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Elizabeth Blomgberg (PhD)
Embracing power and education for civic health
In this second episode of our three-part series, we’re tackling civic education and young people’s involvement in civic life: where we’re at as a country, what we can do to improve it and how it’s linked to our overall health. Host Beth Silver interviews prolific author Eric Liu, a self-described civic evangelist and CEO of Citizen University, an organization that promotes “powerful citizenship and civic education.” Silver and Liu discuss power, obligation and responsibility in a democracy.
Embracing the political: Organizing for change
How do we transition from organizing for change to enacting policy change? In this episode we’ll explore the power of labor unions to protect workers’ rights, health and wealth.
Ericka Burroughs-Girardi (MA, MPH)
Erin Schulten (MPH, MBA)
Everett Trechter (MPP)
Francis Amedoadzi
From public goods to private and profitable property
The idea of collective action for the common good has slowly given way in this country to private and for-profit … by design. If we’re going to improve health and health equity for everyone, we have to understand the shift away from the things once considered sacred public goods (i.e., public schools, transportation, infrastructure, and investment in all communities). In this episode, we talk with author Donald Cohen, who recently published The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back, to find out how we got here and how we can return to a mindset of social solidarity.