Inclusionism

Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. She is the coauthor of Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World and the coeditor of Governing Access to Essential Resources. She lives in New York City.

#TheCodeOfCapital is...

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else.

In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively “codes” certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital—and lawyers are the keepers of the code. Pistor describes how they pick and choose among different legal systems and legal devices for the ones that best serve their clients’ needs, and how techniques that were first perfected centuries ago to code landholdings as capital are being used today to code stocks, bonds, ideas, and even expectations—assets that exist only in law.

A powerful new way of thinking about one of the most pernicious problems of our time, The Code of Capital explores the different ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are coded to give financial advantage to their holders. This provocative book paints a troubling portrait of the pervasive global nature of the code, the people who shape it, and the governments that enforce it.

Her book can be purchased at the link below or wherever you like to buy books.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13490.html

This week we invite The Black & Latino LGBTQ Coalition of New York to talk about the state of Queer and Same Gender Loving (SGL) People of Color. The New York Coalition is the largest coalition of its type in the world with nearly 30 different organizations in some form of coordination.

Guests: represent at least 3 of the groups in the coalition.

Carmen Neely

Co Founder & President of HarlemPride (www.harlempride.org)

Pat Martin & Paulette Thomas-Martin

Founders of Harlem YES

John Martin Green

John-Martin Green, Ed.D is Founder and Executive Director of The Gatekeeper's Collective (TGC), (www.thegatekeeperscollective.com), a resiliency enhancement network of same gender loving (SGL) African descended men which works to facilitate identity reformation, empowerment, health promotion and wellness.

As Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Blackberry Productions Documentary Theatre Company,John-Martin develops and produces theater that sheds light on issues impacting our communities, and creates forums for a multiplicity of voices and perspectives in solutions-focused reflection.

As an educator, he was a co-founder and co-director over a decade, of Changing Scenes, an OBIEAwardwinning arts-based crisis intervention program for juvenile offenders. There he created a theatre workshop wherein participants explored their relationship to issues of human needs, power, control, self-concept, personal responsibility and societal expectations.

Currently, Dr. Green teaches community health and interpersonal relations at Hostos College, of the City University of New York, and has taught theatre at New School University, Brooklyn College, and SUNYcampuses at Old Westburyand Nassau Community College.

Directing credits include: "The Rootwoman" by Michael Bradford at Harlem Stage, "Three Sisters," "Willie’s Cut & Shine," and "A Different Flava" at Ensemble Studio Theatre, "The Hand that Slapped Kate" at Bay Street Theatre and "Spiritual Journey" at the Apollo Theatre.

Special Guests: Prof. Michael Lewis & visiting student Wei Tu

https://basicincome.nyc/

Basic Income NYC is group of residents of the greater New York City area dedicated to the promotion and implementation of Universal Basic Income at the federal, state, and local levels. They host informative meetings, social nights, planning sessions, sit on panel discussions, and attend basic income and anti-poverty events in the region. Basic Income NYC was founded in 2015 and is composed of writers, social workers, artists, anti-poverty advocates, academics, and professionals from all walks of life.

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Diane R. Pagen has been a social worker for New York City and a social policy analyst for fourteen years. Born and raised in Queens, New York, she received her BA in languages from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras. Thanks to four years in Puerto Rico and one in Spain, she is fluent in Spanish. After six years in the workforce, she went back to school and got an MSW from Fordham University. During that time, she was privileged to be mentored by and work with welfare expert and activist Theresa Funiciello from 2000 to 2008, where they worked on activism to get the Child Tax Credit made refundable starting at $0. Diane is a co-founding member of Basic Income Action and Basic Income NYC and working to build the Universal Basic Income movement with other committed people. She writes about poverty and her experiences in social work and society, and makes presentations about the diversion of welfare block grants away from low-income people, and is meeting with people who are interested in stopping the systematic dismantling of the U.S. safety net. Diane is working on a chapter for a forthcoming book, Political Activism and a Basic Income Guarantee, which is being edited by Larry Liu and Richard Caputo of Yeshiva University and will be published in 2021. One of her presentations on welfare block grants is available at www.dianepagen.com.

