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Also Poetry Group at 9:30 am <br>
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<b>Moveable Feast</b> delivers meals to AIDS and cancer patients and
their
families. BES’ “Moveable Treats” programs provides individually
packaged single portions of desserts that are included in these meals.
Bring your desserts with you to the meeting, and place them on the
table in the corner of our meeting room. Use sandwich bags or snack
bags to wrap your desserts in serving size portions, and label them to
indicate generally what they are. Mark your desserts if they contain
nuts or peanuts. Avoid desserts that have heavy icings or that contain
alcohol.
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<dt>Sep 7 <b>"The Ethical Life and Politics: An Introduction"</b></dt>
<dd>By John Nugent, BES Member & CEO of Planned Parenthood of
Maryland
<p>In an introduction to a series of platforms, John will discuss
the long
relationship between ethics and politics going back to Aristotle. He
will then review the dominant philosophy driving the ethics and
politics of the current national administration through a review of the
research and work of Frank Luntz and his book “Words That Work: It’s
Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear” and a review of the political
ideas of Leo Strauss. </p>
<p>Speaker bio: <br>
John Nugent was the CEO of a Hospice program
prior to joining Planned Parenthood in 1997. He holds an MA in ethics
from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a BA in philosophy and has
been an adjunct college philosophy instructor. He was co-chair of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Bioethics task force and
served on the National Hospice Organization’s ethics committee. John is
active in the Board of the Washington Area Secular Humanists, the Board
of Baltimore Westside Market Center Merchants Association, and served
on the Board of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of
the Leadership Baltimore and Leadership Maryland programs and is
currently part of the Weinberg Fellows program. John is a certified
Humanist Celebrant/Officiant through the American Humanist Association.
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<dt>Sep 14: <b>"Access to Health Care: A Basic Human Right Not
Available to Tens of Millions" </b> </dt>
<dd>By Dr. Peter Beilenson, Howard County Health Officer
<p>Although recognized as a basic human right in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights by 50 countries in 1948, the United States,
virtually alone among the developed countries of the world, has tens of
millions of its citizens uninsured. The consequences of this disturbing
gap are manifold: from worse health status and significant financial
difficulties for individuals who don't have health coverage, to vast
fiscal effects on a variety of payers. It's time that the U.S. joins
the rest of the developed world in seriously addressing the issue of
health care reform. Dr. Beilenson will talk about the prospects for
national reform with the new Administration and give examples of the
few state and local programs that are being touted as models for fixing
the American system of health care. </p>
<p>Speaker bio: <br>
Peter L. Beilenson, M.D., M.P.H. currently
serves as Health Officer of Howard County Maryland. He has 13 years of
experience in public health leadership having served as the Baltimore
City Health Commissioner under the administrations of Mayors Kurt
Schmoke and Martin J. O'Malley. Dr. Beilenson received his
undergraduate degree from Harvard College, MD from Emory University
School of Medicine, and MPH from the Johns Hopkins. During his tenure
in Baltimore City, Dr. Beilenson expanded and improved drug treatment
programs, immunization compliance, lead poisoning prevention
initiatives, and juvenile violence prevention. He founded the Maryland
Citizens’ Health Initiative which leading the drive for universal
health coverage in Maryland. </p>
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<dt>Sep 21: <b>"Getting Around Sustainably" </b> </dt>
<dd>By Len Pons, BES Member & Transportation Analyst at Public
Citizen
<p>As part of the Society's exploration of sustainability, Lena
will
discuss sustainable transportation, with a focus on personal
transportation. She will look at modes of transportation, as well as
infrastructure and land use planning and will try to put local
transportation into a federal context. Energy and climate policy are
intimately interconnected, and transportation is the most challenging
sector of energy policy. </p>
<p>Speaker bio: <br>
Lena Pons graduated from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 with a BS in chemistry. She has been at
Public Citizen for two years, working with the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration to influence transportation safety and energy
laws. In 2006, she collaborated in litigation on the 2006 fuel economy
standards for pickup trucks and SUVs. In 2007, she worked with a
coalition of environmental and consumer groups lobbying for the Energy
Independence and Security Act, which mandated the first new fuel
economy standards in 22 years. She testified in regulatory hearings
before NHTSA and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and
she currently sits on three progressive transportation working groups,
addressing the three parts of the transportation energy problem --
efficiency, fuels and transportation demand. </p>
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