neoliberalism, the theory of neoliberalism started to suggest that something had happened in england and in the united states, in new york. thatcher and reagan enter world history, and suddenly neoliberalism comes. that somehow these domestic policies in london, you know, in the house of commons, in washington, d.c., maybe in the u.s. treasury department engineered something called neoliberalism, and then that exported to the world. i was going to write against that argument. so one argument to write against was what happens to development studies. secondly, what happens in the theory of neoliberalism, this idea that once again -- like all good things -- it's born in europe and exported to the rest of the world. [laughter] the third thing -- and that's a pretty mainstream approach, to think like that. the third thing i wanted to write, again, was that somehow rich people had emerged in india, in ghana, in south africa, in brazil, you know? rich people were all around the world and that there were class contradictions in the united states so that the world has become flat. the geograp

neoliberalism as an economic program and a public philosophy holds that everybody and everything is for the market. and that the the market that steers that market ought to determine public policy. we live in a situation in which the heart as i see it of racism against black people and other people's color in this country is economic injustice. yet in the neo liberal order, this question of economic injustice is simply not on the agenda public policy. we can nibble around the edges of it to be sure talking about raising the minimum wage and setting up health care collectives, but the transformation, the fundamental transformation of the economy in a way that would subject decisions about the distribution on shared public resources to the space decision making, that idea of the economic policy than it has been since the creation of the republic to the president obama that represents the first social secretary put it a valuable brand is himself a commodity in the marketplace that we call politics. in the age of citizens united, when politicians can effectively be bought and sold to th

neoliberalism as an economic program and a public philosophy holds that everybody and everything is for the market. and that the the market that steers that market ought to determine public policy. we live in a situation in which the heart as i see it of racism against black people and other people's color in this country is economic injustice. yet in the neo liberal order, this question of economic injustice is simply not on the agenda public policy. we can nibble around the edges of it to be sure talking about raising the minimum wage and setting up health care collectives, but the transformation, the fundamental transformation of the economy in a way that would subject decisions about the distribution on shared public resources to the space decision making, that idea of the economic policy than it has been since the creation of the republic to the president obama that represents the first social secretary put it a valuable brand is himself a commodity in the marketplace that we call politics. in the age of citizens united, when politicians can effectively be bought and sold to th

the structural forces that produced trayvon martin and to the meaning of racism in the age of neoliberalismthat brings us to the moment of the zimmerman verdict itself in which a judge instructed the jury which reached a verdict which he effectively -- this was another provocation, when it comes to circumstances like this, a black man has no rights, which a white man is bound to respect. i am paraphrasing the decision of the supreme court in the dread scott case, the notorious case from the nineteenth century which predated the civil war. for all our celebration about the sea change, and racial inequality since the early 60s, it is important for us as we think about moving forward, not to lose sight of the continuity. am i saying there is no meaningful difference between the structure of racism in 1963 and racism as we know it today. i am not claiming that. what i can say is we live now as we lived 50 years ago in a moment of racial contradiction. we need to wrestle with the reality of those contradictions instead of wishing them away. [applause] >> everyone will agree those were very provo

. >> prosperity folks in a neoliberal moment. how many folks have turned their backs on a kind of prophetic approach or theology? so part of what i'm trying to suggest is it's always been a problematic relationship between religion and democracy. our institution, the black church, has been central because of the history of exclusion of black folk in the united states which has made religious discourse central to giving voice to our political demands. but given the shifts and changes, the church or churches have been decentered. and part of what we have to do is tell ourselves the story about what are the implications of that fact. if it's a fact that you're willing to concede to me. if not, then we can have a debate. i hope that makes sense. did that make sense? [applause] okay. >> well, i'm noted for throwing the pyre bomb in the road -- fire bomb in the room, so i'm going to go ahead. the black church today is at a very serious crossroads. let me call it even better. i've been running e-mails for the last year tracking church f

what is different is neoliberal economic expansion in colombia which includes not only free trade but in practice nation public services including incursion of huge amounts of foreign capital and investment coming in which takes the form of mining oil extraction and agribusiness so these are the sectors that are that are benefiting from free trade agreement and frankly the coal in farmers have. reason to be concerned about the situation given that five million people have been internally this i think on the a nine eleven in the last ten years and i think people are very you know afraid that this could end up being a fate as well right now what do you personally believe is the best solution for both the farmers and the country of colombia. well i think. you know a. comprehensive agricultural policy that you know takes into account small farmers as both massive agribusiness would be would be the best solution and i think things like the cost of gasoline are also italy would be really rarely. worth what little is when you start to look at the end of the union they're involved in the stri

