2) Fast forward to today, using An Honest Look at the Personal Finance Crisis https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_white_an_honest_look_at_the_personal_finance_crisis (video is below)
-Discuss the systemic factors Elizabeth White discusses that have caused a huge and significant retirement savings income gap. What are they? What happened to them? How did they change savings compared to what used to happen? How did responsibility shift – from whom to whom? What happened to risk when responsibility shifted and why does this matter? (5-7 sentences)
-d) What is the 3-legged retirement income stool? Why do you think it would be important to have more than one source of retirement income?
-f) Discuss what you think White means when stating “I’m ready now to link shields with others” in terms of change – what is her advocacy strategy here?
3) Using the story of Bayard Rustin as your base from which to draw the following question: use this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcUnXTaCgU
b) The statement, “Every community needs a group of angelic troublemakers” and what it means to you. After 4-7 sentence description, give a worded example of such an event in modern culture (2000-2022).
Discussion:
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4) Draw from The Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought (video is below)
a) Discuss what Shafak says about the demagogue. What is a demagogue (cite your source)? When does (s)he arise? For what purpose? Why is that potentially dangerous?
b) Binary oppositions are discussed in this talk using other places as the base. Do you believe they exist today? How do they influence interactions with one another? How do they influence change?
c) What is the power of diverse thought? How do you know diverse thought when you see it?
d) What happens to democracy when those in power all think the same way? Why?
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