The Choice, Part 3

Thursday, November 3, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

We will finish Frontline's The Choice 2016, starting from 1:11:50. This is where both Trump and Clinton have there biggest crisis. For Trump it was the Taj Mahal; for Clinton it was Monica Lewinsky.

So far the election has been about personalities, devoid of serious discussion of issues. Yet most of the issues really cannot be addressed without the cooperation of Congress. But Trump, with just an executive order, can end the EPA Clean Power Plan and thus disrupt the Paris Climate Change Agreement. In the last meeting, I mention that DiCaprio will make his latest movie on climate change, Before the Flood, available for free from October 30 till November 6. HERE is the promo.

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HERE is the link to the movie, Before the Flood. There are direct references to some Republican climate deniers in Congress. The release before the election was no coincidence.

The Choice, Part 2

Thursday, October 27, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

We will continue discussion of the 2016 election with the Frontline's The Choice 2016. We will pickup where we left off from the last meeting, 24:30 into the video.

Last meeting, I recommended the you watch the Al Smith Dinner. For those that missed it you can watch it in its entirety HERE.

The Choice, Part 1

Thursday, October 20, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

For the next three meetings, we will Zoom-In on the 2016 election, mostly but not limited to the presidential election. We will start on the day after the final presidential debate; so we will begin the meeting with an open discussion about the debate series. For the remainder of the meeting, we will view and discuss the Frontline special, The Choice 2016, about the biographies of Clinton and Trump. This is a two hour documentary, so it will span possibly the following two meetings.

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Here is a link to the addition video shown:

• Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins

Police Under Fire

Thursday, October 13, 2016, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

We will conclude our Broken Windows series with a look at police misbehavior. While recent events seem to indicate that the situation is out of control, the underlying problems have been identified since Ferguson. Obama has taken steps to solve the problem, but it will take time. Until Obama's reforms are enacted, communities have taken action with program like CopWatch. These are the videos that we will review:

• Police Accountability
• Baltimore cop tells all
• Ferguson Revisited
• Obama's COPS Task Force, PDF
• CopWatch