Speaker(s): Meryl Johnson, retired teacher and member, Ohio Board of Education, District 11; Felton Thomas, Executive Director & CEO, Cleveland Public Library; Owen Ganor, Student, Rocky River High School. Moderator: Margaret Nash, PhD, educator, author of Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights In 1974, an Ohio guidance school counselor was … Continue reading Censorship

Speaker: Alex Czayka, Chief Conservation Officer, Western Reserve Land Conservancy Natural lands that could fall prey to commercial developers can be conserved and restored for future generations with the assistance of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. The Conservancy has permanently protected almost 70,000 acres of land, helped create and expand more than  200 public parks … Continue reading Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Speaker: J.B. Silvers, PhD, CWRU Weatherhead School of Management and School of Medicine Medicare is being “privatized” via Medicare Advantage (MA), the corporate alternative to traditional Medicare. MA is publicly financed but run by private insurance corporations. The administrative cost of Medicare: 2%; MA’s administrative cost: 20-40%. MA is used by almost 50% of the … Continue reading Medicare Privatization

Speaker(s): Randi Pokladnik, PhD, retired Research Chemist, Environmental Activist; Emily Obringer, Conservation Program Coordinator, Sierra Club In an attempt to move from carbon-based fuels, including Ohio-fracked natural gas and oil, the petrochemical industry is offering Ohioans an opportunity to utilize excess fracked material for manufacturing products such as plastic and resins on the Ohio River … Continue reading Plastics Are in Us