Welcome alissa quart caught for a discussion of her new book going for broke, a collection of compelling, hard hitting first person essays, poems and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so Many Americans and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions. Well also have an audience q a at the very end of the evening, followed by a signing. If you have not yet already purchased or picked up your book, theyre available for purchase at the register and then once you get your copy there, you can find all of our panelists at this table here. Sue alistair will be joined in conversation by Molly Crabapple alex miller, celina su and astra taylor baylor. About the author. Editor facilitator this evening. Alissa quart is the author of bootstrapped liberating ourselves from the American Dream squeezed why our families cant afford america and branded the buying and selling of teenagers and two books of poetry. She is the executive director of the Economic Hardship reporting
Welcome alissa quart caught for a discussion of her new book going for broke, a collection of compelling, hard hitting first person essays, poems and photos that expose what our punitive social systemsamericans and deml ways to change our conditions. Well also have an audience q a at the very end of the evening, followed by a signing. If you have not yet already purchased or picked up your book, theyre available for purchase at the register and then once you get your copy there, you can find all of our panelists at this table here. Sue alistair will be joined in conversation by Molly Crabapple alex miller, celina su and astra taylor baylor. About the author. Editor facilitator this evening. Alissa quart is the author of bootstrapped liberating ourselves from the American Dream squeezed why our families cant afford america and branded the buying and selling of teenagers and two books of poetry. She is the director of the Economic Hardship reporting project and has written for many publi
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Class in. Inventing religion in america and we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians and in particular using Eugene Gallagher and james tappers why waco to to shape our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place i
Our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in c