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HomeFit - Making Your Home Safe and Livable for All: Lunch and Learn Zoom |
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Member tuition: $0.00 |
Sessions: 1 F – 5/14/2021 |
Time: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home , NH |
Surveys consistently find that older adults want to remain in their current homes and communities for as long as possible. Yet barely one percent of the nation’s housing supply contains any “universal design” elements — such as single story living or a sink that can be reached from a wheelchair. That’s where AARP HomeFit comes in. This presentation and discussion imparts ideas to help individuals and families make their current or future residence – or that of a loved one – their “lifelong home.”
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How Hitler Came to Power: Can It Happen Here? |
Presenter: David Hess |
Member tuition: $30.00 |
Sessions: 3 Tu – 3/30/2021-4/27/2021 |
Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home , NH |
Unlike Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Russia, Castro in Cuba and so many other autocrats and dictators in modern times on both the right and left, Hitler and the Nazis actually came to power through the democratic process in Wiemar, Germany. The stage for Hitler's rise was set by Germany's defeat in World War I and the crippling, punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Allies in the Versailles Peace Treaty. But social, economic and political events which followed contributed significant fuel to a German society in disarray, paving the way for the rise of this charismatic speaker. We will explore all of these events and how they were exploited by the Nazis, culminating in their electoral success in 1932, and followed by Hitler's seizure of absolute dictatorial powers shortly thereafter. We will examine whether that confluence of people and events was essentially unique historically; or whether it could indeed happen again, here or elsewhere.
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Class meets 3/30, 4/13, and 4/27.
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Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Really Make Their Decisions |
Presenter: Charles Schudson |
Member tuition: $20.00 |
Sessions: 1 Tu – 4/6/2021 |
Time: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home , NH |
Judge Charles Benjamin Schudson knows how judges really make their decisions. He brings us behind the bench to probe judicial minds, analyzing actual trials and sentencings – of abortion protesters, murderers, sex predators, white supremacists and others. He takes us into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions about life and death, corporate crime, multimillion-dollar damages and priceless civil rights. Most significantly, Judge Schudson exposes the financial, political, personal, and professional pressures threatening judicial integrity. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to read in advance "Independence Corrupted / How America's Judges Make Their Decisions" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), IBSN 9780299320300.
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Racial Reconciliation and Reparations After George Floyd |
Presenter: James McKim |
Member tuition: $30.00 |
Sessions: 3 F – 4/9/2021-4/23/2021 |
Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home , NH |
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Aubery, and Breonna Taylor, incidents in NH, such as the arrest of Jean Roland Saint Preux, and numerous slights in our own communities have caused many of us to examine our beliefs about discrimination and racial justice. After having elected an African American as President, many people thought racism was behind us. Yet recent events seem to prove otherwise. This three-part series will examine concepts of systemic racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, microaggressions, white privilege, reconciliation and reparations in this post-George Floyd time. Session 1: Key Concepts in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Session 2: Reconciliation: Personal Benefits of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Session 3: Why Reparations Now? No required reading but the presenter suggests the following reading that might be of interest: “Waking Up White” by Debbie Irving, IBSN 978-0-9913313-0-7 and “My Grandmother's Hands” by Resmaa Menakem, IBSN 9781942094470.
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Recent US Supreme Court Constitutional Cases Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Abbe Shaine |
Sessions: 3 Th – 5/27/2021-6/10/2021 |
Time: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
This course will focus on recent significant developments and decisions by the Supreme Court. The course will look at the substance of decisions and trends in voting alliances. The actual cases addressed will evolve as new cases are decided and the class members' interests are expressed. Summaries of decisions to be discussed will be provided to participants.
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Standing Up to Racism Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Anne Romney |
Sessions: 3 W – 3/24/2021-4/7/2021 |
Time: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
What does it mean to be an ally? How can we help dismantle systemic, anti-black racism? In this three-part, online workshop with Anne Romney, we will look at racism in all its forms - internalized, interpersonal, institutional and systemic. Topics will include white privilege, understanding the toll of microaggressions and what it means to be an ally/accomplice in the fight for social justice – with emphasis on concrete actions people can do, small and large. There will be one to two hours of homework each week, consisting of reading and videos. Total time commitment will be nine to twelve hours over the course of three weeks. There will be ample time for discussion for the whole class and in smaller, break out groups.
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