November 18
Lessons from a Cabbage Field: What I Learned in Lithuania
in the shadow of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine
Meetings #3,743 - Paul Draus, Faculty Director, Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
​The speaker states that :”I recently completed a Fulbright Scholar sojourn and have developed some materials based on that experience.”

The speaker states that "The presentation describes the efforts of a community organization in the Šančiai (pronounced SHAN-chee) neighborhood of Kaunas (Lithuania's second largest city) to resist aggressive urbanization through structured protest informed by artistic practice, including the development and performance of a community opera. This story occurs in the midst of a mayoral election, in the shadow of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, and offers lessons concerning the role of art, community and civil society in local urban regeneration."
November 4
4 Major Climate/Energy-Related Legislative Fights 
coming up starting this fall and into the spring legislative sessions
Meeting # 3,741 - Scott Allen, Citizens Utility Board's Clean Energy Policy Coordinator since 2014, working on issues related to Illinois' publicly-owned municipal and cooperative utilities.
Fall: 
1. Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration regulations: this will determine how, and to what extent Illinois becomes the country's dumpster for CO2.
Spring: 
1: "Clean Heat" Legislation - a CEJA for cleaning up the building sector;
2: Transparency Requirements for publicly-owned utilities - the municipal and co-op utilities in the state were carved out of CEJA's emission reduction requirements, and this bill seeks to get them rowing in the same direction.
3. Ameren/MISO Capacity Issues – (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) meeting our renewables targets under CEJA is being threatened by a number of factors, so a bill is being shopped to fix the way that downstate IL's capacity auction is run.

Also the meeting will include some of the initiatives that CUB has going on that people might be interested in for their homes etc.
November 11
Stop Working So Hard! 
American Corporate Culture does Not Reward Hard Work
Meeting # 3,742 – college regular Corina Schusheim
The speaker asks: “In the United States, why does the idea endure that if you work hard, you will get ahead?”

November 25th
Is Biden a Puppet of Obama, and 
How Powerful Forces have a Secret Path to / Plan for Obama's Third Term
Meeting # 3744 – college regular Tim Bolger
The speaker states that “there is a resolution before the House of Representatives to eliminate presidential term limits, (aka the 22nd amendment). In a book written by Robert Urban, he outlines how powerful forces are conspiring a path to Obamas third term. How it can happen, and may it be happening now with many of Biden’s cabinet members being former Obama appointees? And how will this impact Donald J Trump?"
Freedom Defenders Day
annually on 13 of January to honor the 14 unarmed civilians who died to defend its recovery of independence.
In 1991, on this day, there was a massive peaceful resistance of Lithuanian citizens to the leadership of the Soviet Union