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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday, May 17, we will present an event that asks a couple of 
 questions:\n* What really happened in the United States' pursuit of nuclear 
 weapons?\n* Who will be Nancy Pelosi's opponent in November?\n\nThe first 
 question, and at least part of its answer, arises from one particular 
 episode of filmmaker Oliver Stone's "Untold History of the United States". 
 This is a 10-part documentary series that played on Showtime beginning in 
 late 2012.\n\nEntitled simply "The Bomb", Episode 3 of the series looks at 
 both the strategies and the mythology around the atomic bombing of Japan. 
 Besides bringing incredible destruction on two cities in Japan and death 
 among their citizenries, the bombings also launched the Cold War, whose 
 implications shaped a lot of American politics in the mid-19th 
 century...and now are back with us in a major way. Stone's episode also 
 examines the role of nuclear weapons as a threat to life on the planet. 
 Peace Action will show this episode in the evening's "first act".\n\nWe 
 will then turn our attention to electoral politics, with Peace Action 
 member Barry Hermanson presenting his case for running for the seat of 
 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. California's "top two" primary system 
 offers the potential for a number of possible candidates - not necessarily 
 Republicans - to face Pelosi.\n\nAs a member of the Green Party, Hermanson 
 feels he has as much chance as any of the other 7 candidates to gain a 
 foothold in the race for the June 3 primary. He plans to urge Pelosi to 
 answer questions of national importance in a public forum, and he feels 
 that many of the issues he will raise resonate with members of Peace 
 Action. In fact, they already have, based on the descriptive pie charts 
 Hermanson created a few years ago depicting outsized U.S. military 
 spending. On May 17, in a short talk, Hermanson will raise this and other 
 issues such as living wages around the world, ending drone warfare and 
 taxing carbon emissions.\nThe UUSM is wheelchair accessible.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/07/18755440.php
SUMMARY:Oliver Stone's 'The Bomb', and Congressional candidate Barry Hermanson
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/07/18755440.php
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