The first Thursday meeting in JULY (July 5, 2012 at 10am, downtown Selby Library) will feature Gene Jones of the Florida Veterans for Common Sense.  That group's site is 

http://floridaveteransforcommonsense.org/cs/

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The first Monday meeting (July 2 at 6pm in the downtown Bradenton Library) will be about IRAN. I'll talk about my trip there last year and we'll discuss this complex problem.

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The August first Thursday meeting (August 2 at 10am, downtown Selby Library) will have Wade Matthews speaking about proposed Florida constitutional amendment #8.  He is the VP of the Sarasota-Manatee chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.  This is the amendment wording:

Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution providing that no individual or entity may be denied, on the basis of religious identity or belief, governmental benefits, funding, or other support, except as required by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and deleting the prohibition against using revenues from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.

See http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Florida_Religious_Freedom,_Amendment_8_(2012)

In June we had as a guest Sonia Fuentes who gave an excellent talk entitled "The Problems That Remain - Continuing Issues in Women's RIghts."  Sonia is a long-time advocate and organizer in this field, and her website is 
erraticimpact.com/fuentes.