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2:00pm - 4:30pm Albany: Forum - "Can We Survive Health Care Reform?" 
Category : Health / Care
Capital District Alliance for Universal Health Care will sponsor a forum questioning the current healthcare reform bill being discussed in Congress.
The featured speaker will be Dr. Carol Paris, a single payer health care advocate, and one of group of physicians that were arrested for civil disobedience at the Senate Finance Committee Roundtable Discussion on Healthcare.
Congressman Paul Tonko, Dr. Andy Coates and John Sullivan, PA will also participate in the forum.
Cost: Free.
Location:
Emerson Community Hall Forum
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany
405 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12206
Map and...
3:00pm - 5:00pm Rosendale: Talk on "Thinking & Organizing Strategically in Times of Jubilation, In Times of Melancholy"
Category : General / Misc
A talk by Ulster county organizer and writer Richard Grossman.
Organizer's talking points:
Why do so many great struggles for change not accomplish what people set out to accomplish?
Why are citizen groups large and small so shut-out of deliberation and policy-making on war, climate, energy, food, banking, health care, foreclosures, jobs, economic development... you name it...?
More from the organizer: "For starters, we need new, uncomfortable conversations about: our overrated English constitutional heritage, the USA's minority-rule constitution, law and economics as 5th columns in our midst, what the...
6:00pm - 8:00pm New Paltz: Presentation and discussion on "Crisis in Puerto Rico"
Category : General / Misc
The current economic and social trauma in Puerto Rico has seen massive layoffs and demonstrations, a general strike, repression and ongoing unrest. Presentation and discussion with seasoned activist and jailed SOA protester Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of Latin American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).
An optional potluck begins at 5:00pm.
Cost: Free.
Location:
New Paltz Village Hall
25 Plattekill Ave (a block south of Main St/ Rt 299)
New Paltz, NY 12561
(Park in the Village Hall parking lot)
Map and directions:
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