Previous Classes of Dhamma, Media, and Modern Issues

November 27	Got the Facts on Milk? (with director Shira Lane —movie starts at 6:15pm)
December 11	The Zen of Eating (Ph D psychologist Ronna Kabatznick
January 8	—The Power of Kindness (Neil and Dillan from ServiceSpace )
January 22, 29	World on the Edge Documentary by Lester Brown (Environment/Plan B for the future). We’ll be viewing part 1 and 2 of Lester Brown’s documentary on a plan to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, protect and restore our planet’s fisheries, forests, aquifers, soils, grasslands, and biological diversity.
February 5	Globalization & Spirituality Ajahn Guna and special guest Peter Dale Scott share stories, perspectives, and poetry from their experiences living in the Buddhist country of Thailand. Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the UC Berkeley, and is a poet, writer, and researcher. His books include: Coming to Jakarta, Minding the Darkness, The Road to 9/11, and American War Machine.
February 12	Century of Self, Part 3 An award winning British television documentary film. It focuses on how Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have thought about, dealt with, and controlled people.
February 26	World Hunger, Our Hunger, and Our Minds. Special Guest: Kim Behan Executive Director of Buddhist Global Relief speaks about world wide projects of compassion, their relationship to our lives, desires, and choices which affect our peace of mind in these changing times.
March 4	Century of Self, Part 4 An award winning British television documentary film. It focuses on how Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have thought about, dealt with, and controlled people.
March 11	Processed People features insightful interviews from nine preeminent health and environmental experts/advocates. They discuss how and why Americans got into this mess, and what we can do to break the “processed people” cycle.
March 25	GMO...OMG Did you know that 80% of packaged food contain GMOs? What are we eating? How harmful is it? What are GMOs? Join Ajahn Guna and special guest Dr. Ron Epstein as they discuss this issue of physical and spiritual health pertaining to experimental genetically modified food which is spreading around the world.
April 1	Processed People Part II.
April 8	Processed People Part III.
April 22	Drugs, Role Models, and Children's Futures We will be watching an inspiring Buddhist Film Festival movie made in Thailand about children who are surrounded by drugs and helped with compassionate means. Discuss how modern society can help youth today.
May 27	The Return of Navajo Boy is an award-winning documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who have suffered health problems due to environmental contamination from uranium mining on tribal land in Monument Valley, Utah.