Archive: Events
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Class, Culture, and Advocacy: Building Working-Class Studies
New Georgetown English professor Sherry Linkon and retired Labor Studies Professor John Russo will tell the story of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University and highlight lessons for organizing from their experience.
Category: Events
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Unpaid = Unfair? Law, Economics, & Ethics of Unpaid Internships
Join the Kalmanovitz Initiative and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee on March 18, 2013 for “Unpaid = Unfair? Law, Economics, & Ethics of Unpaid Internships.”
Category: Events
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Together, We Are Super-Human: Cory Doctorow Speaks at Georgetown
On February 25, 2013, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow joined the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund for a talk titled, “Together, We Are Super-Human: How Technology Gives Communities Super Powers.”
Category: Events
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Music That Does Justice
Featuring labor and environmental activist Joe Uehlein, vocalist of roots-rock and Americana band The U-Liners. Come hear the songs and stories from the movements to support workers’ rights, environmental and economic justice, and peace.
Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows
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Together, We Are Super-Human: How Technology Gives Communities Super Powers
Featuring Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger; co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of novels Pirate Cinema (Tor Teen, 2012), For the Win (2010) and the bestselling Little Brother (2008). His latest novel is Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother.
Category: Events
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Panics, Politics and Party: How Financial Panics Defined and Redefined American Politics, 1789 to the Present
In his new book, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson shows that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. Join us for a conversation with Nelson about how financial panics have shaped American politics.
Category: Events
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So Rich, So Poor: Reviving the Fight Against Poverty
Join us for a conversation with Peter Edelman, one of the nation’s foremost champions of the poor, about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.
Category: Events
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50 years after Michael Harrington's The Other America: Where is the War on Poverty?
In 1962, Michael Harrington’s The Other America became a catalyst for “The War on Poverty,” leading to the later establishment of Medicare, Medicaid, and other social security benefits. Using archival footage and interviews with diverse thinkers, Michael Harrington and Today’s Other America: Corporate Power and Inequality (1999) chronicles the life of Harrington and the relevance of his ideas in modern America.
Category: Events
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50 Years After Michael Harrington's The Other America
Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, Michael Harrington’s groundbreaking study of poverty in the United States, a panel of progressive thinkers will discuss the persistence of poverty and the continuing relevance of Harrington’s ideas to today.
Category: Events
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KI Research Director Jennifer Luff Discusses New Book
On September 28, 2012, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a book discussion featuring KI research director Jennifer Luff, author of Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars. Published in May 2012, Commonsense Anticommunism is an account of the American Federation of Labor’s post-WWI efforts to combat communism while trying to simultaneously defend workers’ civil liberties and right to organize.