[BES Friends] Upcoming activities

[Stephen Meskin]

Poetry Group Jan 20, 9:30 am contact poet at BaltimoreEthicalSociety.org
Platforms at 10:30 am
    Jan 20: "Belated Justice for Nazi Resisters" Susanne Riveles (see 
details below)
    Jan 27: "The Politics of Presidential Primaries" Richard Katz, 
Professor of Political Science, JHU (see details below)
Newcomers' Meeting Jan 27, 12:30 pm (for those who want to know more 
about us -- all you questions answered.)

see our website http://www.baltimoreethicalsociety.org/
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Jan 20: "Belated Justice for Nazi Resisters" Susanne Riveles

    Susanne Riveles will report on contemporary research findings about 
Nazi crimes against humanity. Only since the fall of the Berlin wall are 
new Nazi-Justice records accessible to researchers in a unified Germany. 
She will describe the organization, work and persecution of the largest 
Berlin based resistance organization fighting the Nazi regime on 
numerous fronts. The members of the group were driven underground and 
acted under the permanent threat of being arrested. Over 200 members 
were caught, tried by the infamous Peoples Court, and executed in the 
last months of World War II.

    Susanne Riveles was born in Berlin and her family suffered severely 
at the hands of the Nazis. Her father was executed for his role in 
Resistance activities. She later earned her Ph.D. in African studies at 
Howard University. Her studies relate the treatment of the people of 
Namibia under German colonial rule to the Nazi racially discriminatory 
treatment of Jews. She has worked with Amnesty International and led the 
Southern Africa Coordination Group in the defense of prisoners of 
Apartheid. She was Director of the Africa desk for Lutheran World Relief 
and was Director of the Education and Advocacy for International Justice 
and Human Rights Program for Church World Service. In those roles she 
has traveled to Africa, and has written, testified and advocated to 
improve conditions for development and human rights. She is currently on 
the Boards of the Abell Improvement Association (AIA), the Charles 
Village Community Benefits District Management Authority, and the 
International Alliance of Women (IAW). She is Regional Vice President 
for the Americas and Convenor of the IAW's Commission on Women, Peace 
and Security. She is responsible for Planning, Land Use, Sanitation and 
Housing for the AIA.

Jan 27: "The Politics of Presidential Primaries" Richard Katz, Professor 
of Political Science, JHU

    By this time the two major parties will have had primaries or 
caucuses in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Nevada. In addition, 
Republicans will have had a primary in South Carolina and county 
conventions in Wyoming. Our own president, Dick Katz will help us read 
the presidential tea leaves; describe how the primary process affects 
our democracy; propose a better primary process; and mention some things 
we might consider when Maryland holds its primary is on Feb 12.

    Richard Katz is Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of 
Political Science of Johns Hopkins University where he has taught for 30 
years. He received an AB from the University of Michigan and PhD from 
Yale in political science. His research interests are Comparative 
Politics (Parties, Elections, European politics) and American Politics. 
He has written 10 books; over 100 articles, chapters, reviews, and 
conference papers; and has served on numerous editorial boards and 
advisory committees, most recently as Consultant to the Privy Council 
Office of the Government of Canada. He is currently doing his second 
stint as President of BES and performs many of the little tasks that 
keep the society humming.

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