HomeLatest News 05/23/09 Meltdown and Recovery Detroit Event
05/23/09 Meltdown and Recovery Detroit Event
The Nation Magazine and The Institute for Policy Studies invite you to join them in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation as they discuss the origins on the financial collapse, debate President Obama's stimulus package and consider what form economic recovery should take to ensure a more equitable future for everyone.
Meltdown and Recovery
Detroit:
The Economic Collapse and
a People’s Plan for Recovery
May
23 Event Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich and John Conyers
At
Cobo Hall in Detroit on May 23, national and local political leaders will join
a panel of esteemed economists and journalists for a town hall discussion of
the economic collapse and how Detroit—and the country—can recover. Putting the
needs of workers and citizens (not bankers and stock market speculators) at the
center of the conversation, the panel will examine local solutions as well as
the role of Detroit in the national economy.
Moderated by The Nation Magazine’s John Nichols, this discussion will
feature: Documentarian and activist Michael Moore* (invited), Representative
John Conyers, bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich, Detroit City Council Woman
and Radio Host Jo Ann Watson, noted economist Robert Pollin and long-time
Detroit organizer and community leader Elena Herrada.
This
event will also preview national and local organizing efforts leading up to the
2010 United States Social Forum (USSF), to be held in Detroit. The USSF is a
convening of hundreds of thousands of social and economic justice advocates
from around the country chartering a course for a reversal of inequality at
home and abroad.
Cities for Progress is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. For more than four decades, IPS has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment as the nation's oldest progressive multi-issue think tank. http://www.ips-dc.org.
