Guest Speakers:

Joel Segal, Congressman John Conyers' Office
Dennis Hardy, Energy Expert, Navy Research Lab, (ret.)

Agenda

1) Welcome and Introductions

2) Single Payer Healthcare

a) Joel Segal – Presentation on HR 676 and suggestions for PDA support

b) Discussion and PDA support strategy

3) Energy, Global Warming, Where do we go from here?

a) Dennis Hardy Presentation

b) Discussion and suggestions for PDA-VA Issue Organizing Team

4) Iraq/Iran/Middle East –

a) Discussion and Possible Action Items

b) War Profiteering – "Iraq for Sale" Movie showing

c) Forum by Iranian delegation – update/status

5) Other Issues, time permitting

6) Upcoming Events

a) Issues In Action Fair: Saturday, June 9, 10 – 2 p.m. GMU Arlington Campus

b) Global Warming Town Hall Meeting - Wednesday, June 13, 6:30-9:00 p.m .
GMU Fairfax Campus Johnson Center Cinema, CCAN and Sierra Club

c) Town Hall Forum: Presidential Accountability: Should Impeachment be ON the Table? Saturday, June 23, 1 – 4 p.m., GMU Fairfax Campus, Mason Building

Joel Segal is a senior legislative assistant covering healthcare, Social Security, veterans affairs, housing, HIV/AIDS in Africa, and poverty issues for Rep. John Conyers. He has been a long-time activist for universal health care, affordable housing, and environmental and public health. He is the coordinator for Mr. Conyers' Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force, "the Poor People's Caucus," and is the grassroots coordinator for the new Incarceration & Sentencing Policy Caucus. He founded the Free China Movement of over thirty groups inside and outside China, working for peace and democracy. Joel is also a member of PDA's National Advisory Board.

Dennis Hardy served in the FBI HQ Laboratory, Research Unit from 1975 to 1981 and then was employed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 1981 until retirement in 2006 working on fuel and energy issues. He is currently interested in why alternative (non-fossil) energy schemes on grand scales are not now possible. He is also interested in alternative explanations for ocean warming, ocean "acidification", and atmospheric warming. He will discuss the triangle of future energy resource choices, preserving the global environment, and economics.