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This is our consolidated schedule, including free single-session events as well as the first session of each of our courses. Let us know if you'd like to be notified when the schedule is updated. 

Saturday, November 7, 1-5 PM 
Media Democracy Day
To "promote media that informs the public on important issues," among other purposes, with panels of media experts.   Working groups will include one on blogging. Organized by the Metropolitan Chicago Progressive Media Network
. Co-sponsored by HGS since an informed public is our great objective.   At 637 S. Dearborn (Grace Place).  Admission $10 or less, details  here and here.

Saturday, November 14, 2:00 PM  
Curious Georgists Go to the Movies
Major Barbara

Filmed in war-torn England, Gabriel Pascal's screen version of George Bernard Shaw's famous play is a memorial to the artists who made it and proof that it takes more than bombs to sub­due the English wit. The story of a Salvation Army girl, her munitions− manufacturing father and her pragmatic scholar fiance, this film version is a triumph ─ demonstrating Shaw's own words that "the greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." (Dir: Gabriel Pascal, UK. 1941. 116 mins.). At 28 E. Jackson. #1004, Free.  Optional discussion follows.


Wednesday, December 2, 6:00 PM
What the Rich Know...
...and how it costs the rest of us. Of course rich people have money, but the power that makes them rich is something else: Privilege. Chuck Metalitz will explain what privilege is, how the rich obtain it, and how it prevents the rest of us from prospering. He'll show how the power of privilege can be broken, and report on actual practical ways this is done, even in Chicago. At 28 E. Jackson. #1004, Free,

Thursday, December 3, 6:00 PM
How I Made Over $1,000,000 in Chicago Real Estate:
I Stole it From You!

George Menninger made as much money, doing nothing but holding land, as many typical Chicagoans earn from a lifetime of labor. Where'd the money come from? All of us. It rightfully belongs to the community, but George, and thousands of others, collect it for themselves. Yes it's legal, but is it fair? And what can be done about it? (This talk by George Menninger also constitutes the first session of his Progress & Poverty course, and has an alternate title, "Why Doesn't Poverty Go Away?" At 28 E. Jackson #1004, free.

This schedule is current as of  October 28, 2009. For further information, including 2010 course schedules, feel free to email us or phone 312/362-9302.  

Henry George School of Social Science, Chicago, Illinois