Virtual General Meeting featuring. Dr. David Snow, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCI
2021-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Online, CA
HOMELESSNESS: ORANGE COUNTY & BEYOND
Guest speaker: Dr. David Snow
Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCI
Dr. David Snow, a renowned researcher of the social psychology of extreme poverty and homelessness, will discuss the causes of homelessness, who the homeless are, the challenges of living on the streets, and the costs of homelessness to Orange County.

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About our speaker
David A. Snow is a recently retired Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 2001 following appointments at the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Arizona. He has authored or co-authored well over 100 articles and chapters on homelessness, social movements and protest, religious conversion, framing processes, identity, and qualitative research methods in a range of sociological and social science journals, and 10 books including the award-winning Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with L. Anderson). Professor Snow has conducted research on homelessness in numerous cities throughout the country, including Orange County, where he and Dr. Rachel Goldberg recently conducted a study of homelessness and its costs in the county. The study was co-sponsored by OC United Way, Jamboree Housing, and UCI. Professor Snow is past President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, a past Vice President of the American Sociological Association, and a recipient of numerous scholarly awards. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Families Forward in Irvine and Share Our Selves (SOS) in Costa Mesa, and is a member of the Newport Beach City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

Virtual General Meeting featuring. Michele Goodwin, UCI Professor of Law
2021-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Online, CA
Civil Liberties in a Pandemic: The Lessons of History
Keynote Speaker:
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UCI Professor of Law

Legal & political concerns about the government’s exercise of authority during a pandemic & national health crisis
Professor Goodwin will address the need to balance the state’s authority to protect the public’s health and safety against encroachments upon civil rights and civil liberties. She will offer case studies to explain the history and political concerns related to the balancing acts the states must undertake. There will be time for Q&A’s.
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NOTE: Professor Goodwin’s portion of the meeting will only be accessible via Zoom
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About our speaker
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies.
Click here to learn more about Professor Goodwin

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting feat. Dr. Peter Simi
2021-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States
The causes & consequences of political extremism, domestic terrorism and hate crimes
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Peter Simi

Our May general meeting marks our return to the Norman Murray Center in Mission Viejo for live meetings! Despite recent CDC guidance, masks and social distancing are required by the Norman Murray Center by all attendees regardless of vaccination status. We highly encourage everyone attending to be vaccinated to COVID-19. For information about getting vaccinated, please visit https://myturn.ca.gov/. Attendees will also need to sign a waiver upon arrival at the Murray Center. There will be NO snacks or drinks provided. Please bring our own recyclable water bottle.
Don’t forget to come early! Sign in starts at 6:30PM. And bring cash for the return of our 50-50 raffle (featuring wonderful prizes) as well as new items for sale like our Club-branded t-shirts ($20).

Download May Meeting Agenda
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About our presenter:
Pete Simi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Chapman University and member of the Executive Committee for the National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. For the past 25 years, he has been studying political violence, hate, and extremism. His fieldwork has taken him inside white supremacist groups across the United States where he has been embedded with racist skinheads, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and anti-government militias. He is co-author of an award-winning book American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate and has published more than 60 articles and book chapters on issues related to political extremism, street gangs, and juvenile delinquency.
Dr. Simi provides regular consultation on criminal cases involving hate crimes and domestic terrorism and volunteers as part of several efforts to help develop prevention and intervention strategies aimed at countering violent extremism. He is currently serving as one of the plaintiff’s experts in the landmark civil case, Sines v. Kessler, aimed at holding the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally accountable for the violence they helped incite and even commit in Charlottesville, VA. His research has been featured in media outlets such as Rolling Stone, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and he has also appeared on various television broadcasts including Good Morning America, Larry King Now, and CNN’s AC 360.
Please submit your questions in advance to programs@canyondems.org

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting feat. special presentation on the Orange County Board of Supervisors
2021-06-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States
EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Who Are They, What They Do, and Why You Should Care
Presentation by Karen Hernandez and Lulu Hammad

Learn all about the O.C. Board of Supervisors (BOS), the governmental body that oversees the operations and management of the County. Their actions impact the lives of all Orange County residents. Get the answers to such questions as: What authorities do the BOS have? Are the budget priorities of the BOS the same as yours? Does the BOS adhere to the principles of good governance? How can YOU get involved??? Hear the answers to these questions and many more!!
Download June Meeting Agenda
Download May Meeting Minutes
Despite recent CDC guidance, masks and social distancing are required by the Norman Murray Center by all attendees regardless of vaccination status. We highly encourage everyone attending to be vaccinated to COVID-19. For information about getting vaccinated, please visit https://myturn.ca.gov/. Attendees will also need to sign a waiver upon arrival at the Murray Center. There will be NO snacks or drinks provided. Please bring our own recyclable water bottle.
Don’t forget to come early! Sign in starts at 6:30PM. And bring cash for the return of our 50-50 raffle (featuring wonderful prizes) as well as new items for sale like our Club-branded t-shirts ($20).

