Alameda Public Affairs Forum

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The Alameda Public Affairs Forum is a voluntary non-profit, non-partisan educational group whose purpose is to educate the public in Alameda and the wider San Francisco-East Bay Area about issues of local, national, and international concern.

The APAF presents forums, discussion meetings and seminars to which the public is invited free of charge.

Voluntary donations to cover the costs of presenting the meetings and publicity are solicited at the meetings.

We’ve inaugurated a new custom to begin the evening: a reception with snacks and juice and coffee before the Forum, starting at 6PM, in the Library coffee shop – bring your favorite finger food, dessert or juice etc., to share. A good time to chat with the guest speaker(s) and your other friends before the Forum program at 7:15.

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FORUM LOCATION

Unless otherwise noted, the Forum is held every second Saturday evening from 7 to 9:30 pm in Conference Rooms A/B at the Alameda Free Library, 1550 Oak St., Alameda, California.

Enter the Library through the back entrance off of the parking lot.

Wheelchair accessible!

Map/Directions

On Public Transit:

From Fruitvale BART, take AC Transit 50 to SW Corner of Park St. at Santa Clara. Walk NW one block to Oak St. Turn right.

Saturday January 14^th 7:45 pm
(Note: a slightly later start time)
Our January Forum presents

RABBI MICHAEL LERNER– EDITOR, TIKKUN MAGAZINE, FOUNDER OF THE NETWORK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESSIVES

"EMBRACING ISRAEL/PALESTINE: A STRATEGY
TO HEAL AND TRANSFORM THE MIDDLE EAST"

Rabbi Michael Lerner is one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. In his just published new book, Embracing Israel / Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East, he addresses the roots of the most dangerous situation confronting the world today: the threat of a war against Iran by Israel and the United States, and proposes a strategy to reconcile Israelis and Palestinians as essential first step toward transforming the Middle East. The "Arab Spring" has opened the door to peace. The green movement in Iran has shown an alternative to the reactionary, aggressive regime is possible. But peace between Israelis and Palestinians is also necessary and possible if a new policy of support for the democratic rights of the Palestinians is adopted by the United States and embraced by both Israelis and Palestinians.

The Alameda Public Affairs Forum is privileged to present Rabbi Lerner speaking on the subject of his new book Saturday evening, January 14, at the Alameda Public Library, 7.45pm (note the later than usual starting time). Copies provided by Books Inc. will be available for sale and Rabbi Lerner will autograph them.

Saturday January 14^th 7:45 pm
Note: a slightly later start time
Alameda Free Library - Oak and Lincoln

Come at 6:30 to snack and socialize- Bring something to share

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Thank you for your vital participation and contribution to civil discourse in Alameda.

Our earlier talks are archived (see menu button above); for more recent programs, from the May Forum on Fukushima by Andy Lichterman and Michael Eisensher, to our more recent offerings, including a video of the October 15 Occupy Rally, featuring Danny Glover, and our last Forum on the Occupy movement, with speakers from Jack Gershon and Barry Schultz to Gretchen and Arthur Lipow by clicking: Forum Archive.

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See you — in friendship and solidarity for a better America built from the bottom up by democratic citizen action! Our problems in Alameda are the same as the problems in every town and city in America. Come to the Forum to explore these problems and their solution. More than ever we are in danger of losing our freedoms: let's not let that happen! Democracy depends on each of us — turn off the television and meet your neighbors and other concerned cotizens at the Forums. Speak out and challenge the accpeted wisdom! Make up your own mind! Think for yourselves. That's what democracy is all about.

For additional information call Gretchen or Arthur Lipow, co-chairs, Alameda Public Affairs Forum, (510) 814-9592, or e-mail ArtLipow@aol.com

[For an interview with Vanessa Graber, community radio director at the Prometheus Radio Project, on Low Power radio, click HERE.]

You may have noticed a couple of menu items at the top of this Webpage: CENTER SITE and CTR eZINE. They are, respectively, to the Center for Global Peace and Democracy and New Beginnings: A Journal of Critical Thought for a World in Crisis.

They are the work of Arthur Lipow, co-founder of the Forum (see his BIO). We encourage you to visit these Websites.