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SUMMARY:Coffee and Discussion (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us via zoom on the first Thursday of every month\, 10am-11am\, for our members Coffee and Discussion meeting. A zoom link will be sent to your email upon registration! REGISTER HERE
URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/coffee-and-discussion-virtual-2/
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SUMMARY:Eagle Hill Discussion Forum: Mexico and the Upcoming US Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:Alan Riding is a Brazilian-born British journalist and writer whose career took him first to New York with Reuters\, then to Mexico for The Financial Times and The Economist. In 1978\, he joined The New York Times and\, from Mexico\, he also covered the Nicaraguan Revolution and the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala. In 1984\, he moved to Brazil\, his base for covering the drug and guerrilla wars in Colombia and Peru\, before returning to Europe in 1989. After five years as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Paris\, he became the newspaper’s European Cultural Correspondent until he left the paper in 2007. Among his books are Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans; Essential Shakespeare Handbook and Opera\, of which he is co-author; and And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. \nFor the best part of 70 years\, the US could ignore Mexico in the knowledge that its one-party system would insure stability. Then\, in 2000\, this “perfect dictatorship” ended in an electoral defeat\, bringing instability in the form of intense drug-related violence and tidal waves of immigrants from across the world trying to reach the US through Mexico. Six years ago\, a leftist populist\, Andrés Manuel López Obrador\, became president under the banner of a new nationalist party\, known as Morena\, which he sought to model on the old PRI\, or Institutional Revolutionary Party. On October 1\, his hand-picked successor\, Claudia Sheinbaum\, took office\, pledging to continue her mentor’s controversial policies. Looking ahead\, Washington can probably ignore the erosion of democracy in Mexico\, but whoever wins the White House on November 5 will have to address the double border crisis of drugs and refugees. How President Sheinbaum responds to US pressure will determine the state of bilateral relations for the next six years. And how these and other issues such as bilateral trade are handled will unavoidably influence the outcome of next month’s and future US presidential elections. \nRegister for this discussion by emailing joerg@eaglehill.us by 10AM ET on the day of the event.
URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/eagle-hill-discussion-forum-mexico-and-the-upcoming-us-presidential-election/
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CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Coffee and Discussion (In-Person)
DESCRIPTION: October 17th at the Falmouth Memorial Library\, 10am-11am. Register HERE \nTopic: Will foreign policy decide the election? \nFacilitator: Allison \nSuggested Readings \nAai. (2024\, October 2). New poll finds Arab American voters evenly divided in the 2024 presidential election. Arab American Institute. \nCFR Editors. (2024\, April 30). Election 2024. Council on Foreign Relations. \nWhy U.S. foreign policy may play a larger role at the 2024 national conventions. (2024\, June 16). PBS News. \nFiveThirtyEight. (2024\, October 1). Will foreign policy impact the 2024 election? | 538 Politics Podcast [Video]. YouTube. \nStaff\, C. (2024\, June 10). Will 2024 be a foreign policy election? Campaigns & Elections.
URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/coffee-and-discussion-in-person-2/
LOCATION:Falmouth Memorial Library\, 5 Lunt Road\, Falmouth\, ME\, 04105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffee and Discussion
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SUMMARY:Cross-Cultural Collaborations: Opportunities for Addressing Social Issues in the North Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Social work professors Dr. Charlothe Petersen Mørkhøj of Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Dorothea Ivey of University of Southern Maine\nLars\, BSW Social Work student\, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland\, and Sandra Perez\, MSW student\, University of Southern Maine.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt\, Professor of Social Work at University of Southern Maine and member of the Maine-Greenland Collaborations research team.
URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/cross-cultural-collaborations-opportunities-for-addressing-social-issues-in-the-north-atlantic/
LOCATION:Glickman Family Library\, 314 Forest Ave\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:SUME: Sound of a Revolution\, a Greenlandic feature documentary film
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URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/sume-sound-of-a-revolution-a-greenlandic-feature-documentary-film/
LOCATION:Cove Street Arts\, 71 Cove St\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Global Stakes with Local Ties: Diverse Perspectives on the Election and Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Join us October 24th for our third\, annual Fall Foreign Policy Forum: Global Stakes with Local Ties.\n\n\nWill foreign policy be a factor in this year’s election? Conventional wisdom says U.S. voters decide on domestic issues – like jobs and the economy\, and put little stock in things happening “far from home.” At the same time\, we live in an interconnected world and for many in our community “far from home” can feel close to home as well. In fact\, more polls are showing likely voters listing listing foreign policy issues among their top concerns. For this year’s Forum\, we’ve invited a diverse panel of community leaders to explore how Mainers are thinking about the intersection of foreign policy and the November election. Take part in an important conversation on the ways critical issues like climate\, trade policies\, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and immigration are impacting our communities and how they may influence the vote. \nInvited panelists include: Tae Chong\, Eisha Khan\, Mike Rurenza Mfashingabo\, and Julie Trujillo Luengo; moderated by Sarah Petrin \nWe will also hear from Maine Secretary of State\, Shenna Bellows\, on the importance of voter participation for shaping policy at home and abroad. State Representative Deqa Dhalac and Portland City Councilor Pious Ali will also offer opening and closing remarks. \nREGISTER HERE \nShare your thoughts on foreign policy and the election. Take our pre-Forum survey!
URL:https://wacmaine.org/event/global-stakes-with-local-ties-diverse-perspectives-on-the-election-and-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Glickman Family Library\, 314 Forest Ave\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
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