September 5 at 11:00 am

Superfluidity and the

Enigma of Consciousness

Presented by Sterling Bunnell

Sterling’s talk this morning will be on the nature of consciousness.

All of Sterling’s talks manifest his brilliant command of both theoretical explanations and historical examples: both theory and fact. Sterling is a rare generalist, a philosopher, freely sharing his thoughts in our world of guarded specialists. Hear Sterling talk, participate in the group discussion, and get the education you might have missed in the course of your life!

by

Joel Nakamura

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Thursday, September 16 at 7:00 pm

Bradley Manning Defense Fund Benefit

Presented by Jeff Paterson

This Courage to Resist benefit for the Bradley Manning Defense Fund features a dynamite panel of speakers:

Daniel Ellsberg

Pentagon Papers whistle-blower

Tom Hayden

author and activist

Aimee Allison

author and KPFA Morning Show Host

Carl Davison

US Marine and Army veteran of Guantanamo Bay,

Africa, and Asia

They will be talking about the occupation of Afghanistan, Wikileaks, and accused whistle-blower Bradley Manning.  They will also screen the video:

Wikileaks “Collateral Murder”

These renown speakers and the Wikileaks video will be hosted by Courage to Resist and sponsored by them in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network, the National Lawyers Guild Bay Area Military Law Panel, Veterans for Peace, CodePink, War Resisters League, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and BAY-Peace.

http://www.nlgsf.org/events/

Events  OPEN  to the Public

Events  NOT  Open to the Public

Wednesday, September 29 at 7:30 pm

Blue Gold:  World Water Wars

by Sam Bozzo

Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena.  Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolution from citizens fighting for the right to survive.  Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management.  Will ours too?

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows.  The rampant over-development of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the Earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes.  Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain.  Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

This alarming film follows numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools.  As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war.”  A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity.  Will we survive?

http://bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/

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Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30 pm

Six Degrees could Change the World

by National Geographic Channel

By the year 2100, many scientists believe that the Earth’s average temperature could rise by as much as six degrees Celsius.  In a compelling investigation, National Geographic leads a degree-by-degree journey to explore what each rising — and critical — degree could mean for the future of people and the planet.  This spectacular film shows how global warming has already affected the reefs of Australia, the ice fields of Greenland, and the Amazonian rain forest.

The oceans are the critical carbon absorbing element and dead and dying coral is the “canary in the coal mine” indicator of coming disaster — dead oceans by 2050.  The Amazon is the next most critical element in global warming.  The film shows riveting views of the Amazon river drying up in 2005, and the potential scenarios of drought, fires,  and more drought in the Amazon.  All this devastation on land and in water is not to mention  the increasing destructiveness of weather — which today we are all aware of in the everyday news media.  One amazing esoteric point in the film is its spotlight on a man who figured out the total carbon footprint of the cheeseburger, to include the methane farts of the cows.

With a sobering look at the effects of our world’s insatiable appetite for energy, the film explains what’s real, what’s still controversial, and how existing technologies and remedies could help dial back the global thermometer. We are well on our way to 2-3 degrees rise in temperature right now.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/six-degrees-could-change-the-world-3188/Overview

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Wednesday, September 15 at 7:30 pm

Crude Impact

by James Jandak Wood

This amazing, eye-opening, and deeply disturbing film is simply the clearest exposition of peak oil and its far-reaching consequences.   It features interviews with leading experts in a variety of related fields.  It’s a sobering account of our dependence on ancient sunlight to power industrial civilization and the consequences we face as we top over the global oil production peak and enter the irreversible depletion phase.  The impact of peak oil has been profound.  The film focuses on the relationship between the size of the human population and the increasingly intensive extraction of resources.  The concept of peak oil itself is not fully expanded in the film until after an array of economic, political, social, and economic threads are systematically explored — then the full impact of peak oil then becomes frighteningly clear.

http://www.crudeimpact.com/

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SaveKPFA

KPFA’s election for its local station Board of Directors is coming up! Are you a member of KPFA?  You will receive a ballot in the mail.  There are many candidates listed.  How do you choose among all the candidates if you  personally don’t know who they are?  A group of  ten KPFA candidates ask you to choose them — because they have the best interests of KPFA in mind while their opponents will run KPFA into the ground!

