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CSI BOARD MEMBER ROGER CLAY ON “SPOTLIGHT ON POVERTY”
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
CSI Board Member Roger Clay will being appearing on a panel moderated by Tavis Smiley tonight from 6:30-9:00 PM Eastern on a live broadcast on C-SPAN to discuss solutions for restoring America’s prosperity.
The panel,which also includes Michael Moore, Suze Orman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, and others, will react to a new Indiana University paper that examines the “new poor” and how the face of poverty in America has changed.
The conversation can also be viewed on C-SPAN and will be rebroadcast in three segments on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS beginning Monday, January 16 through Wednesday, January 18.
For more information, please go to http://www.tavistalks.com/remakingamerica/?page_id=9It
We hope you will be able to watch.
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CSI PARTNERS WITH BRAVE NEW FOUNDATION ON NEW FILM EXPOSING RACIAL SEGREGATION
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Today, Brave New Foundation has released its newest film, Koch Brothers Exposed, and we at CSI have partnered with them to expose the Koch Brothers’ influence in exacerbating racial inequity in Wake County, North Carolina. Check out the film:
The Facts: After the November 2009 elections, the Wake County school board dismantled socio-economic diverse schools and began to implement a neighborhood schools plan that would resegregate schools. Resegregation in schools would be a disaster. It would turn back the clock fifty years with the creation of high poverty, racially isolated schools. The integration plan destroyed by Koch-supported board of education members was used as a model for high achieving, diverse schools throughout the country. This October 2011, Wake Country elections will decide if schools become resegregated. Koch-supported candidates are still pushing for neighborhood schools and to end diversity. The Koch brothers free market, libertarian ideology rests on privatization in …
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