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Hi LJ community. I put public programming aside for awhile to focus on other things, and low and behold the urge is back! I have about 55 RSVPs for this program tomorrow and I only know like five of those folks personally - how exciting! My mentor/guy I consult for is coming into town from Boston for this program and one at First Unitarian on Thursday in Hyde Park. Both are free in case anyone cares to hear about political strategies for reducing the wealth gap in America.
A Community Forum on Challenging Concentrated Wealth and Power
with Presenter Chuck Collins, senior scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C., co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth and, with Felice Yeskel of, Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity,
and Community Respondents:
* Wendy Pollack, Women's Law and Policy Project at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Povery Law
* Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
* Josina Morita, Applied Research Center
* James Thindwa, Jobs With Justice
Wednesday, May 28
6 to 8:30 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull House Museum
800 S. Halsted Street
Free event, open to the public
We have witnessed, over recent decades, the most colossal redistribution of wealth in modern world history. We are now living in our nation's second Gilded Age, a period of extreme inequality of wealth and power, the worst since 1929. Such concentrations of private wealth, then as now, dominated - and corrupted - our democracy and made for a politics more focused on preserving privilege than helping average, working families.
How unequal are we? How did it happen? Why is this issue not on the political agenda? What policies would directly reverse these inequalities?
Please join us for a discussion about the dangers of grave accumulations of income and wealth, its threat to our general well-being, and the possibilities for building a network to address extreme inequality here in Chicago.
For more information including presenter bio, please click here to visit our website.
Event co-sponsors: Applied Research Center, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Crossroads Fund, Global Initiatives Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Jobs With Justice, Program on Inequality and the Common Good at Institute for Policy Studies, and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
Please R.S.V.P. to Kristen Cox at econjustmidwest@gmail.com by May 22nd. Refreshments will be served.
A Community Forum on Challenging Concentrated Wealth and Power
with Presenter Chuck Collins, senior scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C., co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth and, with Felice Yeskel of, Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity,
and Community Respondents:
* Wendy Pollack, Women's Law and Policy Project at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Povery Law
* Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
* Josina Morita, Applied Research Center
* James Thindwa, Jobs With Justice
Wednesday, May 28
6 to 8:30 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull House Museum
800 S. Halsted Street
Free event, open to the public
We have witnessed, over recent decades, the most colossal redistribution of wealth in modern world history. We are now living in our nation's second Gilded Age, a period of extreme inequality of wealth and power, the worst since 1929. Such concentrations of private wealth, then as now, dominated - and corrupted - our democracy and made for a politics more focused on preserving privilege than helping average, working families.
How unequal are we? How did it happen? Why is this issue not on the political agenda? What policies would directly reverse these inequalities?
Please join us for a discussion about the dangers of grave accumulations of income and wealth, its threat to our general well-being, and the possibilities for building a network to address extreme inequality here in Chicago.
For more information including presenter bio, please click here to visit our website.
Event co-sponsors: Applied Research Center, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Crossroads Fund, Global Initiatives Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Jobs With Justice, Program on Inequality and the Common Good at Institute for Policy Studies, and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
Please R.S.V.P. to Kristen Cox at econjustmidwest@gmail.com by May 22nd. Refreshments will be served.