Agora

The global fair trade movement builds equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creates opportunities to alleviate poverty. Learn about Fair Trade and find out how you can help promote economic justice, reduce global poverty and protect the environment by being an informed consumer.

Cheryl Juetten

How did they plan the future of Sydney?  London? New York City?

Throughout 2010, City Planners are polling Portlanders via surveys and workshops to help create the new Portland Plan. What will our city and our region look like in 2035? How will it function? Other cities have been through this process. What can we learn from them? How can Portland capitalize on the process and progress of others? Key city planners will present a tale of three cities as examples for group discussion.  Come be a part of this informative and timely conversation!

America's food, health and environment are coming to a state of crisis. Ingredients, a locally made, feature-length documentary, introduces people who are leading the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities. This film illustrates how people around the country are working to revitalize the connection between food and the land; celebrates the the farm-to-table movement with vibrant cinematography; and explores solutions for creating a community based on seasonal food.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with:

Do the failures of modern governance and politics have more to do with a crisis of leadership or a crisis of citizenship? What can we as citizens do to improve the political discourse and the quality of public life? 

This is the focus of "Of the People or for the People: Getting the Government We Deserve,” a free conversation with Jeff Golden, former host of Jefferson Public Radio’s Jefferson Exchange.

Over the past century, Oregon has had more statewide citizen-generated ballot measures than any other state, and, as a result, “direct democracy” has dramatically transformed the state’s political and social landscape.

This is the focus of “The Voters Have Spoken: Oregon’s Controversial Ballot Initiatives,” a free conversation with Linfield College professor Jackson Miller.

This month's speakers include Compassion 2 One Co-founder and President Steve Gutzler and International Field Director Cyndi Romine.

The Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force is comprised of three branches: justice and law enforcement, social services providers, and the outreach and awareness branch of the task force known as OATH - Oregonians Agains Human Trafficking. This month's speakers, Keith Bickford, Chis Killmer and Carol Fenton, all sit on the Board of OATH.

City Club's Agora Committee welcomes this month's speakers Brian Willis and Michael Smith.

Brian Willis, founder of Global Health Promise, began researching the public health impact of child prostitution in 1990. In 2002 he began working full-time on the public health impact of prostitution. In addition to his continuing work on child prostitution and sex trafficking, Brian has more recently focused his attention on the impact of prostitution on mothers and their children.

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This event is a discussion with Dr. David Barker, who will discuss the current state of epidemiology and disease mapping. To discuss the book Ghost Map, please see the Citizens Read event two days prior.

City Club’s Agora committee welcomes Professor David Barker of OHSU and the University of Southampton who will lead a discussion of epidemiology yesterday and today. This event springs off from the Multnomah County Library “Everybody Reads” book for 2010, The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. This book tells the tale of Dr. John Snow who, in 1854, risked his life to create a map that demonstrated how cholera spread and led to dramatic improvements in urban public health.

RSVP Requested to amy@pdxcityclub.org or 503-228-7231 x110.
In single-payer health care, a public entity - most often the government - finances the delivery of health care to a nation's citizens. Medicare is an example of single-payer health care. This system has been hotly debated in the struggle over reforming America's health care coverage and many still believe that it is the best option. Join City Club's Agora committee for a panel discussion about single-payer health care, the current status of health care reform and an analysis of where America could go from here.