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We'll discuss Chapter 6, Capitalism by Matthew Desmond, and other relevant material, including lived experience, on Thursday, April 4th from 8pm EST.

All are welcome to speak or just listen. Raise your hand if you wish to speak or, if you prefer, communicate via chat.
11:03 PM - Mar 28, 2024
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Ericlo
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Matthew Desmond, author of the chapter, CAPITALISM, in #The1619Project , answers three questions about the chapter he wrote
(the video is less than 2 minutes)

https://youtu.be/WCsdS42db...
Matthew Desmond Answers Questions About "Capitalism" from THE 1619 PROJECT - YouTube

Matthew Desmond, author of the "Capitalism" chapter of THE 1619 PROJECT by Nikole Hannah-Jones, answers three questions about the section as a part of #The16...

08:08 AM - Mar 29, 2024
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Ericlo
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Matthew Desmond Talks About How to End Poverty in America |
https://youtu.be/DQgTTfT-e...
Matthew Desmond Talks About How to End Poverty in America | The Businessweek Show - YouTube

Professor Matthew Desmond, a sociologist and Author of Poverty, by America, explores poverty and its causes in the US, and talks about his personal experienc...

12:55 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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Matthew Desmond: The Privileged are Complicit in America’s Poverty Crisis | Amanpour and Company -
The United States -- the richest country in the world -- has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy.
https://youtu.be/95we_UcQh...
Matthew Desmond: The Privileged are Complicit in America’s Poverty Crisis | Amanpour and Company - YouTube

The United States -- the richest country in the world -- has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthe...

01:06 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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#The1619Project
Ch. 6, CAPITALISM by Matthew Desmond
Page 185
"ignores the fact that slavery didn't just deny Black freedom but built white fortunes, originating the Black-white wealth gap that annually grows wider -one reason is that American capitalism was founded on the lowest road there is."
04:53 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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#The1619Project
Ch 6, CAPITALISM Matthew Desmond
Pg 183
"Given the choice between parity with Black people - by inviting them into unified unions - and poverty, white workers chose poverty, spoiling the development of a multiracial mass labor movement in America. That decision wrote W.E.B. Du Bois"
08:44 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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I'm#The1619Project
Chapter 6, Capitalism by Matthew Desmond
Page 185:
"Many of the political systems, legal arrangements, cultural beliefs, and economic structures that uphold and promote this level of inequality trace their roots back to slavery and its aftermath."
08:47 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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#The1619Project
Ch. 6, CAPITALISM Matthew Desmond
Pg 169
"To this day, the fifteen states where slavery remained legal as of 1861 still hold the power to block a constitutional amendment supported by the other thirty-five.¹²
So if Washington often feels broken, that's because it was built that way."
08:55 PM - Mar 29, 2024
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Hulu The 1619 Project
EPISODE 4
Capitalism
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ family and current labor battles are the lens for “Capitalism”, which explores how slavery formed the bedrock of American capitalism and how this foundation of brutality continues to permeate our deeply unequal economic system.
08:21 AM - Mar 31, 2024
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NYT magazine:
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
By Matthew Desmond
AUG. 14, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/in...
03:29 PM - Mar 31, 2024
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"The reality of American poverty is sustained by those who benefit from it."
September 18, 2023: Matthew Desmond - YouTube

The United States is both the richest country on Earth, and yet beset with a crushing poverty that saddles too many Americans. Dr. Matthew Desmond is a Pulit...

10:05 AM - Apr 02, 2024
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Ericlo
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Thank you for a great evening and morning 🌄. We can continue to discuss this chapter (and related material)
throughout this book since our form of capitalism (evolved from genocide and chattel slavery) is inextricably interwoven with the subject matter of each and every chapter.
12:58 AM - Apr 05, 2024
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June 2007 Camp Obama
An approach to community organizing to remain in touch with people year round regarding local, state and federal elections.
https://www.npr.org/templa...
08:02 AM - Apr 05, 2024
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Fyi
Bree Newsome re community organizing, building networks within the community
12:20 PM - Apr 05, 2024
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"As artificial intelligence catches on in America, fears of general unemployment are growing."
https://youtu.be/1Epl0bI_j...
AI Could Actually Help Rebuild the Middle Class, Says MIT Economist | Amanpour and Company - YouTube

As artificial intelligence catches on in America, fears of general unemployment are growing. Elon Musk called AI "the most disruptive force in history” and 7...

10:10 AM - Apr 10, 2024
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