Come Join us at the Bird and the Book, 1509 E Broadway Ave, Maryville , for socializing and dinner.
If you enjoy looking at menus ahead of time, check out this link:
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This will be a monthly event on the First Wednesday.
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Bring a pot luck to share.
This is a family friendly event.
RET will provide plates, cups, napkins and tableware.
There will be a grill up and ready for use.
For our First Sunday in May meeting we will have Dale Rosenberg speaking on "Who Wrote the Bible?"
Dale is a new resident of Oak Ridge, having moved here with her wife, Rabbi Ahuvah Loewenthal at the beginning of 2024. Rabbi Ahuvah began working as the spiritual leader of the Jewish Congregation of Oak Ridge in January and, as rebbitzen (rabbi's wife), Dale is an active volunteer in synagogue activities.
Dale is a Jewish educator, having decided to reinvent herself ten years ago after a successful career in IT in New York City. She has masters' degrees in Jewish Education and Jewish Studies from Hebrew College in Boston and has taught at a variety of synagogues and several colleges, as well as being a featured speaker at conferences. Currently she is teaching in the Oak Ridge Institute for Continuing Learning (ORICL) program at Roane State and in the Cheshire Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL) program at Keene State College in New Hampshire.
Coffee and other beverages will be available and bring some snack to share.
We meet in the Cafeteria Annex, which is in the back of the Goins Administration Building on the Hardin Valley Campus of Pellisippi State.
For those of you who cannot attend in person, the Zoom link is provided below.
Topic: RET First Sunday In-Person Meeting
Time: May 5, 2024 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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By Sohrab Ahmari
Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated industry to the detriment of the middle class and local communities, and corporations began to subject us to total surveillance, even dictating what we are, and aren’t, allowed to think. The corporate titans and mega-donors who aligned themselves with this vision knew exactly what they were getting: perfect conditions for what Sohrab Ahmari calls “private tyranny”.
Drawing on original reporting and a growing chorus of experts who are sounding the alarm, Ahmari chronicles how private tyranny has eroded America’s productive economy and the liberties we take for granted—from employment agreements that gag whistleblowers, to Big Finance’s takeover of local fire departments, to the rigging of corporate bankruptcy to deny justice to workers and consumers—illuminating how these and other developments have left millions feeling that our livelihoods are insecure. And he shows how ordinary Americans can fight back, by restoring the economic democracy that empowered and uplifted millions of working-class people in the twentieth century. Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. is a revelatory read on the most important political story of our time. 288 pages.
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Former RET member Aaron Tyrell will give a presentation on "Metaculture."
Aaron says, "Think of a basic science education as giving you the pieces to the puzzle of the universe. All of the facts are there, but nobody tells you how to put them together to create a belief system that provides meaning."
Look forward to some lively discussion after Aaron's presentation.
Bring your own coffee and snacks to this Zoom presentation.
Topic: RET Third Sunday Zoom Meeting
Time: May 19, 2024 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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By Kate Zernike
In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable—but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics. Confidently believing science to be a pure meritocracy, she embarked on a career.
In 1999, Hopkins, now a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, divorced and childless, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against its female scientists. And their work to highlight what they called “21st-century discrimination”—a subtle, stubborn, often unconscious bias—set off a national reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science. The Exceptions chronicles groundbreaking science and a history-making fight for equal opportunity. And it offers an intimate look at the passion that drives discovery, and a rare glimpse into the competitive, hierarchical world of elite science—and the women who dared to challenge it. 432 pages.
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Can You Force Harm Reduction?
Recently, Oregon has changed its drug policy to be much less progressive and more forceful when dealing with drug offenders. New York is considering forcing homeless people into shelters. Do you think actions like this are warranted? Should the public tolerate the confiscation of public spaces by the homeless and destructive behavior by addicts?
What is the intersection of personal responsibly, public acceptance of the disenfranchised, civic responsibility of the poor and weak, liberty?
Some homeless people won’t go to shelters. Should they be left outside? - Vox
Is Forcing People With Substance Use Disorder Into Drug Treatment a Good Idea? (usnews.com)
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