No GSMCB for December 2021 - Go Vote!

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

Saturday December 11, 2021 

Go vote!

Local Runoffs and Referendums

Public Library and Housing Tax Renewals

Our regular session will not be held

Folks interested in taking part in a brief

planning Zoom session for coming 

GSMCB sessions should email Brad Ott

via bradott@bellsouth.net 

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Our Facebook Page will have updates!

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of 

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

No GSMCB for November 2021 - Go Vote!

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

Saturday November 13, 2021 

 Go vote!

Our regular session will not be held

Folks interested in taking part in a brief

planning Zoom session for coming 

GSMCB sessions should email Brad Ott

via bradott@bellsouth.net 

_________________

Our Facebook Page will have updates!

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

See our website URL: http://www.thecommunitybreakfast.org/

The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of 

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

GSMCB Saturday October 9, 2021: Elections 2021

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

October 9, 2021 session

 

Elections 2021 Roundtable Discussion

 

Moderated by

Christine Day, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

University of New Orleans  

 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, 2021  

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements 

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 820 2887 5979

Passcode: 029310

 

Please join us for a roundtable discussion on the November 12th elections (originally scheduled for October 9th, and rescheduled due to Hurricane Ida).

We welcome your views on the races for New Orleans Mayor and City Council, Orleans Parish Sheriff, and Clerk of Criminal District Court, the special election for Louisiana House District 102, and proposed state constitutional amendments, in a discussion moderated by University of New Orleans political scientist Christine Day.

URL: Geauxvote.com for election and voter registration information; registration deadline for this election is October 23, 2021

URL: https://www.cbno.org/elections2021 for specific New Orleans candidate information.

 

 

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of 

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

 

GSMCB for Saturday September 11, 2021: Post Ida Check-In

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

September 11, 2021 session 

Post Hurricane Ida Check-In 

 

Moderated Roundtable Discussion

 

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2021  

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements 

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 828 6857 8536

Passcode: 144152

 

We hope all of you are safe and made it through Hurricane Ida. 

Since the fall elections have been postponed (and that was our original topic), we thought it would be nice to have a chance to visit and find out how everyone is doing. 

 

 

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of 

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

August 14, 2021 GSMCB: Welcome Back Roundtable: (Why Aren't We Post-COVID-19 Yet?)

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

August 14, 2021 session

 

 

 

Welcome Back Roundtable:

 

(Why Aren't We Post-COVID-19 Yet?)

 

Moderated Roundtable Discussion

Moderated by

K. Brad Ott, Adjunct Professor of Sociology

 

SATURDAY AUGUST 14, 2021 

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

 

To Join the Zoom directly [URL]:

 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86956617997?pwd=ZHNVaFh5YzRnZEpQcVJxbkplTE55QT09

Meeting ID: 869 5661 7997

Passcode: 075763

 

Join us for our friendly group discussion after our summer break. For some of us who obtained the COVID-19 vaccines (as well as a large part of the country whom had not), late spring into early summer 2021 meant shedding our masks and re-embracing aspects of our social lives we had missed experiencing since before the start of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which significantly began impacting the United States in March 2020. This is a check-in session (How are you and your family doing? What are you looking forward to? Why aren't we post-COVID-19 yet?)

 

RSVP to this event on Facebook--

 https://www.facebook.com/events/412999369927083

 

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

GSMCB is on Summer break ...

 

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

 

Is on Summer Break for July!

 

Potentially, we'll be returning for an in-person gathering 

for Saturday August 14th!

 

Please stay in touch

 

For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

See our website URL: http://www.thecommunitybreakfast.org/

The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

 

 

GSMCB for June 12, 2021 - Women in Afghanistan: After the U.S. Withdrawal

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

June 12, 2021 session

 

 

 

Women in Afghanistan:

 

After the U.S. Withdrawal

 

Tammy Savoie Ph.D.

