Based on response, please note that, depending on attendance and venue capacity, an RSVP to the opening does not guarantee entry. RSVP HERE Join the Center for Architecture for the … Continue reading The Fourth Regional Plan Opening
Join the conversation about how New York City can improve its landmark campaign finance program. Our matching funds program is the model for citizens across the country who want to … Continue reading Panel: Improving NYC’s Campaign Finance Program
Is resistance futile? Since the last economic downturn, there has been a tremendous surge of new grassroots activism — mostly on the left, in keeping with the dominant historical pattern. … Continue reading Does Protest Still Matter? Lessons from NYC; Activist Capital, USA
Inequality is accelerating at an alarming rate as corporate political power is expanding and worker rights and protections are shrinking. The hyper concentration of wealth in the hands of a financial elite has come to dominate politics and shape policy in a manner that has eroded democratic governance at the federal, state, and the municipal … Continue reading A Failing Marriage: Democracy and Capitalism
RSVP HERE What can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, examines issues playing a decisive role in our national discussion. Through the use of ethnographic and … Continue reading Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Ties of Working-Class Men
