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	"title": "A Conversation With Mel Packer",
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	"description": "We don&#x27;t know about you, but we are getting a little stir crazy and looking for some human interaction, stimulating conversation, and a chance to get insight into the workings of our world. We&#x27;ve asked Mel Packer to join us to discuss his visit to Iran during the hostage crisis and, we hope, a bunch of other things. Mel has a 40-year history of social, political, labor, and community activism. He did local and long distant truck driving while a member of Pittsburgh Teamster Locals 249 and 800, and was instrumental in the national leadership that founded Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU.) In the mid eighties, as heavy industry collapsed in Pittsburgh, Mel went to Community College of Allegheny County to retrain as a nuclear medicine technologist. In 1995, he finished a program at Essex Community College in Baltimore where he obtained his training as a physician assistant. Mel has been and continues to be a principled and strong critic of our government&#x27;s current economic, military, social, and environmental policies, not only nationally, but locally and regionally. Do to current conditions, we will do this program on Zoom. If you haven&#x27;t used Zoom before, please reach out for a tutorial.",
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