  Meeting
Report
March 23, 2003
Katherine Thompson
Advocacy and the U.N.
Katherine Thompson is currently Chair of the Sacramento
Chapter of the United Nations Association, USA. She had also been a
long-time transit advocate and one of the founders of the Modern Transit
Society, which started the campaign to start Sacramento’s light rail
system. She gave a talk on the history of her work on pollution control
and on the campaign to bring light rail to town. She concluded with
comments regarding our current administration’s objections to the Kyoto
treaty on greenhouse gas emissions and the probable results of that
failure.
After the meeting was concluded she asked this writer to
urge HAGSA members to write monthly letters to the Sacramento Bee, if
possible.
The program concluded with a business meeting at which
those members present ratified the Board’s decision to have HAGSA become a
Membership Chapter of the American Humanist Association. The question was
moved by Ron Fegley and seconded by Anna Andrews. The motion was approved,
with 14 in favor, 1 against and 2 abstentions.
Report
prepared by Wayne Luney, HAGSA Recorder
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