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"One Minute to Midnight in October ‘62"
Oct. 08, 2019
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“Conversation on the Hot Issues Facing California”
Oct. 15, 2019
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1934-YEAR OF BATTLES, BRIDGES, AND BLOODSHED
Oct. 22, 2019
In the summer of 1934 the streets of San Francisco ran red with the blood of strikers and police alike. The waterfront strike of that year was the most violent civil disturbance the city had ever known. Led by Harry Bridges, an obscure Australian immigrant, the strike engulfed every port on the West Coast and led to a general strike that shut down San Francisco for four dramatic days. Daniel Bacon, author and historian, will describe the political events and economic conditions that led to this violent showdown between capital and labor. He’ll also detail the battle for hearts and minds by a variety of disparate groups from unions to corporations, Communists to American Legionnaires, politicians to the Catholic Church. |
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Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
Nov. 05, 2019
What is it like to live around a U.S. military base abroad? She will read from and discuss her new book, "Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa", which explores the "borderlands" around the many American bases on this southern Japanese island. She'll touch on the history since WWII and how many Okinawans have a complex relationship toward the U.S. military presence.
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Got Kids? What are They Worth to You?
Nov. 12, 2019
Marin County has always been forward-looking, and has begun to address the potential effects of sea level rise and climate disruption with the strategy of getting ahead of and minimizing the worst impacts. The County has completed “Vulnerability Assessments” for both the Bay and Ocean Shoreline, evaluating a series of scenarios of the potential risks arising as sea levels increase over time. For example, projections show that at 10 inches of sea level rise, combined with 1% chance storm, 4500 homes and businesses along the Bay shoreline would be flooded, 30 miles of roadways would be under water, and 200,000 residents, employees and commuters would have their lives disrupted. The County, local and regional agencies and Marin citizens are battling climate disruption on two fronts: “Mitigation” to reduce greenhouse gases that fuel the growing crisis, and “adaptation” to defend against and cope with a new normal of constant threatening change. Jack will provide an overview of what is going on, and what needs to be done. |
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"Spying: What It Is & What It Isn't"
Nov. 19, 2019
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Marinship--World's Most Amazing Shipyard
Nov. 26, 2019
Eric will BRIEFLY tell the story of the WWII Marinship shipyard. Marinship was built on the extremely urgent request of the US Maritime Commission to promptly replace ships sunk by German U Boats and Japanese submarines during the opening phase of US involvement in WWII. As many as 80 ships per month were being sunk and US shipyard capacity had been decimated by the 1930's Depression, so on 2 March 1941 a request was made by the US Maritime Commission for six entirely new shipyards. The request was telegraphed to the W. A. Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco and they immediately responded by proposing a shipyard in Sausalito. Construction began less than four weeks later on 28 March and the first ship was launched less than six months after starting construction on 26 September. AMAZING! A total of 93 ships were built before the shipyard was closed down within weeks of the Japanese surrender. The shipyard was taken over the US Corps of Engineers and not needed land and buildings were sold to the highest bidder. |
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"The Midget Sub Attack on Pearl Harbor"
Dec. 03, 2019
Most people think the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor relied on airplanes but the Imperial Japanese Navy not only had eleven subs surrounding Oahu but launched five mini-subs to attack battleship row as well. This lavishly illustrated presentation will tell the story of the midget sub attack on Pearl Harbor from the point of view of the Japanese officers who participated. |
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“Holiday Serenade”
Dec. 10, 2019
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The Music Never Stopped—Marin County’s Music Scene photographed by Bob Minkin
Jan. 07, 2020
He will discuss his career and will present a slide show based on his recent books, The Music Never Stopped, a stunning hardcover coffee table book spanning over 25 years of music photography and stories from in Marin County and his his latest book, Just Jerry, his photographs of Jerry Garcia. This will include slide show, book sales & signing. |
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"An Intimate Portrait of an Unlikely Rock Star: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
Jan. 14, 2020
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Jan. 21, 2020
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“Reminiscences of a Hidden Holocaust Child”
Jan. 28, 2020
Paul was born in Vienna in 1933. After surviving the horrors of Kriostallnacht and the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany his family fled to Belgium in late 1938. By 1943 Paul was completely fluent in French and really had no trouble “passing” for Belgian, but he was readily identified as a Jew (wearing a HUGE Star of David on his chest) and subject to any mistreatment or even summary murder. Not only from the German occupiers, but even worse from the Belgian collaborators who had to prove themselves and were also very well paid. Jewish kids were no longer allowed in school, so that left Paul at loose ends while his mother worked for a kind Christian family, meaning that they saw each other early in the morning and late in the evening — at which time Paul obtained some food and much solace. Matters went rapidly from horrible to more horrible. When a young partisan approached Paul’s mother with the proposal of saving his life if she gave him over to him, no questions asked. She, with all the love a mother can muster, said “yes!” and let Paul disappear into the unknown with him. And for the next 2 years they did not know whether the other was alive, and if so, where. |
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Feb. 04, 2020
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Space Travel For Thousands of People: Flights Starting in 2020!
