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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents "What Now?:  1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps

Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The spring season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Featured Guests:

Vincent Marzullo has served the federal government for the past 25 years and currently directs Rhode Island operations for the Corporation for National & Community Service. During the 1970's recessionary period, Vincent served as the RI Employment & Training Director and administered the state's largest public service jobs program under the Comprehensive Employment & Training Act (CETA)

Neil M. Maher, PhD is an associate professor of history at the Federated History Department of NJIT and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches environmental history, urban history, the history of technology and medicine, and landscape studies. Maher's second book, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007) examines the history of New Deal Initiative, and its significance in national politics and influence on modern environmentalism.

Randy Albeda is a professor of economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and teaching covers a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income women and families. She is the coauthor of the books Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits:  Women's Work, Women's Poverty; Unlevel Playing Fields:  Understanding Wage Inequality and Wage Discrimination; and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. 

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Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/  

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