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Jude Thomas is a composer and performer living in Brooklyn. In addition to working as a freelance musician, and holding a regular day job to pay most of his bills, he is President of Composers Collective, a group of NYC-based composers that pools their resources to self-produce concerts of new music. Jude has been active with Basic Income NYC since its founding in late 2015. He is interested in the potential impacts of UBI on artists and art production, and advocates for UBI as a policy which creates more equity between employers and employees, radically combats poverty, and encourages human freedom.

HAWK NEWSOME is an activist at the forefront of the New Civil Rights Movement and former County Committee Member of New York’s District 79. He has dedicated his adult life to the betterment of his community & our nation as a whole. The Bronx native was raised in a devout Christian household. As a youth, Hawk succumbed to the temptations of his environment and dropped out of high school. With the love and support of his family, mentors and athletic ability he was able to push forward and obtain a GED, Bachelors of Science, and law degree.

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After graduating from Concordia College, Hawk worked for the Honorable Robert T. Johnson at the Bronx County Office of the District Attorney, as a paralegal assisting Assistant District Attorney’s to prosecute crime. Hawk was then promoted to the position of Special Projects Coordinator. As the DA’s liaison to the community, he worked with N.Y.C.H.A tenants’ associations and social service organizations throughout the Bronx. In his spare time, he organized drives to send medical supplies to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Hawk joined Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP as a project manager overseeing efforts inthe law firm’s 22 national and international offices. During this period, Hawk founded the Bronx Sharks an athletic club that has sent numerous risk youths to college on scholarship. Hawk went on to follow his childhood dream of attending law school. Hawk attended the prestigious Howard University Law School in Washington, DC. and completed his Jurist Doctorate at Touro Law School in Long Island, NY. After which he ran for City Council for the Bronx district where he grew up.

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Throughout his life Hawk has engaged in protests and activities to combat injustice. Over the past few years, he has worked tirelessly leading protests and seeking justice for the families of those slain by overzealous police officers. In 2013, Hawk joined the Justice League NYC and has engaged in their national campaign to fix the broken criminal justice system.

Hawk’s parents actually met at a civil rights rally in the 1960’s, so you can say that he was born into this fight. Hawk is the single parent to his thirteen-year-old autistic son, whom he loves dearly. Hawk loves his family, he loves his people, and he has pledged his life to bringing justice to this unjust system.

This week JFK interviews Jess Riegel, CEO of Motivote.us a voting web application that enhances the experience of voting that is increasing inclusion of voters, especially Millennials. He is also interviewing the leaders of the Sunrise Movement that produced the Green New Deal, from their local Columbia University "hub". They are Naomi Hollard, Elizabeth, and Kevin Wei.

David Eisenbach PhD teaches presidential history at Columbia University. He is an award winning author of three books including The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy and his latest One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History. He was the host, writer and producer of the History Channel show 10 Things You Don't Know About and was a candidate for The Public Advocate of NYC.

An associate professor of media design at Parsons teaching at the intersections of politics, policy, journalism, advertising, and algorithms, David is known for challenging Cambridge Analytica under UK Data Protection law for illegal political profiling. He appears in an upcoming feature documentary titled The Great Hack on Netflix that premiered at Sundance 2019. He has appeared before parliamentary committees in the EU, UK, and Canada and has written for WIRED, The Guardian, Motherboard, Boston Review and others.

A conversation on local digital human rights with Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). He is S.T.O.P.’s founder and executive director. Mr. Cahn previously served as CAIR–NY’s inaugural Legal Director and as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. More information his work at https://www.stopspying.org/

Inclusionism radio promo for the WHCR 90.3 radio shows on Sunday's 5:30-6:30 in Harlem, Manhattan.

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