Feb. 18, 2020
It's an exciting time for space flight. For the first time, companies will be flying passengers from all over the world on commercial flights into space. The initial journeys are set to begin in 2020. Building on test flights from 2019 and earlier, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are ready to begin service for a new era of astronauts. In this presentation, Ron will provide images and video from recent flights from both programs, plus details and personal perspective of what's involved and what's ahead. |
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“Backstage Secrets of Jeopardy!”
Feb. 25, 2020
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"Shark Attack & Other Mishaps"
Mar. 03, 2020
In early May of 2007, Peller was savaged and nearly killed by an eighteen-foot, three-thousand-pound tiger shark in the waters off Kihei, Maui. After it occurred, this shark attack was a human-interest story that generated national and international attention and played out publicly on television and in newspapers. But her recovery, both physical and emotional, has been a very private process—one she chronicles in her book "Shark Attack and Other Mishaps." |
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How stem cell research is changing the face of medicine"
Mar. 10, 2020
Over the last 15 years California has been at the forefront of a medical revolution. Stem cell research is changing the way we think about disease and changing the way we treat it. Instead of patching up a problem stem cells are helping turn back the clock, reversing the course of disease and regenerating damaged tissues. Today we have a cure for a deadly immune disorder that in the past used to kill children in their first few years of life. We have helped stroke patients regain use of their arms and hands, and people battling deadly cancers get a second chance at life. And it’s all thanks to the voters of California. Kevin is the Senior Director Public Communications & Patient Advocate Outreach at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. |
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"A surprising explanation for how and why Hitler lost World War II"
Mar. 17, 2020
On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, most historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman argues that while Barbarossa was a gamble and perverted by genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start. Rather it represented Hitler’s best chance to achieve his war aims for Germany which were remarkably similar to those of the Kaiser’s government in 1914. Other options, such as an invasion of England, or an offensive to seize the oil fields of the Middle East were considered and discarded as unlikely to lead to Axis victory. |
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"The Fed and the Economy"
Mar. 24, 2020
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"Woman between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the 153 Wives of the King of Siam, 1886-1910"
Mar. 31, 2020
Everyone knows of Anna Leonowens, author of “The English Governess at the Siamese Court” (1870) and protagonist of the musical "The King and I." Anna's books gave the West its first glimpse of women's lives within the palace, depicting the "royal harem" as a place where women were slaves to the king's every whim. But what Anna didn't show was that royal polygamy played a crucial role in traditional Siamese politics, cementing loyalties between the capital and the city-states at its peripheries through marriage alliances. Outside of Thailand, few people know the story of how one political marriage – between Princess Dara Rasami and the King of Siam – shaped the borders of today's Thailand. In this talk, Leslie will discuss a woman who became a royal consort to Siam's king Chulalongkorn in 1886: Princess Dara Rasami, a daughter of the royal family of Lan Na (today’s northern Thailand). Over the course of her nearly thirty-year career as an "outsider" among other royal consorts, the Princess served as both a hostage and diplomat for her home country, ultimately earning her place as one of the 5 highest-ranking queens of the era. |
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"Public Employee Post Employment Costs--A Slow Motion Disaster”
Apr. 07, 2020
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