Program Type:
LectureAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Combatting illegal immigration has become a priority of the Trump administration. The Northern Triangle of Central America, made up of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, is a special target of the administration, which hold the nations responsible for the large flow of migrants from Latin America to the U.S. With funds from the U.S. cut, how can the Northern Triangle countries curtail migration?
The Paul Pratt Memorial Library will offer its Great Decisions 2020
discussion program online via Zoom, an online meeting site.To attend these meetings, please register. You will receive an email with a meeting link. The Foreign Policy Association
(parent of Great Decisions) has generously opened access to its Great
Decisions DVD to everyone via youtube.
Our visiting scholars will also be
contributing their knowledge in our Zoom meetings. Following their lecture,
we will open the session up for Q&A. Each session will be recorded for those
who cannot participate in the meeting.
Great Decisions is a nation-wide, foreign policy discussion group offered by the Foreign Policy Assocation, a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose aim is to better inform members of the community about world issues, engage people in informative discussions, and to inspire others to become involved citizens. Registered participants will receive a complimentary copy of the Great Decisions Briefing book as long a supplies last. Discussions will be lead by informed scholars on a variety of topics found in the Briefing book. This program is free to the public. Participants may attend one, several, or all of the eight weekly sessions.
Seating is limited. Availability of books are limited. This program is sponsored in part by The Friends of the Cohasset Library, the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, and by a grant from Mass Humanities.