There’s an internal struggle going on within KPFA.  On one side are Board Members who do not contribute to KPFA either with money or work but want to control the content of what goes over the  KPFA radio waves — they want to manage the radio station.  And they waste a lot of KPFA’s money and energy on politics, that is, on trying to get what THEY personally want without regard to what the station needs!

On the other side are people who do or will contribute to KPFA and who know that managing the affairs of the station is the station manager’s job.  They do NOT want to control the daily programming of KPFA.  They know what the job of the Board of Directors is in addition to generally overseeing the station and adhering to its mission:  managing the resources and financing for KPFA — both soliciting donations and directly donating to KPFA themselves and organizing the fundraising.  They know that deciding what KPFA’s programming should be is the station manager’s job.

If you are a member of KPFA — vote for the ten candidates who know what the job of the Board of Directors is and who are committed to performing it! They are the slate called “SaveKPFA” — ten candidates ready to end the internal, expensive struggles of KPFA and take it to a new productive future:

Jack Kurzweil

Mal Burnstein

Margy Wilkinson

Mark Hernandez

Mathew Hallinan

Suzi Goldmacher

Tanya Russell

Terry Doran

David Saldana

Donald Goldmacher

These are the people comprising the slate of ten candidates called “SaveKPFA.”  Please vote for them today on the KPFA ballot that was sent to you in the mail — ranking them on a scale from one to ten! Ballots will be accepted until the end of September.  Support KPFA today — fill out your ballot and return it as soon as possible! Put the SaveKPFA slate into effect — help these ten candidates win the election!

Go to:

How to Vote for KPFA

and get informed and see how the ballot looks by clicking on:

How to Vote SaveKPFA

at that website.

by

Florence Windfall

President of the Fellowship of Humanity

Wednesday, September 8 at 7:30 pm

World in the Balance:

The Population Paradox

by NOVA

The staggering power of this film lies in its conceptual insights — how diverse and complex the twin problems of population growth and global warming have become.  This complexity makes the outcome near unpredictable and likely catastrophic.

Population growth is predicted to reach 9 billion by mid-century despite declining birth rates in industrial countries.  What is unexpected is the potential disastrous consequences of such declining birth rates in Europe and Japan;  the older generation vastly outnumbers the young, who will be unable to support them.  A different problem exists in Africa, where AIDS has devastated those in their prime, leaving both elderly and children uncared for.

China has a different dilemma;  it’s trapped by the rising affluence of its huge population resulting from industrialization without pollution controls, and finds it difficult to impose such controls without causing economic collapse and civil unrest.  The paradox posed here is that “backing down” the ladder of population growth is far more difficult than imagined;  as is “backing down” from industrialization or even imposing pollution controls on a nation whose population is finding new affluence.

Global warming is the other part of the dilemma;  at least significantly the result of over population and industrialization.  Global warming is no longer controversial in the financial world.  Neither population control nor pollution controls on levels significant enough to affect global warming seem likely in the near future.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/

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Sunday, August 29 at 7:00 pm

Healthcare NOT Warfare

Presented by Yolie Gamble

Mad as Hell Doctors are holding a Fundraiser for Healthcare for All — single payer healthcare for all Californians! They want to see California pass the single payer bill SB 810.  This inspired event will be both educational and entertaining.  On the entertaining side, live music will be performed by the Strange Angels Blues Band;  and on the educational side, Norman Solomon will speak on “Healthcare and Public Policy” and that’s not all! Mad as Hell Doctor Paul Hochfeld will show his new documentary, Health, Money, and Fear.  Included this evening will be details of the upcoming Mad as Hell Doctors’ California road tour.  Please bring your questions about healthcare reform!

Remember:  “Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Martin Luther King.

Strange Angels Blues Band

“Healthcare and Public Policy”

by

Norman Solomon

“Health, Money, and Fear”

by

Paul Hochfeld

http://madashelldoctors.com/

Sunday, August 29 at 12:00 pm

Cupcakes and MuffinTops Clothing and Bake Sale

Presented by Matilda St. John

Indulge yourself shopping, window shopping, and clothing swaping for LARGE clothes while enjoying LARGE helpings of fine baked goods! Cupcakes and MuffinTops is a size-positive, gender inclusive, Fat Clothing Flea and Bake Sale where only the prices are small!

http://www.bigmoves.org/