On Zoom. A beyond-the-media presentation by a media guy, about the world's (second?) most important country. What's it like to live there, as native or not? Are you oppressed? Free to move about? What inspires the average person to get out of bed? Ralph Jennings was born and raised in Portland, graduated from Cal, and later pursued an MA in Taiei. A lifelong journalist, he now works for the South China Morning Post (scmp.com) covering the Chinese economy: prices, consumption, talent, labor, aviation, shipping, trade – and once in a while the king of fruits, durians.

At Friendly House, HGP member David Buckley will report back from the American Humanist Association conference which took place June 26-29. While the challenges of this moment in American society and politics are hard to overstate, the conference highlighted hopeful developments and opportunities that are present in spite of - and sometimes because of - those challenges. David will try to convey that sense of hope and lay out specific opportunities for AHA chapters (like ours) to consider. Buckley is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who has been actively involved in Humanist Community for over a decade.