From the series Global Voices for Justice speakers author Vanessa Williamson, Professor Cedric Johnson, and Professor Thomas Ferguson cover issues relevant to the presidential election, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Taxation, BLM, inequality, education, healthcare, ... and historical perspective on the future of politics in the US. (Williamson and Johnson are heard in Part 1 of this program. Johnson and Ferguson will be heard in Part 2.)
Vanessa Williamson is a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. She studies the politics of redistribution, with a focus on attitudes about taxation. She is the author, with Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.
Cedric Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include Racial and ethnic politics; African American Political Thought; American Politics; Neoliberalization; Political Economy; Labor Studies; Urban Politics; Critical Urban Theory.
Thomas Ferguson is the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Director of Research Projects and a member of its Advisory Board. He is also Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Hear Part 2 of this program at 11AM today.
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