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[Goldberg, Trudy]

*THE NATIONAL JOBS FOR ALL COALITION INVITES YOU TO TWO PANELS AT THE LEFT
FORUM *
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*The Great Depression and the Great Recession: What can Occupy Learn?*
Saturday, March 17th, Pace University, from 3-4:50, Room w627

 *The Great Depression and the Great Recession: What Can Occupy Learn From
the New Deal Response to Economic, Social and Environmental Crisis ?*

While much has been made of the economic parallels between the Great
Depression and the current economic recession, there have been few attempts
to systematically examine these two periods in a more holistic way, with a
view to assessing both the positive and negative lessons to be gained for
the present period from an understanding of the last great crisis and the
policy responses that were chosen to meet it, as well as those that were
raised by popular movements but rejected by policy makers. As a
contribution to the thinking of the Occupy Movement this panel will examine
those lessons for three areas of our contemporary political life: social
welfare; the impact of social movements; and the environmental crisis. The
sponsors of this panel have been active in the Occupy Wall Street movement
and are editing a book which considers these lessons on an even more
comprehensive scale.

 *Chair: Chuck Bell*

Vice Chair of the National Jobs for All Coalition, an organization working
for full employment and supporting legislation for direct federal job
creation. He is co-author of "Shared Prosperity: The Drive For Decent Work"
(2006). Chuck has 20 years of experience working in consumer and health
care advocacy, and community movements for jobs and economic justice.

 *Panelists: *

*Sheila D. Collins*

Professor of Political Science Emerita, William Paterson University and
former Director of its graduate program in Public Policy and International
Affairs. Member, Global Ecological Integrity Group; International Advisory
Board, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Studies. Author/co-author
of five books and numerous articles on social policy, the environment,
American politics and religion.

 *Gertrude S. Goldberg*

Professor of Social Policy Emerita, Adelphi University School of Social
Work where she directed the Ph.D. program. Chair of the National Jobs for
All Coalition. Co-chair of the Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social
Welfare & Equity. Author/co-author and editor of six books and numerous
book chapters and articles on social policy and employment.

 *Marguerite Rosenthal*

Professor Emerita of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Salem State
University (MA). Co-book review editor, J. Sociology & Social Welfare
(current). Publications include writing on social welfare history,
privatization, comparative social welfare, criminal injustice.

 *The Struggle for Full Employment: Not a New Idea and Not a New Struggle**
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Saturday, March 17, Pace University, 5-640, Room w401
*AN URPE PANEL*

Full employment is an idea with deep but largely forgotten roots in US
history. The presentation explores New Deal job creation efforts and FDR's
Economic Bill of Rights that began with the right to a decent job. It
discusses two major attempts to secure full employment, in the immediate
post-World War II period and in the 1970s, the first ending in the defeat
of full employment legislation and the second, in the failure to implement
a watered-down full employment act. Full employment, the presentation
shows, will take a fundamental break with neo-liberalism and a
reorientation of power from big business and Wall Street to middle- and
working-class people and will require the full-scale social movement that
both earlier struggles lacked.
 *Panelists:*

*Chuck Bell*

Vice Chair of the National Jobs for All Coalition, an organization working
for full employment and supporting legislation for direct federal job
creation. He is co-author of "Shared Prosperity: The Drive For Decent Work"
(2006). Chuck has 20 years of experience working in consumer and health
care advocacy, and community movements for jobs and economic justice.

*Helen Ginsburg*

Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY, her books
include *Poverty,
Economics and Society*, *Full Employment and Public Policy: The United
States and Sweden*, and J*obs for All: A Program for the Revitalization of
America *(with Sheila Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg). She speaks
and writes often on the subject of full employment and economic inequality
and was active in the struggle for full employment in the 1970s. She is a
co-founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition.

*Gertrude S. Goldberg*

Professor of Social Policy Emerita, Adelphi University School of Social
Work where she directed the Ph.D. program. Chair of the National Jobs for
All Coalition. Co-chair of the Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social
Welfare & Equity. Author/co-author and editor of six books and numerous
book chapters and articles on social policy and employment.
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