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Jonestown Survivor Activities from February to April, 2018
Jonestown Survivor Activities from February to April, 2018 Saturday, 2/10 - Interview in the Epilogue of a cult discussion about Believers/Non-believers for a YouTube broadcast. Monday, 2/12 - University of Puget Sound in Tacoma Washington - Classes all day long, and then a Public/campus presentation: 5 pm McIntyre Hall 101. Wednesday, 2/14 and Monday, 2/19 7-8:30 p.m., Palomar College, Dr. Fredi Avalos’ Class on “Power, Discourse and Social Identity” March - a return trip to Guyana. Wednesdays, 3/14, 3/21, and 3/28 - CSU-San Bernadino in Palm Desert, Osher class. 1-4 Thursday, 3/29, San Diego State Osher Class, SDSU Love Library 1-2:50 Thursday, 4/5, Arkansas Technical University, Russelville, Arkansas, Classes during ...
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Jonestown Survivor Visit to U of Puget Sound on Monday, February 12, 2018: 9:15 meet host, Dr. Jeff Matthews at U of Puget Sound 10:00 first-year seminar (students will have just finished Jonestown paper) 11:00 first-year seminar (same as above) 12-2pm lunch/break 2:00 pm senior research class (wide-ranging discussion including research and writing process) 3-5 pm break 5:00-6pm campus presentation 6:30 pm dinner
» continue readingUPDATED JONESTOWN SURVIVOR SCHEDULE – Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Jonestown Survivor Fall 2017 to Spring 2018 Activities - Update September 12 Skype Interview with Polish Journalist Piotr Wloczyk of Historia Do Rzeczy, the largest Polish history magazine October 3 (Tuesday) University of Cincinnati 9:30-11 2 classes - Conformity and Obedience Psychology Class, Speybroeck’s class, and a Stats/Research Methods Class, my host Dr. Brian Metcalf’s class. 2-3:20 Psychology Class on Cognition and Learning, Room: McMicken 127, in Valerie Hardcastle’s room 6-7:30 Presentation Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple, “Lindner Center 450,” 2751 O’Varsity Way, Cincinnati, OH October 6 Presentations at Communal Studies Association at the Zoar Community October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9 and November 16, ...
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Jonestown Survivor - Current Schedule Currently, I am writing my 2nd book. Additionally, I have these scheduled presentations: July 29, 2017 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm - I am attending: San Francisco’s Museum of African Diaspora White Nights, Black Paradise | A Screening and Discussion on Black Women, Peoples Temple and Jonestown August 8 - Panelist 10:30-12 (as a Quaker) 2017 Poway Interfaith Team putting on a 2017 NAIN “CONNECT” Conference, San Diego October 5-7 Presenter of two Scholarly Papers on Peoples Temple at Communal Studies Association Conference in Zoar Community, in Ohio 2017 Conference Theme: “To succeed, grow and survive, all successful communal groups have had ...
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR Meets February 2016 with Travel Plans!
February is moving in! I will be teaching the next two weeks - finishing up a long-term subbing job in a 6th grade Language Arts and Social Studies class (which I LOVE!) and I will be heading to Washington State in two weeks. As a Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look author and public speaker, I will speak in classes and at a public setting at Puget Sound University in Tacoma, and then in the Friday Harbor library. And, I will meet up with my good friends living in Washington. GREAT! Let me know if you are in the area!
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JONESTOWN SURVIVOR UPCOMING EVENTS January 8 Radio interview on “Radiobookshelf” with Lou in the Morning January 8 Radio interview on Empowerment through Healing, with Tami Urbanck February 15 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA – presentations to classes and the public February 17 San Juan Island Library, Friday Harbor, WA – JONESTOWN SURVIVOR book presentation March 19 Hosting Author’s Table at U of Phoenix Writer’s Expo for Writers April 15 Oaks North Community Ctr Bd of Directors Meeting – Speaking about my book and life June 4-5 BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL – Hosting Author’s Table October 6-8 Presentation ...
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JONESTOWN SURVIVOR 2016 When 914 members of Peoples Temple and four visiting Americans died in Guyana, South America on November 18, 1978, Laura Johnston Kohl survived. She was one of 87 who lived through the trauma. After participating with the Black Panthers, and attending Woodstock, Laura moved into Peoples Temple in California in 1970, and was an active and enthusiastic member until it ended. She moved to Guyana in March 1977. She lived her first year in Georgetown, purchasing supplies, then moved to Jonestown, a 24-hour boat ride away. She moved back into Georgetown in October ...
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JONESTOWN SURVIVOR - I am traveling to Washington State in February. On February 15, I will present to classes, and give a lecture at U of Puget Sound, in Washington. Please let me know if you have some contacts there. Thanks so much! I will have events for the general public to come. Thanks, Laura
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JONESTOWN SURVIVOR Events: I have been on a number of internet and national radio programs lately - one a month for the past six months. Those have been interesting. Mostly, the interviewers are religious. And, that means that before and after my interview, they are giving their sermons. Very interesting. This week, I am speaking at Cal State San Marcos to the History Honors Club, at San Diego State University in the Jonestown Exhibit Special Collections, and am traveling to New York to be interviewed on the Ben Modo television show. In March, I will go to Hawaii ...
» continue readingJONESTOWN SURVIVOR AUTHOR – Sunday 2/17/13 – A Great Time in Washington!
I have had a wonderful day in Bellingham and in Tacoma! I had a great group of Quakers in the Bellingham Friends Meeting. People in the Meeting had great insights and questions. They made me feel right at home! Then, I went on to Puget Sound University and had a fantastic class with Jeffrey Matthews' leadership class. University of Puget Sound is a great liberal arts college in Tacoma. He had the class read my book and they just finished Friday. About forty students came on this Sunday night. They were a ...
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