Retired U.S. Air Force Psychologist

 

SATURDAY JUNE 12, 2021 

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

To Join the Zoom directly [URL]:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87256361356?pwd=YVpoOWJSUkgza3FyVTZseUplOHhkdz09

Meeting ID: 872 5636 1356

Passcode: 397623

 

We do want our troops home. But it seems inevitable that the Taliban will take over Afghanistan again after our troops leave. But what will become of security, given the Taliban's history of harboring terrorists, including those who attacked the U.S.?

Our focus this month is the very real concerns expressed for the women of Afghanistan, (including the woman who is currently Afghanistan's envoy to the U.S. to many prominent Afghan women). And even though the U.S. troops weren't sent to Afghanistan to rescue women from their murderous patriarchy, the presence of troops has helped to allow women more freedom and rights, including the right to actually live. (Remember, it was Taliban militants who tried to murder Malala Yousoufzai in Pakistan.)

Our presenter will be will be Tammy Savoie, a retired Air Force psychologist. She spent 15 years in the Louisiana National Guard, received her Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta and worked 23 years in the Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2016.

 

RSVP to this event on Facebook--

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For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

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The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

 

 

 

 

May 8, 2021 GSMCB: Criminal Justice Reform and the 2021 Louisiana State Legislative Session

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

May 8, 2021 session

 

 

Criminal Justice Reform and the 

 

2021 Louisiana State Legislative Session

  Susan M. Weishar Ph.D.

Policy and Research Fellow

Jesuit Social Research Institute

Loyola University New Orleans

 

SATURDAY MAY 8, 2021 

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

To Join the Zoom directly [URL]:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89866037914?pwd=bC82YmdoektPekVlZ3l2emdrNUNJZz09

Meeting ID: 898 6603 7914

Passcode: 435072

 

Several important criminal justice reform bills are being considered in the current Louisiana State Legislative session that have great potential to unravel mass incarceration in our state if enacted, including:

HB 254, which eliminates Juvenile Life without Parole. This bill is more urgently needed since SCOTUS ruled April 21 that judges do not have to hold special hearings to determine if juvenile offenders are beyond hope of rehabilitation before sentencing them to die in prison.

HB 490 which allows persons with life sentences to apply for parole after serving 25 years;

HB 46 which puts limits on pre-trial incarceration.

Our presenter will be Susan M. Weishar, Ph.D., a Policy and Research Fellow with the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University (JSRI).

JSRI strongly supports other reform bills such as HB 68, prohibiting the use of solitary confinement in Louisiana prisons for persons with mental illness or impairment, and HB 604 simplifying the very expensive and complex expungement process for persons who have served their time.

 

RSVP to this event on Facebook--

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For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

See our website URL: http://www.thecommunitybreakfast.org/

The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday April 10, 2021 GSMCB Session

 

The Gillespie-Senter 

Memorial Community Breakfast

April 10, 2021 session

 

 

Legislative Session and Election

Roundtable and Discussion

Moderator:

  Dr. Christine Day

Professor of Political Science

University of New Orleans

 

SATURDAY APRIL 10, 2021 

10:50am - 12:30pm

 

10:50am-11:00am: Participant Introductions

11:00am-12:00pm: Keynote Presentation

12:00pm-12:30pm: Progressive Community Announcements

 

Via Zoom Meeting:

To Join the Zoom directly [URL]:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83775035267?pwd=dC9iblgvbzdmWkRtQXhZVFVEVlZmZz09

 

Meeting ID: 837 7503 5267

Passcode: 623701

April is an exciting month politically in Louisiana, with the state legislative fiscal session getting underway on April 12, and the hotly contested U.S. House of Representatives Second Congressional District runoff to replace former Rep. Cedric Richmond on April 24 

[Early voting April 10-17, excluding Sunday April 11].

 

NOTE: The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast does not make political endorsements. It presents an open forum for political opinions via discussion with participants.

 

RSVP to this event on Facebook -

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For more information, contact Brad Ott at bradott@bellsouth.net or (504) 810-3919

Like our Facebook page URL: https://www.facebook.com/GillespieBreakfast/  

See our website URL: http://www.thecommunitybreakfast.org/

The Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast has been a project of

the First Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Team since May 1983