Toward a Better Society

Monday, October 26, 2020 - 1:00pm

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Emily Kawano & Erella Shadmi

The pandemic has been educating us to take care of each other, to make sacrifices for the common good, to understand how we are all interconnected. How might these values guide us toward a better society? Erella Shadmi (Israeli criminologist and feminist) and Emily Kawano (co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network) will discuss the better society that can come out of our experience with Covid.

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Monday, September 27, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

30 Years After the USSR’s Fall: Who Has Benefitted?

Russian economist & dissident Alexandr Buzgalin

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This brief history of the wreckage of the 1990s provides context for Alexandr Buzgalin’s comments on who benefitted from Russia’s conversion to “capitalism.” Since the 1980s, Professor Buzgalin has taught economics and self-management at Moscow State University and now also directs the Center for Modern Marxist Studies. In 2018, Paul Jay... Read more

Monday, October 4, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Updates from Mexico’s Borders

Victoria Bruce & Rebecca Eichler, moderated by Careen Shannon

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Immigration lawyer Careen Shannon moderates a conversation with immigration lawyer Rebecca Eichler and award-winning filmmaker Victoria Bruce, both of whom recently visited Mexico’s northern and southern borders and report on their experience and their impressions of US immigration policy as well as Mexican policy

Rebecca N. Eichler has... Read more

Monday, October 11, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Not a Nation of Immigrants

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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It used to be called Columbus Day, named after that murderous explorer who “discovered” land in the western hemisphere, opening the way for European imperial expansion into this half of the globe.Now that day is called Indigenous Peoples Day or First Peoples Day, honoring those who were here before the immigrants came from Europe.

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Peoples’ Food Summit

Precious Phirri & Ercilia Sahores

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On September 23 the UN Food Systems Summit will be held as part of the Decade of Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Apparently, it stands as a broad invitation to all countries and sectors. This Establishment summit has been criticized by Vía Campesina as well as other grassroots organizations. It ignores the... Read more

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 1:00pm

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What is Fueling Climate Change?

Patrick Bond, Manuel Pérez-Rocha & Paul Snelgrove

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COP26 opens at the end of October. The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference brings together parties for two weeks in Glasgow to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement. Since the recent urgent warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the increasing extreme weather, the public awareness of climate change is... Read more

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Monday, November 8, 2021 - 1:00pm

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The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan Against Democracy

Nancy MacLean & David Schweickart

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It was Lewis Powell who wrote the secret but now famous memorandum to the US. Chamber of Commerce calling on corporate America to become political and save the country from socialism.While he pointed to the things that needed to be done, to a large extent it has been the Charles and David Koch who have seen to its implementation.From... Read more

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