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Frances Fox Piven: Way Beyond Normal
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RSVP hereBFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present a talk with Frances Fox Piven, political scientist, activist, one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world” (according to Glenn Beck) and author of definitive analyses of social movements and barriers to voting in the US. Piven returns to SVA to analyze the wild style—maybe not seen since the 1850s—of American politics today.
Frances Fox Piven, professor emerita of politics at CUNY, has been among the most incisive, humane and engaged voices on the left for decades in the struggle for voter rights, welfare rights, working people’s rights and social reform. She is the co-founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization and the author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Poor People’s Movements, Regulating the Poor and Why Americans Don’t Vote.
BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present a talk with Frances Fox Piven, political scientist, activist, one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world” (according to Glenn Beck) and author of definitive analyses of social movements and barriers to voting in the US. Piven returns to SVA to analyze the wild style—maybe not seen since the 1850s—of American politics today. Frances Fox Piven, professor emerita of politics at CUNY, has been among the most incisive, humane and engaged voices on the left for decades in the struggle for voter rights, welfare rights, working people’s rights and social reform. She is the co-founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization and the author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Poor People’s Movements, Regulating the Poor and Why Americans Don’t Vote.