All Souls Forum

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All Souls Forum Podcast

The All Souls Unitarian Universalist Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance. Each presentation is followed by questions and discussion.

  1. 8 SEPT

    Suicide: What to Say and Not Say to a Loss Survivor (Rebroadcast)

    A death by suicide is like no other. Mickey and Bonnie Swade, founders of Suicide Awareness Survivors Support (SASS-MoKan), and Marcia Epstein, survivor of suicide losses, will talk about the challenges of knowing when and how to comfort a suicide loss survivor. (Rebroadcast from 12/21/2023)

    58 min

  2. 8 SEPT

    Signs of Suicide: Gatekeeper Training (Rebroadcast)

    Michelle Irwin, Community Outreach Specialist with First Call Kansas City discusses how to provide tools to help identify the signs and symptoms of depression and suicide in youth.  (Rebroadcast from 4/27/2023)

    58 min

  3. 26 AUG

    Conversations that Count: Finding Power and Peace in Charting Your End-of-life Journey (Rebroadcast)

    Angela Schultz and Ben Griffiths of Compassion and Choices will discuss end-of-life options and the importance of documenting your wishes, having conversations with your loved ones, and your healthcare provider. She will also share resources to help you chart an end of life experience to match your values, priorities, and beliefs. (Rebroadcast from February 2, 2024)

    58 min

  4. 19 AUG

    Pawsperity: Unleashing Human Potential (Rebroadcast)

    Natasha Herdman created Pawsperity because she believes in a two-generation, “all-in” approach to breaking the cycle of poverty. Basic needs for food and shelter must be met before a parent can guide children through school and out of poverty. A living-wage, family-flexible career for the parent is key.  Go to https://pawsperity.org to learn more. (Rebroadcast from May 7, 2024)

    58 min

  5. 26 JUL

    Demanding Gun Sense in America (Rebroadcast)

    Stephanie Godfroy, the local leader of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, discusses recent issues in gun control and the passion behind the Moms' demands.  She will discuss the organization, their goals and means of fulfilling them.  She will also offer tips on how to participate and support the goals of the organization: gun safety. (rebroadcast from May 21, 2024)

    58 min

  6. 7 JUN

    40 Years of Fighting Fascism and What the Future Holds (rebroadcast)

    Devin Burghart is president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and coordinates the Seattle office. He has researched, written, and organized on virtually all facets of contemporary white nationalism since 1992, and is internationally recognized for this effort. (Rebroadcast of All Souls Forum from December 14, 2023)

    58 min

  7. 24 MAY

    Immigration, labor and the 2024 election

    Itzel Vargas-Valenzuela, program director at Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR) and Judy Ancel, president of the Cross Border Network, will talk about the current crisis at the U.S./Mexico border and the impact of immigration on the upcoming election.

    58 min

  8. 6 MAY

    Seven steps to ending the cycle of violence in Israel-Palestine

    Dr. Mubarak Awad discusses "Seven steps to ending the cycle of violence in Israel-Palestine". Awad may be the world's leading expert on the nonviolence of the First Intifada. He is Palestinian, born in Jerusalem in 1943, bachelors, masters, PhD, US citizen, founded the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence in Jerusalem in 1983 and evicted by Israel in 1988 for his role in inspiring the nonviolence of the First Intifada.  That nonviolence did several things.  First, it got more Palestinians doing things to express their concerns about their mistreatment, because they could do so without the moral quandary and the personal risks involved in committing violence.  Second, increasing numbers of Israeli military personnel went to prison rather than follow orders to kill or or break the bones of nonviolent protesters.  Third, it increased the number of Israelis who thought they could live in peace with Palestinians.  Yitzhak Rabin was Israeli Defense Minister when the Intifada began. If increasing numbers of soldiers were disobeying orders, what could he do?  He ran for Prime Minister on a platform of negotiating with Palestinians. His victory in 1992 led to the Oslo Accords, which promised a two-state solution. However, both Rabin and Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat were threatened by the nonviolence: Arafat did NOT want to be replaced as THE LEADER of the Palestinians. So Israel expelled 481 leaders of the nonviolence, including Mubarak, and arrested tens of thousands of others. Finally, they got the Palestinian violence needed to justify the overwhelming counter violence that they used to reestablish their dominance in the occupied territories and to accelerate the creation of more Israeli settlements.  The following summarizes Dr. Awad's "7 steps to end the cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine": For Palestinians: Stop killing Israelis. Welcome them as neighbors. Recognize their history. Keep struggling nonviolently for equal rights. And select leaders through regular elections. For Israelis: Stop killing Palestinians. End the siege of Gaza. Reverse the land grabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which breed hopelessness and outrage. Stop the pogroms and the threats to the Al Aqsa mosque. For the international media: Cover this conflict the way you would have liked to have seen slave rebellions and or anti-colonial massacres covered in previous centuries. Stop using the word “terrorists” to describe actors on either side. For Americans: There is no military solution. Stop supplying weapons. Support Israelis and Palestinians equally. Show a positive example by improving our treatment of Native Americans and ending the vestiges of our domestic racial apartheid. For the international community: The two-state solution, unfortunately, is no longer an option. Support solutions that provide rights to all. Provide humanitarian aid and denounce apartheid. Work for justice and equality. Humanitarian aid organizations: Urgent humanitarian action is needed. Open the Erez and Kerem Shalom/Abu Salem crossings to allow for the movement of people and goods and remove the ban on access to the sea. Soldiers and armed actors: Don’t cut another’s life short. Don’t cut your life short. Don’t seek revenge. I applaud Israelis who are refusing military service to engage in a senseless attack on Gaza. Arms are for hugging, not for harming others. We can do this. Graves distributed a flier summarizing alternatives for follow up action: We are all prisoners of the media we find credible, except for leaders (especially elected officials), who are prisoners of the media their followers find credible. Major media exploit that to please people who control most of the money for the media.

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The All Souls Unitarian Universalist Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance. Each presentation is followed by questions and discussion.

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    KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2024
  • Episodes
    376
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