The Settlement Project had a delegation at Turning Point USA’s America Fest, or AmFest, in Phoenix, AZ form December 16 – 19, 2023. Regional reps from Los Angeles (Jack Ashworth), San Francisco (Michael and Kai Kellett), and Columbus, Ohio (Marquis Van De Mark) attended many of the stellar speeches, and conducted interviews with participants, youth, and with headliners.
During Christmas and the holiday season, Settlement Project regions in both Ohio, and the Mid-Atlantic hosted warm, family meetings where friends, staff and members could meet, enjoy each other’s company, reflect on our efforts and successes in 2023, and look ahead to this hugely important year of 2024.
Holiday Greetings from The Settlement Project
Podcast by Dr. Frank Kaufmann on the new “anti-Semitism” seen in the sudden pro-Hamas protests following October 7, 2023
The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) hosted a seminar on Education for the 21st Century: Challenges, Moral Dangers, and Innovation from 10 am until noon, at the Bay Area Family Church, and later that evening The Alameda County Committee of Restoration (ACCOR) held a graduation ceremony for graduates of its 10-week course on the US Bill of Rights, in the home of Michael and Monika Kellett. Dr. Kaufmann offered the Keynote address in the morning seminar and graduation congratulatory remarks and speech content in the evening ceremony.
Xi Van Fleet, a friend of the Settlement Project, has recently released a compelling cautionary tale. Xi’s latest book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning, recounts her personal experiences of living through the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and warns the reader that history is repeating itself in today’s America.
This particular gathering focuses on media, perhaps as in part responsible for our current shameful ugliness, as well as on ways media might contribute toward needed healing. My first premise is that our world is full of noble, courageous, journalists ready to give their lives to honor truth-telling for the sake of a better world. Although I admire honorable journalists and am grateful for the indispensable service they offer, I myself try to avoid them and have as little to do with them as possible.
On October 14, 2023, forty regional political and activist leaders gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn Dulles North, Ashburn, Virginia for The Settlement Project Conference, “Cultural Transformation and the Race to 2024,” cosponsored with FreedomWorks, Heritage Action and Affirm America.
The exceptional success of this conference titled: Asian American Values and the Threat to Families and Healthy Education, continues the urgent efforts of The Settlement Project to effectively serve families and communities in regions throughout America.
There are now two active, world-level wars cursing our planet, the Russia-Ukraine War, and the Israel-Hamas War. These are happening during a period in which the perennial symbol for the harmonization of international differences, the United States of America has sunk into unimaginable internal strife in which the US government is holding political prisoners, and efforts are being made to imprison opposition party political candidates. Imprisoning political opposition is the characteristic of primitive, unstable dictatorships.