February 7
Marching as a Vehicle for Social Change,
a Report on the "Save America March"
to build unity, one step at a time
Meeting # 3,854 -
Ed S. Fallon is an American activist, former politician, talk show host,
author and urban farmer from the State of Iowa. He was previously a
Democratic candidate for Governor of Iowa and the U.S. Congress,
and served as a member of the Iowa General Assembly from 1993 to 2006.
Fallon’s history of marching as a vehicle for social change dates back to
1986, when he organized the Iowa stretch of the coast-to-coast Great
Peace March. Since then, Fallon has organized five long marches and walks.
“Our democracy is being supplanted by authoritarian rule,” said Fallon.
“We’ll never address the existential threats of climate change and nuclear
weapons, or any other pressing issue for that matter, without a functional
democracy. Violence isn’t the answer. The approach of leaders like
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Dorothy
Day is what will save us.”
“Authoritarianism has been spreading for a while,” said Fallon. “This year, it’s gone from bad to worse. The civility that used to define public engagement is being supplanted by name-calling, lying, and flouting the Constitution.”
Please Note: The college will cease operation on a weekly basis after the current schedule is exhausted on Feb. 7th,
with meetings scheduled on an occasional basis, probably once a month on the first Saturday
February 21
Special Presidents' Day Speaker on
How to Remove a President
Meeting # 3,855 -Paul Street, author
Paul Street is a member of the Executive Board of the
national organization Refuse Fascism.
Paul writes regularly for Counterpunch and has a regular Substack,
The Paul Street Report at https://paulstreet.substack.com/
Street is the author of ten books to date, including
Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007);
Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Routledge, 2008);
The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Routledge, 2010);
They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Routledge, 2014);
Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement (CounterPunch Books, September 2020);
This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America (Routledge, 2021).
February 14, 28
Open
Meeting #3,8?? - contact the Program Coordinator Charles Paidock if you would like to speak at (312) 842-5036 office or (312( 714-7790 cell, or by email to cpaidock@hotmail.com
