Wednesday, May 23, 2018
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Missed a forum? Curious about that speaker your friends keep talking about? Have a favorite speaker whose message continually inspires you? You’re in luck – all of our past forums are here.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to place Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps. At the time, Fred Korematsu, an American born in the U.S. to Japanese parents, became a fugitive until he was arrested by military police, placed in an internment camp, and...
Friday, April 28, 1978, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Barry Commoner, biologist, teacher and environmentalist, speaks on the topic of solar energy, elaborating upon the logistics of who pays for solar innovation and who benefits from the instillation of solar technology. Dr. Commoner argues that an investment in...
Monday, January 30, 1978, 12:00 p.m.
Russell Means, Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people and film actor, challenges the modern conception of "how the west was won" by detailed the annihilation of the Native American people in nineteenth-century America. Click here to listen...
Friday, March 18, 1977, 12:00 p.m.
Anthony Downs, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, addresses the audience at the City Club Forum on the topic of urban crisis as part 5 in a series: 'Challenges and Opportunities Facing the City of Cleveland.' Downs discusses issues...
Friday, January 07, 1977, 12:00 p.m.
Dennis Kucinich, councilman for the city of Cleveland, speaks about Cleveland Municipal Light and Power. Click here to listen to audio
Friday, April 09, 1976, 12:00 p.m.
Jimmy Carter, Governor of Georgia, speaks to the City Club as a Democratic Presidential Candidate. Carter discusses campaign strategy, his plans to restructure of the executive branch, and social mobility. Using his credentials as a businessman, Carter defends his preparedness...
Friday, November 14, 1975, 12:00 p.m.
President of American Federation of Teachers and education reform activist Albert H. Shanker discusses the unionization of teachers and the involvement of teachers in political activity. Shanker advocates to use the surplus of teachers to create smaller class sizes and...
Friday, June 27, 1975, 12:00 p.m.
Congressman Louis Stokes, the first African-American Congressman in the state of Ohio, speaks on President Ford and the Democratic Congress, specifically about President Ford's large number of vetoes and the attempt to override these vetoes. Click here to listen to...
Friday, December 27, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Dorothy Fuldheim, credited with being the first woman in the United States to anchor a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show, reviews the state of the city of Cleveland for the year 1974. She has...
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