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Tanuki

(16,508 posts)
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 02:28 PM Feb 2019

Beyond charity: What we owe asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants

Nashville Public Library
and David Wood, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy,Vanderbilt University
present
Thinking Out of the Lunchbox, conversations with a philosophical flavor

BEYOND CHARITY: WHAT WE OWE ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHER VULNERABLE MIGRANTS

Robert Barsky
Professor of French, English, and Jewish Studies; Professor of Law
Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Lunch at 11:30 a.m.
Program at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Nashville Public Library
615 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37219

The event is free and open to the public; no reservations required. Free lunches will be available beginning at 11:30 a.m. while supplies last. A donation of $5 is suggested to help defray costs. For more information, call (615) 880-2356.

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Beyond charity: What we owe asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants (Original Post) Tanuki Feb 2019 OP
We finance drug gangs by buying their dugs, I have solution Cicada Feb 2019 #1

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
1. We finance drug gangs by buying their dugs, I have solution
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 03:10 PM
Feb 2019

If we decriminalize drugs the drug gangs evaporate. Portugal decriminalized drugs and great things followed. We should do it. It’s a no brained good solution.

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