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SUMMARY:THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US: WORKING AND HOMELESS IN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success\, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents\, low wages\, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head\, especially in America’s booming cities\, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one. \nIn a gripping and deeply reported book\, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America\, Brian Goldstone\, Ph.D.\, plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying\, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them\, one by one\, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless. \nThrough intimate\, novelistic portraits\, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis\, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars\, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms\, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless\, omitted from official statistics\, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. \nGoldstone is a journalist and author whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Harper’s Magazine\, and The New Republic\, among other publications. There Is No Place for Us was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic\, and selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021\, he was a National Fellow at New America. \nBook Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of There Is No Place for Us at the event\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/there-is-no-place-for-us-working-and-homeless-in-america-2/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:AN OBJECTIVE LOOK AT MEDITATION METHODS AND ENLIGHTENMENT
DESCRIPTION:For this event\, clinical and research psychologist Elaine Aron\, Ph.D.\, author of the international bestseller The Highly Sensitive Person\, will discuss her new book Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment. In it she offers the first ever objective overview of meditation methods and paths to enlightenment. \nWhy spirituality through a “Highly Sensitive Lens”? This is not a book or a talk just for highly sensitive people (HSP)\, though Aron is one. She reflected on meditation and enlightenment for years and saw a huge need for objective\, complete information on all the many kinds of meditation and on all views of enlightenment. There were no books that fully described all forms of meditation and that provided the necessary information to make an informed choice. \nFurther\, most people do not realize that every form of meditation began with the purpose that you\, the meditator\, would reach nirvana. God Realization. Enlightenment. Awakening. Yet meditation teachers often do not talk much about it. They are apprehensive that students will see view it as unattainable or will aim for it and be disappointed. \nAron wants meditation and enlightenment discussed together\, as they were meant to be. She maintains that a spiritual supernova exploded in the Sixties\, but like a distant supernova\, its light has only now reached us. Many people began meditating back then\, and while many stopped\, some continued for fifty or more years. Suddenly more people\, both meditators and others\, are “waking up” to a state of profound inner peace\, unshakeable calm\, and clearer focus. There are hundreds of books and websites about this person’s enlightenment and that person’s method of getting there\, but no overview of this chaos or the actual research on it. \nBut what about all those unethical spiritual teachers you hear about? Aron is very interested in this issue\, explaining that one can “wake up” and still need to “clean up” your complexes. She addresses both in every chapter\, and how to avoid being a casualty\, whether due to tendencies in a teacher or in yourself. \nAron will be in conversation with Mary Commerford\, Ph.D.\, a clinical psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, and instructor at an analytic training institute in NYC. She was for 21 years the director of the counseling center at Barnard College. Before switching to clinical psychology\, trained in ministry at Yale University Divinity School\, working subsequently as a chaplain. She has been a member of a meditation community for over 40 years. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/an-objective-look-at-meditation-methods-and-enlightenment/
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