Events

Friday, May 22, 2009
Coffee 7:00 PM; Lecture 7:30 PM, Brooks Memorial Library
Dr. Robert Musil
former CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Hope for a Heated Planet

Dr. Musil is the author of Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future (January 2009).  He is a scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor in the School of International Studies at American University where he teaches in the Program on Global Environmental Politics and the Nuclear Studies Institute. He is the past executive director and CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and its director of policy and programs from 1992–2006. He was the executive producer and host of “Consider the Alternatives,” a weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with two million listeners, and a two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for excellence in radio broadcasting.

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Friday, June 26, 2009
ANNUAL  MEETING
Coffee 7:00 PM; Lecture 7:30 PM, World Learning, School for International Training
Robert Gensburg,
Attorney with the Vermont firm, Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick

Closing Guantanamo and Preserving National  Security

Robert Gensburg is an attorney in the St. Johnsbury firm of Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick who has practiced law in St. Johnsbury since 1967.  Concerned about President Bush's assumption of power well beyond what he thought the Constitution and laws provided, Robert Gensburg has volunteered to bring a habeas corpus case on behalf of a Guantanamo prisoner. Gensburg’s talk will cover the major 20th century national security cases (in the context of Guantanamo):  the Japanese Exclusion Cases, the Steel Mill Seizure Case, and the Pentagon Papers.

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