Hosted by Kevin Danaher, Co-Founder of Global Exchange.
With john a. powell, Director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at UC Berkeley; Steven Hill, political writer, author of Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy; Victor Menotti, Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG); Katie Redford, Earth Rights International.
This revelatory exploration of the plutocracy covers an arc of critical issues: outing the economic monopoly and political stranglehold of the top 1%; revealing the racial politics corporations use to divide and conquer; transforming our corrupted political system with authentic election reform and the restoration of democracy; the need for a Constitutional Amendment to revoke corporate “free speech;” and how the upcoming Supreme Court Kiobel v. Shell lawsuit — which arose out of the executions of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria, including Ken Saro Wiwa — has Shell arguing it cannot be held accountable for the torture and killing of the environmentalists because it’s a corporation, yet it says corporations are people when it gives them rights. That’s mighty corporate!
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri
