RIAS Zoom Talks ahead
There will be three more RIAS Zoom talks over the next three weeks. We hope you can take part in these. Please contact info@darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com for details to these calls on June 25, July 2 and July 8.
1 – Why is the eastern state of Thuringia in the news about extremely low Covid-19 numbers and reopening the state? And why have the far-right AfD upset German politics this year with an election trick?
Thursday, June 25 – Mario Voigt, the leader of the conservative Christian Democratic opposition in the state parliament in Thurginia, will try to answer those questions at a RIAS zoom Talk. Voigt is a regular guest speaker for RIAS groups to Germany and knows the US election system well after studying at the University of Virginia – Charlottesville. He has a doctorate in American election campaigning. Time: Jun 25, 2020 05:30 PM Berlin 11:30 am EST
1 – Why are the numbers of people infected with Covid-19 rising so rapidly in states such as Florida, Texas and Arizona? Three RIAS alumni who work as journalists in those three states will explain why the numbers are rising, what the state leaders are doing about that and how the public is reacting.
Thursday, July 2 – David Wagner (News Director at KLST TV San Angelo, Texas), Buzz Conover (Reporter Public Radio in Tucson, Arizona) and Kenya Woodard (freelance jouralist in Tampa Bay, Florida) will try to answer those and other questions at a RIAS zoom talk on July 2. Time: Jul 2, 2020 05:00 PM Berlin, 11 a.m. EST
3 – Where are German-US relations and NATO headed?
Wednesday, July 8 – Lieutenant General (Retired) Ben Hodges will be talking about U.S.-German relations, NATO and offering insights and backgrounds on the Trump Administration’s proposals to move more than one-quarter of the 34,500 U.S. forces stationed in Germany. Hodges, who is a regular guest in the German media and has talked to RIAS groups in Germany before, holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He joined CEPA in February 2018. A native of Quincy, Florida, General Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. His last military assignment was as Commanding General, United States Army Europe (Wiesbaden, Germany) from 2014 to 2017. He retired from the U.S. Army in January 2018. The talk will be on July 8th, 2020 06:00 PM Berlin, 12 noon EST.
