MEANINGFUL MOVIES TACOMA

Center for Spiritual Living

206 North J Street  Tacoma, WA

ABOUT OUR GROUP:

Films + Discussion every 4th Friday of the month, open to the public, admission by donation (no one refused entry).  We meet from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

Meaningful Movies Tacoma was started in order to gather, educate, inspire, connect and commit our community to the environment, peace, justice, and to build an educated, informed citizenry. We show a documentary film monthly— on the fourth Friday – followed by a facilitated discussion.  We oftentimes involve local groups within our community as part of our discussion to further build community.

FOR A LIST OF THE FILMS MEANINGFUL MOVIES HAS SHOWN PRIOR TO 2015, LOOK HERE:
http://www.meaningfulmovies.org/about/films-shown-prior-to-2015/

SCREENING LOCATION: Center for Spiritual Living 206 North J Street, Tacoma, WA, 98403 CONTACT EMAIL:mdtilstra@aol.com

Sponsored by Meaningful Movies, donations to this event will be evenly distributed to the Black/African-American Ethnic Ministries Circle of Color for the Richard Younge Curacy Fund, and PNW Union of Black Episcopalians.

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

As the nation reels from the Texas mass shooting, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is poised to strike down a century-old handgun licensing requirement in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. In a wide-ranging discussion, Andrew Cohen and Duke Law professor Darrell Miller reflect on how this decision may be “just the start of what some lawyers and advocates say will be a relentless effort by the Court to transform gun regulation around the United States.”

How did we get here? In an essay adapted from his book The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman connects the amendment’s 18th-century origins to the NRA’s successful campaign to change its meaning in the minds of tens of millions of Americans — and several Supreme Court justices. READ MORE

The President’s Hidden Emergency Powers

Secret documents give presidents broad emergency powers that appear to lack oversight from Congress, the courts, and the public. New records obtained by the Brennan Center through a Freedom of Information Act request shed light on the possible extent of these powers, which may include the ability to suspend habeas corpus and implement an internet kill-switch. And much about these extreme claims of executive authority, which date back to the 1950s, remains unknown. “We have been left to wonder whether existing documents still greenlight the violation of Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties, or if modern sensibilities and understandings of the law have moderated their approach,” Benjamin Waldman writes. READ MORE