Community of Reason

A Center for Free Thought
 

http://www.communityofreason.net

We meet in 

(Park in the Rockhill Parking Structure, 4^th Level, SW corner of Rockhill Road and 52^nd Street).

 Sunday Events for November 2007

 All events begin at 1:00 p.m.

Nov 4^th    "The Flurry, the Fury and the Flawed Logic"

Be-Asia McKerracher, English high school teacher in Kansas City, MO.

Jena-6 (Louisiana) is the latest racially-charged highly emotional controversy to hit the American public. In an attempt to look beyond the fury, Be-Asia will critically investigate the path of this controversy where emotion overtook logic and where we go from here.

Nov 11^th    "Achieving Universal Healthcare - Strategy for the Present"

Blair Thedinger, 4^th year student at KU Medical Center.

The crisis in healthcare centers on problems of decreasing access, increasing cost, and questionable quality. Progressive people have called for universal healthcare for decades but how do we do it, and what arguments can we make to those who believe that the status quo is working?

Nov 18^th    "A Post-Roe World"

The Rev. Rebecca Turner, executive director of the Missouri Religious Coalition for the Right to Choose. 

Dr. Rebecca Turner will examine the regressive trend in Missouri of reproductive rights. She has been featured in Time Magazine, on PBS “Religion and Ethics News Weekly,” and with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

Nov 25^th    "Building a Sustainable Earth Community: A report from the first ‘Breaking the Silence’ conference."

Richard Mabion, community organizer
Fred Culver, World Center for Global Community.

Richard Mabion and Fred Culver will report on a conference held earlier this month with the hope of establishing Kansas City as the center of a global movement to end the tyranny of an empire-dominated culture.

WEEKEND POTLUCKS AND RESTAURANT HOPPING - Call for time and location