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Youth Climate Action Now
06/21/2015
Nicholas Caleb

Nicholas Caleb describes the lawsuits of Our Children's Trust and his grassroots organizing activities. He promotes the Youth Climate Action Now! program, which is aimed at helping communities design and pass climate recovery ordinances. The aim is to spread this type of thinking and organizing to municipalities in the region. Caleb is a 31-year old attorney, professor at Concordia University in NE Portland, and climate law fellow at Our Children's Trust.

Existential Dilemmas
06/14/2015
Tom Needham

Tom Needham explores four human dilemmas: death, meaning, freedom, and isolation. If we acknowledge these dilemmas, and formulate our own way of dealing with them, we are likely to live happier lives. Tom is a fifth generation Oregonian and graduate of MIT. He is a long-time member of West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship where, for the last two years, he has facilitated a group discussion which explores how humanist values can help in building a good life.

Driving While Black
06/07/2015
Mariann Hyland

Mariann Hyland is the co-creator of Driving While Black - The App, a mobile phone application that promotes safety, accountability, and justice during traffic stops for Black people and others. Mariann will discuss what inspired the App's creation, why the App is needed, and what she hopes it will accomplish.

Oregon Free Thought
05/31/2015
Gus Frederick

Presentation by Gus Frederick. This talk addresses the Freethought movement in Western Oregon during the latter quarter of the19th Century, beginning with the seeds of the Oregon State Secular League, culminating with the establishment of Liberal University of Oregon at Silverton, the West’s first strictly secular center of higher learning. Gus Frederick is a native Oregonian and third generation Free Thinker. He was born in 1954, 100 years after his hometown of Silverton was founded. He is by training a filmmaker and photographer, although he has broadened that term to multimedia artist. He currently works as a conceptual artist, photographer, filmmaker and animator. (HGP does not take responsibility for material presented by our speakers.)

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