Events
- Myth of Corporate Efficiency
Sat., Dec. 3, 2005
- Land Tenure and Race
Sat., Jan. 7, 2006
- Land Tenure and Warfare
Sat., Feb. 4, 2006
- Gentrification
Sat., Mar. 11, 2006
- Funding Transportation
Sat., Apr. 1, 2006
- Free Trade Fraud
Sat., May 6, 2006
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Coming Events
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Pittsburgh
Sat. Jan. 7, 2006
10AM-Noon |
How our systems of land tenure and taxation hurt racial minorities, beginning with the demographics of African Americans in Pittsburgh, followed by a look at the deeper relationships between land monopoly and slavery.
Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP
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Pittsburgh
Sat. Feb. 4, 2006
10AM-Noon |
How the Euro-American land tenure system derives from conquest and consequently drives the perpetuation of conquest, with a look at alternate land tenure systems based on mutual respect.
Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP
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Pittsburgh
Sat. Mar. 11, 2006
10AM-Noon |
How to minimize the displacement of poor people and the disruption of neighborhoods when revitalizing a city. Looks at the economics of slumlording, speculation, real estate taxation and redevelopment authorities.
Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP
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Pittsburgh
Sat. Apr. 1, 2006
10AM-Noon |
How the funding mechanisms for transportation drive transportation policy, including over-reliance on highways, extending transit systems outward instead of improving them at the core, and other issues where political clout overpowers economic sense.
Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP
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Pittsburgh
Sat. May 6, 2006
10AM-Noon |
Errors on both sides of the free-trade debate, and differences between true free trade, which is good for labor, and right-wing free trade, which hurts labor.
Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP
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