Action Speaks Starts this Wednesday...Schedule attached: Please pass around

Action Speaks is a great public humanities series of public discussions hosted at AS220 downtown on the next four Wednesday evenings.  You can see the whole program, including all the speakers, in the attachment or at www.axspxs.org <http://www.axspxs.org>

Action Speaks 2008
Join us for the first of four community forums on
"Underappreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed America"

-- 1910 --
Racist biologist Charles Davenport creates the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project... perhaps both?

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
AS220
115 Empire St. ~ Providence
All events are FREE and open to the public

Produced live in downtown Providence by AS220 and Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, Action Speaks is moderated by Marc Joel Levitt, who heartily welcomes audience participation. The discussion is recorded and broadcast on WRNI. Documentaries on related topics are shown on Rhode Island's PBS station.
Documentaries to air prior to the forum on Rhode Island PBS:
Monday, September 29, 2008, 9:00 p.m.
Our Genes, Our Choices: Making Better Babies
Monday, October 6, 2008
Our Genes, Our Choices: Genes on Trial

For more information and updates, visit us at
www.axspxs.org

And stay tuned for our next events
October 15, 2008: 1920 - Prolific African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux releases "Within Our Gates:" Hollywood race films and the production of African American cinematic images
October 22, 2008: 1957 - Dissent magazine publishes Norman Mailer's "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster:" What's Black? What's White? What's Italian? What's Jewish? Are race and ethnicity a dance anyone can learn?
October 29, 2008: 2000 - The U.S. Census allows individuals to identify themselves as multiracial: Tiger Woods, Cameron Diaz, and Barack Obama... How checking multiple boxes helped redefine race in America.