Action Speaks at AS-220

Action Speaks is a six part series of panel discussions designed to give citizens the opportunity to listen to and discuss the major issues of our times. Marc Joel Levitt is the host and creative director of the discussions that bring together experts from the arts, politics, academia and beyond. This year the theme is Security First: Under-Appreciated Days That Changed America

The program happens every Tuesday night at AS220 from 5:30 to around 7 Admission is FREE! The programs are then broadcast from 7-8 pm on WRNI 1290 AM (1230 in Westerly) on Sundays

Here's the upcoming schedule of subjects: (the first one happened yesterday!)

ALREADY HAPPENED TUE, OCT 1: Fallout Shelters for All! 1961
Guests: Ken Rose, Richard Kearney, Bill Martel

TUE, OCT 8: First Issue of Mad Magazine Hits The Stands. 1952
Guests: Paul Buhle, Andrea Miller-Keller, Peter Schuman (director, Bread and Puppet Theatre)

TUE, OCT 15: Hays Moral Code introduced! 1934
Guests: Francis Couvares, Michael Fink, Marshall Berman

TUE, OCT 22: Rockefeller Drug Laws 1973
Guests:David Lewis, Randy Credico, Paul Street

TUE, OCT 29: Reagan's Administration publishes "A Nation at Risk" 1983
Guests: Warren Simmons, Jennifer Wood, Susan Ohanian

TUE, NOV. 5: Sugar Hill Gang releases "Rapper's Delight 1979
Guests: Donald King (director, Providence Black Rep), Marcyliena Morgan, Bakari Kitwana

For information call AS220 at 831-9327 or the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities at 273-2250.

Listen to previous programs, courtesy of WRNI

Read a Providence Journal article about this year's theme.