Senior fellow here and its my privilege to kick off the event. I say our event and today is that for self reasons. For one thing itses t to welcome and launch a book into the world. Given that its a red letter day for antoine and fred complengt new book is just out, and if i do say so we shall rush to pick up a copy. I think we have some beyond the back so on the way out please do that. Todays is two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway u stuff. Not on the usual spin cycles, but on some of us think that it is the most fundamental ailment of National Well being. R d and stem worker intensive advance ranging through reare nubble energy. Customer clusters and technology equal systems, critical and thats part of their had focus, and then cities. And the collaboration it is that they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. Antoine traveled the world for decades. Now come back to embrace the local, the
For the Aspen Times Weekly
Aspen High School students and other protesters picketing the underground nuclear blast in Rulison in the spring of 1970. Courtesy Jay Cowan
This past Mayday marked the 50th anniversary of what was one of the last effective mass protests in Washington D.C. before the Black Lives Matter rally nearly half a century later. Demonstrators from all over the country convened for large-scale civil disobedience actions aimed at interfering with business as usual in the nation’s capitol.
I was 18 in 1971, a year out of Aspen High School and imminently draftable. People had been marching in America and Aspen for years to encourage our leaders to get us out of Vietnam, but instead the war was escalating. And those protesting it were being shot at Kent and Jackson State universities – 26 of them in one eleven-day period in 1970. Six died. The message seemed pretty clear: you should be prepared to sacrifice your life if you wanted to keep taking to the streets