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"Avoiding Scams, Fraud, and Identity Theft"
Jun. 16, 2020
This Marin Financial Abuse Specialist Team will enlighten and educate on how to protect older adults and others against common financial scams. A 2018 study asserts that financial elder abuse costs $36.5 billion annually. In Marin County alone, financial abuse cases make up 32% of all referrals to Adult Protective Services. Nationwide it’s estimated that only 1 in 10 cases is reported. |
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"Walking the Tightrope...From Burnout to Balance"
Jul. 07, 2020
One of today’s most pressing problems is feeling overwhelmed. We are checking our cellphones nearly 50 times a day and finding ourselves working all day and weekends to no avail. It is no secret that this is happening to all of us; no one is immune. And a simple awareness of burnout is not enough to bring balance to our lives; different actions must be taken. Steven Campbell, MSIS presents the astounding scientific discoveries of how our minds can be rewired and trained to find the balance we need.
He teaches how balance is, in fact, a state of mind. Steve both teaches and demonstrates the psychological discoveries of how it can be attained. He does this in the form of four key takeaways from the acronym FIND.
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"How Dry I Ain’t: Prohibition – the Ignoble Experiment that Failed "
Jul. 14, 2020
This year we celebrate the centennial of the beginning of the Volstead Act (1920 – 1933), the enforcement legislation of the 18 th Amendment. The Prohibition movement had its origins in the Northeast and Midwest, with very little enthusiasm in the West, and particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. But it was the “Law of the Land,” and we had to obey its restrictions. The 13 years of Prohibition have been sensationalized, primarily because of gang violence and dramatic law enforcement methods in big cities and smaller communities in other regions of the nation. This presentation will focus on the less dramatic activities of citizens in our area, who found ways to circumvent what President Herbert Hoover called the “noble experiment” with a much more relaxed attitude. |
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How Dry I Ain’t: Prohibition – the Ignoble Experiment that Failed
Aug. 11, 2020
This year we celebrate the centennial of the beginning of the Volstead Act (1920 – 1933), the enforcement legislation of the 18 th Amendment. The Prohibition movement had its origins in the Northeast and Midwest, with very little enthusiasm in the West, and particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. But it was the “Law of the Land,” and we had to obey its restrictions. The 13 years of Prohibition have been sensationalized, primarily because of gang violence and dramatic law enforcement methods in big cities and smaller communities in other regions of the nation. This presentation will focus on the less dramatic activities of citizens in our area, who found ways to circumvent what President Herbert Hoover called the “noble experiment” with a much more relaxed attitude. |
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"The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown."
Aug. 25, 2020
During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. Julia examines this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. Accompanied by historical photos from the book, she'll explore the Marin settings and people in her nonfiction book. |
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Exploring Whiteness
Sep. 22, 2020
Civil Rights Advocate Debbie Toizer will present Exploring Whiteness. She will discuss what it means to have a white racial identity. What are our implicit biases and how do we learn to recognize them in our daily interactions? Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? How do we have these conversations and still center black, indigenous and people of color in the movement for racial justice? |
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Avoiding Scams-Including Covid, Fraud, and Identity Theft
Oct. 06, 2020
Financial Scams/Fraud/ID TheftOak will enlighten and educate us on how to protect older adults and all ages against common financial scams. A 2018 study asserts that financial elder abuse costs $36.5 billion annually. In Marin County alone, financial abuse cases make up 32% of all referrals to Adult Protective Services. Nationwide it’s estimated that only 1 in 10 cases is reported. |
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Oct. 10, 2020
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The Mill Valley Song Turns 50! - Rita Abrams Shares Her Story.
Oct. 20, 2020
Two-time Emmy Award winner Rita Abrams describes how her smallest musical creation became the biggest legacy of her musical career.
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We’ve Voted. Now What? - Election Aftermath
Nov. 03, 2020
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Last Boat out of Shanghai and What that Great Escape Means for Today.
Nov. 17, 2020
Bay Area author Helen Zia discusses her latest book " Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution" , a deeply moving chronicle of the extraordinary ordeals and exodus of four ordinary Chinese in a world torn by war and fractured by ideology. Their experiences in fleeing China and their struggles to survive as exiles and refugees in the US, Hong Kong, Taiwan and wherever the diaspora would take them are mirrored by an untold exodus of millions of others then and throughout human migrations from catastrophe, and will likely provide insights to people of Hong Kong and other hot spots today. Marin's Amy Tan, author of "The Joy Luck Club" noted: “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side. I read with a personal hunger...”
Her book was one NPR's "Best books of the year" and finalist for a national PEN America book award. As.the San Francisco Chronicle review wrote: "a fascinating read as a missing chapter of modern history finally coming to light. What makes the Shanghai story unique is that the real human cost of the massive exodus has remained a mystery. Official records, if any, are suppressed, and research in this area has been sketchy. " Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution" . . . fills a gap in our collective memory.
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Honoring the Fallen
Dec. 01, 2020
One of the most important and least known duties in the Marine Corps and in all the other US military branches is the Casualty Assistance Call Officer. Headquarters Marine Corps utilizes a nationwide network to identify Marine officers and senior enlisted members for this duty. Once assigned, these Marines' primary duties is to notify the next of kin of fallen Marines. Once notification is made, these Marines are responsible for follow-up visits to explain military benefits and to provide military honors if requested by the family. These assignments are some of the most difficult in the Marine Corps. Every Marine in this duty understands this is the very least they can do to honor the service of fallen Marines and help families deal with the loss of their loved one. "Honoring the Fallen" explains this process and why it is so important to those serving and their families. |
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A Voice In The Wilderness--Medgar Evers & The Miss
Dec. 15, 2020
The Post Civil War Era ushered in the period of Reconstruction which lasted from 1865-1877. It was during this time, that swelled bereft masses of former slaves flooded the war torn South as bitter Confederate sentiments lingered. Due to Congress legislating the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, “freedmen” were indelibly engrafted into the nation’s social fabric as full citizens. The American ideology of race had seemingly found a tangible resolution. However, President Rutherford B. Hayes began withdrawing Northern troops from the former Confederacy in 1877 as a result of political wrangling. This ill conceived decision invited pernicious violence towards people of African descent for generations to come. Unimpeded intimidation, disenfranchisement and Jim Crow beset the hopes of so many for another one hundred years. The following century gave rise to the “Greatest Generation” that would produce new social leaders such as Medgar Wiley Evers who would recraft America’s Civil Rights narrative. Being born in 1925, he was a child of the Great Depression and eventually became a soldier during World War II. His tour ended after the successful D-Day Invasion and he returned home in 1946. Like his peers, liberal cultural experiences abroad nurtured within him a newly formed dignity that would not yield to the traditional racial norms of Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Alcorn A&M College in 1952 and had accepted the state’s NAACP Field Representative position by 1955. After doing so, Evers relocated his young family from Mound Bayou to Mississippi’s capitol. Here, he became a voice in the wilderness.
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