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.