Our Guest Speakers:
Karen G. Hernández, Pronouns: She/ Her/ Ella
Karen is an immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico with roots in Orange County since the age of 3. She began her passion for activism after participating in the fight against Props 187 and 209 while a student at UCLA. She remains an advocate for human rights and social justice. Her advocacy work centers on the idea that we need transformative justice with investment in people and community instead of punishment and social control. Karen is currently the Chairperson and Co-founder of People’s Budget OC Coalition and a member/volunteer with the Stop the Musick Coalition, Housing is a Human Right OC, NAACP-OC Chapter, OC Emergency Response Coalition, OC Rapid Response Network, and League of Women Voters.

Lulu Hammad, Esq., Pronouns: She/Her
Lulu is a human rights advocate who focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues, centering the voices of her Arab and Muslim communities as well as those of Black, Indigenous and people of color. Before migrating to the US, she served as a legal consultant for UNICEF in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Defense for Children International — Palestine. Currently, Lulu is very active as the cofounder of Yalla Indivisible, OC Emergency Response Coalition (OCERC), People’s Budget OC (PBOC), and a member of Housing Is A Human Right OC (HHROC).

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting featuring. Dr. Smoller & Dr. Moodian, Chapman U
2021-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
CANYON DEMS JULY IN PERSON! MEETING
Results of Chapman University’s
O.C. Annual Survey
Presented by Chapman University Professors
Fred Smoller & Michael Moodian

The O.C. Annual Survey is a yearly project conducted by Professors Fred Smoller and Michael Moodian on behalf of Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. It is used to measure OC residents’ views on various topics, including Covid-19 policies, political trends, the potential Recall, climate change, etc. The purpose of the study is to help provide residents’ insights to policymakers and to spark informed debate among the public.
Download the July Meeting Agenda
Due to the unfortunate news regarding the spread of the delta variant, we are going to require faces masks at our meeting for all attendees – even those who are vaccinated. We highly encourage everyone attending to be vaccinated to COVID-19. For information about getting vaccinated, please visit https://myturn.ca.gov/. Attendees will also need to sign a waiver upon arrival at the Murray Center. There will be NO snacks or drinks provided. Please bring our own recyclable water bottle.
Don’t forget to come early! Sign in starts at 6:30PM. And bring cash for the return of our 50-50 opportunity drawing (featuring wonderful prizes) as well as new items for sale like our Club-branded t-shirts ($20).

Our Guest Speakers:
Dr. Fred Smoller is associate professor of political science at Chapman University, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. His major area of interest is American politics, with an emphasis on local government. Fred directs Chapman’s annual local government conference and is the author of the 2018 book From Kleptocracy to Democracy: How Citizens Can Take Back Local Government. His writings have recently appeared in the Orange County Register, L.A. Times and Voice of OC.

Dr. Michael A. (Mike) Moodian has served as a faculty member in various capacities for Chapman University since 2007. He teaches in Chapman’s leadership studies program, codirects Wilkinson College’s O.C. Annual Survey, and is a professor of social science at Chapman-affiliated Brandman University. Mike is a partner in an Orange County-based public affairs media group. His latest project is a television documentary that explores the causes and effects of coastal erosion on California’s beaches. Mike is co-producer, co-director, and lead writer of the program, which will air on PBS later this year. His writings have recently appeared in the Orange County Register, L.A. Times and Voice of OC.

Please submit your questions in advance to programs@canyondems.org

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BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE FOR LAURA’S HOUSE

We are starting our community outreach collections again since we are now in person! Since school now starts mid-August we will collect school supplies for Laura’s House Domestic Violence Victim’s families. Please bring any of these NEW supplies to the July 20th meeting.

