Virtual Town Hall on Ukraine
As the As the Senior Policy Advisor and Assistant Chair of the Institute on Public Policy and World Affairs at Rockford University, I am inviting you to a very special program on Ukraine, featuring panelists with in-depth information. Please feel free to circulate and distribute this flyer to others on your email list who may be interested.
Don Manzullo
THE INSTITUTE ON PUBLIC POLICY AND WORLD AFFAIRS AT ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY,
THE ROCKFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND ROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
PRESENT A VIRTUAL TOWN HALL
CZAR PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE: IMPACT ON THE WORLD
Thursday, April 14, 2022, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (CDT)
Registration* Link: https://alumlc.org/rockford/18107
Russian President Putin’s war on Ukraine has suddenly plunged the world into an unstable security and economic posture, creating the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Three outstanding speakers share their perspectives.
Congressman John Kline (R—MN Ret.) is a 25-year veteran of the Marines and decorated combat helicopter pilot, who carried the nuclear football and was senior military aide for Presidents Carter and Reagan. He was a member of the House Armed Forces Committee and served on the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. He also chaired the Committee on Education and the Workforce during his years in Congress.
Congressman David Loebsack (D—IA Ret.) is a former political science professor at Cornell College in Iowa. He served on the same committees as Cong. Kline. On the Armed Forces Committee, he was on the Subcommittee on Readiness and Subcommittee on Military Personnel. He was in Ukraine just before he left Congress last year.
Nadia Blonsky Johnson, Rockford, IL, Licensed Clinical Professional and President of the Illinois Mental Health Council, was born in a Displaced Persons’ camp in Germany in 1946. Her parents were born in Ukraine and escaped Stalin’s terror by walking to Poland, where a few years later Hitler pressed them into forced labor in Germany. Nadia’s mother survived a concentration camp. In 1949, Nadia, her brother, and parents came to America on a US Navy transport ship.
Former Congressman Don Manzullo, member of House Foreign Affairs Committee and chairman of Asia and the Pacific subcommittee, will be moderating this program along with Dr. Catherine Forslund chair of the Historical and International Studies Department, Rockford University.
* Follow the link above to the RU alumni website, scroll down to this program, click on it, and register there with an email address and you will be sent a Zoom link for the program that day. In addition, you’ll be sent a link to a recording of the program a few days after it’s over!
For more information, contact Catherine Forslund, cforslund@rockford.edu or Don Manzullo, donmanzullo@yahoo.com