ADAPT played a major role in gaining passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADAPT organizes people with disabilities to focus attention, sometimes through civil disobedience and similar non-violent direct action tactics, to achieve their goals. Our guest will discuss his own frustrations with the system, after a car accident left him a quadriplegic and how that frustration became activism.

Tue. June 4
Topic: Special Olympics
Guests: TBA

By unanimous vote of the Special Olympics Board of Directors, the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games have been awarded to The People’s Republic of China. The current number of athletes in China is almost triple what it was in 2000. We will discuss the importance of Special Olympics to these athletes worldwide and the benefits of participation for them, their families and communities.

Wed. June 5
Topic:  Ethics of Political Assassination 
Guests: Prof. Robert F. Turner, Center for National Security Law, Univ. of 
               Richmond
               Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins Univ.
              TBA

June 5,1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Just this month Pim Fortuyn a Dutch right wing politician was killed. Political assassinations have been used throughout history and the world, but did they accomplish what the assassin had hoped for? Our guests will discuss the ethics of assassination and whether or not there are times – and individuals – that make it necessary.

Thr. June 6
Topic: The World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Guest: Dominique Lapierre, French journalist, author

December 3,1984, Bhopal, India became the site of the world’s deadliest industrial accident killing between 16,000 and 30,000 people. Is it possible for history to repeat itself at another location at another plant producing the same type of pesticide ? Dominique Lapierre will answer questions about his research into this disaster waiting to happen.

Fri.  June 7
Topic: India - Pakistan
Guest: TBA