Forum on "Growing Inequality in Wealth"
Date and time:
Saturday, 4 February 2012 - 8:30am - 12:30pm
Event For:
Area: Social Justice The Corruption of the Democratic Process and Resulting Social Injustice
UUSJ Program on Saturday, February 4 from 8:30am-12:30pm
Mount Vernon Unitarian Church 1909 Windmill Lane Alexandria, VA 22307
The Occupy Movement has given a fresh voice to these long-standing and worsening problems and calls UUs to respond. Join fellow UUs and interested individuals at this presentation.
Income inequality has produced wealthy beneficiaries who use that wealth to create political influence. The political influence of wealthy individuals is magnified by equally powerful (and closely related) corporate interests to so distort our political system that it routinely produces outcomes favoring these wealthy and corporate interests (the 1%) rather than the public interest. There is less and less available for the rest of us (the 99%), resulting in deprivation and growing social injustice, particularly among the most vulnerable. This process represents a vicious cycle that keeps expanding the inequality and the problems it causes.
Register at www.uusj.org or 301-588-1951. Please RSVP by Monday, January 30. This program is sponsored by Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice. There is no registration fee, but a freewill offering for UUSJ will be taken.
SCHEDULE
8:30pm-9:00pm Registration and networking
9:00-9:10 Opening Worship Rev. Kate Walker
9:10-10:00 Plenary on Growing Inequality of Wealth
Kevin Zeese of Occupy and Adam Wasserman of the UU Congregation of Fairfax
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-11:00 Plenary on Corruption of Democratic Process and How It Contributes to Increasing Inequality
Aquene Freechild of Public Citizen and Terry Steichen of the UU Congregation of Fairfax
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-12:00 Breakout Sessions: Identifying Allies and Crafting Next Steps
12:00-12:30 Report on Next Steps and Closing
