POVERTY: Our Dirty Secret
Michael Harrington and Today's Other America:
Corporate Power and Inequality
A Documentary Film on Poverty
Discussion to follow.
Sunday, December 2nd
2:00 - 4:00 pm
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Unitarian Annex - 208 E. Buffalo St., Ithaca NY
The United States thought it was the richest nation in the world.
Then in 1962 Michael Harrington published The Other America,
and Americans discovered poverty. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson vowed
to do something about it and initiated the War on Poverty. Indeed
poverty rates plummeted, but now they are back up. Let us take a look
back and then talk about what has happened since. And what needs to be
done now.
Let's Bring
Progressive Groups Together to discuss this
topic
which impacts
so many issues that we are dealing with today.
Sponsored by: Ithaca Democratic Socialists
of America, Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Council. Cosponsored
by the Tompkins County Workers' Center
