Globalization & Its Discontents

Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 11:00am
Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Joan Roelofs

Four decades of corporate-led neoliberal globalization facilitated by Democratic and Republican elites alike that have undermined the American Dream for so many working people, finally blew back on them in last year’s presidential election. An anger with the political establishment that had been building for years finally found a voice in a demagogue that focused it against immigrants and refugees rather than the 1% who had caused their pain. Indeed, a worldwide “populist” revolt against neoliberalism is building.

Cliff DuRand, a founder of the Center for Global Justice, activist Gregory Diamant and political scientist Joan Roelofs examine this political earthquake and the challenges we now face as a result. What is neoliberalism and how have its policies impacted ordinary people? Why is there so little trust in the institutions of society? Why do so many feel disempowered in what claims to be a democratic society? And what can we, the people, do about all this? We live in challenging times. Are we the people up to this challenge?

You can read the presentation by Cliff DuRand here, Joan Roelofs here, and Gregory Diamant here.

UPCOMING TOURS

March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, January 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Jeff Faux
Location:
Join in Person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

We are a week before the inauguration of an unstable megalomaniac, totally unfit to be president. His loyalists control the Congress and the Supreme Court. And his stated agenda could destroy American constitutional democracy.  Yet his political opposition hasn’t a clue how to respond.

The issue is not whether the Democrats... Read more

Monday, February 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
José Alfredo Gutiérrez Falcón
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

While much of the world is shifting to the right, Mexico is moving in a progressive direction. In 2018, the electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA party) initiated "The Fourth Transformation" which is working, against entrenched opposition,... Read more