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All Sunday Platform Meetings
are held at 10:30 A.M.
in the Spiegel Auditorium at 56 Brattle St. in Cambridge,
Massachusetts and are free and open to the public. The building is accessible
by car or public
transportation.
In the event inclement weather
causes cancellation of a Sunday meeting, the Board of Trustees
will call members. A cancellation message will be put on the
Society telephone answering machine at (617)739-9050 by 8:00
A.M. and some radio stations will carry our cancellation
announcement.
The Platform format is usually as follows:
Welcome
Opening Words
Musical Selection
Speaker's presentation
Music
Announcements
Closing Words
Refreshment Break
Question & answer with the Speaker
We end at 12:30 P.M.
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This Month
 January 8 - Income Inequality and Its
Effects
Ellen Frank, Asst. Prof., Economics Department,
University of Massachusetts Boston
An economist explores "income inequality" in the United States
today.
Music: Herman Johnson, saxophone
 January 15 -
The Pulitzer Prizes and the
Past and Future of Investigative Journalism
Roy Harris, Editorial Director,
CFOWorld, former
Wall Street Journal
reporter
For nearly a century, the Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism have
been the premier awards recognizing great American reporting/
"Pulitzer's Gold:
Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism" tells stories behind the stories of the most
prominent of those prizes. This talk will examine what the
Pulitzer Prizes tell us about the current state of great
reporting, especially investigative journalism.
Music: Harel Gietheim, cello and Kanako Nishikawa, piano
 January 22 - The Neuroscience of Greed
Rick Heller, author of Occupy the
Moment: A Mindful Path to a New Economy
Excessive desire drives both the growing economic inequality in
the United States and the climate crisis. An understanding of
the brain's reward system, which produces desire, can be helpful
for anyone seeking to overcome greed in the economy or in
themselves.
Music:
Fonyue (Anchie) Donn, piano
For information on humanist mindfulness and avoiding
materialism, go to:
Seeing the Roses
Occupy the Moment
 January 29 - Journeys, An Artist Explores
the Inner & Outer Worlds
Lucilda
Dassardo-Cooper, Artist
Lucilda travels and paints her impressions through a lens of
foreign cultures; however, her cultural assumptions are often
challenged. Examining her attitudes and beliefs has transformed
the inner landscape of her being as she actively attempts to
bring her life into alignment with an ethical code of conduct
established in an ancient time, in an ancient land.
Music:
Richard Matra,
soprano saxophone
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Next Month
 February
5 - Working for Fair Elections
Avi Green, Executive Director,
MassVOTE
In this crucial election year, restrictive strategies are being
used to deny the vote. This talk will address what's happening
and why, how MassVOTE is working for fair elections, and how we
all can work to insure fairness in the electoral process.
Music: Concordia Consort, 6
recorder players
February 12 - Health Reform in the USA,
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Michael Miller, Policy Director,
Community Catalyst
What are the important takeaway lessons from the passage of the
Affordable Care Act? What is shaping current health policy
agenda in Washington and what can we expect in the future?
Music: Nick Dinnerstein, cello
February 19 - Ethical Action Agenda - Against Citizens' United
Members of the ESB Ethical Action
Committee
ESB members are participating in national/regional organizing
strategies to counter the Citizens' United decision. This
session will identify what members are doing, and discuss the
importance of organizing on this issue in this election year.
Music:
Peter Zay, Cello, and Noemi
Miloradovic, violin
 February 26 - The Ethics of Criminal Defense Law
Susan Remis Silver, Esq., Special
Assistant to the Public Defender,
New Jersey Office of
the Public Defender
What duties does a criminal defense attorney owe to his client?
What duties does he or she owe to society? What does a lawyer do
when the two conflict? Is the lawyer's ethical role to search
for the truth, for justice, or for something entirely different?
Music: Tamar Grader, piano
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Last Month
December 4 - Occupy Boston Movement and
Free Speech
Whitney Taylor, Field Director,
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
What are the Constitutionally protected rights of the Occupy
Wall Street movement and how are cities and towns across the
Commonwealth guaranteeing those rights? A non-partisan
discussion about freedom of expression, assembly, and political
thought.
Music: Jill Borenstein, piano
December 11 - Winter Solstice Festival
We will gather in Brookline to play music, sing, do readings,
and (of course) eat. If you wish to participate, contact Andrea Perrault at (781)593-5794.
Last Year's Platforms
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Upcoming
 Date TBD - Equal Treatment for All?
Workplace Discrimination in Massachusetts' Public Universities
Jeff Petrucelly, Ethical Society of Boston
Member, and Employment Lawyer
Attorney Jeffrey Petrucelly will provide an overview of
employment discrimination in our public universities and
concentrate on a recent, unprecedented decision awarding
promotion to a faculty member he represented at the
University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth by the
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
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