Backpacks
Scientific calculators
Three-ring notebooks
Dividers for notebooks
Pencils/pens
Pencil boxes/pouches
Colored pencils
College ruled paper
Glue sticks
Sticky notes
Washable colored markers
Small scissors
Individually packed, healthy snacks/boxed drinks
Target gift cards for $20 to $25 (used for school clothes shopping)

Questions – Please email Ann Owens at annowens@cox.net

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting feat. O.C. Fire Authority Division Chief Rob Capobianco
2021-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States
CANYON DEMS AUGUST IN PERSON! MEETING
WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT
CALIFORNIA FIRES???
How can we prepare for a fire?
Can the growth of fire disasters be controlled?
What do fire experts envision for CA’s future?
What can WE do to help CA?
Hear the answers to these questions & more
from the O.C. Fire Authority

July 2021 Meeting Minutes

Masks will be required for all attendees. We highly encourage everyone attending to be vaccinated to COVID-19. For information about getting vaccinated, please visit https://myturn.ca.gov/. Attendees will also need to sign a waiver upon arrival at the Murray Center. There will be NO snacks or drinks provided. Please bring our own recyclable water bottle.
Don’t forget to come early! Sign in starts at 6:30PM. And bring cash for the return of our 50-50 opportunity drawing (featuring wonderful prizes)!

Our Guest Speaker:
O.C. Fire Authority
Division Chief Rob Capobianco
Rob Capobianco joined the O.C. Fire Authority in 1988 as a paid call firefighter and was hired as a career firefighter in 1999. During his career with the OCFA, he has held the positions of Firefighter, Firefighter/Paramedic, Assistant Fire Training Officer, Fire Captain, Fire Investigator, Battalion Chief, and Chief Investigator and Division Chief. Chief Capobianco is currently assigned to Division 3 serving the cities of San Clemente, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita.

DONATION REQUEST FOR AUGUST MEETING
This month we are collecting women’s products at the general meeting for Wiseplace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. Wiseplace provides women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
We will be collecting feminine products (tampons, pads), bras (regular and sport bras), and underwear. Large sizes are appreciated. There will be a collection box in front of the Murray Center until the meeting begins. If you get there later or can not attend but would like to make a donation, please give your items to Ann Owens.
Thank you for your consideration.

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

Canyon Dems Annual Back to School Night & General Meeting
2021-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States
CANYON DEMS SEPTEMBER IN PERSON! MEETING
Canyon Dems Annual Back to School Night
With educators Delaine Eastin, Suzie Swartz & Joyanne Goodfellow
Special welcome to Sherine Smith
Candidate for the OC Board of Education, District 5
Join us as our educators discuss the long-term effects of the pandemic on administrators, teachers, students & parents; the impact of students’ learning loss due to the pandemic; the challenges facing California’s education system today; their vision and hopes for the coming year; and….more!

Masks will be required for all attendees. We highly encourage everyone attending to be vaccinated to COVID-19. For information about getting vaccinated, please visit https://myturn.ca.gov/. There will be NO snacks or drinks provided. Please bring your own recyclable water bottle.
Don’t forget to come early! Sign in starts at 6:30PM. And bring cash for the return of our 50-50 opportunity drawing (featuring wonderful prizes)!

Our Guest Speakers:
Delaine Eastin is the former California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the only woman ever elected to that position. She also served eight years in the State Assembly and six years on the City Council in Union City, where an elementary school has been named in her honor. Delaine sponsored legislation that raised over $100 million for the cleanup of old toxic landfills. She also passed propositions that taxed the tobacco industry to create First 5 of California to advance child development. As part of the lawsuit against Proposition 187, Delaine successfully stopped California’s health care professionals and teachers from being used as de facto immigration agents.

Delaine has chaired the Democratic Women’s Caucus, the Legislative Women’s Caucus, the ClosetheGap Board and many other associations. She has been the executive director of the National Institute for School Leadership in Washington, DC and a Mills College Distinguished Visiting Professor. A graduate of UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara, she has endowed scholarships in her name at both campuses.

Suzie Swartz has been a board member of the Saddleback Valley Unified School since 2000, currently serving as its president. Her primary focus has always been Students First. She encourages parental involvement and promotes accessibility of staff and school board members, while emphasizing service and mutual respect. School Board members countywide recognized Suzie’s leadership and service with the prestigious Bergeson Award. She was also honored with the Phi Delta Kappa Citizen of the Year Award for her years of community service to our public schools.
Suzie is a UCLA graduate and holds a Masters in Governance certificate from the California School Boards Association. She lives with her husband, Jeff, in Mission Viejo and has two sons, both SVUSD and college graduates. When not busy advocating for our local schools, Suzie enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.

