General Audiences - TV-G/ TV-PG

Thom Hartmann progressive talk show host and author of about 20 books, including Unequal Protections, The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, addresses the need for a 28th constitutional amendment to end the legal doctrines that Money is Speech and Corporations Are People. He calls America's governing structure a constitutional monarchy and describes how we moved there from a constitutional democracy.

Health Care for All Oregon's Dr. Samuel Metz presents an easy to understand explanation of the health care crisis and why a universal single payer system is superior to both America's current system and Obamacare in a 3 question/9 answer format.

How does the practice of Public Health interact with social justice? Dr. Martin Donohoe, author of Public Health and Social Justice, explains, talking about the UN Declaration on Human Rights, trade in arms and the military, major social justice issues which impact public health including the status of women, industrial chemicals, access to health care (he advocated for a single payer system in the US),, corporate influence in the school system.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Jo Murch and Cynthia Wolff, and thier lecture 'Hospice 101 and POLST.'

Is There a Bicycle Culture?

Presenters include:

1.  Chris Carlsson (Shaping San Francisco)  -  "General Intellect's Cavalry:  The Bicycling Movement on the Front Lines of the Culture War"

2.  Luis Vivanco (Anthropology, University of Vermont) - "Techniques of the Bicycle and Other Perspectives on Culture and Bicycle Mobility"

3.  Kevin Wehr (Sociology, CSU Sacramento) -  "Visibility and Invisibility: Courier Culture and Co-optation"

Recorded 10:45-12:00pm April 16, 2013