Senator Elizabeth Warren, film maker Michael Moore, Professor Darrick Hamilton, and Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a town hall in the auditorium of the US Capitol on March 19 about the growing economic inequality in this nation. The title of the town hall is “Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class.”
This will be live streamed by various digital partners, including the Guardian website.
There are various scheduled guests, including a union official and rural antipoverty activist.
The town hall, called “Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class,” will take place before a live audience in the auditorium of the U.S. Capitol. It will be broadcast online with the help of the event’s digital media partners, The Guardian, NowThis, The Young Turks and Act.tv.
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The program will consist of a four-person panel: [Sen. Bernie] Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), filmmaker Michael Moore, and Darrick Hamilton, an economics and urban policy professor at The New School in New York City.
As the panelists discuss what has caused rising economic inequality and how it might be addressed, they will invite guest speakers with specific expertise to join the discussion.
The scheduled guests include Catherine Coleman Flowers, a founder of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise Community Development Corp., an anti-poverty group; Gordon Lafer, a labor policy expert at the University of Oregon; and Cindy Estrada, a vice president of the United Auto Workers labor union.
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I’m looking forward to this. It’s a way to get around the entertainment complex of cable news and reach people directly with substance.