Joyanne Goodfellow, teacher at El Toro High School and president of the Saddleback Valley Educators Assn, will be joining our other educators.

Sherine Smith has been a teacher, principal of Aliso Viejo Middle School and Capistrano Valley High School, and Deputy Superintendent of Education for the Capistrano Unified School District. More recently, she served as Superintendent of the Laguna Beach Unified School District. Sherine was also the Chair of the O.C. Superintendents’ Organization. In 2016, she was honored as the O.C. Superintendent of the Year.
Sherine has taught in higher education and administrative credential programs, including Brandman, National and Chapman Universities and the O.C. Dept. of Education. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership from USC. She and her husband, Dan, have lived in San Clemente for over 30 years.

We will be collecting baby items for Families Forward. Please bring the following baby items to our meeting:

diapers (larger sizes are needed)
baby wipes
baby food
formula

No clothes please. Donations will be collected outside of the Murray Center before entering.

FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting feat. Gustavo Arellano, L.A. Times columnist & podcaster
2021-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States
FIGHT TRUTH DECAY: Combatting MISINFORMATION
Trudy Josephson

Learning and trusting how and where to get accurate and ethical information in a biased and misleading news landscape, is more essential than ever. Where is our information coming from?
This presentation will address these queries and help you navigate and know your news sources, plus a lot more.

COME EARLY FOR PIZZA!
Come at 5:45pm to enjoy dinner with your Canyon Dems friends! For just $10 you’ll get pizza, salad & soft drink.

Trudy Josephson
Trudy, a 50+ year resident of Laguna Beach, has been active in her community for many of those years. Prior to her retirement, Trudy was a motivational humorist educating & speaking to groups around the country about cancer.

APRIL COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This month we are supporting WISEPlace, the only Orange County-based nonprofit leading the effort to end homelessness for unaccompanied women. They provide women with safe shelter, counseling and mental health services, case management and addiction recovery, and employment assistance to help rebuild their lives.
They are in need of :
laundry baskets, set of plastic hangers, twin bed linens, towel sets, pillows, twin blankets, full-size toiletries, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes/toothpaste, thick 9×12 paper for acrylic painting, art sketching pencils, paper plates.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
You can also order items in need directly from their wish lists here.
Thanks for your support!

General Meeting feat. Rep. Mike Levin & Sen. Dave Min
2021-11-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

VIRTUAL General Meeting feat. Redistricting, a discussion with Jason Mills
2022-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Online, CA

VIRTUAL General Meeting: Climate Change in our Community
2022-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 | CA

General Meeting Feat. O.C. Supervisor Katrina Foley & Pete Hardin, candidate for O.C. District Attorney
2022-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Michael Getto on The Crisis in Ukraine plus meet State Assembly 72 Candidate Judie Mancuso
2022-04-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Dan Chmielewski on DATA SECURITY, MISINFORMATION & CRIME ON THE WEB & special guest Congressional Candidate Dr. Asif Mahmood
2022-05-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Kevin C. O’Leary: THE REPUBLICANS’ CRUSADE AGAINST LIBERALISM
2022-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Andrea Schmidt: PLANNED PARENTHOOD - PROTECTOR OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS
2022-07-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Cynthia Valencia, ACLU SoCal: VOTING RIGHTS & OC ELECTIONS
2022-08-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting Feat. Profs Fred Smoller and Michael Moodian: 2022 ELECTION - WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
2022-09-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Home of a Mission Viejo Member, Mission Viejo, CA, United States

General Meeting & Ballot Review with Canyon Dems Chair Louise Adler
2022-10-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Setting the Course for 2023
2022-11-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. David Pepper, author of Laboratories of Autocracy
2023-01-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Todd Harmonson, OC Register, Senior Editor
2023-02-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. David Edward Burke, Pres. & Founder of Citizens Take Action
2023-03-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Sudi Farokhnia
2023-04-25 18:30 - 21:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Louis DeSipio
2023-05-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Ayn Craciun
2023-06-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Russ Feingold
2023-07-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting Feat. Megan Yoo Schneider
2023-08-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting & Panel: Is this the Beginning of the End of Public Education?
2023-09-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States

General Meeting: Let's Reclaim Medicare From the Profiteers
2023-10-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, United States
