AUDIO: “What’s the Rural Agenda in the Economic Recovery?”
June 9th, 2009 by Rafael Shimunov
On Friday, June 5th, we hosted “What’s the Rural Agenda in the Economic Recovery?,” the fifth installment of the “Demand Equity Now” recovery briefing series. The one-hour call featured a spirited and lively discussion among some of the nation’s foremost rural advocates and more than 120 advocates listening in from around the country:
- Tim Marema, Vice President, The Center for Rural Strategies
- Marcie McLaughlin, Director of Constituent Relations, Rural Policy Research Institute
- Ed Sivak, Vice President for Policy and Evaluation, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
- Ruben Lizardo, Associate Director, PolicyLink (moderator)
Full audio is available below:
What’s the Rural Agenda in the Economic Recovery Agenda?
[58 minutes | Download MP3]
Sign up here for the final call, June 19th, The Green Recovery: How Communities Are Faring So Far?
You can also listen to previous calls at these links:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:00 am
The Covenant has been very instrumental in the making of our documentary Hood Chronicles. We hope to have it finished before May 2010. Our documentary takes place in Saint Louis MO and Ill. We are starting up a website and blog. Both are under contruction but have some information available today.
January 5th, 2010 at 11:14 am
The CWBA is a waste of time because the dominant society isn’t interested in black equality. Proponents of white supremacy, seek to maintain white dominance by ensuring black subordination and all Anglos want to maintain white supremacy.
The CWBA, like the failed civil rights movement (CRM) can never help black achieve equality because equity can only be achieved through independence and the CWBA is about dependency on the dominant society for redress. It is a dead end and can only perpetuate our subordination by reinforcing the mainstream’s paternalistic role.
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