Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty
A public presentation by Willie Baptist, coordinator of the Poverty Scholars Program of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary in NYC
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Textor 102 Ithaca College 7:30-9:30 pm
Thursday, October 6, 2001 305 Ives Hall Cornell University 4:15-5:15
At a time when economic realities are worsening for the poor and increasing sections of the middle class and corporations are reporting record profits; when funds for social services, education, and vital safety nets are being cut through austerity politics; and when students are graduating in an economic crisis with no guarantee of jobs and thousands of dollars in student debt -- many of our nation’s most most directly affected are seeking new models for change.
Asserting that the polarization between wealth and poverty is the defining issue of our time, Willie Baptist will suggest that the solution to the current economic crisis, and growing poverty and inequality, is to build a broad-based social movement to end all poverty, led by the poor as a united and organized social force.
This vision to re-ignite Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign means to unite the poor across historic lines of division such as racial, gender, religious and geographic lines.
Drawing lessons from more than 40 years of experience organizing amongst the poor in the United States and his current work coordinating the Poverty Scholars Program of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, Baptist will speak to these lessons and to his recent book, Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty published by Teachers College Press.
Co-sponsored by: Cornell University Department of Development Sociology, IC Sociology, Politics and Anthropology Departments, IC School of Humanities and Sciences, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), Action Reflection Circle (ARC), Labor Initiative Promoting Solidarity (LIPS).
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