Announcements
(updated 03/08/10):
The Progressive
Roundtable:
“THE NEW DEAL: RECENT BIOGRAPHIES OF
FDR AND FRANCES PERKINS”
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:15 a.m. to 12:00
Madison Public Library
- Sequoya Branch
4340 Tokay Blvd
(Midvale and Tokay)
(Free parking
behind library
TMI Board Treasurer
Paul Beckett will review Traitor to His Class: The
Privileged Life
and Radical
Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
(2009)
TMI Board Chair Connie
Threinen will review The Woman Behind the New Deal: The
Life of Frances
Perkins, FDR'S
Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin
Downey (2009)
Where did the New Deal
come from? What lessons should we (and Obama) learn from FDR,
Frances
Perkins, and their
colleagues? Was/is an Obama New Deal possible? Can America ever
complete the
unfinished work of
the New Deal? Please join us for a lively discussion; please tell
your friends.
Free and open to the public
TMI Forum event:
The Origins of the Economic Crisis and the Way Out
Dean Baker
Saturday, April 24, 2010
On
the University of Wisconsin Campus
More
information, including the specific location and time, will be
posted as soon as available
Dean Baker
is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in
Washington, DC. He is
frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets. He
writes a weekly column for the
Guardian
Unlimited(UK),
and his blog,
Beat the Press,
features commentary on economic reporting. His analyses have
appeared in many major publications, including the
Atlantic Monthly,
the
Washington
Post,
the
London
Financial Times,
and the
New York
Daily News.
He received his Ph.D in economics from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Baker has written several books, his latest being
False Profits: Recovering from the
Bubble
Economy (PoliPoint
Press, 2010) about what caused - and how to fix - the current
economic crisis.
Free and open to the public
TMI Welcomes New Board Member
We are
pleased to announce that Doug Bradley
has recently joined the TMI Board. You can read
about Doug by clicking on "About" link on the left of this page,
followed by "Board of Directors".
Future TMI Programs
TMI is currently in the process of
developing future major forum and progressive roundtable events, as
well
as considering other ways to promote the dissemination and
discussion of the major issues of our time. Information
on these programs will be posted when available.
We welcome your ideas for programs and your participation.
Contact Paul Beckett at
paulbeckett69@gmail.com
or Wanda Williamson at
wwilliam29@live.com.
Audio Streams
Available On-line
Streaming
audio is available for many previous TMI programs.
To see a list of TMI Forum programs
and to listen, click on "Recorded
Audio Programs" at the left. To hear a PRT discussion, click on
"Progressive
Round Table" at the left and find "Click here to
listen" below the program description.
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