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Espionage Act – Heist or Haul of America’s Secrets?

August 25, 2022 -The question remains, Was Donald Trump violating the Espionage Act and other statutes by wrongfully retaining important government and national security documents classified or not? On all fronts, it doesn’t look good for the former president, but like everything and anyone else, he is innocent until proven…

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Blind to Betrayal: Breaking the Silence of Trauma & Abuse

Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd, author of Blind to Betrayal and researcher of psychological techniques used by abusers to subjugate their victims. From the abuses of the Catholic Church clergy on young children to the family and the workplace – doctor Freyd exposes the horrors of abuse, the coping mechanisms of those abused, and the methodologies that can be employed by society, by families and litigators to help bring these predators to justice and make them accountable. A riveting discussion on the ‘art of betrayal’ and the way that society, businesses and even the nation – can help heal the oppressed through employing ‘Institutional Courage.’

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Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church – Attorney who was depicted in two Award-Winning Movies “Spotlight and Our Fathers” tell of his ordeal bringing priests of the Boston Archdiocese to justice for molesting young children. Catholic Priests who ‘preyed’ on children while the Boston Archdiocese & the Vatican looked the other way. How these priests befriended the families – to enable to gain access and abuse with impunity. The story is about real-life cases of priests who pain the children suffer that lasts a lifetime – many times resulting in substance abuse and suicide. Attorney Garabedian explains how he brought pedophile priests to justice to help give abuse victims closure and to bring them dignity stolen from them and covered up by the very people that should have protected them – the church.

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Reconstructing the Reconstruction – the Aftermath of Slavery, and the Continuing Fight for Equal Justice

How Reconstruction was a new beginning for the formerly enslaved but the fight for equal justice had just begun – including the right to vote, be free of poll taxes, and the continuing struggle for women and notably black women to vote. Discussion of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, Fifteenth Amendment allowing ‘men’ to vote – and the long awaited Nineteenth Amendment allowing ‘white’ Women to Vote – Culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 taking away all impediments of voting to All Women and Men of Voting age and eliminating literacy tests and poll taxes to voting. Discussion of 19th century presidents who kept slaves during and while in office in the White House is also discussed.

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