With its diverse population, disparate levels of wealth and innovative Green Commission, Miami is often cited as a “window to the city” of the future. Known as the Magic City, Miami has a unique international flavor while sharing a focus on the foreclosure crisis, lost jobs and the environment with Gulf Coast neighbors like Atlanta and New Orleans. Live From Main Street’s Miami town hall will explore the work of Miami’s young leaders. How are they facing hard times and working to build a stronger sustainable city for generations to come? What is and isn’t working for the economy’s unrewarded stakeholders? And how are the most innovative ideas becoming action?
Hosted by GRITtv's Laura Flanders and Miami's own WEDR/ 99 JAMZ's Cheryl Mizell, with:
Gihan Perera, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center
Max Rameau, Founder/ Author Take Back The Land
Darin Woods, Countrywide Mortgage Sales Manager
Denise Perry, Director of the Power U Center for Social Change
Carolina Delgado, Jobs with Justice Campaign Membership Director
Sonia Succar, Chairperson of Emerging Green Builders of South Florida
Francisca Cortés, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Latasha Jones-Tenant, Organizer with the Worker's Center
Edith McClintock, Executive Director of Dream in Green
Rebecca Butterfly Vaughns
Poetic Vibez
Learn more about this event here. Streaming video courtesy of LinkTV!
The problem is articulted in the question. Why are there “unrewarded stakeholders” in any economic system? The answer is, of course, the most richly rewarded make the rules and haven’t learned to share and never learned the importance of diversity. No innovative growth occurs in a sea of the like minded. We starve the fringes at our peril. Some time ago Singapore was buying help wanted ads looking for “Bohemians” to revive a society that they had regimented to death. They realised that they needed to recreate and repopulate the left field they had previously percieved as a threat. They were bored into recognizing for the valuble resourse it is. Kings made the dark ages dark but the Renaissance came from the bottom up.
By fatjim on July 20th, 2008 at 12:59 pm