Alameda Public Affairs Forum

WELCOME!

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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ALAMEDA PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORUM
a continuing project of the
Center for Global Peace and Democracy
will be on haitus until September

We’ll see you
in the fall!

China, the U.S. and the “Pivot to the Pacific”
Gretchen Lipow , November 2012 (For Peace and Justice Caucus November NEA) in cooperation with Arthur Lipow

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For more information about our events:
email: AlamedaPublicAffairs@comcast.net * call: 510-814-9592

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

Mp3s and AIFs of the June 16 Forum with Prof. Jack Rasmus, “Obama’s Economic Plan: Recovery for the Few and Continuing Poverty and Suffering for the Many” are now availble:

mp3 Talk and Q&A
AIFF Talk and Q&A

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).

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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. (Oak & Lincoln), Alameda, California. Come at 6:30 to snack and socialize. Bring something to share.

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.