The Joy of Personal Writing
Thursday, June 26 (last class)
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Room 508
Ethics on the Air - (WBAI-99.5 FM)
Rescheduled date is Thursday, July 3
Dr. Gray Brechin - Rediscovering the Indispensable
New Deal
Friday, June 27
7:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall
Ideological enemies of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal have waged unrelenting war upon it for the 75 years since his inauguration, claiming that an unregulated market self-corrects and that FDR's interference only prolonged the Great Depression. To make such claims, they rely upon popular amnesia of what New Deal public works accomplished in less than a decade as well as how they contributed to postwar prosperity and how we depend upon them today without realizing we are doing so. Dr. Gray Brechin is founder and project scholar for the California Living New Deal Project, a pioneering collaborative effort to uncover the vast buried civilization of the New Deal in the Golden State and elsewhere. He will show how New York City is the preeminent beneficiary of Roosevelt's ingenious and compassionate initiatives and what we have yet to learn from them about building an ethical culture.
Gray Brechin is a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's Department of Geography from which he received his B.A. and Ph.D. He is the author of Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream. Admission: free, donations appreciated.