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the pace was conservative politics that promotes neoliberal economic agendas. >> south county faces awave of illegal immigrant deaths as they come for amnesty. next up, this is dan. caller: one of the politics, the big topic is the fence they're talking about building, which we know the government has funded three times to do this and it hasn't been built. it is going to be policy blunder. the main thing is, we need a fence. we need to enforce what laws are on the books. we don't need more laws. we just need to enforce what laws are on the books. people that are hiring illegal immigrants, they laws should be enforced. they would be encouraged to hire them if they were in force. system, ise, the broken. it is not broken. we are sidestepping the system. -- not enforcing the laws are in place. encourage people to come here knowing that they are not going to be prosecuted for coming year illegally. obviously means well. he has been doing in honoring thing. doing, hething he is is here illegally. he went to a school, got funded, got his skull paid for and everything. not even legal here. m

scandal and it kind of underscores that remark that you just made, that this kind of mantra of the neoliberaleducation movement about accountability is kind of a figure leaf for the real interest, the real drivers of this movement seek to go privatize education. >> tony bennett worked for governors in florida and indiana. the education reform movement has captured a big portion of the democratic party, education secretary arnie duncan, rahm emanuel, one of the biggest shut down of public schools in the country. why does this have any rooting in the democratic party, which is supposed to be the party that is for the little guy? >> well, that's a good question. i think the drivers of this movement and it's been kind of a marriage of convenience of technology companies, of republican anti union types, of big wall street donors, they've come together in a very sophisticated reform movement, set up foundations and connected themselves to both parties. you see wall street money pumping into the campaigns of any democratic that seeks to push for privatization for high stakes testing, for an expansio

most serious problem and unemployment will take care of itself and this is what some of us call neoliberalism. when you go out and a bargain yourself with a potential employer if they don't want to hire you, lower your wage and somebody is going to higher you the value that your work to them it is derived entirely through what will happen through bargaining in the market. and that idea has prevailed. it overtook the notion that society should build a full employment economy should care about this. if you want to set a date since the beginning of the reagan administration in 1981 that even in the late 1970's you have the decline of the idea that the government policy should be focused around achieving full employment and the emergence of the idea that the market knows best if the government tries to do something they are just going to mess up. so the government should worry about keeping inflation down and let the market decide everything else. there was the idea what the market to decide how financial operations take place and deregulating the financial markets and that is what led to the spe

relationship between the struggle for the central wage building power scale and the fight against the neoliberalism. >> great question. amazing questions. >> militarization is of the kind of criminalization of people in america in a way. there is a similarity in the logic if you who read the work she suggests that there are certain cycles the empires have and it's an interesting book in beijing but before that, they suggest that you look at the lengths of time that have been in dominance and how gemini and the size of the container and its influence and it shows that as time goes forward, the container has increased, but the length of dominance is increased and he is essentially using the signs of autumn in america are visible and it is coming up in a sense although he argues i don't support it has a whole different kind of capitalism. it's actually adams left. and american capitalism, anyway leave that aside. the real thing is there is a developed argument about the decline of america and the emergence of the new centers of power. to my mind, and in this book i argued, there will be no china. what

part of the reason churches are being put forward is precisely because this troublesome neoliberalism state. where the state still function is to protect the fishing workings of the market. everything else resounds back to our own individual self-care, and that self-care turns out to be simply our ability to make choices. the churches are pushed in that. that's really complicated. but true. and so what's interesting is we have an example of what's going down, while can have a -- what can happen in north carolina. so north carolina is off the chain. the republican takeover of the governor's house as well as the legislature has led to all sorts of behavior. and you see a mobilization of churches and civil rights organizations and grassroots organizations in that state that some of us know about, right, because with folks down on the front lines doing it, and we're reading the blogs and we don't see it on cnn or msnbc a lot. we might see it on msnbc, but the point is we have an example. so churches have a model of how to mobilize around a particular issue. i just want to say this quickly