In a volume that is decades in the making, retired law professor Art Wilmarth tells the story of the Glass-Steagall Act its origins, demise and aftermath. He also makes a case for restoring the separation between banks and securities firms, arguing that erecting such a barrier would reduce systemic risk and weaken the big banks’ political power.
February 1, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL The Initiative for Social Justice Pedagogies at Western Illinois University, led by English Professor Rebekah Buchanan and Education Professor James La Prad, will again host the virtual Anti-Racist Inquiry Series - Looking Inward: Educators Examining Race, via Zoom, beginning Thursday, Feb. 11. The series debuted during the Fall 2020 semester.
According to Buchanan and La Prad, the series has been created in a way for faculty, regardless of background and training in anti-racism, to gain additional insight and training from participation. Individual and systemic racism impacts education from individual faculty to department, University, and community culture. We need to make changes at all levels in order to create a more equitable educational space, Buchanan explained. This series is a start to help faculty discuss and gain tools to create actionable steps toward more equitable pedagogy, university and communities.
James Corbett addresses the topic of alternative currencies From:
In his presentation that was part of The Greater Reset, James Corbett (of the Corbett Report) provided an overview of alternative means of exchange. In it he mentioned community currencies, LETS, trade exchanges, and my book,
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When I was admitted to the hospital recently after a fall that resulted in a broken leg and two sprained ankles, I had to retell the story of the fall to several people who kept coming in and out of the room. In the midst of doing so, they also asked what I did for a living, where I lived, and, scarily enough, whether or not I have a living will apparently something we should all have but was breaking news to me. When I told the first, then second, and then the third small group of nurses that I was a writer, they didn t waste any time looking me up.